A dusting of snow blankets hills in the distance, left over from the snowfall two evenings ago. There are thin light clouds above the hills through which the sky peeks. On the horizon, separating the snowy white hills from the light grey clouds, there is a hint of a pale…

Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.

If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee…

I have been listening to a podcast interview between Ezra Klein and Brian Eno. In it, Eno referenced the concept of the “premature sheen.” I stopped what I was doing, paused the podcast, and started to think about what those words meant.

I wanted to learn more about the…

Over the last few weeks I have been working on rebuilding my morning routine.

I used to be regimented in my morning routine – everything scheduled down to the minute. I then ebbed the opposite way: my routines became unstructured, my mind every morning exerting itself to remember everything I…

A look at why small, personal websites don’t need big-tech static hosting, and how a simple local build and rsync workflow gives you faster deploys, more control, and far fewer dependencies.

OK, so Cloudflare shit the bed yesterday and the Internet went into meltdown. A config file grew too big…

The snow looks like drops of moonlight I thought to myself as the cool light from the street lamps illuminated the falling snow. It’s beautiful. I have never seen anything like it.

Earlier this week I saw light rain fall that looked almost like it was snow – the light…

An invoice disappears

Well this is weird. I just lost an invoice, as in one that I was sure I had raised a couple of weeks ago. Here's how I discovered it, and what I'll do to make sure it doesn't happen again.

The invoice

I don't raise many invoices…