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2050

• A Sobering Thought

D&D

• d20.photos: A Public Domain D&D Image Repository
• Tabletop Audio

FCC

• Help Protect the Internet

Kirsten Gillibrand

• An Agency that Protects Data

OS X

• OS X's New Look

Pathfinder

• d20.photos: A Public Domain D&D Image Repository

Querysets

• Careful with Complex Querysets

ab5

• On Uber, Lyft, and Labor Law

adrift

• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS

adventurer's codex

• Safari's WebSocket Stream View
• Adventurer's Codex: Behind the Curtain

adventurerscodex

• Some Thoughts on Adventurer's Codex
• OAuth Over XMPP
• Adventurer's Codex: XMPP
• Adventurer's Codex: The Stack

algorithms

• On the Future of Social Media

alternatives

• Alternatives to macOS

ancient

• Where it Comes From, Nobody Knows

angular

• MVC-N and Services

announcement

• Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
• California, Democracy, and Progress
• Going Indie is Out! 📚🚀
• Announcing: Hewell Public Beta 🎉
• The Indie Dev Life Podcast
• Announcing Nine9s.cloud 🎉
• Announcing Pine: Microblogging for a New Generation 🎉

antitrust

• House Judiciary Committee recommends Interoperable Social Media

app

• Reading Milestones, Attention Spans, and Cool Charts
• Nine9s gets an upgrade ⬆️
• Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
• Announcing: Hewell Public Beta 🎉
• A Whole New Mac
• Pine.blog Downtime Post-Mortem: A Story of Finite Resources
• Textual.app Maintainer Steps Away
• Pine v1.1 is Out & A Special Moment
• Pine for iOS Released!
• A Sneak Peek: Pine for iOS
• An Ode to the 13 Inch MacBook Pro
• iMessage Security
• FBI tells Apple to Create a Master Key to iOS
• WWDC and Open Source Swift
• It's just a Phone
• My iOS 8 Wishlist

app development

• Pine v1.1 is Out & A Special Moment

apple

• A Whole New Mac
• An Ode to the 13 Inch MacBook Pro
• iMessage Security
• FBI tells Apple to Create a Master Key to iOS
• WWDC and Open Source Swift
• My iOS 8 Wishlist

apps

• Reading Milestones, Attention Spans, and Cool Charts
• Nine9s gets an upgrade ⬆️
• Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
• Textual.app Maintainer Steps Away
• It's just a Phone

audio

• Tabletop Audio

automation

• Git Hooks for Fun and Profit
• Humans Need Not Apply

backblaze

• Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability Report

backups

• Time Machine Transfer Trouble

bash

• Git Hooks for Fun and Profit
• todolist update
• todolist

beta

• Announcing: Hewell Public Beta 🎉

blocking

• Re: The ethics of modern web ad-blocking

blog

• Crossing the Wording Threshold
• Automated Podcasts with Automator & Overcast
• Retrospective on a Year Spent Writing
• Easy and Ethical Traffic Monitoring with GoAccess
• All Too Quiet
• California, Democracy, and Progress
• Various Goings On
• The Little Engine that Could
• Two is Better than One
• Spring Cleaning and Microformats
• A Good Day
• Pine.blog Downtime Post-Mortem: A Story of Finite Resources
• Finally
• The Social Web
• Lots of Little Things
• Changing Tides
• Pine.blog Version 1.3: Multiple Timelines 🎉
• Mastodon and Microblogging
• Code Lasts Whether You Know it or Not
• Recommendations, Echo Chambers, and Pine.blog
• Blogging has an Image Problem
• Feed Readers and Local News
• Pine.blog 1.2 is Out!
• The Scope Creep is Real
• RSS Has Already Won
• Pine for iOS Released!
• A Sneak Peek: Pine for iOS
• Announcing Pine: Microblogging for a New Generation 🎉
• Getting Back on the Horse
• So Many Words Written, So Many More to Come
• Manton's Micro.blog
• Siri is a blogging tool
• Blog when you disagree
• Smaller
• Blogdown
• Rewritten
• Microblog Crawler v1.4(.1)
• Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals Follow Up
• Microblog Crawler v1.3 Released
• Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals
• Microblog Crawler Diary: Timezones
• Microblogger Wiki and Issues are Live!
• Microblog Crawler v1.0 Released
• What is your blog about?
• Twitter is not a replacement for blogs
• Thinking about redoing my blog engine
• The unremarkable yesterday
• The Open Microblog Standard
• The New New CMS

