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.
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
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.…
Read more ⟶Digital Minimalism: Kyocera 902KC
In August of this year, I deleted Twitter off of my phone, after what I found to be the final straw after months of garbage policy changes enforced by the rich egg who now owns the site.
While I have been using a minimal smartphone for years - that is to say, a smartphone with as few apps as I “felt possible” (more on that later) - what I found after deleting my main digital narcotic was that instead of spending less time on my phone as I expected, I was instead spending just blankly staring at my phone before either reading the news or finding some other way to waste time.…
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