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: 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 …
- Review: John Micklethwait: The Company
Projects
- Mixtape Maker
- Film Development Calculator
- Timewaste Tracker for Reddit & Youtube
- French Republican Calendar Tools
Photography, Fall 2010
While cleaning, I discovered an undeveloped roll of Ilford Delta 100. I have not shot that film stock for a very long time.
I estimate that I took these photos around ~2010. This was when I was just beginning to experiment with film photography as a medium. I know I took them on my Nikon FE, but at the time it had no batteries in it, so I shot all of these on the Mechanical 90 shutter speed.
…Weekly Update - November 9th, 2022
Trying something new here today. With the recent Twitter fiasco going on I started re-evaluating what I get out of using social media, and condensed it down into two things:
- I like watching awful people argue with each other
- I like keeping up with what my friends are up to, and tell them what I’m up to.
Number two is the important one here - I only care about particular things my friends are into. The important stuff - babies being born, new jobs, etc. - that stuff I can hear about in person.
…Travelogue to the Regular Locations of My Dreams
I have noticed a pattern in my dreams. There are places that I dream, that remain consistent, that have no equivalence in the waking world.
When I dream them, I can navigate to them, and am confident in where they are located, despite the fact that their location changes from dream to dream. Frequently they are places in the cities and towns I’ve grown up in, but not always.
Often times I’ll forget their familiarity until I dream of them again - so I’ve written this travelogue to document them; mainly for myself, since for the most part others are uninterested in what other people dream.
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