degrowther

Until a few years ago, I read books “the normal way,” which meant choosing a book, reading it to the end, and moving to the next.

I’m just expanding a bit on an idea that I had in my last gemlog, but I’m starting to recognize that my tolerance for “different views and opinions”, in general, scales with proximity.

Over the past few years I’ve worked to close the gap between my values and my lifestyle.

If you support the state, you support violence.

You might occasionally wake up in the middle of the night feeling frustrated and angry.

I’ve been exposed to a lot of liberal discourse about tarrifs lately.

I am once again sharing a simple Python script (using only modules in Python’s standard library) for the OFFLine-FIRst SOftware CHallenge.

I’m writing this on my laptop in my backyard, the minimum viable ROOPHLOCH post.

I’m glad to hear that Antenna is blocking¹ a Zionist troll, and I’m disappointed — but not shocked — that this person has attacked Antenna in response to this.

Consciousness, I’m convinced, originates in desire.

Presbyopia is making itself known to me.

I finally finished and posted my entry for the OFFLFIRSOCH (the offline-first software challenge) 2024: foodscale.py: A command-line utility to find the mass of a volume of food I identified this as a task for which I always use the internet even though i…

I’ve been reflecting on this piece, which describes a particular ontology of people who work in technical and creative fields: The craftsperson and the scientist: Two ways of working we've identified through our collaborative practice ‘Craftspeople’ are s…

I’m not a Python programmer, but I’m writing a Python script for OFFLIRSOCH 2024.

Lately I feel a compulsion to write about fascism, anarchism, that sort of thing... but I don’t WANT to be writing about these things.

Like most folks around these parts, I find myself missing the computers and internet of my past.

I know that a lot of folks don’t like New Year’s Resolutions, but I’m a fan.

I haven’t been writing much because I’ve been feeling a bit pessimistic about the future — whenever I stop and think about it.

CW: Bad vibes about the future in here.

Here’s a dynamic that I’ve seen play out dozens of times in my life.