blog engine

• Rewritten
• Thinking about redoing my blog engine

blogging

• Crossing the Wording Threshold
• Automated Podcasts with Automator & Overcast
• Retrospective on a Year Spent Writing
• Easy and Ethical Traffic Monitoring with GoAccess
• Various Goings On
• The Little Engine that Could
• Spring Cleaning and Microformats
• Code Lasts Whether You Know it or Not
• Recommendations, Echo Chambers, and Pine.blog
• Blogging has an Image Problem
• Getting Back on the Horse
• So Many Words Written, So Many More to Come
• Manton's Micro.blog
• Blog when you disagree
• Smaller
• Blogdown
• What is your blog about?
• Twitter is not a replacement for blogs
• The unremarkable yesterday
• The New New CMS

book

• My Favorite Books from 2023
• My Favorite Books from 2022
• Books & Reading Statistics
• History, Myth, and Talking Cows
• Going Indie is Out! 📚🚀
• Book Recommendations
• Why We're Polarized
• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS
• High-Tech Empires
• An Ode to the 13 Inch MacBook Pro
• GitBook

book recommendations

• My Favorite Books from 2023
• My Favorite Books from 2022
• Book Recommendations

book review

• My Favorite Books from 2023
• My Favorite Books from 2022
• Why We're Polarized

books

• My Favorite Books from 2023
• My Favorite Books from 2022
• Books & Reading Statistics
• GitBook

brandon sanderson

• Book Recommendation: The Stormlight Archive

bugs

• Python multiprocessing and unittest

cautionary-tale

• Careful with Complex Querysets

cgp grey

• Re: Voting Systems
• The Professional Sharer

climate change

• Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
• A Sobering Thought
• The Internet Won't Forget Climate Change

cms

• The New New CMS

code

• Some Thoughts on Adventurer's Codex
• Remembering Things is Hard
• Code Lasts Whether You Know it or Not
• Safari's WebSocket Stream View
• OAuth Over XMPP
• todolist
• Adventurer's Codex: XMPP
• Adventurer's Codex: The Stack
• Adventurer's Codex: Behind the Curtain
• Comments with Cited References
• How to save your team from the evil testing demons

college

• CSU Tuition

complexity

• The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hardware

computers

• Humans Need Not Apply

cooking

• A Slight Modification to Gordon Ramsey's Scramled Eggs
• 18th Century Cooking

cosmology

• New Parallel Universe Theory Proposed

covid-19

• A False Dichotomy

covid19

• An Uplifting Tale in these Dark Times

cultures

• The Fall of Civilizations Podcast

d20.photos

• d20.photos: A Public Domain D&D Image Repository

data protection

• An Agency that Protects Data

databases

• Careful with Complex Querysets

dave winer

• Dave Winer on Donating to Wikipedia

democracy

• The People vs. Democracy

development

• Some Thoughts on Adventurer's Codex
• Using Pushover for Super Simple SysAdmin Alerts
• That Time I Lost Control of a Server
• Hacks can be Good Code Too
• At vs. On: a Story of Semantic Data Modeling
• I Solved The Same Bug Twice And Didn't Know It
• Take a Break, Script Something
• Nine9s gets an upgrade ⬆️
• Imports are Endorsements
• Easy and Ethical Traffic Monitoring with GoAccess
• How I Use Docker (for Now)
• Lessons on Variable Naming from Breakfast Burritos
• Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
• Assumptions and Variable Names
• The Indie Dev Life Podcast
• Where it Comes From, Nobody Knows
• Updates on using NSOperation
• The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hardware
• I Love NSOperation
• Textual.app Maintainer Steps Away
• The Scope Creep is Real
• Pine v1.1 is Out & A Special Moment
• On the Future of Social Media
• Safari's WebSocket Stream View
• Git's Hidden Feature: Notes
• todolist update
• Mini-Rant About Documentation
• Accidental DevOps
• TODOs as a Templating System
• Adventurer's Codex: Behind the Curtain
• MVVM is not very good
• Software Correctness and Software Engineering
• Changing App Behavior Server-Side
• How the Other Half Works: an Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers
• It's just a Phone

