Journal archives

2026

  • Sunday, October 18, 2026

    I’ve been working a lot recently on partkeepr-ng which is a rewrite of PartKeepr. I got it implemented on my Debian box and did some work on the API after getting my original data migrated. It’s going to be really nice; …

  • Monday, October 12, 2026

    3D printer poop A bright image for a dreary day. It’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada and quite dreary. I’ve been thinking about chronobiology recently and why I have gradually migrated to going to sleep at 2030-2100 and …

  • Thursday, October 8, 2026

    Abolish frat culture

  • Tuesday, October 6, 2026

    macOS backup automation and the friction of Apple’s security model.

  • Monday, October 5, 2026

    LLM coding overwhelm.

  • Saturday, October 3, 2026

    I ran across this article Everyone’s packing up on Hacker News; and it struck a chord. The author touches on a pervasive antipathy toward the big social platforms. I feel it to. I think the curve has tipped over from …

  • Friday, October 2, 2026

    Arrival of autumn, quick VMs with Tart, chezmoi, and more.

  • 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.

2022

  • 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.