Rediscovering Reading (Without the Social Media Part)
How stepping away from social media and using library borrowing rekindled a slower, more pleasurable reading habit.
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Nostalgic Noises
On the small pleasures of owning a NAS — the sounds of background jobs and how they reconnect you to what your machines are doing.
2025 Open Source Predictions
Predictions on how AI and open source tooling will reshape contributor flows, tooling, and conferences in 2025.
Archiving Rarely Quotable and Happiness Packets
Why I archived two older pages — context, decisions, and a curated archive of quotes and happiness packets.
Based on everything you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.
An AI-generated ‘day in my life’ illustration — the prompt used and the image it created.
Intentionally losing things and the curse of backlogs
… because backlogs turn into junk drawers.
Easily see your declined events in Google Calendar
Not every declined event is to be forgotten
Man Rides Tram
A tram-side anecdote about language, small kindnesses, and teaching through casual conversation.
Capacity for Work
Practical thoughts on estimating personal capacity: why task size, context, and health matter more than raw checkboxes.
rsync+iCloud: A proposal
Proposal for making rsync and iCloud Drive work together so evicted files are included in backups.