Archive

2022

20 posts

A Very Special Anniversary
13 Dec 2022

On the Web, the Best Outcome is Email
02 Dec 2022

Daily Step Count & Walking Statistics
19 Nov 2022

A Drawing Every Day!
19 Nov 2022

Drawing of the Day
19 Nov 2022

Books & Reading Statistics
05 Nov 2022

Reading Milestones, Attention Spans, and Cool Charts
24 Oct 2022

Stargazing Pictures
04 Sep 2022

Step Counts and Goal-Setting
29 Aug 2022

Fun with Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence
28 Aug 2022

Whether to Monitor the Weather and More
16 Aug 2022

The Simple Joy of Learning to Play Piano
05 May 2022

Using Pushover for Super Simple SysAdmin Alerts
27 Apr 2022

Crossing the Wording Threshold
27 Apr 2022

That Time I Lost Control of a Server
19 Apr 2022

Hacks can be Good Code Too
21 Mar 2022

At vs. On: a Story of Semantic Data Modeling
21 Feb 2022

Generating Deterministic, Procedural Artwork with pdraw
18 Feb 2022

I Solved The Same Bug Twice And Didn't Know It
01 Feb 2022

Take a Break, Script Something
03 Jan 2022

2021

18 posts

The Road to Glass & Stone
07 Dec 2021

Nine9s gets an upgrade ⬆️
06 Dec 2021

The Internet's Original Sin
26 Oct 2021

Bibliography
21 Oct 2021

Last Year I Started Reading a Physical Newspaper
09 Oct 2021

Automated Podcasts with Automator & Overcast
24 Aug 2021

Retrospective on a Year Spent Writing
23 Aug 2021

Grove, a new Tree-planting Wellness Game 🎉
12 Jul 2021

Unbounded Possibility is Bad for Productivity
25 May 2021

Imports are Endorsements
20 May 2021

Easy and Ethical Traffic Monitoring with GoAccess
03 May 2021

How I Use Docker (for Now)
30 Apr 2021

Lessons on Variable Naming from Breakfast Burritos
17 Apr 2021

Building a Personalized Newsletter with Bash and a Raspberry Pi
03 Apr 2021

Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
25 Mar 2021

All Too Quiet
07 Mar 2021

California, Democracy, and Progress
05 Mar 2021

Various Goings On
03 Jan 2021

2020

33 posts

Breadcrumbs and Pinboard
31 Dec 2020

History, Myth, and Talking Cows
27 Dec 2020

Arbitrary Achievement Unlocked
10 Dec 2020

A False Dichotomy
05 Dec 2020

Why I Don't Retweet Anything
04 Dec 2020

Programming Misconceptions
23 Nov 2020

Going Indie is Out! 📚🚀
18 Nov 2020

Announcing: Hewell Public Beta 🎉
10 Nov 2020

House Judiciary Committee recommends Interoperable Social Media
07 Oct 2020

Assumptions and Variable Names
01 Oct 2020

The Indie Dev Life Podcast
28 Sep 2020

Git Hooks for Fun and Profit
27 Sep 2020

The Little Engine that Could
26 Sep 2020

On Uber, Lyft, and Labor Law
20 Aug 2020

Going Indie
08 Aug 2020

Recipes
06 Aug 2020

Book Recommendations
10 Jul 2020

Two is Better than One
09 Jul 2020

Novels and Insurmountable Tasks
29 Jun 2020

The Fall of Civilizations Podcast
29 Jun 2020

d20.photos: A Public Domain D&D Image Repository
24 Jun 2020

Careful with Complex Querysets
18 Jun 2020

Announcing Nine9s.cloud 🎉
10 Jun 2020

This Site Supports Webmentions!
30 May 2020

A Whole New Mac
22 May 2020

Why We're Polarized
18 May 2020

Spring Cleaning and Microformats
17 May 2020

An Uplifting Tale in these Dark Times
10 May 2020

Where it Comes From, Nobody Knows
08 Apr 2020

A Good Day
14 Mar 2020

That's When I Knew: I Can't Actually Use macOS
24 Feb 2020

Pine.blog Downtime Post-Mortem: A Story of Finite Resources
17 Feb 2020

An Agency that Protects Data
14 Feb 2020

2018

21 posts

I Love NSOperation
23 Dec 2018

Pine.blog Version 1.3: Multiple Timelines 🎉
19 Dec 2018

Textual.app Maintainer Steps Away
15 Nov 2018

Mastodon and Microblogging
10 Nov 2018

Code Lasts Whether You Know it or Not
04 Nov 2018

Recommendations, Echo Chambers, and Pine.blog
04 Nov 2018

Blogging has an Image Problem
03 Nov 2018

Feed Readers and Local News
19 Oct 2018

Pine.blog 1.2 is Out!
17 Oct 2018

The Scope Creep is Real
06 Oct 2018

Pine v1.1 is Out & A Special Moment
13 Jul 2018

On the Future of Social Media
11 Jul 2018

RSS Has Already Won
06 Jul 2018

Pine for iOS Released!
05 Jul 2018

A Sneak Peek: Pine for iOS
15 Jun 2018

Announcing Pine: Microblogging for a New Generation 🎉
23 May 2018

The People vs. Democracy
19 May 2018

Safari's WebSocket Stream View
04 Mar 2018

Git's Hidden Feature: Notes
04 Mar 2018

Real Life Science Fiction
06 Feb 2018

The Web as a Social Network
02 Feb 2018

2017

24 posts

Primitive Tech is Here for the Long Haul
24 Nov 2017

The FCC Moves to Dismantle Net Neutrality
23 Nov 2017

MyGeneRank: Behind the Scenes of the Newest ResearchKit App
25 Oct 2017

OAuth Over XMPP
24 Oct 2017

todolist update
10 Oct 2017

Mini-Rant About Documentation
09 Oct 2017

todolist
28 Sep 2017

Accidental DevOps
26 Sep 2017

Getting Back on the Horse
25 Sep 2017

TODOs as a Templating System
31 Jul 2017

Climate Change and Guns, Germs, and Steel
15 Jul 2017

Adventurer's Codex: XMPP
11 Jul 2017

Adventurer's Codex: The Stack
06 Jul 2017

Measuring Sticks
26 Jun 2017

Adventurer's Codex: Behind the Curtain
20 Jun 2017

The Cloudbleed Bug: An Overview
24 Feb 2017

Comments with Cited References
09 Feb 2017

So Many Words Written, So Many More to Come
06 Feb 2017

An Ode to the 13 Inch MacBook Pro
04 Feb 2017

California Bills to Safeguard Privacy from the Federal Government Advance
02 Feb 2017

