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We just finished the 16th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. In those 16 years, the class has gone from a radic...

Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad… and How Great Companies Stay Great, by Eric Ries. Every once in a while a b...

We just wrapped up our Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. This was the 11th year we’ve taught Hacking for Defense...

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced Permalink to section 'Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced' # Casset...

Maternal Uncle's Funeral Permalink to section 'Maternal Uncle's Funeral' # On 21 May 2026, we received the news that ...

My journey at 42 the computer science school is coming to an end. On 14 May 2026, the staff of my local campus of 42 ...

The blog now shows the text of a footnote when you hover over its citation number, so you can read a reference withou...

Subsea internet cables carry 99 percent of transoceanic digital traffic.1 Financial transactions, diplomatic communic...

Iran’s HTTP requests from February 24 to March 8, 2026 from the perspective of Cloudflare. Courtesy of Cloudflare Rad...

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover...

Pallet Wood Crafting Table One of my favorite YouTube channels is EpicUpCycling. If you don't know it, check it out. ...

Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail My inbox is a mess. While I manage to maintain a somewhat close to “Inbox Zero” at w...

Sometimes I want to do an exercise and record it in MapMyFitness, but MapMyFitness doesn’t have that particular exerc...

Since it was just released, there’s been a lot of press and blog posts around the web about the new screenless Google...

Most people’s health goals involve some sort of number. Weigh less than this number. Get cholesterol under that numbe...

Last month, thieves tried to steal my bike before a shopkeeper shooed them off. They mangled my bike lock, so I got a...

Last month, thieves tried to steal my bike before a shopkeeper shooed them off. They mangled my bike lock, so I got a...

This is the traffic to All About Berlin, the website that I run since 2017, and live from since 2020. After 7 years o...

Back in November of 2024, my father (who is now 86) moved in with us. We are lucky enough to have a house with a base...

Last month I had the opportunity to attend an event hosted by Omnistrate at the Amazon office on Market Street in San...

Wow. I really didn’t expect my post about being fired from AWS to get as much traction as it did, but verklempt doesn...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

A travel journal from my visit to Melbourne, Australia.

A travel journal from my visit to Kaikōura, New Zealand.

A travel journal from my visit to Tasman-Marlborough, New Zealand.

Salutations, friends! It has been a time since I’ve had the notion of treating ChaoticanWriter.com as a place to talk...

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

Checking how ZFS compares against ext4 for my NAS, with an encrypted RAID1 array.

Calculating checksum of files accross nested directories, and verifying them, without any custom scripts.

`#` starts a comment in Bash, but not always. A small quirk with a clear rule.

Building agents is fun. Rebuilding agents that break themselves… less so. A lot of Fly people are building agents wit...

Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...

I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s...

Step-by-step guide to opening EML email files on every platform — in Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or directly in...

How to read any VCF or vCard file without saving contacts to your address book — on Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android, or...

A practical guide to combining ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Notion AI, and other LLM tools with your email — and how Emai...

Exporting Project Files into a Markdown Document with Bash

Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron

Electron Resources

Work-in-Progress.

Or, why almost-human is worse than not-human at all.

Today, we are co-living with some form of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and we cannot ignore this digital realm anymore.

Last weekend, I updated and rebooted the system, but it did not come back online. Checking with IPMI revealed that th...

Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve seen automation evolve from a nice-to-have to a non-negotiable part of how organi...

Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve been lucky enough to work across many roles and industries. In that time, I’ve al...

I have a handful of games that need completing. This is my Summer Game Challenge for 2026.

This post is about brand loyalty and how the magic of marketing and public relations often hides a rancid base note.

A review of Rolling Thunder, the 1986 NAMCO arcade platformer, in which I praise everything about the game.

I have a handful of games that need completing. This is my Summer Game Challenge for 2026.

This post is about brand loyalty and how the magic of marketing and public relations often hides a rancid base note.

A review of Rolling Thunder, the 1986 NAMCO arcade platformer, in which I praise everything about the game.

LLMs are changing how we write, communicate, and evaluate information, but many submission and proposal processes are...

A smarter way to manage and distribute your app promo codes with the all-new Promies. Effortlessly build customizable...

Read-only is great, but editing is better. The latest update to Pale Blue Spring Admin introduces full CRUD functiona...