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I'm Alex, a technologist from Calgary, Canada. This is my blog.
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Recent Miniposts
- Liked: Samsara
- Note: Using Tailscale in builds.sr.ht
- Reposted: Kentucky Fried Zero - Part Three
- Reposted: Kentucky Fried Zero - Part Two
- Liked: Is the internet dead? Are we?
- Review: Christine Emba: Rethinking Sex
- Bookmarked: https://sigmaris.info/blog/201 …
- Review: John Micklethwait: The Company
- Review: Gator On A Bike on Paper
- Chess: A Quick and Brutal Match
Projects
- French Republican Calendar Tools
- Super Simple One Time Passwords for Deno
- Webmentions for Deno
- Kaarten - A Paper Journal Supplement
Three Dimensions - An Analysis
Marman & Borins “Three Dimensions” was a tri-installation pop-minimalist art exhibition open at Contemporary Calgary until March 17th, 2024, composed of three mini installations: Balancing Act, THX2020, and ABCD.
We wanted the viewer to walk away with ideas that we didn’t even think of when creating the work Jennifer Marman
All three installations were interesting, but “Balancing Act”, the first of the three, was most striking to me, and I would like to walk you through my own interpretation of it, filtered through the lens of my own biases and thought process.…
Read more ⟶Changing Grocery Shopping Habits
It is easy to forget how recent the phenomenon of the modern grocery store actually is - it only dates back to 1916, when the first Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee. Before that, grocers operated as “over the counter”, as in you would walk up to the counter at the front of the store, and ask the clerk to retrieve whatever quantity of items you actually needed, instead of wander around the store with a basket and select what you wanted from the shelves.…
Read more ⟶Skiff - Or: Why Venture Capital is Bad for You
😵💫 Warning: This Diatribe was written in anger, but contains grains of truth Around a year ago, I decided to shutdown my self-hosted email service after running it for about ten years. My choice in doing such was simply cost related - for the scale of email I was processing, it was not viable to run my own servers to do as such, accounting for time in maintenance and ensuring deliverability.…
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