The Personal Website of Jeremy Boles

O'Hare · Chicago, Illinois · United States

Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at 4:46pm

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

Concerning the Author: About Jeremy, in Ten Minutes; What’s Happening Now; Everything, on a Map; Everything, on a Timeline; Why Even Have a Website?; Website Colophon
Elsewhere on the Web: @jeremyboles on Codeberg; jeremyboles@hachyderm.io on Mastodon

About Jeremy, in Fifteen Seconds

Hello there! I’m Jeremy Boles (me@jeremyboles.com) and I’ve been a computer programmer for over twenty-five years now and also a father for fourteen. These days I’m building a suite of focused apps—starting with Napkin, a notepad calculator that reads like you write. I currently live in one of the many cities within the United States called Springfield—mine’s in Southwest Missouri. My interests are legion and include travel, cooking, tinkering with computers, music, walks in the woods, writing, old video games, and hanging out with my two kids. I’m all lost in the supermarket, one could say.