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The 3DS Still Holds Up
I know the Switch 2 just came on but I want to give you a love letter to my 3DS
Is AI Really Killing Critical Thought?
A letter that was once written to my town
You Want to Geofence My GPU???
A GPS won't fit in a graphics card.
How Did the Blog Do in 2024?
Virality, Traffic Patterns, Economics, and Copyright
Peanuts in Church and Casual Misinformation
What absurd laws regarding gorrilas, chowder and mules tell us about media literacy
Garmin Connect+ and the Beginning of the End
Oh how the mighty have fallen
Apple Voice Dictation Writes 'Trump' When You Say 'Racist'
Must've been the wind
A Rough Timeline of Technological Buffoonery in the DOGE Era
It's barely been a month!
Not Feeling Big Tech This Year? Start an Indie Blog!
Indie-blog EVANgelism
Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18
A mathematical miracle enables Apple's servers to process your photos while never knowing anything about them
I Was Just Censored by Meta
I took to Instagram to complain about Instagram. Here's how it went.
TikTok, Oligarchs, and Ass Kissing
I'm Opposed to the TikTok Ban
I won North Carolina, Now my next stop is China
The Fascinating Security Model of Dark Web Marketplaces
Captchas, Monero, Scams and absolutely no JavaScript
We Showed Up. We Fought. We Lost.
Initial reflections on the 2024 election
Apple Intelligence Is Not It.
I Don't Hate Technology When It Works.
Why boring tech was actually not really boring, and why I want it back
Bountysource Stole at Least $21,000 from Open Source Developers
This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.
It’s Been a Year and Georgia.gov Continues to Be Hacked
Illegal drug transactions facilitated through Georgia's employee portal
You Have Power: Making Truth Social Comply with the AGPL
Defending Mastodon from Donald Trump's social media
LLMs Are This Close to Destroying the Internet
Complacency whilst the AI consumes
Thank You, Goodbye
Excitement and Stress: Why I Took A Break In April
Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
Please note: This is being updated in real-time. The intent is to make sense of lots of simultaneous discoveries
Is (my) RSS Dead?
RSS Analytics! RSSLytics!!!
Free the T
A plee to the Massachusetts bay transportation overlords.
Internet Evanescence
What to do about a world that forgets
"App Store Levels Playing Field and Supports Developers"
A comprehensive analysis of Apple's purported fairness from a developer's perspective.
NPM Install Everything, and the Complete and Utter Chaos That Follows
how one little joke can get so, so out of hand
Bridging the Gap Between Swift & Rust
Using UniFFI to call rust functions from my SwiftUI codebase
Here Are the 1000 Most Common Words Across 1 Million Love Letters
My Notes on Speed
the nitty gritty of making (static) websites really fast that they didn't teach you in school.
Be(ing)Fake
Lastpass Is Worse Than You Think
How does it live on?
Deleting My CSS for a Day
On April 9th, I deleted my CSS. It was a huge learning opportunity
A Non Exhaustive Guide to Privacy Focused Analytics
A list of "privacy" focused analytics with evaluations for each one
A Cool Use for CSS Variables
How I added dynamic coloring to my website, and how you can too.
11ty Aliases the Right Way
A short little tutorial on how to make redirects in 11ty that aren't awful.
Zero Maintenance Taxonomies in 11ty
Taxonomies in 11ty have always been hard. Sure, we have collections, but for when we want advanced features like categories and authors, it all falls apart. I found a solution. Introducing taxonomies that work so well they feel (almost) native!
GitHub Considered Harmful
Is GitHub *commit*ed to *pull*ing people in the wrong direction? *ba dum tis*
When Banks Fail
When a country is airgapped and income streams run dry, what is left?
Astro's Honeymoon Phase
Standing Out
Skiing, the crowds, and overdoing it.
You're Being Manipulated by Interledger
Look ma, I found a fake charity!
Community Values
Is it possible to build a digital utopia? Yes, probably. My handbook for guiding communities.
Brave Is Not an Ethical Browser
Attacks on Brendan Eich and his potential motivations for making a browser.
A Domain, Much More
SyncThing
A showcase of syncthing for everything!
Why?
Starting my digital garden, or, hello world.