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I’ve spent years shouting about privacy. And now, I’ve installed a tracker. I know. The irony is thick enough to cut, and the hypocrisy probably looks huge from where you’re sitting. But for the sake of transparency, hear me out: I...
Distributed tracing is the practice of stamping every unit of work with the ID of the request that caused it, then carrying that ID across every process boundary. It turns “something is slow somewhere” into “this span, in this service,...
Infinity Gauntlet, late-stage capitalism edition:Space Stone - let's go to Mars instead of caring for the planet we have. Climate change, who is she? Let's build some more data centers. Mind Stone - let's develop a hallucination machine...
Origin stories. Crazy stuff sometimes. Living in a world when we can make up, massage, or hallucinate just about anything, it’s no wonder that origin stories captivate and often capture us in our quest for meaning. Perhaps so we can have...
Day: 3Show: 6Title: TechCategory: Comedy / ImprovBy: Mike Fotis ProductionsCreated by: Mike Fotis and CastLocation: Strike TheaterSummary: An improvised tech rehearsal for a Fringe show - different every performance!Highlights: This is...
Hawkman and Hawkgirl have had many variations of their logos over the years. Here are the logos I've managed to collect over the last few years. I've added a button to the blog's homepage for fans to find them quickly. Just click the...
Server update, I lied.
A quick post to note that my story collection The Attendants has entered a second printing, and is now once again available worldwide from Waterstones, the publisher Ma Bibliothéque, and the distributor. If you enjoy my writing here,...
When there is no room left for excuses and when there is nowhere left to turn, the next few steps may seem painful or perhaps risky. But rest assured, when there’s nothing left, then there’s nothing left, which means the next steps we...
John Gruber linked to a Q&A with Simon Willison about writing a blog from Cynthia Dunlop's "Write That Blog." How's all that for a little blog linking soup? Links aside, I found the article and Gruber's commentary encouraging and timely....
I greatly enjoyed Michael Ledger-Lomas’s LRB review (23 July 2026; archived) of Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century by Melanie McDonagh, but I have to give him a whack on the...
In a previous video, I talked about the top things that cause players anxiety in FFXIV. Of course, group content is at the top of this list.
Okay, so I'm not off to a great start with Blaugust this year, I've not been sleeping very well and I've spent most evenings trying and failing to work on my next project. 🙁 To that ends, while I was doing some testing for my current CMS...
§ Another week has flown by before I was able to get a solid grasp around anything. At this rate it feels like I’m going to wake up next week and it will already be mid-autumn. § At work, I started building a five-foot-diameter,...
Scrivenix — An automated Flatpak installer and launcher for using Scrivener 3 on Linux. I haven’t tried this, but it definitely looks easier than other ways I’ve seen. novelWriter — Potentially a nice alternative if one doesn’t have any...