I’m Parker Hurst
I’m a homelabber, Mac and Linux user, and high school student
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The Godot Experience
Recently, I finished Lies of P and absolutely loved it. I loved it so much that I decided to make my own game with similar gameplay. But how would I do that? I first had to choose an engine, and I wanted it to be 3D, so my options were Unreal, Unity, and Godot. Godot…
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Top 5 Best macOS Browsers
Over the last week, I jumped browsers over five times, each time thinking I would “stick with it this time.” This gave me insights on a whole lot of different browsers, from Firefox to SigmaOS. So, in this article, I will list the pros and cons of some of the browsers I tried. Firefox If…
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How I Setup macOS For School
Starting this year, I use a Midnight MacBook Air with an M3 chip as my primary school computer. I mainly got it so I could use notes apps like Obsidian natively and not have to host a web instance on my server, which would be very insecure. I previously Hackintoshed my PC and used it…
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How To Use AI Productively for School
ChatGPT blew up in 2023. It grew so fast that schools didn’t know how to respond to it so they used AI themselves to try to block students from being lazy and using AI to write everything for them. But students also weren’t ready for AI. Again, they copied and pasted from ChatGPT. This results…
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Kali Linux, from a noob’s perspective
I decided recently to try out Kali Linux against my network, and subsequently fell down a major rabbit hole. It started out with just a few nmap scans, but ended up with me buying a wireless network monitor for offensive pentesting against my whole wireless network. I’m going to be showing how I got Kali…
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Always. Keep. Backups.
On November 1st, 2024, I shut down my Unraid server to install a new hard drive. Once I turned it back on again and went to the web UI to spin up the disks, I noticed that i was reading as 2 TB instead of 8 TB. So, I spun down the disks and pulled…
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10 Mac Apps I Can’t Live Without
My first ever computer that I used was a 2011 (or maybe 2012) MacBook Pro, back when MacBooks had ethernet ports. I was around 4 or 5 when my dad got it, and it was for the whole family, not just me. I still have that Mac, although it’s disassembled and the hard drive’s taken…
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Arc Browser is dying. What did I switch to?
On October 25th, 2024, the CEO of The Browser Company, Josh Miller, announced on Twitter that Arc Browser isn’t going to get any new features, and just maintenance patches. This came as a complete surprise to me, as Arc was just released less than 3 years ago. I used Arc as my only desktop browser…
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Obsidian: The Best App For Your Brain
Last year, I used Notion for notes in school. I ended up rarely taking notes and the ones I did were very basic and didn’t connect to anything else. It was a capture technique, not a learning technique. Then, over the summer, I (re)discovered Obsidian, and it quickly became my favorite personal knowledge management (or…