The Internet Won't Forget Climate Change
28 Jan 2017

A Slight Modification to Gordon Ramsey's Scramled Eggs
10 Jan 2017

Manton's Micro.blog
09 Jan 2017

Alternatives to macOS
03 Jan 2017

2016

30 posts

Sony MDR Extra-Bass Bluetooth Headphones Review
01 Dec 2016

YouTube has (apparently) reinstated RSS feeds
14 Nov 2016

More Efficient VBR MP3s and Podcasting
15 Aug 2016

Tabletop Audio
07 Aug 2016

Primitive Tech tiptoes into the Bronze Age
29 Jul 2016

18th Century Cooking
22 Jul 2016

Easy Refactoring with Source Making
19 Jul 2016

Latest Project: Log Linker
14 Jul 2016

Linode's 13th Birthday
16 Jun 2016

Siri is a blogging tool
02 Jun 2016

Swift Dynamism
30 May 2016

Python-like Context Managers in Swift
25 May 2016

MVC-N and Services
24 May 2016

iMessage Security
24 Apr 2016

Re: Voting Systems
15 Apr 2016

Can we save the open web?
19 Mar 2016

Blog when you disagree
14 Mar 2016

Overcast 2.5 Update
14 Mar 2016

A Vision of the Open Web
08 Mar 2016

Hosting a Minecraft Server on Linode
01 Mar 2016

FBI tells Apple to Create a Master Key to iOS
17 Feb 2016

Better Image Sharing with Dropbox
05 Feb 2016

What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like
02 Feb 2016

Smaller
01 Feb 2016

More Secure Pastures
27 Jan 2016

Re: Leaving Twitter
26 Jan 2016

Horizontal History
15 Jan 2016

The Invention of Farming
15 Jan 2016

Why privacy is important
12 Jan 2016

Breaking up is hard to do
11 Jan 2016

2015

43 posts

MVVM is not very good
20 Dec 2015

No, We are Romans
20 Dec 2015

Removing Google Analytics
19 Dec 2015

GitBook
14 Dec 2015

Software performance in an ASM.js world
16 Nov 2015

Ad tracking company using audio to identify users
12 Nov 2015

Even more re: software and engineering
09 Nov 2015

Why I'm switching back to iTunes
12 Oct 2015

Disable "shake to find cursor" in El Capitan
12 Oct 2015

Software Correctness and Software Engineering
05 Oct 2015

How to save your team from the evil testing demons
24 Sep 2015

A full size mirror
20 Sep 2015

A mirror for posterity
20 Sep 2015

More Pluto images
20 Sep 2015

Python 3.5 and multitasking
18 Sep 2015

Airplane Mode
13 Sep 2015

Python 3.5.0 has been released
13 Sep 2015

The Race for Space
06 Sep 2015

You should go to SpaceUp
05 Sep 2015

Re: Yin and Yang
28 Aug 2015

Re: The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
16 Aug 2015

Blogdown
14 Aug 2015

Rewritten
10 Aug 2015

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
19 Jul 2015

WWDC and Open Source Swift
09 Jun 2015

Software 'Engineering'
25 May 2015

Python multiprocessing and unittest
28 Apr 2015

Microblog Crawler v1.4(.1)
25 Apr 2015

PEP 484 - Type Hints for Python
08 Apr 2015

Patreon
31 Mar 2015

Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals Follow Up
31 Mar 2015

Priming the Pump
31 Mar 2015

Roderick on the Line: Space Exploration is Human Nature
10 Mar 2015

Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
08 Mar 2015

Microblog Crawler v1.3 Released
08 Mar 2015

Clarifying Structure
26 Feb 2015

Microblog Crawler Diary: Signals
24 Feb 2015

Microblog Crawler Diary: Timezones
22 Feb 2015

Elon Musk is Crazy
20 Jan 2015

Fight for Space - Why Space?
15 Jan 2015

What-If: Pools on the Moon
15 Jan 2015

The Results of SpaceX's Attempt to Recover Falcon
15 Jan 2015

Time Machine Transfer Trouble Resolved
02 Jan 2015

2014

77 posts

Microblogger Wiki and Issues are Live!
