this could’ve been an email

This one is a bit light.

I got behind a little in my reading and a lot in my posting because of the onrush of the end of school, the beginning of summer and holiday season, and needing to give two talks.

I read more in this stretch than made it into this post.

I’ve long been inspired by the recently read lists published by my friends Ben Cotton and Vadim Rutkovsky.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft on upstream Linux in Azure.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft on upstream Linux in Azure.

I’ve seen “Warranty Void if Regenerated” going around, particularly among the subset of my friends who believe “LLMs are slop generators”.

I’m currently testing Synology Photos, including the iPhone uploader.

Why I needed more than a social reading site In Rediscovering Reading (Without the Social Media Part) I wrote about stepping away from scrolling and building a slower, more deliberate reading habit.

Update (June 1, 2026): Phone a Friend is archived.