: I cannot unsee the number of em-dashes that Claude wants to put in my documents.
: I did not have “installing a Linux environment complete with dev- and container build tools on an …
: I moved to Malmö, Sweden at the beginning of August. The culmination of many, many conversations and …
: Switched my devices over to Swedish this morning. Så långt är allt gott… Just need to like, learn …
: Spent the day getting our latest cohort of summer interns up and running. Recovering in a …
: Took Baldur’s Gate III multiplayer mode for a spin with friends tonight. I think the story …
: Last morning in Malmö; sipping coffee on the balcony. 🗺️✈️
: We have been visiting Malmö for a week. Our trip is coming to an end for now, but we are really …
: Just watched Bladerunner (the “Final Cut” edit) with my son who really enjoys cinema. He …
: At the first middle school track meet of the season. With wind chill adding to already low temps, I …
: Saw Väsen in concert last night. I wouldn’t have picked this show, but five minutes in I knew …
: Long day. Spent much of it trying to explain that you can be creative AND productive.
: Another Friday, another manhattan on the rocks. The stock market is so (understandably) insane that …
: Spent the day remembering how to Dougie
: Spent a long time in the flow today. Wrote a file parser. Deleted Duolingo with tremendous …
: Went down the rabbit hole of fixing the way I organize my music tracks (including file naming) while …
: I’ve managed to set aside an overwhelming sense of dread by staying busy. There is plenty to be done …
: I have learned much about Duolingo since I started using it. I feel like it encourages a kind of …
: Mega appreciation post for micro.blog. The ability to manage multiple sites from one place, with …
: I just re-recorded my latest DJ livestream. I had a ton of technical issues during the live set and …
: Had friends over last night to celebrate the end of the work week. One of our guests was also our …
: Yesterday and today, back at my own drafting table. I am familiarizing myself with a previous …
: Multi-modal journey into the head office this morning. Along the way, I listened to a discussion …
: Testing out a micro.blog plugin. I’ve had this banger stuck in my head for days, now.
: Yesterday’s various news items fostered in me a sense of existential dread. To combat the …
: We finished filling the first 20-yard dumpster yesterday. 10 years of living in a place means not …
: Yesterday we took apart the collapsing remains of the garden walls. A tangle of rotting boards and …
: Concert last night; a famous chanteuse from the old city. Nostalgia for a time half-remembered. …
: This showed up on Hacker News today; pretty amazing read on the technical construction of social …
: This morning I wondered about living in a reality distortion field that was so strong, I could not …
: There was a certain gloominess in the workshop today. The afternoon ice cream helped lighten the …
: Putting on my top hat and monocle to head into the office today. It’s a space that is new-ish …
: Evening situation: improving. (rye manhattan on the rocks, like god intended)
: I’ve been re-reading an email I sent yesterday. It’s one of those situations where I know I …
: Needed a place to clear my head that was relatively anonymous. Too much shit going on in the world.
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Regarding Social Media - Don't Split the Difference
I’ve been trying to figure out recently how to make social media work better for me. I am …
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Tech Transfers
One of the hardest things that any engineering team can do is to inherit a software project from …
: Refocusing Creative Energy Last Thursday, my regular D&D group of 25 years gathered on Zoom and I ran the last session of a …
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After Decades, a Waking Dream
When I was a kid, I had some dreams that were so vivid that the sensory experience of them was …
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December 2022
I don’t even know where to begin with this month. I have strong emotional reactions to just …
: Goodbye, Dad My father passed away yesterday. I’m still very numb about the whole thing, still processing, …
: Supporting Grief A few weeks back, one of my coworkers (we’ll call him Adam) had a major health scare and was …
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N7 Day
I’m a big fan of the Mass Effect video game franchise. I’ve played the main trilogy …
: Meta Problems I’ve always used Instagram to promote my DJ hobby stuff. I know it is owned by (and integrated …
: Projects Coding Projects I’m nhr on GitHub. Here are some of my more interesting projects: Shiftzilla …
: About Me I’m a career technologist, writer, and hobbyist dj with about a dozen other hobbies as well. …
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The Ides of March
Twenty years ago today - the Ides of March, 2002 - I enlisted in the Army National Guard. Unlike …
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Fast Food
When I was in high school, I had a fast food job in the local shopping mall. I was in Danbury, CT, …
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Fedora 31 on the Razer Stealth GTX (Late 2019)
My hunt for a shiny new laptop always starts with the best of intentions, but well-intentioned …
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2019: Year of the Spartan
In October of 2018, I got my annual physical and came face-to-face with the reality of my current …
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TGIF
Here at The Internet Shipyards, Friday night is cocktail night. Today’s special guest: the Rusty …
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That App You Love – Headed to DevConf.cz!
