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Last week we bought some new furniture for our bedrooms, …

Web browsers are simply not as good as other apps.

I was very taken by Robin Berjon’s description of technologists: Someone needs to navigate the digital world (for a business, a project, any institution) without blind deference

Thoughts on a Saturday afternoon.

Previously: Initial thoughts on Kirby CMS I recently finished a site for a client built with Kirby CMS. WordPress was no longer meeting their needs and it was time to move them to a proper CMS with custom content models and no ads in the backend. Now that the site is launched I have more thoughts I wanted to share about Kirby. Building my own solutions There aren’t a lot of plugins available for Kirby, which means you’ll have to build things yourself.

This upcoming week marks my umpteenth complete revolution around the sun. I'll be out of town on the actual day, but it's usually a muted affair anyway. That...

With the end of the year comes lists. Lots of lists. Lists of lists. I’m not really a list-maker. I’m admittedly an archivist - I keep careful records and me...

the promise of fading allergies gives me something to smile about as fall fades into winter's slumber.

Dear Diary, I made a grave mistake, dear diary. Against my better judgment and with no thought for my sanity, I decided to venture into the treacherous depths of my local mall. Oh yeah, with the ho…

Cash is rapidly disappearing, but some people still need it.

There are a huge number of distractions in our society: news on the TV, messages on WhatsApp, notifications on Instagram, games on a PlayStation, videos on Y...

Back in 2009 when I was a freshmen in high school, I ended every night, without a doubt, scrolling through and near-pissing myself laughing at all the me...

I can say with a high degree of confidence that William Empson had aphantasia. But did he also suffer from ADHD? And, if so, were the two conditions connected? And how would we know?

On the topic of blogging and personal publishing, I found so …

The idea of FeedLand is to see what would happen if instead of building something complicated around conversations, we limited ourselves to what feeds could do and then see where we could go with that.

I've been back home for a few days now. It feels good to be where I feel the safest, slowly working to get back to the routine I had before. Yesterday I ran my first 5k since japan. I didn't lose...

Came across this phrase and it made me think. Is it possible to reframe my “deficits” (or negative labels people have given me) as assets? (And not in an “autism is a superpower!” way, more like a “fuck you if you think I’m broken” way.)

Today our house is full with family that came to stay for the holidays. It's nice having them here, a bit chaotic but there's a lot of love going around. Aft...

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