“Oh, give us your vote, give us your vote!”
Written on Monday, September 23rd – took a few months to edit this one! I’m sitting here in my hotel room holding my face in my hands, hot, salty tears running down my cheeks! You see, I’m in San Francisco for a work conference and yet I’m…sobbing? What? By way of background I work for…
Hosting Websites at Home with a Framework Mainboard, Cooler Master Case, Dokku, and Cloudflare
When we at Framework came out with the Cooler Master Case last year, which can turn any old mainboard from our laptops into a full-fledged mini computer, my mind ran wild with ideas. Should I move my Home Assistant set up off of my Raspberry Pi 4 and onto my old mainboard? How about setting…
The Future of AI
You may have heard of a little invention that’s been ruffling feathers and blowing minds since it came out: AI. In the next few months, writers, programmers, brain surgeons, astronauts, economists, presidents, and moms will all be replaced by AI. War mongering robots powered by AI will launch a campaign to take over the moon…
Avoiding Enshittification by Changing Capitalist Corporate Structures
This is a brief follow up to my recent post on “Enshittification”, and how it seems inevitable in capitalism. With cycles of companies starting, booming, and busting over the years, I’d like to expound upon some of the issues with current company organization and structure that I’ve noticed. Maybe there are solutions to this problem,…
On The “Enshittification” of Platforms: Technology is Only Human After All
In 2023, the world of online technology has truly changed. In around a decade, the landscape has really shifted from one of techno-optimism to one of profit-grabbing and “enshittification” according to Cory Doctorow. Reddit is trying to charge outrageous sums to 3rd-party app developers to use their APIs and doesn’t let you hide offensive ads…
Digital Love
Ethereal synthesizer chords open it up, with the sampled melody softly looping, as if in the distance. These dreamy overtures put you in a hazy, bright mood, almost as if you’ve closed your eyes on a warm summer day and smiled. You know the feeling. Then the first vocod-ed lyrics hit you, along with a…
Previous Posts
Posts from my previous blog run on Ruby’s Middleman can be found here:
http://constant-tinkerer.herokuapp.com
After hours of playing with different importers/exporters and not finding much for Middleman Markdown -> WordPress, this is the best solution out there! Enjoy the “old” posts.
15 Years Later, Reminiscing on the Scotch Plains-Fanwood HS Music Scene
Today is August 8th, 2020, and it’s been over 15 years since I started at Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School! The 10 year reunion for my class was recently and I honestly spent most of the event in the DJ booth reliving that high school and college past time instead of catching up with my classmates.…
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