The Command Line

A year ago, I started a role-playing game campaign, grueproof, a close, long time friend with whom I've collaborated from time to time over the years.

I let my lifelong reading habit lapse and only recently made real progress recovering that practice.

I try to live into my values.

When that version of ChatGPT dropped a few years ago, I was rattled for the first time in my career.

I have wanted to write here more and even podcast again for some time.

I started exploring what I learned from an interview with Guo Gu, a teacher of Chan Buddhism, in my meditation practice.

This week I reached the finish line of a project I've been working on for my $dayjob for a little over a year.

At the end of my last post, I mentioned my new home server opening up more possibilities.

Encouraged by my success so far with my home server, Lovelace, I wondered what I might add next.

I have continued to work on my new home server.

I am catching up on some news drafts, including ones from the end of last year, like this one.

I rely on the bundled file sync service on my network attached storage (NAS) appliance to work across my devices.

I've had a security key for a few years now.

The blockhead post I wrote the other day reminded me of my interest in the question of how creators can find their own ways to sustain their art.

A year ago I was burning out.

Cory wrote another post at Pluralistic that resonated with some of my own recent thoughts.

Another theme I am returning to is copyright.

I recently finished restoring all the posts I wanted to retain from the archive I exported from the previous incarnation of this website.

Whatever you think of the outgoing Biden administration, I enjoyed watching his appointees who've worked on antitrust these past few years.

Jay Peters at The Verge wrote this week about another non-profit forming to support the open social web.

I starred another piece by Karl Bode at Techdirt to continue to learn more about the details of the recent Salt Typhoon attacks.

I starred this story from EFF by Karen Gullo to learn more about a treaty being considered by the UN.

I've been hanging out in the Fediverse, or the open social web, for a while.

In amidst the seemingly ever deepening enshittification of the net, there are some causes for optimism.

I continue to work on restoring my current web-site from the exported archive from the last version running on an entirely different stack.

I struggle with my attraction to tech gadgets.

Kevin Purdy has the story at Ars Technica as well as a bit of historical context.

I've shared before about my online reading habits.

The past few weeks I have been thinking about how to respond to a world that now seems highly uncertain except for the strong probability of increased threats and harms to the people and communities I care about.

The essay I shared yesterday hopefully represented a breakthrough.

I've been processing a lot this week, mostly worried about the future.

An update is long overdue, at least to share progress on restoring this website from the archive of its previous incarnation.

A few months ago, in between my last day job and my current one, I read Cal Newport's Slow Productivity.

I decided to try to simplify my self hosting, starting with migrating my single user instance of Mastodon to a dedicated hosting provider.

I have resumed restoring posts from my archive.

After reading yesterday's Pluralistic, I realized a few parallels with Cory's reflection on the past three years of his current web-writing setup.

I continue to work on this site, either migrating old content or re-writing it to be more up to date.

One reason I was eager to use Kubernetes with my recent self-hosting upgrade was how much faster it will make experimenting with new services.

I was chatting with my good friend, Chris, recently.

I have been self hosting my own services for years.

I am enjoying a week off, to celebrate fifty years so far on this planet.

You may have noticed more content showing up here on the new site.

Over the last few months, I have been working on my private servers to update them to more modern tools and to make them easier to manage.

Most of my career, I have been a software developer.

This article from Stanford has helped me understand why some of my colleagues when I worked directly on public policy were consistently more effective.

Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica as ever explains clearly how using the CRA to undo the FCC vote could work as well as the political likelihood of such an action succeeding.

Technology policy is hard to follow for the interested and invested.

I had the great pleasure to see Tim O'Reilly speak in person at an open government event I attended years ago.

The change, to curtail access to the Canvas API, is incremental and likely to be limited in how it is visible to regular users.

A couple of important points here.