Post Index

The Hobbit
On entering a new phase of parenting
Acme: The Un-Terminal
Reasons to prefer an integrating development environment
Superscripts
Why can't this just happen?!
Systems Programming
Keeping a kind of systems programming in mind can help leaders organize teams and make hiring decisions.
Formal Methods
Strategic use of formal methods lower total cost of software ownership
Homa
What would the performance of Plan9 look like if 9p were implemented on top of Homa?
The Zombification of Pop Culture
Why we can't escape the slow-moving Hawk Tuah moment
I Am Trying To Write More
An update on how I'll be using this site going forward
Keypub
This seems cool, but who is going to use it?
Love and Peace
The path forward is peacemaking.
Complexity Is Leaky, or, Roger Peppé Gets It
Hyper-configurable tools are a source of cognitive burden
I Am Done With Self-Hosting
Changes on the home front
Historical Augustinianism
A third way of thinking about cultural engagement
Sovereignty and Decline
News of American society's decline
Developing Go Modules In Private
Using Private Modules In Your Projects
The Culture War Is A Holy War
America in 2021
Giving The Dumbphone A Whirl
It's quiet uptown ... or anywhere else you don't take your smartphone.
Regarding Semantic Versioning
Semantic Versioning is a meta-API
Announcing Xhotplug
An X11 monitor attach/detach responder
Using QEMU Without Pulling Your Hair Out
Tips for keeping your sanity with a very powerful tool
You Should Be Using Tags In Vim
You may not know it, but Vim already does what you installed a Jedi plugin to do
Zsh Compinit ... RTFM
Slow start times in Zsh are probably a sign of poor configuration
Getting Started On Mastodon
Tips for making the most of your experience on the Fediverse
New Website Backend
I've moved from a Django site to a static one powered by Nikola
Hardening Services With Systemd
More secure services are an out-of-the-box feature with Systemd
A Letter To Senator Rubio
Children should never be separated from their parents
Facebook Defends Universal Data Collection
Facebook resorts to finger-pointing to defend collecting data on non-users
The Mozilla Foundation On A Healthy Internet
Mozilla's report calls out Web illiteracy as a major problem
Structural Problems With For-Profit Social Media
Zeynep Tufekci nails the structural problems with social media
Traveling With The Good and The Bad
Things I'm thankful for when I'm on the road.
A Eulogy For My Grandmother
A eulogy for Jane Marie Moch
How Sadness Could Save The World
It seems like everywhere I turn people are angry.