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blogging sporadically since 2001
This is a collection of long-form writing, essays, and other "traditional" bloggy content.
August 2025
Unsheltered Seattle
Friday, August 22
April 2025
Python's new t-strings
Friday, April 11
January 2025
Small tech in 2025
Wednesday, January 15
November 2024
Decompression
Wednesday, November 6
February 2024
Count More
Thursday, February 22
November 2023
OpenAI: Consumer & Cloud
Thursday, November 9
February 2023
Otis Health
Tuesday, February 28
December 2022
Phase Transitions
Thursday, December 1
October 2021
Down the Crypto Rabbit Hole
Monday, October 18
September 2020
Two Screens For Teachers
Tuesday, September 15
April 2020
Notes on the Apple + Google Contact Tracing Partnership
Monday, April 20
March 2020
Pandemic
Saturday, March 14
May 2019
Glow
Thursday, May 16
April 2019
Modular Pocket Operator
Tuesday, April 2
November 2018
Split Decision
Wednesday, November 7
October 2018
WebAuthn and Biometrics
Friday, October 26
August 2018
Revisiting RSS
Thursday, August 16
July 2018
Dependencies Run Deep
Thursday, July 26
May 2018
Mastodon Stats
Thursday, May 3
April 2018
Audacious Goals
Tuesday, April 17
December 2017
Memexes
Saturday, December 2
April 2017
Why It's Hard To Choose A VPN Provider
Sunday, April 16
January 2017
Diminished
Friday, January 20
Political Priority Alarms
Friday, January 6
November 2016
Trump
Thursday, November 10
May 2016
Inflection Points
Friday, May 27
March 2016
An Absolutist View of Encryption
Friday, March 11
February 2016
My Microblog
Monday, February 22
January 2016
Ansible Bustedness
Friday, January 8
November 2015
1Password for Teams
Tuesday, November 3
August 2015
Hacker History Bookshelf, Revisited
Tuesday, August 25
Heartbeat Alpha
Thursday, August 13
Modern Web Ad-Blocking
Tuesday, August 11
On the Cusp: Decentralization
Tuesday, August 4
May 2015
Fragmented
Monday, May 25
Twitter Mainland
Tuesday, May 5
April 2015
Papertrail sells to SolarWinds
Tuesday, April 28
Hashicorp's Vault
Tuesday, April 28
March 2015
The golden rules of tech support
Thursday, March 26
What's My Passcode?
Tuesday, March 24
February 2015
Django Storage Minutia
Friday, February 6
January 2015
Twitter Reputation
Tuesday, January 20
November 2014
HTTPS: Let's do this
Wednesday, November 19
Ellie Mitchell
Sunday, November 9
October 2014
Redfin buys Walk Score
Wednesday, October 22
I Want An RSS Reader/Writer
Wednesday, October 8
Without a Doubt
Friday, October 3
Indie Impostor Syndrome
Wednesday, October 1
July 2014
Coffee Walks
Thursday, July 17
Cyclides of Dupin
Wednesday, July 2
June 2014
The 2014 Indie Tech Summit
Monday, June 30
Dear OS X Editor Gods (Again)
Tuesday, June 24
Serving Static Sites
Monday, June 16
Static Sites
Sunday, June 1
May 2014
Pianoteq 5
Thursday, May 22
January 2014
A Hacker History Bookshelf
Thursday, January 2
December 2013
Redis Redux
Wednesday, December 11
Atreus Dawn at Fifteen
Tuesday, December 10
Pianoteq 4.5
Monday, December 9
November 2013
The Cloakercoaster
Monday, November 25
Churn, and Other Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Sunday, November 10
LinkedIn the Middle
Monday, November 4
September 2013
The Snowden Disclosures, So Far
Friday, September 13
August 2013
How to Recover iBooks Samples (Nerdily)
Wednesday, August 7
July 2013
HTTReplay: a Python HTTP Recording Library
Monday, July 22
May 2013
Robots
Wednesday, May 22
Content Blogging as Improv
Tuesday, May 7
April 2013
The Area Between the Curves
Sunday, April 21
January 2013
Get Cloak
Monday, January 28
The System
Tuesday, January 15
Turkey Shots
Saturday, January 12
Jehiah Czebotar's Annual Report
Friday, January 11
December 2012
My Year in Small Data
Wednesday, December 26
The League of Moveable Type
Wednesday, December 19
Not YYZ
Wednesday, December 19
November 2012
Cyber Monday Music
Saturday, November 24
Soundslice
Saturday, November 17
The Rhythm in Everything
Tuesday, November 13
Sinofsky, Exit Stage Left
Monday, November 12
Referendum 74 Passes
Thursday, November 8
October 2012
Stop Leaky Data With the Latest Cloak for Mac
Thursday, October 4
September 2012
The Madrona Labs Soundplane A
Tuesday, September 25
My iOS Artwork Tool Now Supports Ios6
Friday, September 21
August 2012
Model School
Wednesday, August 15
Riddle Me This
Friday, August 3
July 2012
Some Cloak Featurettes
Monday, July 30
0 XP: the Zynga Counterrevolution
Sunday, July 22
Apple Rejoins Epeat
Friday, July 13
Apple Withdraws From Epeat
Friday, July 6
Cow Clicker
Tuesday, July 3
The Murky Ethics of Freemium Games
Monday, July 2
June 2012
Why Are Apple Laptops Becoming Harder to Take Apart?
