The open source software community has gone through it's share of shocks recently. The first of these latest rounds coming in the form of projects relicensing their software from open source licenses to business source licenses, sometimes known as BUSL licenses. This was first started with MongoDB in 2018, followed by ElasticSearch in ...

On an off-hand comment by my partner I decided to remove Twitter from my phone and see how things went. I was never terminally online with Twitter in the way that some folks are but I was an avid consumer of the content on there. It's a hazard of the tech industry. So many people are on Twitter posting interesting things it makes it ha...

Sometimes interesting ideas in my life have a habit of showing up again and again until I finally decide to engage. Stoic philosophy has taken on this role most recently in my life. I don't quite remember when I first heard about Stoic philosophy, maybe it was from my Dad or some class in school but in the last few years it has made it...

Life is most meaningful when you're playing scared. No progress, no great joy, no great achievement can be had without some amount of playing scared. Playing scared is an essential part to progress in everything. In my experience getting used to this feeling has been one of the great gifts of doing extreme sports. These sports often co...

A week or so ago Planetscale made a bunch of changes to both their product offering and the staff at the company. Specifically they got rid of their "free forever" hobby tier and laid off a portion of their workforce that included some high profile folks. These changes were announced to the public by the company in the form of a blog p...

As of late it's been no secret on twitter that the developer community is starting to turn away from React. The hype has finally begun to fade and the dissenting voices have begun to gain momentum. Like most things this change is not caused by one thing alone but the combination of time and small-ish paper cuts that have finally worn t...

It's not lost on me the bit of irony that surrounds the almost universal desire of software developers to fantasize about doing things as far removed from computers and screens as possible when they're done with the profession. It doesn't take much time hanging around software circles to hear people musing about wanting to leave softwa...

This is the first in a series of blogs I intend to write covering my thoughts while reading through Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia. Check back for more posts in the series! I have had an interesting relationship with health and wellness. My father is 65 and close to the peak of physical health for non-professi...

As we enter a period of reflection for the year that is coming to a close that often comes with the Holiday season I wanted to share a simple, yet effective, lesson that we too often have to learn and re-learn. Sometimes it's the smallest things, like a good meal with friends, that can inject some perspective and joy into life when joy...

The best laid plans with the best of intentions can and often do end with tragedy. Tragedy for the people involved with those plans directly and often tragedy that is far beyond a scope ever dreamed of by the plan makers. This phenomenon is especially prevalent in the world of tech companies. These companies can often start with the be...

Effective Altruism is just rationalizing greed for wealth obtained by extraction. People who follow this warped world view will try very hard to convince you that this is not the case. That their stance has good sound moral footing. It doesn't. It's something for people who want to feel absolved of their responsibilities for how they o...

As an American born in the early 90s I have spent most of my life having the idea of who is a hero shoved down my throat. We have been constantly told that if you're a first responder or in the military you are a "hero". This is frankly untrue. One only needs the tragic example of the Uvalde, TX massacre to see this point exemplified. ...

I had my latest run in with toxic social media today. It put me in a mental funk that took a hard bike ride and a meditation session to get over. I was not feeling good. Earlier today I found myself watching YouTube and going into a spiral of frustration and disappointment. I was watching mountain biking videos and instead of enjoying ...

I have never been more thankful for the critical thinking skills that my teachers developed in me as a kid. With how the last 6 years have trended it's a skill that seems like it's getting more and more valuable. The amount of regurgitation that goes on in online spaces is staggering sometimes. Not that I don't fall for it too but when...

There have been a lot of upsetting things that have been happening in this country lately. Honestly for that matter the world as well. All of these things deserve their own time and attention but today I would like to focus on one that I feel I can speak on personally. Depending on where you are in the world you many or many not know a...

We all lament how toxic social media can be but rarely do we get an opportunity to do something about it. Yesterday I ran into an issue with some tools I was using at work. This was really annoying and I wanted to let everyone else know just how annoyed I was. I opened up Twitter and started typing. I had my snarky tweet all crafted de...

Media in the internet age has gotten creepy. Not just creepy but exploitative. Media on the internet has become all about how to farm engagement via any means possible to increase screen time and ultimately sell more ads. Companies like YouTube (Google) and Facebook do all they can to track you everywhere you go on the web. They feed y...

...my email. Okay corny jokes aside it's pretty cool that I have this hey blog and all I have to do is send an email. After attempting to set up a blog site that I owned it was...painful to say the least. Which is crazy in 2022. You'd think there would be more blog options than roll you own or Medium. Today's blog is going to be shorte...