Collections
Five years of posts, grouped into reading paths. Pick one that sounds right for the mood you're in. These are curated by hand — no algorithm, no engagement score, just what I think belongs together.
AWS, grudgingly
The cloud is fine. The cloud is also a tax on people who don't read the fine print. These are the posts where I read the fine print for you.
Computing history, enthusiastically
Every technology has ancestors. Some of them wore Navy uniforms and smashed assumptions for a living.
Food, family, weather
Not every post is about computers. Some are about stuffing, or DST, or being alive in a body that has opinions.
- The thing about stuffing, and also the mailman, and wait what was I saying
- sourdough is not a personality trait
- my tea has a name and it's name is ennui.
- dst sucks
- I hate the sun setting so early now.
- Paul Hollywood and his haunted blue eyes: a love letter to GBBO Season 9
- The Feta-l Oppressors of Our Time
Things I made in a browser
Modern browsers can do a staggering amount. These are small weird things I built to prove it to myself.
Assorted yelling
The house specialty. Affectionate profanity aimed at things that deserve it.
- hustle culture is a cult and LinkedIn is the megachurch
- password requirements are a psychological experiment
- bluetooth is magic that personally hates you
- documentation is a lie we tell ourselves
- you are not special (and that's okay)
- the million/billion confusion that keeps you voting wrong
- what a billion dollars actually looks like