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A bit quiet on the blog this month (so far). I’ve gone analog and offline more. Current focus is learning and practicing Bullet Journaling. Trying to not buy too much stationery. Have also been reading more long-form stuff.
Echo & The Bunnymen return with “Brussels Is Haunted” The Bunnymen are back with their first new music in over a decade, and I really didn’t expect it to be this good. Reports of the demise of Ian McCulloch’s voice, it turns out, have...
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book: humanuscript. White violence is predictable. First off, to themselves. White supremacists truly are victims of their own inability to heal from deep generational trauma. This is not an excuse;...
Apologies - due to spammers, the contact form has had to be temporarily turned off. If you have a tricksy question for me, wait a week or so. I'll turn it back on in about 10 days.
A lot of people simply don’t understand the degree to which competition matters in B2B software, and what competing effectively feels like. Competition is simply the art of increasing your win-rate when you and a competitor vie for the...
Some new priorities landed this week, and I've finally got access to all the tools. Access to Github I finally got access to Github this week. I'm giving myself a gold star for pushing up a fix on the same day to one of our smaller...
On an old CSS optimization technique that is non-trivial to automate but for which there’s a new tool.
I read an interesting article by Amanda Mull about “friendly fraud” and increased credit card chargebacks: According to Juniper Research, American consumers filed 158 million transaction disputes in 2025, an increase of 29% from 2021,...
Imagine. You are being put in charge of planning for a future major volcanic eruption. All you have is an incomplete list of volcanoes in the world, some experience of past eruptions, and a few volcanologists as consultants. The...
When I first decided that I would review my way through the original 1982-1994 G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero comic book series from Marvel—via Image Comics' giant G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero Compendiums—I figured I would tackle six...
I started playing drums when I was 6 or 7 years old. My cousin lived next door and had a very nice Ludwig kit and hundreds of records. I had natural rhythm and drums came pretty easily to me. So most of my life I played acoustic (analog)...
The black sand beach at Keawaiki is seldom crowded. There’s a half mile walk to ge there and there are no facilities of any kind. This weeds out a lot of people! The beach is quite steep and if there’s much surf, it’s not great for...
TL;DR - My 26-year-old door handle finally broke, and I've replaced it with a metal one. Years ago, I started seeing a trend on TacomaWorld. There, in the What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition thread, people were...
For most of my career, I was an individual contributor. Usefulness was visible: write the code, review the change, fix the problem, publish the document. The output was easier to see.Moving into management changed that relationship...