i think i’m finally coming to terms with how you’re maybe having a hard time with this move. it hasn’t been super tough. you resisted our leaving the room at bedtime for the first couple of days, but…

Kyla Scanlon: How to Get Rich in America. A tragedy in five parts. Part four in particular reminded me of my own travails. Protesilaos: About desire, authenticity, and moderation. No notes. Dorothy…

A list of things I’m grateful for.

find relevant fragments then start with a line god is love and if god is love then who are you? are you being serious? other things said Dmadd2 Yesterday :: Saturday, 22nd August 2026 :: Tomorrow

What's going on I got a new water heater installed on Monday after discovering our old one had broken last Saturday. We're out $4000+ which I was not anticipating especially since I had to talk down…

Sun is shining! Clothes and my shoes are dry! Delivery guys are coming! Our sofa finally arrived!!!! Today is a holiday so me and r had no work today. We had a slow morning but the moment we made the…

Escape. My lease is up in a month, but I moved out last week. I am a pushover, most of the time. When it comes to asserting myself, I just kind of assume those who I'm opposing will just accept my…

Another unexciting update, but better than my usual flavour of excitement I suppose. TuesdayHad a quick chat with the oncologist looking after me while my regular one is on holiday....

Saturday. "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends" --Japanese proverb This is not a comprehensive list, and may be expanded in the future. Here are some friends that…

I won’t bury the lede: the Smolblog project is being shelved for the foreseeable future. I have a whole list of reasons why, but to sum up: The business model has no legs. The people who care…

A couple days ago, I had to poop. Naturally, I went to the bathroom, as I was taught long ago. But when I went to flush, my heart sunk, because my poop would not! Though I know little about the…

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished…

For the past couple of years, Beatrix has worked at the Rennaissance Festival, so we have not really gotten to go there as a family. She's gotten up early, slung chocolate all day (mmmm, that booth's…

in which our hero BEEEEEEEESSSS

My mom lived an amazing life. Multiple careers in two countries. Our family is small, but the extended family reaches all over the world. Her friends, her colleagues who turned into friends, her…

Brands, especially perfume brands, tend to do funny things. They release the same fragrance with different names in different regions. They take one specific base accord and build a dozen fragrances…

It’s been pretty quiet around here lately, hasn’t it? I’ve been spending all my free time on a new project involving… stationery! Check out the website and Instagram for more info.

Continuing week 2 of jotting down what I’ve been up to and thinking out loud. This is a bit of a brain dump on my blog so it can be...

At McKinsey, her job was helping companies transform: growth stories when the economy is good, layoffs and cost cutting when it is not. Quick wins sell best, because CEOs only get a few years in the…

this week i tried scheduling out my entire week in my calendar, down to the times i go to the gym or read. normally i wing that or have it scheduled in my mind, but i had a busy weekend and i wanted…

Worrying about things you have zero influence over is wasted energy. Put it into what you can actually change — and watch that circle grow.

Gifts don't need to be repaid — they need to be honoured, and where possible, passed forward. Anyone asking for repayment wasn't giving you a gift.

A personalized mRNA cancer treatment cleared Phase 3, GitHub lost 7 hours 47 minutes without deploying anything and I finally picked a fix for my generic posts.

For two months this summer, I was part of the CERN summer student program. Upon arrival, my supervisor tasked me with exploring possibilities to capture or push the boundaries of one of the…

I've had a lot going on recently. So much so that I'm questioning whether or not it's the right time to finally break the blogging streak. I think about this regularly, and tend to blog about it when…

Notes for week 34 of 2026

meta Monday was the day we said our goodbyes to Sammy. Luckily I had a fairly meeting-light day, and I was also able to shuffle some things around, so by 11am I was “working” but only on pretty easy…

I love admiring spaces and thinking about how they work but, when it comes to the physical spaces I use most or every day – my bedroom, my desk, my bookshelves – I haven’t spent as much time thinking…

I’ve been building software for so long that it became as natural as breathing to me. However, following my wife’s journey through her ceramics course made me realize I’ve only been creating…

tbc

Compiled entirely from public activity on meta.discourse.org, X, and GitHub. 💬 meta.discourse.org Sam shipped detailed admin-only AI logging for Discourse AI and clarified LLM setup,…

At the peak of my burnout in 2023, I wrote a note this note on my phone: “I want to wake up before the alarm rings. I want to wake up motivated and eager to work. I want to follow my morning routine:…

A person is known by the books he keeps Teams function better when members understand each other’s motivations and thought patterns. Why do we have a hard time understanding at work why our…

This has been a week , seriously. I feel like I've been playing catch up all week, especially with my blog posts, so I'm hoping I can do a better job of actually writing posts next week. Making No…

This was my first week back after a 3 week holiday, interrailing around Europe. It was great. I managed to not check work email, Slack or GitHub (helped by not being allowed to from abroad), or think…

It was one of those weeks where not a whole lot happened, but there were a few things that made it feel a little different from the usual. We had a farewell for a colleague this week, and for that we…

about my berlin apartment hunt journey, faith, facing the unknown one step at a time, and the sweet longing for home

Filling in on drums for another band’s private gig… had to learn like 30 songs in a week 😅 No pressure!

Big Skies A view of Brancaster beach that is almost painterly. Quote of the Day ”Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.” John Maynard Keynes (I think he also likened…

We went on vacation at the end of June which led to crazy hours catching up at work, along with tackling various other tasks at work. Hopefully I will rediscover a better balance by around Labor Day.…

Once upon a recently, my family held our every three-yearly get together. The designated location this year was Denver, home of my oldest sister, and within hootin’ distance of a few other…

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Working a lot, reading more mysteries and sci-fi, finishing Zelda, watching Traitors, and listening to Jungle.

I brought my longboard and big-wheel rollerblades with me to ride on the boardwalk with my family. My kids switched to biking and left rollerblading and scootering behind. I am the only one left who…

who would have thought socmed contributes to imposter syndrome?

It’s annoying how the work week routine bleeds into the weekend. 0630 on a Saturday, wide awake. No alarm, no reason, just habit robbing me of a glorious lie-in. The cat must have heard my breathing…

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