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For the past week I have been making my way through The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, a podcast published by Christianity Today about the Seattle megachurch.

Something about this feels like an apt synecdoche of our era: I mean that we continue to delude ourselves into thinking that artifical enhancements will best our natural selves, only to be (dis)satisfied when that doesn’t pan out.

Mike Mason says in his book Practicing the Presence of People that sadness and joy are neighbors.

I’ve been reading James K.A.

James Clear recently asked, “If your family inherited only your habits …, which ones would be your richest gifts?”

Having received a variety of thoughtful books as Christmas gifts this year I am surprised that the one I keep picking up is one I bought myself after the holiday: Paul Kingsnorth’s Against The Machine.

Happy second day of Christmas!

Note What follows is a first attempt at something I would like to see become a new tradition: a short reflection on a Christmas passage, written and given to my kids on Christmas Day.

This won’t be news to anyone I have spoken to over the past few weeks, but my family and I have relocated from Greater Orlando to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

TIL that proximal cause is a term of art in philosophy, while proximate causation is a legal concept.

It’s an “n=1” data set, but it appears that missing my evening dose of magnesium can cut my sleep in half.

I’m happy to share that I was recently elected Co-Chair, Public Sector User Group at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

It is noteworthy how often I will have a vague thought that I do not fully understand it until I have written it out.

I have written a guest post for the OpenSSF blog that has just gone live.

After about a … checks notes … 13-year hiatus, I have started maintaining my Goodreads profile again.

Note This post is pretty different for me, and a little scary.

Last night I started reading The Hobbit to my children, and they went to pieces as I read the following exchange: “Good morning!”

If you are not a software developer, you might be surprised to learn that a large subset of that community loves terminal-based user interfaces (TUIs).

I have spent far too long this weekend trying to figure out how to prevent superscripts from affecting line height on web pages.

I’m not sure what systems programming means.