devops

• Accidental DevOps

digital rights

• California Bills to Safeguard Privacy from the Federal Government Advance

django

• Careful with Complex Querysets
• MyGeneRank: Behind the Scenes of the Newest ResearchKit App
• OAuth Over XMPP

dnd

• Adventurer's Codex: XMPP
• Adventurer's Codex: The Stack
• Adventurer's Codex: Behind the Curtain

drm

• Why I'm switching back to iTunes

dropbox

• Better Image Sharing with Dropbox

education

• The Trouble With Harvard

eff

• California Bills to Safeguard Privacy from the Federal Government Advance

eggs

• A Slight Modification to Gordon Ramsey's Scramled Eggs

elon musk

• Elon Musk is Crazy

email

• The Professional Sharer

encryption

• The Cloudbleed Bug: An Overview
• FBI tells Apple to Create a Master Key to iOS
• More Secure Pastures

engineering

• Don't Ban Infinite Scrolling, License Engineers Instead
• The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hardware
• Even more re: software and engineering
• Software 'Engineering'

ethics

• Don't Ban Infinite Scrolling, License Engineers Instead

exploration

• Hypervelocity Stars

ezra klein

• Why We're Polarized

facebook

• High-Tech Empires

fcc

• The FCC Moves to Dismantle Net Neutrality
• FCC's Tom Wheeler is trying to open up cable TV
• Letter to the FCC
• Don't Blow Up the Internet

fight for space

• Fight for Space - Why Space?

flying

• So I Went Flying Yesterday

fracture

• Pine v1.1 is Out & A Special Moment

freedom

• The Internet's Own Boy

fun

• Experimenting with the Game of Life
• Building Bots for Fun and…
• More Scripting Nonsense: Rocket Edition
• Daily Step Count & Walking Statistics
• A Drawing Every Day!
• Drawing of the Day
• Lessons on Variable Naming from Breakfast Burritos
• Building a Personalized Newsletter with Bash and a Raspberry Pi
• Programming Misconceptions
• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS

funny

• Programming Misconceptions
• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS

future

• Real Life Science Fiction

gaming

• Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
• Casey Liss on Women's Experience in Gaming

gcd

• Python 3.5 and multitasking

git

• Git Hooks for Fun and Profit
• Remembering Things is Hard
• Git's Hidden Feature: Notes
• California Bills to Safeguard Privacy from the Federal Government Advance
• GitBook
• Microblog Crawler v1.4(.1)
• Microblogger Wiki and Issues are Live!

gitbooks

• GitBook

github

• Microblog Crawler v1.4(.1)
• Microblogger Wiki and Issues are Live!

goal setting

• Novels and Insurmountable Tasks

going indie

• Going Indie is Out! 📚🚀

good

• A Good Day

google analytics

• Removing Google Analytics

government

• A False Dichotomy

guns germs and steel

• Climate Change and Guns, Germs, and Steel

hacks

• Git Hooks for Fun and Profit

harrys razors

• Harry's Razors Review

headphones

• Sony MDR Extra-Bass Bluetooth Headphones Review

heartbleed

• The Cloudbleed Bug: An Overview

hiking

• Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

history

• The Internet's Original Sin
• History, Myth, and Talking Cows
• The Fall of Civilizations Podcast
• Where it Comes From, Nobody Knows
• Climate Change and Guns, Germs, and Steel
• Measuring Sticks
• 18th Century Cooking
• What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like
• No, We are Romans

hobbies

• A New Adventure

hooks

• Git Hooks for Fun and Profit

https

• More Secure Pastures

human condition

• An Uplifting Tale in these Dark Times

iOS 7

• OS X's New Look

iOS development

• Changing App Behavior Server-Side

image hosting

• d20.photos: A Public Domain D&D Image Repository

images

• Better Image Sharing with Dropbox
• More Pluto images

imessage

• iMessage Security

indie

• Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
• Various Goings On
• Arbitrary Achievement Unlocked
• Going Indie is Out! 📚🚀
• The Indie Dev Life Podcast
• This Site Supports Webmentions!
• Pine v1.1 is Out & A Special Moment

indie dev

• Various Goings On
• The Indie Dev Life Podcast

indie web

• This Site Supports Webmentions!

