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With the release of Lit 2.0, the Polymer Project has entered maintenance mode. The project was a push forward for web components by a team at Google, and came with a pretty high quality set of Material components. The world of web components look a lot different now than they did six years ago, and we probably have a lot of that thanks to the Polymer Project.

One of the many advantages of spending a year working from home, was that removing the commute time from my day left me with a ton of energy. That extra energy meant that I was able to pick up another new hobby over the year: cooking.

Everyone seems to do a obligatory year in review post, so here is mine. 2020 was a weird year. For myself at least it started off pretty normally. We had a big 20s themed party, everyone had a good night, and everything was decidedly normal.

This entry will cover three things I have been playing around with over the last month: dual booting Manjaro Linux, the arrival of my PinePhone Postmarket OS edition, and some thoughts on Stadia after playing through Rage 2. Dual booting Manjaro: First off will be my move to dual booting Manjaro Linux.

While I enjoy painting, I actually can’t really paint. I don’t know colour theory, I don’t fully understand when to use what type of brush, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying it. That doesn’t mean I still won’t try. Earlier this month we had some acrylics in the house, so I took a stab at painting a chibi Aeris, based on an image I found on the Internet.

At some point over the last three years I had decided to make an LED matrix display number for my house. I think my reasoning was something like: “what if I can’t find a font I like? Wait! I can just make a screen do this”.

Recently, a series of events left me with a completely borked computer last week. I am still not very clear on what happened, but the end result is one dead drive, and a boot drive that no longer has a boot record.

Every once in a while, I get the itch to paint. It is a calming hobby that I picked up a few years ago. A few years back, apparently in 2015, Bob Ross ran a Twitch marathon, and I, like many others I am sure, tuned in for this weird and oddly entertaining event.

No, not the character from Final Fantasy VII. Aeris is my puppy, who turns one-year-old tomorrow. She might be spoiled, but she is a very well behaved pup. Aeris eating a toy. After a haircut.

Okay, this time I am totally going to get it. Seriously you guys. Oh. I am McKenzie, and this is a website. Seriously though, this is the inaugural post on mckenzielong.info. The template isn’t finished, but I think it’s reasonable enough to look at for the time being.