I was recently browsing Pocket when an article caught my eye. The title "All Work and No Play" grabbed my attention. The article mashes two perspectives together. The first is about plight of game designers who are working untold hours for low pay and no job security, and the games …

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) removed the Github repo for program that I use to download Youtube Videos for later viewing (youtube-dl). This has upset me in a few ways, not the least of which is that Youtube changed in a way that makes the version that I …

Apparently the RIAA can't help but step in it. They took down the Github repo (via a DMCA claim) for the program youtube-dl. I'm sure they believe that the only reason that such a program would exist is so that people can listen to music without properly paying them for …

Recently a developer moved their website over from a blog-type site to a static site with no blog. I know this because their RSS feed stopped working, and stopped giving me a feed of what was new with their site. I lamented about this on Mastodon:

Depressing to notice another …

Apparently I'm not an author.

At least that's what Goodreads believes, even after several attempts to claim an author profile that was created because they credited the book I wrote to David Revoy, the cover artist.

It all started when I noticed that the book I wrote (The Mediocre Programmer …