Have your own little place
95 reasons for having your own website by Bell Kiosk. 1) to write for oneself 3) to have a home on the open web 40) to become an island41) to become an archipelago with your friends Yep.
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Some Quick Thoughts
I m on vacation, dangit. Signed off Tuesday evening. It took a while to actually disconnect I still found myself absentmindedly loading up Slack on my phone and checking what messages and notifications I d received. I managed to keep it to only a few times a day, at least, but still not exactly the sort [ ]
A chat between Hank and Ze
Hank Green and Ze Frank talking about creativity (among other things). Some tidbits from the podcast: This question of where ideas come from, I think it s central to my life and certainly a lot of other creative people. And I think that the importance often comes from some sort of an urgency that we have [ ]
Getting back to things
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Douglas Adams Sorry for the radio silence for the past little bit. Life has been keeping me busy, but in all honestly mostly I ve just been a little burned out and tired. Not burnt to ash levels of burnt out, but enough that [ ]
That time of year again
It s my birthday. I ve always felt uneasy about my birthday for a variety of reasons it feels like a lot of my life s bigger emotional upheavals have happened within a few weeks of the day. After a while, I actually started planning to take myself on trips around now, both as a treat for [ ]
The A.I. Post
AI gets talked about a lot these days. Like everyone else, I have Opinions™. I don t want this to turn into a blog about AI, so I m going to do my best to roll my thoughts up here. What are we talking about? The term AI is thrown around a lot, but is really an [ ]
Writing Formats
Last week I talked about technical writing as a role, and I figured I d run with that theme for a minute. One of the things I mentioned was that we tend to write in other formats, and I wanted to expand on that if you re used to a What You See is What You [ ]
On Technical Writing
I don t talk about my day job all that often. What I m doing currently is software development specifically, I write tools and create infrastructure for a documentation team. This ranges from writing deployment pipelines and build scripts to writing extensions for the writing software we use, to building out sites and wrangling server configurations. [ ]
Apple and Back to Basics
I have never heard as many people avoiding upgrading to the new macOS, this late into the release cycle (we re up to 26.2), as I have with this release. Between the new UI being an accessibility nightmare and just actively weird, plus it all seeming to be buggier than normal, it just feels like a [ ]
Wrapping up 2025
Sorry for the radio silence the past little bit. Even though I recognized I was going into a fallow period, I was still trying to get something out at least once a month, and I totally missed November. It s not just the writing – I m behind on my RSS feeds and other regular media diet, [ ]