Hello world!

From my home near Pittsburgh, I enjoy visiting West Virginia. I frequently enjoy cycling, hiking and weekending in the wonderful wilderness the state has to offer. This week, I captured these photos in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve along Route 19. What was intended to be a quick rest stop on a road trip, turned out to be a quick hike to a scenic view of one of the most photographed places in West Virginia and the longest single-span arch bridge outside China. Shown on the left, the New River rapids running along the longest and deepest gorge in the Appalachian Mountains are also an impressive sight to behold.

Given how close it is to Pittsburgh, I can confirm that West Virginia really is almost heaven.

🔖 My Favorite Stuff from the Internet This Week

🧰 Tools

I spent a lot of time exploring available tools and refining my ereading workflow again this week. The coolest stuff I found along the way:

calibrain/shelfmark
- This is an ebook finder tool that’s promising but I’m not sure it’s worth the upkeep just yet.
qarmin/czkawka: Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
- This is in maintenance-mode but it’s excellent: I only wish I knew about it sooner.
epubname from dinofp/epub-tools: Command line utilities for working with epub files
- I like epubname in particular from this suite of tools that are designed to do a few specific things well.
webysther/foss_book_libraries: 📖 Free and Open Source Book Libraries Features Compared

I spent more time than expected on my ereading workflow in part because I had to get a new e-reader this week. I wrote a little more about why on Mastodon.

📖 Reading

True Grit by Charles Portis (Finished on 2026-03-21)

🤠 I continued my exploration of Western novels this week. See my preliminary review of True Grit.

I keep track of my reading in various places across the Internet:

/books on brie.dev — this is on a delay, at the present moment
Read books for @bbrie | Hardcover
Read books for 🐈‍⬛ brie.dev | Rambling Readers
IRL Book Club Picks

🎮 Gaming

🍜 Steam

My Steam gameplay was consistent at nonexistent this week.

🕹️ Steam Playtime

No playtime recorded this week.

🏆 Steam Achievements

No achievements unlocked this week. See all Steam achievements on achieved.by.brie.lol.

🔰 Ingress

I am taking a look at how I normally interact with my Ingress stats to help refine the UI for the self-hosted tool I’m working on. (I mentioned it briefly last week.)

🎧 Music

🆕 1001 Albums

I’m continuing to work my way through the 1001 albums list. The album selected for me to listen to Monday was excellent — the first five ⭐ album of the experiment. I was starting to lose interest in continuing with all of the albums since there were so few hits but I enjoyed the introduction to Jeff Buckley’s Grace enough that this has already been worth it and I’ll continue.

📊 Music Stats

Total tracks played: 277 Unique tracks: 215 | Unique albums: 146 | Unique artists: 82

Top Artists

Carter Burwell (54 plays)
Jeff Buckley (24 plays)
Luke Combs (22 plays)

Luke Combs first hit my radar with Where the Wild Things Are. I gave his new album a listen this week and I like it a bit more than expected. There’s some silly corny country but there are far more songs that I marked to listen to again. I would not recommend the album in its entirety but there are 3-5 strong songs from among the album’s 22 tracks. I wrote a bit more on record.club.

🌟 BTS released their new album this week, too! I am beyond excited that they are really back.

Top Albums

Carter Burwell - True Grit (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) (54 plays)
Luke Combs - The Way I Am (22 plays)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (18 plays)

Yes, I did listen to the soundtrack while reading!

I scrobble my music to my Koito instance at heard.by.brie.lol — as well as to bbbbbbbbrie on last.fm, bbrie on libre.fm, and briealeida on ListenBrainz.

Sporadically, I write song reviews on Crucial Tracks and album reviews on record.club.

— Brie

011: Leave no stone unturned