Earlier this year, an anonymous Montrealer declared Machi Machi to be "an elite Boba shop for YUL". I too am interested in having good boba, so I hopped on the plane to Montreal with my girlfriend, Kajol, so we could get Machi Machi. We met up with my friend Arlo…
I've tried my best to use only free software as part of going back to school, and for the most part I've been pretty successful. I picked up a new Framework 13 right before school started. I appreciate having USB-C charging options on both sides and being able to move…
At some point in high school we read the Odyssey, and I really enjoyed it. I did not like Christopher Nolan's version. Rating: 4/10 It really felt like he had read all of the different scenes in the story, figured out how to film them and then just shipped it…
Sixteen years of agony have finally come to an end, as the Avatar universe has finally received a movie worthy of its excellence. Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is a nostalgic adventure that brings back most of the fun from the original television series. The film was originally slated to…
CUNY Law during the infamous blizzard. It's official, I've now finished my first year of law school. As a part-time student, we were required to take torts and another lawyering seminar over the summer to wrap up the 1L curriculum. Tort law allows people to pursue claims against others for…
During the most recent "Free Culture Friday" slash World Cup watch party, I spoke to a journalist from the The Athletic and ended up being quoted (and photographed!) in the resulting story, "Welcome to the high-stakes universe of World Cup Wikipedia editing" (gift link): Those editors include sports fans like…
The insane rise in scrapers across the web has affected a number of websites, including Git repository hosters. The main response has been to set up software like Anubis, which uses a proof-of-work system to limit who can access the website. While I don't fault overburdened sysadmins for enabling Anubis…
I finished my second semester of law school a few weeks ago, only seven more semesters to go! I'm not yet technically done with my first year since we're required to take two summer classes this year (future summers we'll have off). This past semester was contracts (officially "Law and…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Brooke Vibber back in January 2021 for my story in the Wikipedia Signpost, The people who built Wikipedia, technically, which looked back at the technical history of Wikipedia to celebrate the 20th birthday. I was not able to use all of the responses Brooke…
I started hosting my own Git server on git.legoktm.com in 2015 using Gogs, and in 2018, I opened it up to the world. Only a few friends and many, many spambots took me up on that offer. I never got around to migrating the Gogs setup to Gitea, and then…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited CUNY Law earlier today, for an event titled “My time as a law student.” Two students, one full-time and one part-time, asked her questions submitted by other students. My reporting may read as quite critical of her. Broadly, I don’t think Supreme Court…