indiedevlife

• Arbitrary Achievement Unlocked

internet

• The Internet's Original Sin
• The FCC Moves to Dismantle Net Neutrality
• Priming the Pump
• Elon Musk is Crazy
• Waffle, Brent and Marco on Social Networks

ios

• Step Counts and Goal-Setting
• Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
• Announcing: Hewell Public Beta 🎉
• Pine for iOS Released!
• A Sneak Peek: Pine for iOS
• My iOS 8 Wishlist

ios8

• My iOS 8 Wishlist

iphone 6

• Thoughts on the iPhone 6

irc

• Textual.app Maintainer Steps Away
• Latest Project: Log Linker

iss

• ISS Livestream now in 720p HD

javascript

• Numba: Compiling Python Using LLVM the way WebKit Compiles JavaScript

js

• Software performance in an ASM.js world

knowing

• Assumptions and Variable Names

knowledge

• Book Recommendations

labor law

• On Uber, Lyft, and Labor Law

launch

• Going Indie is Out! 📚🚀
• Announcing Nine9s.cloud 🎉

law

• House Judiciary Committee recommends Interoperable Social Media
• On Uber, Lyft, and Labor Law
• An Agency that Protects Data

legal

• Don't Ban Infinite Scrolling, License Engineers Instead

lifestyle

• Balancing Work, Fun, and Work-Fun

links

• Comments with Cited References

linode

• Linode's 13th Birthday
• Hosting a Minecraft Server on Linode

linux

• Alternatives to macOS

llvm

• Numba: Compiling Python Using LLVM the way WebKit Compiles JavaScript

local news

• Feed Readers and Local News

london

• Where it Comes From, Nobody Knows

longevity

• The Little Engine that Could

lyft

• On Uber, Lyft, and Labor Law

mac

• A Whole New Mac
• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS
• An Ode to the 13 Inch MacBook Pro
• Alternatives to macOS
• Disable "shake to find cursor" in El Capitan
• Time Machine Transfer Trouble Resolved
• Time Machine Transfer Trouble
• The Mac Mini Server Configuration is Dead

mac mini

• The Mac Mini Server Configuration is Dead

macOS

• Alternatives to macOS

macbook pro

• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS
• An Ode to the 13 Inch MacBook Pro

macos

• A Whole New Mac
• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS

manton

• Manton's Micro.blog
• Making RSS Real-Time

marco

• Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
• Twitter's "peace offering" to developers is meaningless

mars

• Elon Musk is Crazy

mastodon

• Building Bots for Fun and…
• On the Web, the Best Outcome is Email
• Mastodon and Microblogging

mavericks

• OS X's New Look

meta

• A Very Special Anniversary
• Crossing the Wording Threshold
• Retrospective on a Year Spent Writing
• All Too Quiet
• Various Goings On
• Spring Cleaning and Microformats
• So Many Words Written, So Many More to Come

metablogging

• Various Goings On
• So Many Words Written, So Many More to Come

micro.blog

• Mastodon and Microblogging

microblog crawler

• Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals Follow Up
• Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals
• Microblog Crawler Diary: Timezones

microblog crawler diary

• Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals
• Microblog Crawler Diary: Timezones

microblogcrawler

• Microblog Crawler v1.4(.1)
• Microblog Crawler v1.0 Released

microblogger

• Microblog Crawler v1.3 Released
• Microblogger Wiki and Issues are Live!

