Theotechnica

Dispatches on theology, technology, transit and all of the in-between.

Half-a-Decade of Fedora Silverblue

Half-a-Decade of Fedora Silverblue

The first Linux installation I have not borked

Kevin Liao

Memorisation as Firmware Programming

Memorisation as Firmware Programming

Reprogramming myself through internalisation of writing

Kevin Liao

Doing One Thing

Doing One Thing

Over and over again

Kevin Liao

An Easter Qingming Crossover Special

An Easter Qingming Crossover Special

Finding a rhyming pattern between two important holidays

Kevin Liao

A Blessing for Deidre's Hair

A Blessing for Deidre's Hair

I wrote this blessing for my friend Deidre on the eve of her first chemo infusion, when we gathered at her place to cut her hair together. It's a piece of writing I'm very proud of and she's given me permission to publish it on my blog.

Kevin Liao

Reflections from the South

Reflections from the South

Whose stories are you keeping alive?

Kevin Liao

Engineer Three

Engineer Three

I took the Token Transit back-of-house administrative portal down on my first week of the job and I reflexively remember firing up a Google Doc and writing down section headings: "Detection", "Escalation", "Response", "Prevention" and starting to fill out an incident timeline. As a Privacy Incident Manager On-Call at Facebook, I spent a lot of time listening to incident review and coordinating incident response. I asked around in the office, curious where we kept the incident documentation. There was a bit of a shrug.

Kevin Liao

A Misdiagnosis of My Dad

A Misdiagnosis of My Dad

A conversation in a pub on the eve of my father's wedding

Kevin Liao

Ashes

Ashes

Blessed is human frailty

Kevin Liao

This Calls for a Feast

This Calls for a Feast

Celebration as a discipline

Kevin Liao

On Speaking Candidly

On Speaking Candidly

Cultivating an atrophied muscle

Kevin Liao

I Want to Live in a World with the EnergyNet

I Want to Live in a World with the EnergyNet

This is the coolest idea that I've heard in a long time.

Kevin Liao

Dan Wang's Breakneck speaks to my childhood and this moment

Dan Wang's Breakneck speaks to my childhood and this moment

Maybe we have something to learn from the engineering state

Kevin Liao

Miscellaneous Helpful Tools

Miscellaneous Helpful Tools

I feel increasingly like technological progress doesn't serve me. Here are some things I've liked recently.

Kevin Liao

I Really Like Houseplants

I Really Like Houseplants

In 2025 I discovered I really like houseplants.

Kevin Liao

Moving off Betterment

Moving off Betterment

A robo-investor just no longer makes sense.

Kevin Liao