Tag Archives: computers

Open Loops

Whoops, it’s been a minute. Life happens, you know? I’ve been doing some thinking and I think I’m bogged down recently by having too many open loops. I’m borrowing the term from Getting Things Done, which basically means “things I … Continue reading

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Summer Projects

In theory, this list could be pretty much infinite, because I’m me and I always want to do more than I can. But I thought it’d be good to put some of my project ideas out into the world. Some … Continue reading

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Emacs Resources

The other day (by which I mean like three weeks ago), I asked for advice on learning emacs over on Mastodon. I got a bunch of really nice results, and wanted to put them all in one place both so … Continue reading

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“404 Page Not Found” by Kate Wagner

Kate Wagner put together an absolutely amazing essay on the state of the web today and how it got that way. It’s achingly sad in a lot of ways, pointing out how much of the internet we’ve just straight up … Continue reading

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Links Roundup!

Hey all, a small links roundup for you of interesting things from around the internet. Open Code != Working Open An in-depth post about how a project being open source doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be run in a … Continue reading

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Week Wrap-up: 16 July 2018 – 22 July 2018

It’s been another week! How? WHY? *ahem* Good Things Had an interview that felt like it went well Went to Snoqualmie Falls with some friends. Report: there is a lot of water. End report. (It’s also very pretty.) Some good … Continue reading

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Programming for Everyone

So I read a post over at Jason J. Gullickson’s blog about how FOSS Isn’t Capitalism. It’s an interesting quick history of how computers have becoming far less empowering to end users and how the Free and Open Source Software … Continue reading

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Computers Hate Us Now, Because Capitalism

So, computers kind of hate us these days. Well, hate is too strong a word. And it’s not actually the computer’s fault. So, I guess– “Ian you’re doing that thing where you ramble instead of actually starting to talk about … Continue reading

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Computer Learnin’s: April 2018

I’ve fallen behind on tracking my computer learning! But we’re back and better than ever, mostly in a dash to absorb as much knowledge as I can before an upcoming technical interview. Because of that, some of the infosec stuff … Continue reading

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Computer Learnin’s: February 2018

This month is a month of trying to plow through things and earn some certs, which I’m sure won’t be disastrous AT ALL. Focusing on A+ and Networking+ first, as both of those should have some good overlap with stuff … Continue reading

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