microblogging

• Manton's Micro.blog

microformats

• Spring Cleaning and Microformats

migrations

• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS

minecraft

• Hosting a Minecraft Server on Linode

mirror

• A full size mirror

misinformation

• Why I Don't Retweet Anything

money sink

• A New Adventure

mp3

• More Efficient VBR MP3s and Podcasting

multitasking

• Python 3.5 and multitasking

music

• Announcing Paper Peaks
• The Simple Joy of Learning to Play Piano
• The Road to Glass & Stone
• What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like
• Why I'm switching back to iTunes
• Airplane Mode
• The Race for Space

mvc

• MVC-N and Services

nasa

• NASA Streams the ISS View of Earth 24/7

net neutrality

• The FCC Moves to Dismantle Net Neutrality
• Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
• Obama "urges" FCC to reclassify ISPs as Utilities
• Don't Blow Up the Internet
• Help Protect the Internet

new hardware

• A Whole New Mac

new horizons

• More Pluto images

news

• Last Year I Started Reading a Physical Newspaper
• Feed Readers and Local News
• Primitive Tech is Here for the Long Haul

newspapers

• Last Year I Started Reading a Physical Newspaper

nine9s

• Announcing Nine9s.cloud 🎉

nobannowall

• California Bills to Safeguard Privacy from the Federal Government Advance

novels

• Novels and Insurmountable Tasks

nsoperation

• Updates on using NSOperation
• I Love NSOperation

oauth

• OAuth Over XMPP

obama

• Obama "urges" FCC to reclassify ISPs as Utilities

open data

• The Internet Won't Forget Climate Change

open internet

• Priming the Pump
• Waffle, Brent and Marco on Social Networks

open microblog

• The Open Microblog Standard

open web

• On the Web, the Best Outcome is Email
• House Judiciary Committee recommends Interoperable Social Media
• This Site Supports Webmentions!
• Finally
• The Social Web
• Blogging has an Image Problem
• RSS Has Already Won
• The Web as a Social Network
• Manton's Micro.blog
• YouTube has (apparently) reinstated RSS feeds
• Can we save the open web?
• A Vision of the Open Web
• A full size mirror
• A mirror for posterity
• Twitter is not a replacement for blogs
• The Professional Sharer
• How to stimulate the open web
• Twitter and the Open Web

overcast

• Overcast 2.5 Update

patreon

• Patreon

payments

• Changing Tides

pct

• Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

pep

• PEP 484 - Type Hints for Python

permanence

• Permanence Revisited

personal

• More on Handwriting & Cursive
• On Handwriting and Switching to Cursive
• Breadcrumbs and Pinboard
• Arbitrary Achievement Unlocked
• So I Went Flying Yesterday

petition

• Help Protect the Internet

philae

• Philae Breaks our Hearts
• Philae Lands on Comet 67P

philosophy

• Assumptions and Variable Names

photography

• Stargazing Pictures
• A New Adventure

physics

• New Parallel Universe Theory Proposed

pine.blog

• Various Goings On
• A Good Day
• Pine.blog Downtime Post-Mortem: A Story of Finite Resources
• Finally
• The Social Web
• Lots of Little Things
• Changing Tides
• Pine.blog Version 1.3: Multiple Timelines 🎉
• Mastodon and Microblogging
• Recommendations, Echo Chambers, and Pine.blog
• Feed Readers and Local News
• Pine.blog 1.2 is Out!
• The Scope Creep is Real
• RSS Has Already Won
• Pine for iOS Released!
• A Sneak Peek: Pine for iOS
• Announcing Pine: Microblogging for a New Generation 🎉

pluto

• More Pluto images

podcast

• Arbitrary Achievement Unlocked
• The Indie Dev Life Podcast
• The Fall of Civilizations Podcast
• More Efficient VBR MP3s and Podcasting
• Overcast 2.5 Update
• Podcast Recommendations
• 10 Years of Podcasts
• If Only I had a Podcast

podcasting

• If Only I had a Podcast

podcasts

• The Fall of Civilizations Podcast
• Overcast 2.5 Update
• Podcast Recommendations
• 10 Years of Podcasts

pokemon

• Pokemon

politics

• California, Democracy, and Progress
• A False Dichotomy
• House Judiciary Committee recommends Interoperable Social Media
• On Uber, Lyft, and Labor Law
• Why We're Polarized
• An Agency that Protects Data
• The People vs. Democracy
• The Internet Won't Forget Climate Change
• Obama "urges" FCC to reclassify ISPs as Utilities
• Letter to the FCC

