Pumpkins on the corner

Today is the last day of November. As I was driving home this evening I saw that our neighbors had left their various decorative Thanksgiving (and maybe Halloween) pumpkins on the corner of their driveway. Cherished and celebrated items days and weeks ago now sitting out as trash, destined for

Backlog

I don't think I'll ever get used to the fact of an ever-increasing backlog. And yet this has been my reality since working in IT–and especially software development. I remember at a past job we ran an extensive analysis of outstanding programming requests and discovered

2023 Entries

I've kept an informal journal for many many years now. It's a habit that I picked up in an English class in high school and have kept to for the most part since then. I would say 90% of my entries are notes on books I&

Evolving access

I think you hit the nail on the head here, Bryan: these are all business decisions. And we as users/customers aren’t entitled to anything other than what is on offer. If you didn’t finance the movie, if you didn’t commission or build the platform, then you

Github and the question of access

Your post Ownership and access made me think about an excellent article I read recently by Edward Loveall called Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option. I know it's not a perfect comparison, but I do think there are some similarities between

Ownership and access

My brother and I have this ongoing discussion about his media collection. He is fond of possessing and outright owning physical media that he can play locally on technology that, again, he owns and maintains. I understand this position, but I don’t entirely subscribe to it. There are advantages

Thankful for old books and phoning in Thanksgiving

We had two very mellow and very enjoyable Thanksgivings this year. Somehow, as if it were coordinated, both families decided to lay off of the production of Thanksgiving and just focus on getting together. On my side, we catered in food the day after Thanksgiving and got together at a

No people, no purpose

Over the long weekend I had the opportunity to take in a second viewing of Ad Astra (2019) starring Brad Pitt. I saw it in the theater when it originally came out, but I don’t think I was in the right headspace to properly consider it then. When I

NextCloud + NewsFlash

I was a big fan of RSS feeds back in the day and was really bummed out when Google Reader was retired. I tried out various alternatives but they all had issues–at least at the time. Some were too pricey, some had tracking or privacy issues that I didn&

A ghost story

Yesterday my sister-in-law had something curious happen to her. She was in her office building alone with a client. The client was in the waiting area by the main entrance, and Sis was in her office. These two spaces are connected by a single, uninterrupted hallway. Between the two points