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This essay is long. Please read when you have time. I’m sure you’ll be glad when you do.

I view the feminine within, first and foremost, as a source of vitality. When I am in sync with the feminine, I feel very strongly myself. I experience myself in a way that feels powerful, sensual,…

I, like you, am many things. The person I currently am is the product of a multitude of factors: my environment, my parents, the culture around me, …

I built a handy tool to generate cover images for stories downloaded from AO3, making them easier to browse. Along the way, I learnt about how EPUBs work, the power of static sites, and some gotchas of async JavaScript.

I inhabit three worlds, each pulling me in different directions. This blog, where I write about technology, culture, and media’s future, is a space where I should be free to explore ideas. Signalvs, my media and marketing startup, where clients depend on me for strategy and growth while the

Imagine a world where anyone can launch a fully functional social media platform with a few clicks and a credit card.

As an antidote to these chaotic subzero days, I’m returning to my spiritual practice of slowing my favorite songs down to a crawl.

OpenAI is making a move towards stealing all your user data just like Facebook in the 2000's.

Good Daily, which operates in 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S., is run by one person.

Recently taken Tokyo photographs that are reminiscent of a different time.

At the end of 2024, I disappeared for a period of time into the interior of India. Smartphones are ubiquitous there. People are hungry to...

I’m always a bit reluctant to share too much about my personal life, so when big things happen it sometimes takes me a little while to tell y’all. But this one is so big there is no rea…

After turning off Apple Intelligence I also decided to stop supporting OpenAI and deleted ChatGPT.

DeepSeek-R1 is a blockbuster open-source model that is now at the top of the U.S. App Store.

This is not my usual kind of posting. Many friends , though, were surprised (horrified?) that at 80 years of age I drove nearly 2000 miles from Lexington, Kentucky to…

Have you ever dreamed of writing a nonfiction book? Before diving in, take a moment to visualize the path clearly. Don't let a formless urge to "be published" quietly nag at the back of your mind. Why? Recently, a prospective author reached out for help with his book proposal. Pretty

The more I look around the web the more I’m convinced we should all treasure our own tiny corners of the web. My site is precious. Precious for me. …

A JavaScript solution to unite blog posts with their interactions

notes from a hospice garden

A few months back I wrote up a list of my creative beliefs. These were relevant only to me, and only for that given moment. The more I sat with the list, and let it gestate, the more I liked it as a sort of ad hoc manifesto. You know, all the great movements seem to have a manifesto. Karl Marx had h

Take control of your content consumption with RSS and Atom feeds. Escape algorithmic black boxes, gain more control over what and how you consume in order to be more intentional with your media consumption.

It’s surreal to leave your home without knowing if you’ll ever see it again.

What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octob...

The 150-400 word blog post is a powerful form, if done well.

The inevitable misadventures of traveling long-term in and out of the Schengen zone.

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland