Journal archives

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The beauty of flying the Challenger 650

Monday, September 14, 2026

Returning to iTerm2, criticism of Trump’s proposed payments tied to the midterm elections, and improvements to the blog’s syntax highlighting.

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Backing up Indigo data from an aging Mac Pro with restic and Amazon S3, documenting recovery in Obsidian, and reflections on practical note-taking.

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Bundling Indigo automation state into a JSON variable, political wordplay about gender, and an imagined Star Trek civilization with six genders.

Friday, September 4, 2026

Reasons for cancelling a Cursor subscription and separating daily journal updates from the blog’s longer posts.

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Technology fatigue, concerns about the ethics of technology purchases, and blog changes to fonts, syntax highlighting, embedded code, and external dependencies.

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Reflections on James C. Scott’s critique of inequality and political power, the importance of art, and Trump’s renaming of bodies of water.

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Quotations from James C. Scott and Mikhail Bakunin on inequality, freedom, democracy, and socialism.

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Zygmunt Bauman on the anxiety of modern life, reflections on the paradox of choice, and a photograph of coastal Newfoundland.

Thursday, May 26 2022

A satirical proposal to restrict Ted Cruz’s public commentary after national tragedies, alongside criticism of his party’s politics.

Monday, May 23, 2022

Interesting links, a little thoughts for Monday, May 23, 2022.

Friday, May 20, 2022

A brief reflection on Anthony De Mello and his description of enlightenment as cooperation with the inevitable.