Sometimes I get asked by newcomers how one can become a developer like me - specifically, with a job and career like mine.

I used to never share how I felt, not even with my closest friends. Blogging about it would have been completely unthinkable. On the outside, everything ...

What's the most important tech skill for every user?

Holding onto silence as a way to steady myself in the noise.

A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.

I launched a Cable Network. If you’re in the Ellijay Telephone Company coverage area, you can watch it on channel 176. If you’re not, you can watch it online or on roku (or even embedded on this post!) The whole thing is a Community Centered, local first production and broadcast, powered entirely by free software. Click through to watch the stream and learn more about how and why I built it.

The more I look around the web the more I’m convinced we should all treasure our own tiny corners of the web. My site is precious. Precious for me. …

The commercial web is utterly broken. Thankfully, there is another friendly and interesting internet out there.

For a while, I have been thinking about writing a post on reasons why you should write. Today, I reframed this idea into documenting the reasons why I write on this personal website. This newfound framing alleviated the mental block I had around this topic, giving way to my making a list in my notes document of the reasons why I write.

If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...

Personal websites are an opportunity to be uniquely you online. Your website can be designed in the way that you want. You can express and connect ideas in a way that is personally meaningful. You can create original content and reply to writing or art that you found thought-provoking. You can make: art, essays, blog posts, reflections, interactive experiences. All on the web.

I liked reading this a lot, Your Writing by Rands “• Less than 1% of your writing will be life-changing. • 3% will be trivial to write. • 4% will...

X ya no es aquella computadora que soñaron los escritores de ciencia-ficción y que tenía las respuestas a todas nuestras preguntas.

El año pasado, dimos ese gran salto con triple tirabuzón que es comprarse una casa. Tras 4 años de dar vueltas por el mundo, llegó, por f...

"But here’s the thing... The friendships that survive adulthood’s chaos are almost always worth the effort. You are not friends because you sit in the same classroom or live on the same block. You are friends because you made the decision to invest in each other despite all the other demands on your time."

Hace poco descubrí el servicio omg.lol, y me pareció increíblemente sencillo, barato, e interesante. Y una de las cosas que me niego a au...

When I get wistful for the internet of old, one thing that strikes me is that all the blogs back then, well, they were just blogs. The idea of weblog...

Travel is a between space: the thing on which you want to focus is the future, but there are logistics in the moment that one must consider. I enjoy this liminality and the surprise moments of peace between the bustle.

A blog about everything by Jack Baty