Starting back in September I published a series of articles for the Red Hat Developer Blog under the …
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A Sunbeam for Mia
We lost Mia today. I’ve always read posts like this with some amount of indifference because in the …
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Advice From an Open-Source Hiring Manager
In Decemeber of 2014 I transitioned from fifteen years of being a developer into being one of the …
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Comments on Backing Up a Linux Laptop
My primary workhorse right now is an HP Omen running Fedora 22. Thinking and talking about how to …
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New Challenges, New Tools
I almost feel like a traitor, which is a weird way to feel about consumer electronics. But my next …
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iCloud “Family Sharing”: Great Feature Unless You Use iTunes Match
Family Sharing provides users with a way to share purchases from their iCloud/iTunes account with up …
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Where to Post? Finding Yourself Amongst Ello, Facebook, and the Glut of Social Media
Ello is a social platform that has been the subject of some buzz recently. Either by design or by …
: TL;DR: Stop Expecting Achievements to Make You Happy A moment of clarity from the folks at HuffPo… Here’s the best part: When you detach happiness from …
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OS X to Fedora 20: The User Experience, Pt. 2
Just tuning in? Have a look at Part 1 to find out how I installed Fedora 20 on a MacBook Air and why …
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OS X to Fedora 20: The User Experience, Pt. 1
A little background here: I have been a Mac enthusiast for a number of years now. I would not say …
: Frozen, Victorious Bastion shook his head, and the ghastly images faded away. Glancing up, he could see that the others …
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Protecting Important Data
My recipe for not losing important stuff on my home desktop system…
: How not to optimize a site with AJAX I’ve inherited a project that is seeing some performance issues. We knew this was at least …
: The Hospital The quiet evening stands still; a tapestry A history woven in sodium light A memory Hospitals never …
: CMSART in Worcester Pulse My search and rescue team, and more specifically, one of our most capable and dedicated members, got …
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It's who you are
Last Friday, my dad performed the last surgery of a career that has spanned over thirty years. By my …
: A thought exercise in film Got this idea from drama_kween - here’s a quote from each of 15 different movies that I like. …
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Why yes, this -is- the right week to tear out all the plumbing...
Thursday morning we discovered serious water damage in our living room ceiling, directly below the …
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Phone status
I sent out mail to a bunch of folks today to let them know that our home phone is offline for the …
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Sunrocket'd
Well, that was a bad call. SunRocket basically imploded this week, and I’m unlikely to see a …
: In memoriam Elena passed away at 12:55 this morning. She was surrounded by her family and close friends. She …
: I am watching something beautiful (This post is about Elena. Shes not doing very well. I invite you to read this, but I don’t …
: Farewell, Brix After giving the whole thing some serious consideration, I am ending my career with Brix Networks. I …
: Another day, another small miracle Elena is out of surgery now. The surgeon said that the procedure went very smoothly, and that the …
: Number two in a series I have been lax in spreading this news, probably because the fac’t hasnt sunken in for me yet. …
: How we become our grandparents Last weekend I had the privilege of DJing at the wedding of some friends. I’ve unofficially …
: The new lieutenant Jane Immelheim leaned against the wall of the situation room, her face a picture of zen-like calm. …
: When does a resume become a C.V.? When you publish something! And let me tell you, its a page-turner. Oh well; you gotta start …
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The spectacular deaths of computers
Without going into too many details, I started Sunday with two computers and finished with none. …
: Old-skool blogging After some consideration (and paranoia about the direction things seem to be going on the web), I …