Sunday, June 17
Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
Thursday, June 14
First Impressions of the Retina MacBook Pro
Thursday, June 14
May 2012
Serving Python Web Apps
Monday, May 14
April 2012
Kibitzing Samurai
Monday, April 30
AWS: Acoustica
Friday, April 27
The Spacex Cost Record
Wednesday, April 18
The Latest From Cloakland
Monday, April 2
March 2012
24/192 Music Downloads
Monday, March 5
Todo Review?
Sunday, March 4
Why Does Nobody Use SSL Client Certificates?
Friday, March 2
February 2012
Destroy All Software Screencasts
Thursday, February 23
See You at Pycon!
Tuesday, February 21
Mountain Lion
Thursday, February 16
Ok Go 'Needing/Getting' Video
Thursday, February 9
Girl Walk // All Day
Thursday, February 9
Fujiya & Miyagi: Transparent Things
Friday, February 3
January 2012
The Seedy Side of Software
Saturday, January 28
Hard Drive Shortages Impact Gpu Sales?
Wednesday, January 25
Internet Regulation and the Economics of Piracy
Sunday, January 22
Directory Settings Plugin for Sublime Text 2
Thursday, January 19
Bissen: Tranceatlantic
Tuesday, January 17
Amanda Peyton on Pipa
Friday, January 13
Tim O'Reilly on Sopa
Friday, January 13
Siriusmo: Mosaik
Wednesday, January 11
How to Set Up a Music Listening Rig
Monday, January 9
App Engine Charges $6,500 to Update a Listproperty on 14.1 Million Entities
Friday, January 6
I Am Done With the Freemium Business Model
Monday, January 2
My 52.WKS Project is Finished
Saturday, December 31
December 2011
Kuedo: Severant
Friday, December 30
The Installation Cannot Continue
Thursday, December 29
Translation to English of the Purported Benefits of iLok Copy Protection Dongles
Wednesday, December 28
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Wednesday, December 28
Pianoteq 3
Tuesday, December 27
One Thing Well on Cloak
Tuesday, December 27
A Little Redesign
Friday, December 23
2011 Wrap-up
Monday, December 19
App Asceticism
Tuesday, December 13
Dealing With Credit Card Fraud
Thursday, December 1
November 2011
Fraudsters Gonna Fraud
Thursday, November 17
Cloak for iPhone & iPad Has Arrived
Friday, November 11
Microsoft Store, You Cut Me
Tuesday, November 8
Kindle Clauses
Friday, November 4
Siri
Tuesday, November 1
October 2011
Retail Replacements for the Lusty Lady
Friday, October 28
A Word on App Engine Caching
Tuesday, October 25
I Use This
Friday, October 14
Cloak Will Be at Seattle Beta!
Sunday, October 9
Growing Up Apple
Friday, October 7
September 2011
Locked in the Cloud
Friday, September 30
May 2011
I'm Gonna Disrupt!
Monday, May 16
Cloak, My New App, is Now in Beta!
Friday, May 13
March 2011
Git for Making Music
Thursday, March 31
February 2011
The 52.WKS Project
Wednesday, February 2
January 2011
Fonts on Kindle for iPad
Thursday, January 6
December 2010
Party Like It's 1989
Thursday, December 30
An iOS Artwork Tool Update
Monday, December 6
November 2010
Heterogeneity is Not the Problem
Monday, November 8
October 2010
In Seattle? Really?
