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I remember when I first began to learn how to build things with code. Must have been 2002–2003. I was teaching myself Wordpress, learning HTML and CSS and some PHP. I'd copy/paste JavaScript from other sites not my own. It all felt so strange and wonderful. PureVolume.com,

How I've used blogging to help with my ADHD.

Sitting out on the porch right now. It's cool and a little windy, but the sun is streaming down across the far corner in long, rectangular windows of light. ...

It’s bad for accessibility, and no longer needed.

notified me a few weeks ago that I was approaching 200 posts on this blog, and I hit that milestone a few days ago! This is my 203rd (you can find how to ch...

I was in the car an hour ago, listening to an episode of the Vergecast, and I had a sudden realization: I am a cultural outsider. An internet culture …

Likes Withdrawing my workshop from HighEdWeb 2023 by Rachel Cherry. At least two presenters are withdrawing from this year's HighEdWeb annual conference (which begins Sunday). One of the conference sponsors, Pantheon, provides web hosting for Alliance Defending Freedom, a hard-right legal advocacy group that works to expand Christian practices within public schools and in government,…

It's even worse than it appears..

It's come to my attention that I spend an awful amount of time concerned about breaking rules. I wish I could explain exactly what rules I'm worried abou...

Not last week but the week before was the last little bit of paid time off my wife and I have for the year. It was actually the end of a two week break, but ...

There's a popular saying; "No One Wants a Drill. What They Want Is the Hole". It's a pithy (and broadly) correct statement. But I don't think it goes far enough. Let's apply the Five Whys method to the issue: No one wants a drill. What they want is the hole. No one wants a hole. […]

I woke up yesterday with the intention to run, but the PSI had entered unhealthy ranges due to the seasonal haze that comes in from Indonesia. When I was younger I used to ignore these things, but...

But I'm having fun anyway.

(Incomplete, incohesive post up ahead because I am all written out after four posts this weekend. I'll post this scary mess prematurely in honor of spooky se...

I have a lot of admiration for Eliot Peper, who has spun a career in tech into a career in writing science fiction novels rooted

This blog has had kind of a weird relationship with comments since I started it ten years ago. My previous blogs, in contrast, have always

The image at the top  of this post shows a general timeline for this blog in terms of what blogging engine I used for it over the years. The Years of Chaos The first 5 years of this site was absolute chaos. I moved from host to host and platform

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

There's the kind of burnt out where you can still write about it, and then the kind of burnt out where you can't.

I have 51 unread emails in my inbox right now. This might not seem like a lot to many of you, but to someone with a control freak personality who's used to b...

I posted about how convoluted all this was recently in The State of API-Powered Publishing to Social Media Networks. I don’t think it’s gotten much better, I just wanted to document exa…