December 3, 2025
Along the vast divide between AI optimists and pessimists, the main factor in determining which side you fall on may be where you see yourself in the future: above the effects of AI, or beneath them. Read more…
November 9, 2025
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit Read more…
August 26, 2025
Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the difference, and why does that matter so much? Read more…
April 4, 2025
One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself. Read more…
January 27, 2025
A tribute to the member of our family we lost this weekend. Read more…
January 24, 2025
A running list of uncommon, strange, and/or archaic words embedded in common idioms, to help you type them correctly next time you use them. Read more…
December 24, 2024
Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024. Read more…
November 6, 2024
Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the other is merely making up ad-hoc rules from moment to moment, for no reason but to help them win. Read more…
November 5, 2024
I feel it's important to issue a critical reading of Automattic's post, as it doesn't seem to offer much of a serious or objective examination of the issues at hand. Rather, the post unfortunately reads as something more akin to a puff piece, or corporate propaganda. Read more…
September 27, 2024
I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately. Read more…