Tuesday, October 26
September 2010
Performance and Improvisation in the Age of Digital Abundance
Thursday, September 23
August 2010
Open Data: Messy and Great
Monday, August 16
April 2010
Pendulums in Motion
Wednesday, April 14
March 2010
Generating iPhone UIEvent Timestamps
Monday, March 8
A Steve Reich Primer
Wednesday, March 3
February 2010
Sayonara, Dreamhost!
Tuesday, February 2
January 2010
Introducing WhereBeUs
Thursday, January 28
Music in 2009
Sunday, January 3
December 2009
First Thoughts on the App Engine Blobstore
Tuesday, December 15
Introducing City-Go-Round
Thursday, December 10
October 2009
My Dev Days
Thursday, October 22
Django on Google App Engine
Tuesday, October 13
September 2009
(Why the Dangercast?)
Thursday, September 24
July 2009
My Tablet
Thursday, July 30
June 2009
Appengine Nitty Gritty
Monday, June 15
May 2009
Thoughts About GWT
Thursday, May 28
Dear OS X Editor Gods
Thursday, May 14
Cocoa, Sync, and Appengine
Wednesday, May 6
April 2009
Speaking at Google I|O
Wednesday, April 29
iPhone Scrolling Dynamics
Thursday, April 23
Javascript Needs Batteries
Friday, April 17
In Memoriam
Wednesday, April 8
March 2009
Finding Our Roots, Again
Sunday, March 1
February 2009
A Go Update
Friday, February 20
The Luckiest Bad Luck?
Wednesday, February 11
January 2009
Weekend Hack #1: Go!
Monday, January 26
Further Meditations on Microsoft
Thursday, January 22
Citizen Maps
Saturday, January 10
Emacs Indenting Revisited
Wednesday, January 7
(Mega) Mall Rat
Friday, January 2
December 2008
Expandrive is Nifty
Thursday, December 18
Tech Book Nostalgia
Tuesday, December 16
Meditations on Microsoft
Friday, December 12
Beta Means Beta
Thursday, December 11
The Memory Wall
Sunday, December 7
Updated iPhone Artwork Tool
Sunday, December 7
The Cloud's Dark Lining
Wednesday, December 3
November 2008
The Cloud's Spectrum
Sunday, November 30
Jazz: Juicing Up Nightingale
Wednesday, November 26
Statement of Policy
Monday, November 24
Echoes
Tuesday, November 18
Unsilence
Monday, November 17
July 2005
Long Time, No See
Monday, July 25
Partying at 299
Monday, July 25
May 2005
Heavy Destruction Land
Thursday, May 12
April 2005
Vertigo
Tuesday, April 26
Postings
Monday, April 25
March 2005
Number 6859909
Tuesday, March 1
February 2005
Slash Reich
Thursday, February 17
SF
Friday, February 11
Just a Theory
Wednesday, February 9
Delicious
Tuesday, February 8
Guiltied!
Monday, February 7
Cancelled
Friday, February 4
More Social Security
Tuesday, February 1
January 2005
Whither Driving Votes?
Monday, January 31
Bye Bye, MT
Friday, January 28
Metatechnicians
Friday, January 28
Iced In
Monday, January 24
Glass in a Cab
Sunday, January 23
One Damn Dime
Sunday, January 23
IRC?
Friday, January 21
Schizology
Friday, January 21
A$499 Mac?
Friday, January 14
Ceiling Bees
Thursday, January 13
How Not to Kayak
Thursday, January 13
Waikiki
Tuesday, January 11
December 2004
Australia!
Wednesday, December 22
Two Ways to Go
Tuesday, December 21
Blast From the Past
Monday, December 20
Epic
Friday, December 17
Music, Music, Music
Monday, December 13
One Click Away
Wednesday, December 8
November 2004
Music Wishlist
Monday, November 29
Bombs Away
Monday, November 22
DSandler Does Wordpress
Sunday, November 21
Using the Monster
Thursday, November 18
Delicious Library Review
Wednesday, November 17
Jesus Will Save You!
