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.
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Recent Miniposts
- Checked In: New Years 2025
- Liked: School is not Enough
- Liked: May Chaos Take The World
- 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 …
Projects
- Mixtape Maker
- Film Development Calculator
- Timewaste Tracker for Reddit & Youtube
- French Republican Calendar Tools
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...
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...
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....
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