While making a series of changes to my dotfiles this weekend, I decided to retire my aging install scripts in favor of using a ready made dotfiles manager. I chose to use Dotbot. Reader, let me tell you: Dotbot is really nice! Dotbot is a little bit like ansible, but way lighter weight. It uses a YAML file to configure how your dotfiles should be linked in your home folder...
I might be getting old. The other day, I was chatting with a coworker and waxing nostalgic about various tools and methods that I miss. The conversation had a whole "back in my day" vibe. Which, you know, I think I should just lean into at this point. Anyway, we started talking about Cucumber and made me a little sad...
I'm standing at my desk writing this blog post and all I can think about is how great this keyboard feels. I'm falling in love with this keyboard: the buttery smooth travel of the keys, the satisfying thock as my fingers hit the end of travel. For the first time, I enjoy typing on a linear switch...
I made my first lua plugin for Neovim! It's called Darklight.nvim and it makes it super simple to switch between dark mode and light mode colorschemes in Neovim...
It feels weird to mourn the loss of a social networking app. I left Facebook in 2017 because the constant flood of Trump news was overwhelming. I left Instagram a few months later because it had drifted so far from fun photo app I’d loved for many years. And recently I deleted TikTok because I found myself, on too many occasions, being lost in scrolling for hours. I stopped using Twitter on my phone because it’s so toxic. So it’s strange to see Telepath, a relatively new social network, shut down and feel anything but relief...
Content Warning: Dicussions of transphobia, and suicide..
I just finished reading Sovereign, the second book in the Nemesis series and really enjoyed it. I was going to do a review of the book, but after I finished it, I realized that there is something more important to blog about. Instead, I'd like to talk about representation...
I’ve been looking for a replacement for Harry Potter on my bookshelf for a little while now. JK Rowling is a horrible transphobe and while I know people want to divorce her from her work, I don’t think that’s possible. The author may be dead, but as long a J.K. Rowling is still alive, she profits from Harry Potter. She uses those profits to increase her platform and advocate against trans people. So, I can’t support the franchise or any of her other work...
I sat at my computer on September 16th, staring at the email I’d spent the last week composing. I read over it again as so many feelings washed over me. I was anxious, but excited. My hand hovered over the send button. This was an email I couldn’t take back. I reread the email one final time, took a deep breath, closed my eyes and hit “send.” It was done...
I wake up every morning to an inbox that is almost unmanageable. It's overrun with LinkedIn notifications and marketing emails. Email has become a stressful slog that I find myself procrastinating. Prior to the announcement that Basecamp was working on an e-mail service, I had spent a few months trying every email client in the App Store. But, I ultimately kept defaulting back to iOS Mail and macOS mail. So, I was open to trying a new service. ..