Half-a-Decade of Fedora Silverblue
The first Linux installation I have not borked
Memorisation as Firmware Programming
Reprogramming myself through internalisation of writing
Doing One Thing
Over and over again
An Easter Qingming Crossover Special
Finding a rhyming pattern between two important holidays
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.
Reflections from the South
Whose stories are you keeping alive?
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.
A Misdiagnosis of My Dad
A conversation in a pub on the eve of my father's wedding
Ashes
Blessed is human frailty
This Calls for a Feast
Celebration as a discipline
On Speaking Candidly
Cultivating an atrophied muscle
I Want to Live in a World with the EnergyNet
This is the coolest idea that I've heard in a long time.
Dan Wang's Breakneck speaks to my childhood and this moment
Maybe we have something to learn from the engineering state
Miscellaneous Helpful Tools
I feel increasingly like technological progress doesn't serve me. Here are some things I've liked recently.
I Really Like Houseplants
In 2025 I discovered I really like houseplants.
Moving off Betterment
A robo-investor just no longer makes sense.