postmortem

• Pine.blog Downtime Post-Mortem: A Story of Finite Resources

preflight

• Remembering Things is Hard

primitive

• d20.photos: A Public Domain D&D Image Repository
• Primitive Tech is Here for the Long Haul
• Primitive Tech tiptoes into the Bronze Age

primitive technology

• Primitive Tech is Here for the Long Haul
• Primitive Tech tiptoes into the Bronze Age

privacy

• An Agency that Protects Data

problems with blogging

• Recommendations, Echo Chambers, and Pine.blog

productivity

• Reading Milestones, Attention Spans, and Cool Charts
• Step Counts and Goal-Setting
• Unbounded Possibility is Bad for Productivity
• Arbitrary Achievement Unlocked
• That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS

programing

• Imports are Endorsements

programming

• Experimenting with the Game of Life
• Building Bots for Fun and…
• Some Thoughts on Adventurer's Codex
• More Scripting Nonsense: Rocket Edition
• A Cross Post Life
• Automate the Boring Stuff with ChatGPT
• Daily Step Count & Walking Statistics
• A Drawing Every Day!
• Drawing of the Day
• Step Counts and Goal-Setting
• Fun with Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence
• Whether to Monitor the Weather and More
• Using Pushover for Super Simple SysAdmin Alerts
• Hacks can be Good Code Too
• At vs. On: a Story of Semantic Data Modeling
• Generating Deterministic, Procedural Artwork with pdraw
• I Solved The Same Bug Twice And Didn't Know It
• Take a Break, Script Something
• Automated Podcasts with Automator & Overcast
• Lessons on Variable Naming from Breakfast Burritos
• Building a Personalized Newsletter with Bash and a Raspberry Pi
• Programming Misconceptions
• The Little Engine that Could
• The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hardware
• Safari's WebSocket Stream View
• Git's Hidden Feature: Notes
• Mini-Rant About Documentation
• todolist
• TODOs as a Templating System
• Easy Refactoring with Source Making
• Swift Dynamism
• Python-like Context Managers in Swift
• MVC-N and Services
• Python 3.5.0 has been released
• Clarifying Structure
• Thinking about redoing my blog engine

public domain

• d20.photos: A Public Domain D&D Image Repository

python

• Fun with Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence
• Whether to Monitor the Weather and More
• Generating Deterministic, Procedural Artwork with pdraw
• Latest Project: Log Linker
• Python-like Context Managers in Swift
• Python 3.5 and multitasking
• Python 3.5.0 has been released
• Python multiprocessing and unittest
• PEP 484 - Type Hints for Python
• Microblog Crawler v1.0 Released
• Numba: Compiling Python Using LLVM the way WebKit Compiles JavaScript

reading

• Books & Reading Statistics

recommendations

• My Favorite Books from 2023
• My Favorite Books from 2022
• Book Recommendations

refactoring

• Easy Refactoring with Source Making

release

• Pine.blog Version 1.3: Multiple Timelines 🎉
• Pine.blog 1.2 is Out!
• Pine for iOS Released!

researchkit

• MyGeneRank: Behind the Scenes of the Newest ResearchKit App

review

• My Favorite Books from 2023
• My Favorite Books from 2022
• Why We're Polarized
• MyGeneRank: Behind the Scenes of the Newest ResearchKit App
• Sony MDR Extra-Bass Bluetooth Headphones Review
• Harry's Razors Review

rockets

• Real Life Science Fiction
• Rocket Simulation

rocketsim

• Rocket Simulation

roderick on the line

• Roderick on the Line: Space Exploration is Human Nature

roman

• Measuring Sticks
• No, We are Romans

rss

• Finally
• RSS Has Already Won
• Manton's Micro.blog
• YouTube has (apparently) reinstated RSS feeds
• Latest Project: Log Linker
• Priming the Pump
• Making RSS Real-Time

