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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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