31 Dec 2014

Time Machine Transfer Trouble
31 Dec 2014

Microblogger status updates and more
13 Dec 2014

What if sending money was as easy as AirDrop
04 Dec 2014

Hypervelocity Stars
03 Dec 2014

Dave Winer on Donating to Wikipedia
03 Dec 2014

Microblog Crawler v1.0 Released
29 Nov 2014

Star Wars VII Teaser (and thoughts on the new lightsabers)
28 Nov 2014

ISS Livestream now in 720p HD
24 Nov 2014

Ursula K. Le Guin At The National Book Awards
23 Nov 2014

Philae Breaks our Hearts
16 Nov 2014

Philae Lands on Comet 67P
12 Nov 2014

Obama "urges" FCC to reclassify ISPs as Utilities
10 Nov 2014

The Mac Mini Server Configuration is Dead
09 Nov 2014

New Parallel Universe Theory Proposed
04 Nov 2014

FCC's Tom Wheeler is trying to open up cable TV
02 Nov 2014

What is your blog about?
02 Nov 2014

Short-form blogging
02 Nov 2014

Twitter is not a replacement for blogs
02 Nov 2014

The Professional Sharer
24 Oct 2014

AT&T and Apple SIM
24 Oct 2014

Podcast Recommendations
21 Oct 2014

Twitter's "peace offering" to developers is meaningless
20 Oct 2014

Making RSS Real-Time
19 Oct 2014

Site transferred. Email is next
14 Oct 2014

Some advice on programming
12 Oct 2014

Thinking about redoing my blog engine
11 Oct 2014

The unremarkable yesterday
11 Oct 2014

Balancing Work, Fun, and Work-Fun
07 Oct 2014

Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability Report
02 Oct 2014

The Open Microblog Standard
29 Sep 2014

Thoughts on the iPhone 6
28 Sep 2014

The Trouble With Harvard
14 Sep 2014

Space Junk
14 Sep 2014

Chris Radcliff on Twitter's Timeline Changes
07 Sep 2014

Casey Liss on Women's Experience in Gaming
06 Sep 2014

How to stimulate the open web
31 Aug 2014

Why It's Impossible to Make Plans Anymore
31 Aug 2014

Brent Simmons on App Performance Tuning
31 Aug 2014

Numba: Compiling Python Using LLVM the way WebKit Compiles JavaScript
30 Aug 2014

Waffle, Brent and Marco on Social Networks
28 Aug 2014

Twitter and the Open Web
25 Aug 2014

Roderick on the Line
24 Aug 2014

Notifications
18 Aug 2014

Book Recommendation: The Stormlight Archive
17 Aug 2014

10 Years of Podcasts
17 Aug 2014

Changing App Behavior Server-Side
17 Aug 2014

Humans Need Not Apply
16 Aug 2014

Permanence Revisited
12 Aug 2014

How the Other Half Works: an Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers
11 Aug 2014

First Person Hyperlapse Videos by Microsoft
11 Aug 2014

Into the Depths of Python
05 Aug 2014

You need math to program
25 Jul 2014

Forest Through the Trees
16 Jul 2014

Letter to the FCC
16 Jul 2014

Re: Permanence
15 Jul 2014

The Internet's Own Boy
15 Jul 2014

It's just a Phone
22 Jun 2014

Harry's Razors Review
05 Jun 2014

So I Went Flying Yesterday
04 Jun 2014

Multithreading in Java
30 May 2014

NASA Streams the ISS View of Earth 24/7
10 May 2014

Rocket Simulation
05 May 2014

Programming Sucks
02 May 2014

CSU Tuition
01 May 2014

Don't Blow Up the Internet
26 Apr 2014

Help Protect the Internet
25 Apr 2014

OS X's New Look
21 Apr 2014

Pokemon
21 Apr 2014

Roman Food
20 Apr 2014

My iOS 8 Wishlist
16 Apr 2014

BloodMoon Eclipse Photos
15 Apr 2014

Apple, Intel, and Matt Richman
15 Apr 2014

The NSA knew about and exploited the Heartbleed Bug
12 Apr 2014

The New New CMS
24 Mar 2014

If Only I had a Podcast
18 Mar 2014

Microsoft and a Unix-based Windows
11 Feb 2014

2012

1 posts

A Very Special Sweater
12 Dec 2012