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.
You may also peruse the archive.
Projects llms-full.txt
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Mixtape MakerPrepare music playlists for recording onto an analog cassette.
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Film Development CalculatorCalculate the time between film baths automagically.
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Timewaste Tracker for Reddit & …A memento mori for how much time you're wasting on Reddit.
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French Republican Calendar ToolsTrack time the old, old fashioned way.
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Photography, Winter 2021
These are a collection of photos from last Christmas, winter 2021. They were taken in a single afternoon at the same location - the beach located in Mill Bay, Victoria.
All were shot on my Nikon FE2 with a 50mm Series E lens, on Ilford HP5+ Black & White Film, pushed to 1600 ISO.
Mill Bay, South...
Read more ⟶I Added Indieweb Support
I stumbled across Indie Web today, and I think it’s a neat idea.
Essentially, it’s a set of philosophies and toolsets to allow indie websites to communicate amongst each other, establish a standard for using your domain as an identity, and a way for websites to parse html as rss feeds....
Read more ⟶Blogging, Updates
I stopped updating this blog after two posts for a couple reasons:
I enjoyed setting up the website more then I did writing for it - I created the perfect blog in terms of reading it (personally, you may debate this), but paid no attention to how I was going to write for it, and editing Markdown...
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