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Blog Posting Month - Recap and updates

So November went by and I very quickly fell off of the posting bandwagon. Still, I'm so glad we did it. The most surprising thing to me was how much less of an ordeal and hassle it was compared to what I expected. I thought that going from

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

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&

Copilot dilemma

I'm circumventing my policy of never talking about AI by instead talking about Github Copilot, simply a VS Code extension. Okay, not really, I'm talking about AI, and I hate that I'm here adding to the noise. I had a conversation with Fuchs recently

Hardware hasn't been commoditized

or.. why do I still need to host my own shit?

Software experiments and dumpster fires

I still haven't fully delved into your previous post about social media, but I wanted to highlight an article I ran across recently talking about how software experiments may factor into how platforms have tended to slowly morph into the shit-shows they are today. The post, Experiments Aren&

Strange state of mid-career training

I recently started looking into a potential training opportunity called PDM. This is put on by the folks who run the PyBites coding platform. I've followed these two since they set up the 100 days of code training for Talk Python and they're quite good. What