Wednesday, November 17
Spy Numbers
Friday, November 12
ICANN Domain Transfer Rules
Thursday, November 11
Bush Won
Monday, November 8
October 2004
Alternate Political Worlds
Friday, October 22
More Distortions, More Lies
Thursday, October 14
America's Wetlands
Friday, October 8
Chromeo Volcano
Monday, October 4
Decibel Festival Sets
Sunday, October 3
Photo Redux
Sunday, October 3
September 2004
Decibel
Monday, September 27
Election Tidbits
Thursday, September 9
Western Swing
Thursday, September 9
TBOG
Wednesday, September 8
PBCFT
Tuesday, September 7
August 2004
Choice Bits From McCain
Monday, August 30
Only a Hobo
Thursday, August 19
Hell's Belles and Jim McDermott Rock the Caravan Launch Party
Wednesday, August 18
Fifty-nine Story Crisis
Wednesday, August 11
The Mechanic
Monday, August 9
July 2004
Front Page, Above the Fold
Monday, July 26
Arrrgggch
Saturday, July 24
Driving Votes Update
Wednesday, July 21
Not a Commodity?
Tuesday, July 13
Fruit Fly Final Solution
Friday, July 9
Jazz Trumpet
Friday, July 9
June 2004
Driving Votes @ Alibi
Wednesday, June 30
Not Stolen
Wednesday, June 30
Seattle Public Library
Tuesday, June 29
Obligatory Cats
Thursday, June 24
May 2004
Miller Potter
Tuesday, May 11
April 2004
Driving Votes Nyc
Monday, April 26
Psychiatric Ward
Monday, April 26
Goings on in DrivingVotes-land
Friday, April 23
So That's What That Button Does
Friday, April 23
Rwanda, 10 Years Later
Wednesday, April 14
Yee-haw, Let's Drive Those Votes
Tuesday, April 13
March 2004
Nezvanova Awol
Wednesday, March 31
Downtime
Tuesday, March 30
Write Well, but Blog Good
Wednesday, March 24
Intensive Porpoises
Tuesday, March 9
Making End's Meat
Tuesday, March 9
February 2004
Sure, We Do That
Friday, February 27
Nellie Mckay
Thursday, February 26
Google
Friday, February 13
Arc
Monday, February 9
New Cans
Monday, February 2
Most Watched What?
Sunday, February 1
January 2004
Krugman on Bush
Friday, January 30
On the Sly
Friday, January 30
Stigma, Thy Name is Mac...
Friday, January 30
Weather Reversals
Tuesday, January 6
Trio of Haiku
Saturday, January 3
December 2003
Fiji Redux
Monday, December 22
Vectron Ultralite
Monday, December 22
November 2003
I'm Not in Fiji
Friday, November 21
South Pacific Here I Come
Thursday, November 20
One More Chain
Tuesday, November 18
Strong Bonds
Monday, November 17
Halloween and Turkey
Sunday, November 16
Star Power
Wednesday, November 12
Quantum What?
Sunday, November 9
Defeat is an Orphan
Wednesday, November 5
Avalon
Tuesday, November 4
Security
Sunday, November 2
October 2003
Son of Reich...
Friday, October 31
Harder Than It Looks
Wednesday, October 29
Search Inside the Book
Thursday, October 23
Once a Fissure
Monday, October 20
Danger is His Moniker
Wednesday, October 15
Shrinking Studios
Thursday, October 2
September 2003
Css Zen Garden
Tuesday, September 30
Recent Life
Sunday, September 21
Hurricane Hype
Friday, September 19
Fly Without ID
Thursday, September 18
Front Page Slashdot
Tuesday, September 16
Two Years Later
Thursday, September 11
Modalism & Women
Thursday, September 4
Moblog Road Trip
Tuesday, September 2
August 2003
On the Cusp: Distributed Source Control
Wednesday, August 27
Five Electronic Epics
Tuesday, August 26
Minidisc Mists of Time
Monday, August 25
Not Your Longhorn Ui
Wednesday, August 20
They Did What?
Wednesday, August 20
Adobe Entering the Audio Market?
Tuesday, August 19
What Speed Limit, Officer?
Saturday, August 16
Myst for Drug Addicts
Friday, August 15
Not Your John Hancock
Friday, August 15
I Now Have an RSS 2.0 Feed!
Tuesday, August 12
My RSS Feed Moved
Tuesday, August 12
Unassisted Triple Play
Tuesday, August 12
What Next?
Tuesday, August 12
September 2002
One year later
Wednesday, September 11
