I wrote this way back on Nov 11th, 2020. This was around a year after I started learning about leftist politics, so brace for baby leftist talking points. I will probably write a critique of my own critique at some point. If you ever decide to discuss politics online, or even just scroll through political twitter...

I like fake meat but it's not for everyone.

We’ve arrived at the next continent on my quest to learn all the countries in the world, so I can complete the “Countries of the World”-quiz on Jetpunk: Asia. Now, I didn’t really learn all the Asian countries as rigorously as the ones in Africa. Partly because I already knew way more countries (and where they are...

The two Tims at Web 2.0 Summit 2009: Berners-Lee and O'Reilly; photo via O'Reilly Conferences. After running our debut event, the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, in Mountain View that October of 2009, my next port of call was the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. I was keen to meet up with Sean Ammirati, at that...

I’ve been using Kubernetes successfully for a while, but I felt like I still didn’t fully understand the difference between an Ingress and a LoadBalancer. Whenever I tried to find an explanation I’d find some vague thing like “they are sort of the same, but not really”. The problem is I was thinking about these...

Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I strongly recommend giving his site a read...

There's a term in running called a "kick", which refers to the ability to sprint at the end of an endurance-oriented race. Often it leads to anger amongst other competitors, who felt it unfair that they had to lead in front the whole race only to be overtaken the last meters. Yesterday I was watching the final of...