Nicholas A. Danes, PhD

Hello! My name is Nicholas Danes and I am a Computational Scientist at Colorado School of Mines. I am also a tech nerd, drummer, dog fan and more. You can learn more about me here.
- Goodbye iMac, Hello Linux (again)
- My de-Googling journey - Part 3
- Giving up on Bluetooth True Wireless (TWS) Earbuds (for now)
- First post for 2022: A 2021 recap and thoughts for this year
- How I use Cryptomator to provide [more] private cloud storage with iCloud
- Whoops! Back to Mac already...
- Thoughts on macOS and why I'm going back to Windows/Linux for personal use
- My Weird 2021 Chronological Timeline of Figuring out my Computing Devices
- How I [mostly] avoid the Apple 'Ecosystem' when using Apple Products
- Trying Nextcloud by Self-Hosting: Initial Impressions
- Conflating Privacy & Anonymity: A Layperson's Perspective
- I switched [back] to iPhone from Android: Pros & Cons after 4 weeks
- How I Cleaned up my Digital Photo & Video Collection
- Moving site back to Fastmail
- I Love Syncthing
- CSS Cleanup: No more Minima theme dependencies!
- Goodbye Theme Journal...and other random thoughts
- My de-Googling journey - Part 2
- My Favorite GNOME 3 Extensions
- Ditching GoatCounter: Do I really need analytics?
- Re-evaluating my Theme Journal
- Switching from a gaming desktop to a Thinkpad X390 for my primary computer
- Digital Privacy, Mental Fatigue and Burnout
- Web Theme Redesign: Going Monochrome
- My 30+ Days using Gentoo Linux: A Newbie's Perspective
- Moving Site to Netlify
- Thoughts from my nearly 5-day break from Mastodon
- Trying to take a week off from Mastodon
- What's on my phone? - January 2020
- Cleaning up the CSS on my Jekyll-powered site
- Why I stopped using Spotify
- My Markdown Theme Journal: Yearly Theme Follow-up
- A long-winded look into my battlestation
- 2021: My Year of Intention
- My de-Googling journey - Part 1
- Is this thing on? Initial thoughts on Mastodon & social media