The Garden of Earthly Delights

"He that has lost his patriotic spirit has lost himself and the whole world about himself." - Johann Gottfried Herder Almost a year ago now, while researching a blog post about drama on reddit.com (the Woody Allen subreddit thinks he's innocent, by the wa…

I was gone, and now I'm back.

I've been spamming a lot of raffle contests lately on Instagram, trying to win free stuff, which is how, by way of a very generous DM, I was offered a press pass to the design conference FORM/FUTURE a few months ago.

In Guangzhou, China, after Brittany had left, Dani and I spent a beautiful, quiet evening walking along the balmy waterfront, gazing at the Canton Tower.

Throughout all the ages, there have been only four degrees in love: The first consists in arousing hope; The second in offering kisses; The third in the enjoyment of intimate embraces; The fourth in the abandonment of the entire person.

As a professional software developer working in open source, I spend most of my day on GitHub.

I watched a Netflix documentary a few weeks ago about a Carnival cruise ship that caught on fire.

When I was seventeen, I read a book called Ishmael by Daniel Quinn that I found on my twelfth-grade civics teacher's bookshelf.

One of the first algorithms any programmer interested in mathematics learns is the sieve of Eratosthenes.

While inside during the pandemic, you may have played a map-based puzzle game called Worldle.

"It 𝓈𝑒𝑒𝓂𝓈 dumb, but it’s 𝕤𝕦𝕡𝕖𝕣 smart” is the slogan of Friends with Benefits (FWB), the organizer of a three-day cryptocurrency conference / music festival that took place last year in Idyllwild, California.

When YouTuber Brett Conti isn't photoshopping larger muscles on video thumbnails or "swapping lives" with billionaires for his 900,000 subscribers, he escapes to Bali.

A 2022 report studying social media posts about Meghan Markle claimed that 70% of all negative posts online come from just 83 separate users.

The seasons are changing, and I've found myself at home more in the evenings lately, relaxing on the couch.

As this is a developer blog, it is important I show off my aliases.

On the ballot this November, among other things, a proposed new city in Solano County, California.

In 2017, I went to a talk about gravitational waves at a hacker house in San Francisco.

Last weekend, it was raining and Dani was sick with a cold, so I spent a lot of time looking at weird YouTube videos.

My friend Headless Horse and I built a sustainable website called Overbrowsing a few months ago.

At printer_scanner, I spend a lot of time playing with Random Number Generators.

The name for The Garden of Earthly Delights came to me as a joke while I was coming up with ideas in my journal for my blog.