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Coding, as a skill, used to be truly amazing. I should be more clear. Code is still pretty impressive. It's neat that we can control computers well enough to do amazing things and people today are doing more with code than ever before. But there was a tim

The internet is more fun when people build and own their own things. And it's getting easier for more people to do that! I've been struggling with the feeling that the internet isn't as much fun anymore for a while and I recently re-read Enshittification

This blog is now using my home-grown blogging library, Postwave! I wrote about Postwave a little while ago, but at the time this site was still using the hacked together Jekyll-based solution that I had been using since around 2013. It seemed a bit silly

I recently moved all my small project sites over to a self-hosted solution using Coolify. It was pretty easy and really rewarding! I miss Heroku. I know Heroku still exists, but I miss the generous free tier they offered. This was the perfect solution for

Just what the world needs, another software engineer pontificating about AI! Nothing too deep here, just some things I've been mulling over that aren't worth writing whole posts about... Are we all really going to be staff engineers? It seems like there a

My most millennial trait is that big purchases must happen in a big laptop screen. You should just use a laptop. For most things. Phones (and tablets, to some degree) are amazing because they're a powerful computing device that is always with you, but the

This year I've been thinking more about making computers/the internet fun again. Part of this was trying to use more technology without an "agenda". And that has led me into the arms of Linux. Last year I picked up a Framework 13 laptop so I'd have a Wind

Nobody asked for it, but it got made. Earlier this month I put out a new EP from my solo project, And Or Not. If you want to skip the self indulgent dive into making this recording and just go listen to it, you can just go check it out. Stereoscopic by An

After doing a rotation on GitHub's "Ruby Architecture" team a few years ago and learning more about how programming languages really work (and getting a few commits into the Ruby language myself) I've been trying to learn more about building languages. Fo

I like making pizza. When I first started it was pretty arduous. I actually had to grind the wheat to make flour for the dough. Making the cheese took forever. Toppings were a luxury unless I could find someone else who was making them and even then they