Run, Hide, Fight

6 minute read Published: 2024-11-06

I'm just a teacher. I'm no political expert; I have no special understanding of voter motivations, policy implications, procedural levers, or anything else you want an expert on right now. I'm just a teacher, but I've taught in the mad era of normalized school shootings.

Seems to me, there's an armed madman in the building.

My Shell Setup

3 minute read Published: 2024-10-02

If you've seen any of my videos, you know that I have a somewhat...nontraditional shell setup. I thought I might take a moment to explain why I set it up the way I did, and how.

Cardboard-Covered Wagons

2 minute read Published: 2024-09-30

When I was about nine, I saw the way-underrated movie "Explorers," starring a very young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix (!) for the first time. The movie involves creating a spaceship out of a very hacked-together Apple computer and a Tilt-A-Whirl.

Meditations on The Human Web

13 minute read Published: 2024-05-19

A year on from writing "Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", much of what I had feared has come to pass. In fact, in many cases things are worse than I expected.

Announcing The Homelab Almanac, v2.0.0

3 minute read Published: 2024-05-10