Personal blogs

Today is the birthday of Steve Albini, legendary recording engineer, musician, and human. He's someone who transformed the underground music scene not just in Chicago, where he operated his studio Electrical Audio, but worldwide. But …

From: https://writsmall.substack.com/p/today-by-julie-morstad “How was your day?” was the first story I ever asked my kid to tell me. This line hit me as remarkably profound. And true — you can see the cogs of storytelling …

On Monday, Becka and I went to see Cat Burns perform an acoustic set at Chalk in Brighton. While this wouldn't have been my choice, I enjoyed this gig. I don't know if it was …

I’ve been an insomniac my whole life. I remember taking long walks as a teenager around my neighborhood in the…

Background I used to wonder what my friend Benny Lewis was doing. He has a website and social media accounts, but neither gave an overview of what he’s doing now. Then I realized some people …

People have a better idea of how films get made than how [digital] design gets done I was listening to Peter Merholz talk to Andy Polaine (thanks Mathew) who, 35 minutes in, talk about the …

Starting the Sunday after I was born, my parents brought me to Sunday School every Sunday, for eighteen years. They sent me and my siblings to private religious schools when they could afford it, and …

So that’s all folks. A quiet – almost Irish – goodbye (well not quite – I’ve still got a couple of hours left but I messed up the scheduled publishing so…) The speed with which …

There is automatic validation of data coming into CAP-based service endpoints. Up until recently, there was a difference on how this happened between "REST" and OData channels, but with the latest CAP major release the …

I’m so excited to announce a new project I’ve been working on called The Fediverse Files. This is a mini-series I’ve been working on for Automattic and WordPress.com about a topic I’m extremely passionate about: …

Read / Listened: Taming Big Techification? The European Digital Markets Act Digital Markets Act The EU has no homegrown Big Tech companies of its own

The metaphors we use change how we think about things. Benjamin Santos Genta writes for Aeon about this, and in particular how many of our metaphors relate to war. Might an argument be better as …

Finding exercise motivations that work Published 2024-03-16 I’ve mentioned before that I have 3 aspirations for this year, and that one of them is health and exercise. That’s been going pretty well (unlike the other …

The past stalks you like a wolf. And then you have to face it. Berlin 🛫 Charlottesville 🚗 Fairfield, CT I’ve spent a lot of this year reckoning with the past. There’s a part of …

I was driving to Birmingham - that’s Birmingham in the middle of England, not in Alabama. I stopped for a rest, got some bad coffee, clicked up Facebook on my phone. A post from Lindsay …

Last year, I wrote a book called You Deserve a Tech Union. When I first announced it, I said it was the hardest thing I’ve ever written, and that I was incredibly proud of it. …

Last June, I was in Portland, Oregon, staying in a neighborhood of exuberant gardens. Plants spilled out and over the sidewalks, filling berms and medians and cracking pavements—heavy-headed rudbeckias and bright wiry poppies, stalky hollyhocks …

Outlook and Dimensions, a pair of UK-run festivals which used to temporarily takeover Pula in Croatia each summer, are famous for putting on a boat party series across each festival. Each party sees a hundred-ish …

Humble brag, but I have jetlag, and therefore I find myself wide awake at gone 2am. Seems as good a time as any for an update. Recently: We just got back from a trip to …