When I was 13 a friend of mine polled all his schoolfriends to write down their goals. People wrote all kinds of inspiring things (through an early teenage lens). Me? I wrote "to find a good desktop publishing application".
I am still that kid.
Which static CMS would you pick for a longform writing project that updates daily?
Beware of anyone who argues that encryption - or any other freedom from surveillance - is a bad thing.
So you’re telling me a bomb cyclone *isn’t* like, a really good cyclone?
I’ve got a feeling I’ve been to In N Out for the last time.
I feel so bad for flies that get stuck inside cars. They’ll be so far away from home :(
I ate breakfast at a Grateful Dead themed diner. They were my Dad’s neighbors before they were really big. Once, he organized an anti-Vietnam War protest (as a veteran) and got them to play; thousands of people turned up. The headlines read: Lynch Him! I’m really proud.
If you’re thinking about a university degree entirely based on how much you’ll earn, you’re thinking about it wrong. Please also consider what it will add to your life in terms of meaning and knowledge.
It’s not so much a mandate for me as “I don’t want to die or kill the vulnerable people around me, nor do I want to kill you ir the people around you, so if you’re going to be around me, please mask up and get vaccinated, and I promise to do the same”.
If nothing else, he who shall not be named is just astoundingly adept at staying in the headlines and raising money from his interested base. Yes, of course this endeavor will fail. No, it doesn't matter from his point of view.
Remember "giving everyone the ability to publish is not a good thing"?
Imagine not wanting everyone to have a voice. That wasn't so long ago.
Some of you never lost money on Beanie Babies and it shows.
But also:
Some of you never worked on the web when people were still dismissing it as a lightweight fad with no real purpose and it shows.
I’m in a few online groups for carers, and man. People are so lonely, so unsupported. They’ve given up everything to support their loved ones. We need to do better by them and give them the resources, community, and help they need.
I’m not sure how many times passengers will accidentally say “you too” when the woman at the airport convenience store wishes them a nice flight today, but I was proud to be the first.
Breaking news to my idiot self: You. Are. Lactose. Intolerant.
The cat was out of the bag for Ethereum (and all blockchains) as soon as the project rolled back a fraudulent transaction. If this is possible at all, regardless of whether it'd one, the platform is not decentralized in the web sense. Serverless, yes - but controlled.
There’s an old saying - not as wise as received wisdom, and I suspect it didn’t come from someone who didn’t have an interest in the matter - that people are meant to get more conservative as they grow older.
Let me state unequivocally: this is not the case.
"I saw Ma earlier and said hi," my dad said. "And then, just now, I saw her behind you. She's still looking out for us."
And for a moment, I was just lost to grief and tears.
So that's what kind of day this is going to be.
I had such an inspiring conversation this evening. It made me excited for the work ahead. I can't wait.
“We really think you deserve this,” says a popular lending startup as they offer me an easy way to get into a lot of debt. Why do I deserve it? What did I do? How can I make amends?
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