My latest column for @Slate There is a lot to unpack in the second question about "the carpenter that needs a new home." I'd love to hear your thoughts. slate.com/business/2022/…
Friends! I’ll be in SF tonight on business. Ping me if you want to meet for drinks or dinner.
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Just putting this out there that if one of my children ends up in jail when they’re an adult, that’s not a reflection of my parenting skills—rather it’s the opportunity to lovingly *use them* in a crisis scenario. We’ve GOT to stop shaming parents of incarcerated people.
👏👏 I’m already angry at the very first sentence. Shaming people for going to jail is in-and-of-itself all kinds of fucked up. (a) people sometimes go to jail for...
Excited to learn about Smalltown, a social network for civic engagement. Some cool details about it are on the blog post. (And I was happy to see it was indeed inspired by my Hometown project.)
Ethan Zuckerman https://twitter.com/EthanZ
It's not as exciting as Tiktok, but that's okay - Smalltown is our productively boring social network, explicitly designed for civic engagement. From @iDPI_umass and buil...
This is gonna be 🔥! For anyone new to CTFs, you can use the same link to join our CTF-101 session (which I'll be co-leading). Hope to see you there!
🚩 Exciting news! Snyk's #CTF, #FetchTheFlag is back! Bring your squad, tackle 16 hands-on challenges, and put your skills to the test against 1,000+ other teams to w...
🍎Arcade has been great for me and the kiddo. Some winners: - Alba’s Wildlife Adventure (such a delight) - Crossy Road Castle (retro vibes) - Cat Quest (goofball RPG) - Last Campfire (interesting puzzles with a smooth complexity ramp)
HTML Frameworks. HTML-first. HTML Modules. Writing elements in HTML. What the heck is everybody talking about?? Join #SpicyWebDev for a deep dive into the history of building bits of HTML and what's changing (for the better?) right before our very eyes! youtu.be/k85bq5leJPo

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Last week was quite a busy one in the "let computers do what computers do best"-camp! Klotho is another take on tearing down the barriers to application scalability with the modern tooling offered by cloud-based compute:
💥 IT'S HERE... klo.dev/blog/closed-be… Klotho Closed Beta is now available. Try it out 🚀!
Live in 30 minutes to talk about budgeting under inflation youtube.com/watch?v=ZOerNa…
This is … something else. I think I take the California wildfires instead. twitter.com/dwuhlfelderlaw…
DeSantis supports decision to not evacuate this area.
Today is the first of a month of Budgetober Livestreams! I'll talk about budgeting during inflation at 11:30AM PDT/2:30 EDT youtube.com/watch?v=ZOerNa…
Well that made me tear up
The Utah County has accidentally become a wedding haven for same-sex couples from China during the pandemic. Tho not legally recognized in China, the Zoom weddings have...
That's a wrap! What an amazing group of presenters and crew! Can't wait to watch back all the talks now that I'm done running the stream! #ResolveCon @GrCnColor
That's a wrap! What an amazing group of presenters and crew! Can't wait to watch back all the talks now that I'm done running the stream! #ResolveCon @GrCnColor
Indeed. The mystery is whole point of it all. I once heard a saying that rings true for me: the opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.
one of the main reasons why i’m not an atheist is because i don’t think there’s really a binary between theism and atheism
Canceled my @washingtonpost subscription and subscribed to @radleybalko 's substack.
So after nine years, I'm being let go by the Washington Post. This is disappointing but not surprising. In recent years, the Opinion leadership has made it increasingly d...

Summer 2022 Spending Reports

September 2022 Report: FINALLY back to saving