Dear Internet Diary That Everyone Can Read:
Godammit. Any of y'all just…feel awful about their life's trajectory, and you make these wishy-washy blog posts or maybe videos or social posts or whatever, where you go "I have decided that I'm going to do some...thing" and then end up with months of radio silence cause surprise, the thing's actually hard (or, let’s be real, takes work )? Or other shit gets in the way? Or whatever excuses you…
It’s been over a year since I left the tech industry . Since then, I’ve recognised that I was very unwell, got diagnosed with major depression, and went into therapy. I feel like I’ve recovered mostly. It’s been pretty good! Mentally, if not financially. More on that in a bit. After alla that, I’ve decided to sincerely try and be a freelance designer. Hell of a circling around, but so it goes.…
I’ve been a frontend developer since 2011. I should have quit around maybe 2015, but only, ahem, “followed through” this year, nearly a decade later. I don’t know why I kept going (money), but it would probably help me to process this out loud on the internet. There’s been plenty of really good posts on the subject already anyway, so I’ma ride the wave. As you may guess for someone who claims to…
Greetings from the murky vantage of December 2021! There’s just so much going on. Here’s a cute little time capsule for you: A pandemic nearly 3 years running The steady rise of authoritarianism The continuing churn of late-stage capitalism The planet steadily coming to a boil thanks to the above A growing movement of anti-intellectualism and willful ignorance serving to speed every other point…