The personal weblog of Reese Armstrong
Austin is in a housing crisis. Landlords are price-fixing rents through algorithms like RealPage, which is used by nearly 50% of apartments in Austin , as homeownership gets more and more out of reach for our city’s working class. This crisis requires bold action, and our current strategy of reducing zoning restrictions to let the free market go to work will not serve everyone. Landlords will…
Hey y’all - I’m running for Travis County commissioner to lower the skyrocketing cost of living in Travis County, and it’s going to be an uphill battle the whole way. We’re fighting the Democratic Party establishment on their home turf - the county commission. They’ve had a firm grip on the commission for nearly 30 years, and my opponent, Brigid Shea, has had her seat for nearly 15 years. This has…
This was initially published in the Austin Chronicle as a letter to the editor but has been republished here verbatim in its entirety Dear Editors, As progressives, we must fight for climate justice each and every day, and it saddens me to see the Chronicle endorse multiple candidates for railroad commissioner (oil & gas commissioner) that will not seek to move Texas away from oil, but rather…
This is my very first post through my new Micropub endpoint set up with IndieKit, Fly.io, and Netlify CD! More real posts are to come soon.
These are my reflections on the Hack Club organization; the issues I have with it, the reforms I believe are necessary to make Hack Club a more vibrant, transparent, & democratic community, and what I'm doing next. <aside> 🚨 Angsty teenager alert! You have been warned. 🚨 </aside> Preface I love the Hack Club community. I have made (hopefully) lifelong friends, found people that resonate with me,…
This is a short guide on how to install the Fever RSS reader in 2024 with Docker -- going back to the roots with tutorials! Fever is still to this day a fantastic and innovative RSS reader that I'd rather use over pretty much anything else out there. Prerequisites About an hour of your time A server that has docker & ports 80 & 3306 free A cloud PHP host potentially for transferring a working DB…
This post was originally published on reese's oblong notes , going forward most oblong notes will most likely be published here I've started working on a new engine for Rails called Active Zone that will become the backend for manipulating DNS zones & resources in Panel v2. The idea is fairly simple, create a native API for defining zones that use an agnostic abstract provider to allow for usage…
<aside> The following is a message from the Hack Club slack that I posted soon after my ADHD diagnosis about how it affected me. Since my recent ban, I wanted to preserve it and felt that it was hopefully valuable enough to be worth sharing! </aside> stress & deadline paralaysis (like i just sit there - unable to move or work, doing other things, but its not willful like procrastination. a lot of…
From over 5+ years of printing custom tees, I thought I would share the lessons I've learned along the way in this (surprisingly long) article. I recommend reading the entire article, but you can jump to the conclusion if you're short on time. Printing Method: Online Printing/DTG vs Screen Printing There are two main technologies for printing custom tees: Screen Printing, and DTG…
Avoid Like The Plague: Opera (GX) Opera is owned by a Chinese company with a horrible privacy and consumer track record. They've operated a VPN where they steal your data, were caught up in a lending scheme, and more. Vivaldi, a recommendation below, was founded by the people who made Opera before it got bought, and have many of the same features. It's still not as great as Firefox, but a drop-in…
If you're reading this, I have finally shipped my new blog after procrastinating and delaying it for so long. Over the coming years you'll see this blog gain posts with large time gaps in between. Don't expect this blog to pump out content, or the content that does get posted to be of high quality. See y'all round! --reese