I think about this all the time. I'm in my 50s, so Gen X. I grew up with great fucking music, y'all. And now all these Gen Z assholes get to discover all my favorite music, plus all the new shit coming out. God, imagine discovering Tool, Nine Inch Nails, and Metallica for the first time. Imagine discovering The...

Gordon's post, I no longer care, resonated as I'm also getting older and of the same age as him. I think the difference between 32-year-old me and 52-year-old me is that I still care about some things. It's just that I no longer feel the need to broadcast my opinion as loudly. Atheism is what comes to mind as I say...

I love my RSS reader. It's the first thing I reach for when I'm "catching up." As I'm reading through my list of feed items, I often come across blog posts that do not give me any way to interact with the post! Here are some options in the order of my own preferences. Webmentions # The gold standard is webmentions....

This is a serious one, folks. Sorry. My dad died when I was 12 years old so I've never had to deal with losing a parent as an adult. Still, reading the accounts from For No One and Absurd Pirate instantly takes me back to how hard it was. My parents were separated, and I had never spent more than just 1 or 2 weeks...

I've been watching the NFL since around the mid 80s. I remember the '85 Bears defense and all the media they were doing. I watched Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary and many other greats play football. I'm a long time fan, though these days I mostly just...

Well, not really but almost! It's preseason and I've watched a preseason game! For the past couple years, watching Titans games has been equivalent to self-flagellation. The team has been bad, and there hasn't been much cause for optimism. It's felt like we've been a bad organization. Since 2022, we're tied with the...

I've been thinking about how resilient my site and posts are lately, so I found Naty S's post, Re: The Loss of Links Continues, where she writes about her efforts to mitigate link rot, to be quite relevant and interesting. Do not contribute to link rot! # I think one important piece of the link rot puzzle that Naty...

The computer I use the most is my couch laptop. It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running Debian 13 and sits on a little roller table thing that I can pull up to me while I'm sitting or push out of the way and the top of it tilts up; it's a pretty nice setup. Day-to-day, I'm doing normal web browsing,...

I've always felt the need to share links that I find interesting. I think it helps like-minded people find their tribe. I'm unsure if my efforts have helped much, yet I persist. A few days ago I got an email from Antonio Santos asking how the links in my feed work. They have a blogroll page on their site, but it...

In 2021, I wrote about common pitfalls of low-code solutions and today I'd like to revisit the topic to judge whether or not "AI"[1] has improved the citizen developer experience. To quickly summarize the old post: Nancy from accounting is great at accounting, and she can't be faulted for not knowing anything about...

I understand the argument that if you don’t like what Big Tech is doing, you should vote with your wallet. It’s a simple equation after all. Stop buying Apple products, de-Google your life, and delete your Meta accounts. And if you can —trickier for us knowledge workers— move away from Microsoft. Alternatives abound...

On a whim, I decided to ride my eBike on a 30+ mile ride. Men of a certain age love WWII or Civil War history; I love both types! Some quick searching of the Richmond area led me to pick Malvern Hill Battlefield as my destination. Looking along the route, I saw there was a BBQ place along the way. Sweet, that looks...