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Welcome to my site. Here are the things I have recently posted.

• 2023-01-17 What Social Media Has Become

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  • commentary

  My commentary on what social media was and the problems that it has today.

• 2022-11-16 Iceland Vacation

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  • vacation

  Musings of my vacation in Iceland.

• 2022-06-26 Oak Hill Cemetery

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  • history
  • litter

  I live near the Oak Hill Cemetery in Austin, and for a while I have been meaning to visit it. This weekend, I finally had the opportunity to check it out.

• 2022-04-15 Moving to Fosstodon

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  • mastodon
  • fediverse

  Goodbye mastodon.social, and hello Fosstodon.

• 2022-04-01 Motorcycle Crash Postmortem 2

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  • motorcycle
  • postmortem

  This is a postmortem on a motorcycle crash which occurred on 2022-03-26.

• 2021-04-01 Electron, Linux, and Your File Chooser

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  • programming
  • electron

  Electron has done a lot of good for desktop Linux. Without it, the desktop app selection would probably be much poorer, but many users have complained about the file chooser.

• 2021-03-24 No More Analytics

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  • meta
  • ethics
  • analytics

  This page used to use Plausible Analytics, but that is no more.

• 2021-03-20 Green Versus Blue

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  • commentary

  The world is full of contrasting colors: white and black, blue and pink, but what about green and blue?

• 2021-03-13 The Worst Performing Website I Have Ever Found

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  • webdev

  Today I was reminded of a time that I found the worst website ever in terms of its performance.

• 2021-03-10 The Church of Big Tech

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  • ethics

  Sunday may be the day of the Lord, but the other six days of the week belong to Big Tech.