The channel has been doing great this year! Granted, we're only about a month and a half through at this point but still, I'm super happy with how things are going!
So, this post has gotten a...
2020-02-09 06:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe time has come to put an end to the official Egee.io blog.
I relaunched the Egee.io website with the intent of runnin...
2020-01-31 17:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a few things on my mind to write about but things have been so busy lately that I haven't been able to focus on much.
Maybe busy isn't the right word. Distracting, maybe? 2020-01-29 04:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As a follow up to my previous post here, I wanted to talk a little bit about my thoughts on using Medium over the blog on the Egee.io website.
I wrote a short "Pros & Cons" list that I wo...
2020-01-22 01:14:54 +0000 UTC View PostIn my previous post, I talked about my goal for the year - writing a blog post every week. It's ...
2020-01-18 10:50:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I set a pseudo-goal for myself this year that I would write more, basically blog posts (like this one) and website updates.
It's been a little over a week since I posted anything here and in ...
2020-01-12 00:14:48 +0000 UTC View PostI always seem to catch a cold in December. I caught one at the end of the last week in December which has put a damper on my plans for the new year. 🤧
I've got 2 videos "finished" without ...
2020-01-03 09:21:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I've always done something different with the channel in November and December. Last year I did "Open Source Appreciation Month" and it was a really fun experiment.
This year, I cook...
2019-12-31 09:02:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had my mind on a new benchmark/comparison series for years. Some of my most popular videos have been desktop & distro comparisons but these types of videos are really<...
2019-12-20 21:57:30 +0000 UTC View Post
I set one goal for myself last week - to produce a video for the Egee channel.
And I missed it. 😩
The ...
2019-12-10 09:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post
It's September already, which means its time to do the September Channel Digest!
Wait, what is a channel digest?
The monthly channel digest is a Patreon post where I ta...
2019-09-02 08:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The channel hit a milestone today, reaching the 18,000 subscriber mark. If you've followed me for any length of time, you'll know I don't pay much attention to these numbers.
Thing is, the Eg...
2019-08-10 07:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post
As you probably know by now, I'm working on refreshing the channel brand. I am working with a couple of artists for this instead of trying to do it all myself.
Up until this point, almost all...
2019-08-04 10:27:51 +0000 UTC View Post
My most recent video for the Egee channel has one of the worst like/dislike ratio of any Linux distro video I've made.
Was it a bad video? I don't think it was. But apparently the viewers did...
2019-05-26 20:46:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been thinking a lot about the future of the channel(s) and Egee.io in general. I have taken vacations & hiatus' in the past but this one will be a bit different.
I'm taking a...
2019-05-26 08:40:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the past few weeks I've been solidifying what the backend infrastructure of Egee.io will look like, and I'm practically done! Next up is the big website revamp.
The purpose of the websit...
2019-04-29 01:44:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a little over a month since I created my ko-fi account/page thing. Ko-fi is yet another crow-funding, creator-supporting ...
2019-03-25 18:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a common misconception that Egee.io is some kind of Linux community. This is most likely due to the fact that Egee io is a quasi fan-community that sprung up around my channel duri...
2019-03-10 07:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostLast year was a pretty interesting and eventful year. I got laid off from my job and produced two of the most popular videos for the channel to date.
2019-02-04 12:19:42 +0000 UTC
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I considered making this post an article on Medium but decided not to because I don't want to be seen as any kind of authority on this subject.
You may remember a 2019-01-06 08:51:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a few videos over the past years that were really frustrating to produce. My latest video on Pingus is a great example. This video was a pain because I had to play a bunch of levels to get...
2018-12-22 11:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Thought you guys might find it interesting to see what AWS spend looks like. This post is somewhat of a follow up for my previous post about Linode.
During October and November I experimented with m...
2018-12-05 08:29:58 +0000 UTC View Post
So about a month ago, a rep from Linode contacted me about a deal involving sponsored videos. This was an exciting development for a few reasons!
At the time I was evaluating cloud options to move t...
2018-12-05 02:01:40 +0000 UTC View Post
So this is a pretty cool project that I've wanted to share for a while. I haven't until now for two reasons:
1. Egee.io's infrastructure was manually built up until about a month ago
2....
2018-11-21 04:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm really excited about this week's video but it's just time for a bit of a reprieve from the weekly grind of making videos. This one was released late because I just didn't have much time during the...
2018-11-11 10:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
To many folks, my channel is most known for making high quality coding videos. My video on QML is probably my ...
2018-10-21 05:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostIf you know me, you'll know that I love AWS. Actually, that's not true at all; I don't particularly like AWS but it is the cloud service I know well and I don't really want to learn any other service ...
2018-10-13 09:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostI intended it to be a benchmark of sorts. I captured some Skyrim footage before I realized one important thing - I don't have enough Windows games for this video.
I mean, I do have some Win...
2018-08-25 16:55:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe "Egee" YouTube channel actually started as a gaming channel around reviewing games (mostly older games) and sort of checking out how games run on Linux. At least, that's how I envisioned it being....
2018-08-12 05:45:51 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to pass 10,000 subscribers today and I have absolutely no plans to do anything about it.
Subscribers are very much a 2010 thing. Years ago it was a big deal to have tons of subscribers but...
2018-06-26 15:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post