eInk Tablets Might Not Be For You, That's Okay

Once again, over on YouTube, the very pervasive Linus Media Group channel, Short Circuit, did a review on an Andoid based eInk tablet. They don’t seem to understand or care what this device is actually for, and they treat it like a faulty phone that can’t make calls, and like a bad tablet that can’t play video right. LMG have done the same treatment to similar products going back at least three years....

12 Dec 2025 · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink

What NFT Was Supposed to Be

Traditional Visual Still Artists The artist who draws or paints on canvas or paper, can take very high resolution photos, and sell prints for some amount of money. That same artist may decide to sell the original painting for a fairly decent sum of money. Every artist is different, and some are lucky enough to never NEED to sell those originals. Similarly, a film photographer can sell a first process photo along with the negative, after making sufficiently high resolution copies....

5 Dec 2025 · 6 min · Gary Allen Vollink

[Tech] Web Server Notes

This is a link to my notes on how I run my web servers at home, hosted on my home servers. https://www.home.vollink.com/gary/setup.html

30 Oct 2018 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Agile Development on Infrastructure

After a friend asked about using agile, I started thinking about the skateboard to car drawing.  The author of this, Henrik Kniberg, wrote a really good blog breaking this down, called Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product).  This model is absolutely important, and makes a very good case for going about building something brand new. I've spent most of my post-Agile time doing infrastructure projects.  I'm not building a product for end-users....

21 Oct 2017 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink