I read a lot of varied topics, from economics and history, to sociology and politics, so I tend to connect these disparate subjects and think about things from multiple angles.
For lack of a better word, I’m using philosophy to cover things I’ve written that fall into this category of “thinking about the world and how I approach it”. I don’t think that’s too far from the actual definition or root etymology, “love of wisdom”.
14 items with this tag.
Some things I've been thinking about around AI, art, and copyright.
6 min read — Published on 2 July 2024
My thoughts on why "conventional comments" might not be the best solution.
4 min read — Published on 27 June 2024
My take on the definition of "space opera" as a genre, based on some disparate things I've read recently.
5 min read — Published on 16 May 2024
I have a certain way I approach building dev environments with Nix, and this post explains it.
6 min read — Published on 4 April 2024
Some thoughts about things that Mastadon and other Activity Pub services lack that Email has.
5 min read — Published on 17 July 2023
About my recent experience botching a coding interview, and my thoughts on the practice of coding tests.
9 min read — Published on 1 April 2023
A memorial to a dear friend who passed away, our dog Squirt.
7 min read — Published on 24 March 2022
Some thoughts on masculinity and how we approach it.
8 min read — Published on 3 May 2021
My father passed away unexpectedly in 2020, this is just something I wrote about it at the time.
5 min read — Published on 1 December 2020
Some thoughts I had in 2020 around all the crazy things that were happening in the United States.
10 min read — Published on 25 September 2020
An attempt to put into words some thoughts I've had around code as a way to communicate knowledge, both to my future self and others.
7 min read
A philosophy about documentation writing. I think it's a useful framework.
3 min read
About Ursula K. Le Guin's language from The Dispossessed.
1 min read
About Sociocracy and my impressions of it.
4 min read
from the mind of Jeremy Shoemaker
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