saas

• Announcing Nine9s.cloud 🎉

sci-fi

• Ursula K. Le Guin At The National Book Awards

section c

• Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

security

• The Cloudbleed Bug: An Overview
• iMessage Security

self

• Two is Better than One

sharing

• Better Image Sharing with Dropbox

signals

• Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals

singularity

• Humans Need Not Apply

social media

• Why I Don't Retweet Anything
• House Judiciary Committee recommends Interoperable Social Media
• High-Tech Empires
• The Social Web
• On the Future of Social Media

social networking

• The Web as a Social Network

social networks

• Waffle, Brent and Marco on Social Networks

social web

• High-Tech Empires

software

• Users, Tools, Platforms, and the Shifting Goals of Software
• Some Thoughts on Adventurer's Codex
• A Cross Post Life
• Automate the Boring Stuff with ChatGPT
• Fun with Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence
• Using Pushover for Super Simple SysAdmin Alerts
• That Time I Lost Control of a Server
• Hacks can be Good Code Too
• At vs. On: a Story of Semantic Data Modeling
• Generating Deterministic, Procedural Artwork with pdraw
• I Solved The Same Bug Twice And Didn't Know It
• Take a Break, Script Something
• Nine9s gets an upgrade ⬆️
• The Internet's Original Sin
• Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
• Imports are Endorsements
• Easy and Ethical Traffic Monitoring with GoAccess
• How I Use Docker (for Now)
• Lessons on Variable Naming from Breakfast Burritos
• Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
• Breadcrumbs and Pinboard
• Programming Misconceptions
• Assumptions and Variable Names
• The Indie Dev Life Podcast
• Where it Comes From, Nobody Knows
• High-Tech Empires
• Remembering Things is Hard
• Don't Ban Infinite Scrolling, License Engineers Instead
• Changing Tides
• The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hardware
• I Love NSOperation
• Pine.blog Version 1.3: Multiple Timelines 🎉
• Textual.app Maintainer Steps Away
• Code Lasts Whether You Know it or Not
• Announcing Pine: Microblogging for a New Generation 🎉
• Safari's WebSocket Stream View
• Git's Hidden Feature: Notes
• MyGeneRank: Behind the Scenes of the Newest ResearchKit App
• OAuth Over XMPP
• TODOs as a Templating System
• Adventurer's Codex: XMPP
• Adventurer's Codex: The Stack
• Software Correctness and Software Engineering
• How the Other Half Works: an Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers

software development

• Some Thoughts on Adventurer's Codex
• Using Pushover for Super Simple SysAdmin Alerts
• That Time I Lost Control of a Server
• Hacks can be Good Code Too
• At vs. On: a Story of Semantic Data Modeling
• I Solved The Same Bug Twice And Didn't Know It
• Take a Break, Script Something
• Nine9s gets an upgrade ⬆️
• Imports are Endorsements
• Easy and Ethical Traffic Monitoring with GoAccess
• How I Use Docker (for Now)
• Lessons on Variable Naming from Breakfast Burritos
• Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
• Assumptions and Variable Names
• The Indie Dev Life Podcast
• Where it Comes From, Nobody Knows
• The Hidden Cost of Cheap Hardware
• Textual.app Maintainer Steps Away
• TODOs as a Templating System
• Software Correctness and Software Engineering
• How the Other Half Works: an Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers

software engineering

• Don't Ban Infinite Scrolling, License Engineers Instead

space

• Stargazing Pictures
• Real Life Science Fiction
• The Race for Space
• You should go to SpaceUp
• Roderick on the Line: Space Exploration is Human Nature
• Elon Musk is Crazy
• Fight for Space - Why Space?
• Hypervelocity Stars
• Philae Breaks our Hearts
• Philae Lands on Comet 67P
• Space Junk

space debris

• Space Junk

space travel

• Roderick on the Line: Space Exploration is Human Nature

spaceup

• You should go to SpaceUp
• Fight for Space - Why Space?

