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2026-07-07

I’m now at Docker working on Policy. I like to think of this as my Government phase, which of course it‘s not despite the fact that I’m building “Governance.”

I recently let my personal Claude subscription lapse. I feel good about that. There‘s an alternate reality where utilizing Claude made me actually finish projects and ship them. The alt-alt reality is that I let Claude write a lot of code for me over the last year, and aside from screenshots, or perhaps video demos there’s a good chance you didn‘t see it. In other words I didn’t ship it anyway. The actual reality is that I‘ll be much happier writing code myself, for personal projects, that I don’t actually ship. This is (obviously) the way it‘s always been, and the way it probably always will be.

After years of more or less not ever sharing photos, I joined Glass. As a Leica M shooter, I was looking for some inspiration one day and stumbled upon Om's (RIP) argument on the M being a great landscape camera. I noticed he was also on Glass, and after looking into it, checking out a podcast the founder was on, it seemed to align well with my thoughts on what a community could be. Let’s see how it goes.

2026-03-19

I‘ve resigned from StrongDM. I’m still Wearing the T-Shirt, but it‘s another case of being unsure about working for the acquiring company, so bouncing for another opportunity. You won’t believe what‘s happening next, is the hype-line I’ll provide, for now.

Notes on not Looking at the Code talks about a recent shift in work style. The Lemons shift is happening rapidly, almost forcing me to, at least professionally, buy into the hype. I‘ll confess that I am an Anthropic subscriber, personally, on the cheapest plan. I do use it to “vibe code” some things that unlock something else for my short attention span. That’s actually been helpful at getting other things done.

I‘m working on a zine about Non-Human Identities. That’s led to me pulling out an old project, “ballpoint,” and updating it so that it‘s more Processing like. It was originally based on the excellent gg library, but now depends only on the Go stdlib and some golang/x libraries. The goal is to write some programs to generate some background images for pages, and such.

Of course, the renewed interest in ballpoint put another idea I had front and center so I’ve been working on that, too. That‘ll likely become an essay shortly. Maybe the work is good enough to print? Dunno.

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