Years ago, in my middling tech explorations, I setup an Apache webserver to privately serve my music collection. I shared the link and password with a longtime friend over Instant Messaging. As she browsed my collection, I watched the server logs and commented through IM on what she was looking at. She eventually told me …
Category Archives: Technology
Seers and Robot
Scrambling breathlessly to write and manually place a robots.txt file under my blog to supercede the one built into WordPress in order to keep the chatbots from stealing my words for their profit, suspecting full well that they already have.
Snoop de Whoop
In a recent blog post I bemoaned how Duolingo’s streak gaming system has become something of a death march, how it’s an unavoidable slog, and how eventually I’ll be jumping off that treadmill so I can enjoy life and enjoy learning German instead of breathlessly trying to rip out a 3 minute lesson before midnight …
A Project of Life
I had some time today, split between projects at work and home, to think about how I got here. What single inflection point could have contributed the greatest to my current vector? My mother takes some of the credit. Aside from the standard keep-me-alive stuff, the greatest thing she did for me was give me …
Hit
Reacting to my friends’ posts either to say, “Hey, I see you, and I love you, and I want you to know this is a great medium and hope you express yourself more here. Join us!” or otherwise to say, “I like this post.” — and keeping them guessing which one I’m saying. Enjoy the …