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I Tried to Build a Second Brain and Got a Second Job Instead
April 3, 2026
I fell for it. The siren song of productivity content. “Build a second brain.” “Create your personal knowledge management system.” “Organize your digital life.” I …
I Tried to Go Fully Open Source and Nearly Lost My Mind
May 9, 2025
I did something stupid. I decided, in full earnestness, that I was going to go fully open source. No proprietary software. No closed-source drivers. A completely libre, ethically sourced, …
A Love Letter to the Terminal (We've Been Through So Much)
December 25, 2024
Dear Terminal, I know I don’t say it enough, but thank you. Thank you for not judging me when I fat-fingered rm -rf ./ instead of rm -rf ./build/. You watched me delete my entire project and you …
Why I Dont Trust the Cloud (And You Shouldnt Either)
July 22, 2024
Every time someone says “just put it in the cloud” I involuntarily twitch. I dont trust the cloud. The cloud is just someone else’s computer, and Ive seen what people do with their …
I Went to a Tech Conference and All I Got Was This Lousy Existential Crisis
April 18, 2024
I went to a tech conference last month. It was held in a convention center so large that I’m pretty sure it has its own weather system. I saw a man in a Kubernetes t-shirt argue with a man in a …