Hello
I'm Alex, a technologist from Calgary, Canada. This is my blog.
For information about myself & my philosophy, see the About, Design, and Values pages.
Miniposts are bookmarks, snippets of thought, and syndicated content from elsewhere.
Longform articles are below, sorted by date.
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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
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.…
Read more ⟶Daily Carry 2024
I maintain a living document called my things list, where I track all the different tools and such that I use in my daily life. I try to update this when I remember to, throughout the year, but I also thought it might be interesting to track how my daily carry changes over time. So, here is what I usually have in my pockets as of the start of 2024.…
Read more ⟶Resolutions 2024
Wow. What a year. There were many challenges and I accomplished little. The irony that it was the year of the rabbit is not lost on me.
I’d like to thank all my friends and various associates for being a guiding light this year, as it would have been a lot more harrowing to do this one alone.
Anyways, good riddance - here’s an outline of what I intend to accomplish by the end of this year.…
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