spacex

• Real Life Science Fiction
• Elon Musk is Crazy

spring cleaning

• Spring Cleaning and Microformats

ssl

• The Cloudbleed Bug: An Overview

standards

• RSS Has Already Won

star wars

• Star Wars VII Teaser (and thoughts on the new lightsabers)

stats

• Crossing the Wording Threshold
• So Many Words Written, So Many More to Come

success

• A Good Day

swift

• Swift Dynamism
• Python-like Context Managers in Swift

tabletop rpg

• Tabletop Audio

teaser

• Star Wars VII Teaser (and thoughts on the new lightsabers)

technical overview

• MyGeneRank: Behind the Scenes of the Newest ResearchKit App

technology

• Users, Tools, Platforms, and the Shifting Goals of Software
• The People vs. Democracy
• Primitive Tech is Here for the Long Haul
• TODOs as a Templating System
• Primitive Tech tiptoes into the Bronze Age
• A Vision of the Open Web
• FBI tells Apple to Create a Master Key to iOS

testing

• How to save your team from the evil testing demons

the stormlight archive

• Book Recommendation: The Stormlight Archive

thought technology

• TODOs as a Templating System

time immemorial

• Where it Comes From, Nobody Knows

time machine

• Time Machine Transfer Trouble Resolved
• Time Machine Transfer Trouble

tools

• Fun with Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence
• Generating Deterministic, Procedural Artwork with pdraw
• todolist

topics

• What is your blog about?

traffic

• Re: The ethics of modern web ad-blocking

tree planting

• A Sobering Thought

trump

• California Bills to Safeguard Privacy from the Federal Government Advance
• The Internet Won't Forget Climate Change

tuition

• CSU Tuition

twitter

• Why I Don't Retweet Anything
• Breaking up is hard to do
• Twitter is not a replacement for blogs
• Twitter's "peace offering" to developers is meaningless
• Chris Radcliff on Twitter's Timeline Changes
• Twitter and the Open Web

uber

• On Uber, Lyft, and Labor Law

university

• The Trouble With Harvard

update

• Two is Better than One
• Lots of Little Things
• Getting Back on the Horse

uplifting

• An Uplifting Tale in these Dark Times

uptime monitoring

• Announcing Nine9s.cloud 🎉

variable naming

• Assumptions and Variable Names

voting

• Re: Voting Systems

web

• On the Web, the Best Outcome is Email
• Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
• House Judiciary Committee recommends Interoperable Social Media
• Git Hooks for Fun and Profit
• This Site Supports Webmentions!
• High-Tech Empires
• Finally
• The Social Web
• Blogging has an Image Problem
• RSS Has Already Won
• The Web as a Social Network
• Manton's Micro.blog
• YouTube has (apparently) reinstated RSS feeds
• Can we save the open web?
• A Vision of the Open Web
• Smaller
• Software performance in an ASM.js world
• A full size mirror
• A mirror for posterity
• Re: The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
• Twitter is not a replacement for blogs
• The Professional Sharer
• How to stimulate the open web
• Twitter and the Open Web
• The New New CMS

web dev

• Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
• Git Hooks for Fun and Profit

webmentions

• This Site Supports Webmentions!

websites

• The New New CMS

what-happened

• Pine.blog Downtime Post-Mortem: A Story of Finite Resources

win

• Assumptions and Variable Names
• A Good Day
• Dave Winer on Donating to Wikipedia

word count

• Novels and Insurmountable Tasks

work

• The Web as a Social Network
• Balancing Work, Fun, and Work-Fun
• Waffle, Brent and Marco on Social Networks

writing

• More on Handwriting & Cursive
• On Handwriting and Switching to Cursive
• Last Year I Started Reading a Physical Newspaper
• Retrospective on a Year Spent Writing
• Novels and Insurmountable Tasks
• Siri is a blogging tool
• Hypervelocity Stars
• Ursula K. Le Guin At The National Book Awards

wwdc

• WWDC and Open Source Swift
• It's just a Phone
• My iOS 8 Wishlist

xkcd

• What-If: Pools on the Moon

xmpp

• Safari's WebSocket Stream View
• OAuth Over XMPP
• Adventurer's Codex: XMPP

youtube

• YouTube has (apparently) reinstated RSS feeds
• Primitive Tech tiptoes into the Bronze Age
• 18th Century Cooking
• Priming the Pump