Writing

I’ve never done a cleanse. But many of my friends and family members have done them. There are various flavors of cleanses but the basic idea is you cut back your consumption of food and drink and replace it with [...]  Read more

I wrote last week that I have started coding again. And I have been amazed at how much easier it is now that I can code and deploy in the cloud without having to spin up anything myself. But the [...]  Read more

Over vacation I read Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson . Unlike many other recent books tackling the climate crisis , it is entirely focused on the controversial issue of geoengineering through solar radiation modification (SMR). The basic idea of SMR [...]  Read more

Over vacation I read Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson . Unlike many other recent books tackling the climate crisis , it is entirely focused on the controversial issue of geoengineering through solar radiation modification (SMR). The basic idea of SMR [...]  Read more

It has been many years since I’ve written code. I’ve hacked around in HTML and CSS a bit on this blog and a few other places. But I have not actually written an application in a very long time. I [...]  Read more

I read last week that the NYC Department of Education has banned ChatGPT from its networks and devices . I understand that reaction and mentioned the issues that AI/ML create for educators in a post a few weeks ago . [...]  Read more

We are once again at a transition moment in history. Where our journey goes from here could be exceptionally good or absurdly bad. This mirrors past moments, such as the transition into the Agrarian Age, which gave us early high [...]  Read more