Photos of Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD

My wife and I headed to the Brookside Gardens over the weekend. Below are a few pictures I took with my Pixel 6a. The structures on the facility were closed, so we didn't have the opportunity to check everything out.…

New site ... again ... ((and again!) and again!)

After the news broke that WordPress and Tumblr would be selling users' data to train AI tools (404 Media) I decided to start looking for a new CMS to migrate my sites to. While I didn't use Automattic's hosted WordPress (WordPress.com) and instead the…

30 Days In, My Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS

I’ve been using ROMs to remove Google’s crap on my Android phones since the Motorola DROID. In the last few years I’ve used both LineageOS for microG (on my Pixel 1) and [CalyxOS]{https://calyxos.org/) (on my Pixel 3a), relying on microG for push notifications. At…

Back to blogging?

For quite some time stevenbrady.com hosted a rarely-updated personal blog. Then for a year it hosted my own Friendica instance as I distanced myself from corporate social media. I gave up on Friendica when the dmv.community Mastodon instance hit the scene. And now we’ve come full circle,…