Was in the shower, thinking about life and my current state in it. Remembered a series of arguments with a family member. Unsurprisingly, I started audibly talking back, as if I would finally win. As if I could explain myself better and we’d reach a consensus. L’esprit de l’escalier stuff. Y’all. Now I’m like that …
Author Archives: Shawn
Trying WireGuard
Thanks to previous jobs, I’ve had an OpenVPN server running at my house for the past decade. It gives me access to my home network while I’m out in the world, and allows me to securely proxy my web traffic over insecure WiFi so it bounces to the Internet from my house. It’s fast enough, …
Fifth Space
There is an opportunity for me to chase this weird dream, but I shouldn’t do it. For decades I’ve adored this urbanist ideal of living in an apartment above a shop in a busy stretch of the city, where I am in the thick of it, making a home in a bustling zone of commerce …
Weak Valves
I think of all the greatness that will never be, because the urge to create is so easily satisfied. A thought at the kitchen sink can be hastily reworded into a funny quip and crossposted onto the timeline, half-baked, incomplete, a good laugh, and then it’s gone. All the Buckowskis of the world never to …
Flux
On the same day, I learn that glitterkitten.uk and toot.community will soon be shutting down operations, for legitimate reasons. It feels, to me, like a dark day for the #fediverse, but really it’s an example of how human systems change and evolve. I shouldn’t be so despondent. Change is part of the recipe, eh? This …