• The “Recall Ted Wheeler” Boondoggle

    There’s been a campaign in Portland to recall our mayor, Ted Wheeler. Ted Wheeler is a milquetoast husk of a mayor, true, and I look…

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  • Patreon Comes Full Circle

    Patreon had a really simple and straightforward business: creators online could sign up for accounts on Patreon, and fans could give them money every month.…

  • Meta update

    Since the summer time I’ve been a little up and down in terms of posting frequency. It seems like I do tend to post in…

  • Digital Surveillance Isn’t an Inevitability

    Last week, Apple announced that they are hitting pause on their initiative to implement a surveillance system to add software to users’ iPhones to perform…

  • OnlyFans and the Cautionary Tale of Scale

    It’s hard to look at OnlyFans’s announcement yesterday of their upcoming ban on sexually explicit content without seeing where scale, and companies’ pursuit of scale,…

  • Electron Has Its Place!

    I love to rag on Electron, but like many things, it has its place. For instance, Electron is perfect for stuff like the Docker desktop…

  • Tech Ennui

    I’ve been feeling a little down about tech lately. It’s nothing really big; it’s just a mixture of little things that have slowly been adding…

  • Leaky Abstractions: When IFTTT Triggers Aren’t What They Seem

    As part of my ongoing initiative to always show up to internet arguments with receipts, I built a bespoke Rube Goldberg machine that can automatically…

  • Electron Is Bad

    So I was discussing 1Password’s recent decision to switch to Electron, and I want to elaborate a little more on why I hate Electron so…