Jay Little

Over the last few months, I have been having trouble with the stability of my home internet connection.

In today’s world with everything either burning or smoldering, it can be distressing to wake up each day and face the latest developments.

Whether we like to admit it or not, we all have boundaries.

So here I am sitting in an AirBnb on Christmas Eve in North Augusta on my laptop while Annette is watches Wheel of Fortune as she likes to do on weeknights.

So over the years I’ve had a number of people tell me that I tend to focus on the negative aspects rather than the positive aspects of situations.

So in light of the exceptionally serious posts that have graced the front page of this site over the last month I have decided to do something a little different today.

This post marks the third in my series about the sad saga of Purism and the Librem 5.

This post marks the second in my series about the sad saga of Purism and the Librem 5.

Today I’m going to tell you a sad tale of a device called the Librem 5 and the company behind it, Purism.

If you are a regular visitor, you know that I normally I update my site with new content on a monthly basis.

Over the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of time speaking to the dangers of our current blind obsession with the cloud and all it has to offer.

Most who know me have at some time or another heard me profess my love for Retro and Indie gaming.

A number of people I know have asked me why I feel so strongly about particular tech issues that I feel compelled to take action.

Earlier this year in January, Google publicly toyed with making some changes to its Extension WebRequest API that would effectively kill off reputable ad-blockers.

So for this month’s blog post, I’ve decided to tackle a bit of tech drama that has been brewing for awhile.

In today’s irregularly scheduled pontification, I’m going to be addressing a subject that I have been personally struggling with for the majority of my career.

Over the last few years I have chronicled my struggle to maintain my privacy while maintaining an effective online presence.

People who know me and talk with me, know I’ve been making this claim for years.

This post is really going to be just a random collection of random updates and thoughts.

So as I’m sure my readers have noticed, the rate at which I’ve been producing content here has slowed.

So I’ve taken a bit of a break from writing over the last few weeks.

Late last year I reiterated some principles which I intended to keep in mind for the year of 2018.

Way back when in 2012, I did what is commonly referred to now as “cutting the cord”.

This week I’m going to delve into a question which occasionally rears its ugly head even for me: Why doesn’t bad tech ever seem to go away?

Chances are that if you’ve worked in tech long enough, you can probably rattle off a list of tech fads you were forced to suffer through.

This week I’ve decided to tackle a topic which has been in the back burner of my mind for awhile: Whether or not development teams are a help or a hindrance.

So over the last year, something on the Internet has been really pissing me off.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably have already heard the big tech news of the week: Microsoft is buying GitHub for 7.5 billion dollars.

This morning a young man knocked on my door with the goal of selling me on a Vivint Smart Home System.

Over the course of my career, while my standards may have changed, I have always prided myself on the idea that the code I wrote was “solid” when judged by the standards of the day.

Everybody knows that I love to play RPGs (Role Playing Games).

For those of you who don’t know, I spent most of this past week at a conference in Chicago put on by my employer.

As I’m sure many of you know, an important part of being a remote worker is maintaining lines of communication with your co-workers.

So I’ve been spending a lot of time in the midst of a situation that leaves me feeling very angry.

So in an effort to diversify my hobbies a bit I’ve recently decided to spend some time getting to know Chess a bit better.

This week we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled tech related posts/rants to delve into a subject that is near and dear to my heart: Absinthe.

Anybody who has ever bothered to read my resume has probably thought to themselves: “This guy sure likes to switch jobs.”

One of the most disturbing trends I have seen over the last few years is the interchangeability of the terms Agile and Scrum.

Yesterday at work I was finishing off an extremely productive week.

So I’m going to start off this post by being extremely blunt: I don’t like Windows.

I’ve been doing a lot thinking regarding the overall state of my trade.

So here is something that has been on my mind as of late: The plague of shitty software.

This week I wanted to chat about a syndrome that I have experienced a few times over the years as both an amateur and a professional developer.

When it comes to the modern day world of software, one thing above all has become clear to me over the last 20 years: On a long enough time line, failure is virtually guaranteed.

Today’s post is going to examine an ethical grey area that I currently find to be very relevant.

In a follow up to last weeks post, I’ve decided to examine some of the other side effects of increased technology accessibility.

Something insidious has been lapping away at the innards of my mind for quite awhile.

As everybody who reads this site on a regular basis knows, I’m a strong advocate for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

So those of you who know me personally know that I recently switched from Chromium to Firefox.

With the new year right around the corner, it seems its the expected time to make a few resolutions.