This little corner of my website is where I collect things from the everyday goings-on in my life. It’s a chronicle, exhibit, and junk-drawer all at once. I have not had a social media profile in quite a few years now, so this part of my website fills a similiar purpose to what those places did for me in years past.
Things I Stopped Self-Hosting (And Why Cloud or Managed Won)
I’ve been feeling the time burden lately with all of the services I’ve been hosting. I hate renting everything, but I’m also feeling an intense need to get some of my time back.
The new age will belong to those who master meaning. Which begs another question: What legacy do you want to leave behind? Life is a mosaic of moments, where the only moment that matters is now. There’s no time like the present.
We aren’t in this part of town very often, so the kids and I thought we’d try out this new place.
Sometimes trying to run Linux feels like being one of those historical reenactors who pretend to live as life used to be, all while living a life that in no way meshes with the real world.
I spent all morning writing about some of the programming I did last week. It was great to collect my thoughts, but all I have to show for it is a jumbled mess of words at this point. It’s going to take quite a bit more work to get it to a point where I’d want to put my name on it.
Writing is hard.
My daughter has been learning to play the bass, so this song has been on repeat in our house lately as we try to emulate Tina Weymouth’s fantastic bass line.
It’s 4:30 in the morning, and I’m cooking some salmon to have with lunch before the day gets hot.
I spotted this banner while on my walk through Rountree.
It’s about time I get out for one of my walks since coming home, and this heat makes me want to immediately go back inside.
I’m finally feeling better this morning, more like myself, and I feel like I can finally let everything that happened on this last trip sink in. There’s a bit of nervousness about the future, but there’s also a lot of hope and excitement.
I wish I had all of this information laid out like this years ago when I was messing with typography.
Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
It’s a lot of fun, but you don’t have a lot of agency in it. You sit in a bobsled, you go down an icy track, and really, there is only one way to go.
The 2 a.m. wake-up… this is where the jet lag always gets me.
It’s been a busy first day back so far. I’m already feeling ready for bed, and it’s only 1 p.m.!
Empathy and delight mean nothing when the software is disrespectful
the cost of producing text is now far lower than the cost of consuming it, even though length and detail still feels like a sign that more thinking and more work had been put into something
That flight went by faster than any other international flight I’ve been on because I hacked on a natural language parser for about five hours of it.
Goodbye for now, Amsterdam.
I’m not quite ready to head back to Missouri yet.
Cacaoccino! I didn’t realize technology like this existed.
Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode
This is going to come in handy for me soon.