Checking in for 2023-06-11:

CW: Mentions of food and religion

• Yesterday was our 20th anniversary party. It was a fantastic time and I'm grateful to everyone that came out.
• This morning we're both recovering from said party. There was a bit of prep that went into this and I'm amazed …

I woke up this morning thinking about craftsmanship and programming.

Specifically, I think it's time to put this metaphor to bed.

I remember advertisements for Optimized Software Solutions (later ICD) that used the metaphor of craftsmen in need of precision tools, and extrapolating that metaphor to programmers demanding better software …

Checking in for May for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

(I'm slightly early this time around but since I'll be doing chemo on Wednesday and tomorrow is a holiday I think this is as good a …

Yesterday I think I made a breakthrough with my interactive storyworld "Phosphors in the Dark", or at least have a better explanation of why the previous approach I had wouldn't make for an interesting story. The reason for it is that the consumer computers that I loved and admired (the …

Last night for some unknown reason I thought about my digital read/review pile. I've been a happy user of Pocket for a while now, but I've noticed some friction in saving and reading articles on there. Curious, I looked for alternatives. The most promising alternative was EmailThis, which looked …