It was the 23rd of August 2016 when the three of us in this household packed up and began our trek from NSW (where all of us where born and...

Over the past four years, I’ve been slowly separating my work from my Bullet Journal. In today’s corporate world, with all the concerns around intellectual property (IP) and AI, I feel it is wise to…

While corresponding recently with a friend of Elisa's about the celebration of life I'm planning, I happened to formulate the following phrase: "the best way to grieve is to give". Although I doubt…

The skills that made you a great engineering manager quietly become liabilities the day you start leading other managers. Here's the second identity shift nobody warns you about.

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about increasing focus in my career. If you haven’t read and/or don’t feel like reading that post, the tl;dr of it is that for a couple of years, I’ve been…

This week, a friend shared how he learned what to look for in a relationship. It was way back in college. He’s now married with kids. One day, he saw an attractive girl on campus and stared. An older…

I try not to give a lot of prescriptive advice about working in tech companies 1 . There are many ways to be successful, and every company works differently. If you’re shipping projects and your…

I had two weeks of a Claude Max subscription left and tried to make it pay for itself. That made me anxious. Then I spent the rest rebuilding the tools I use every day, the way I'd always wanted…

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week. Things I consumed Kagi is adding functionality to remove paywalled sites from web searches. Although I do think paying for news and journalism…

It has been a while since I have written about how I use Emacs/LaTeX to generate lesson notes for my students. Quite a lot has happened during that time. One of the main game changers has been the…

No need to lay low. Follow the flow. // Cal recordar cada dia que ets especial. Com el protagonista de cada novela que llegia, t’has de sentir així d’especial. Ara n’hi diuen…

Moving into our own home turned out to be much harder than expected—from carrying boxes and changing addresses to fixing our old flat. But after all the work, we couldn't be happier.

I have been blogging for more than half a decade now, and I feel it's important that I document/share my financial position, especially since I remain anonymous and I wish to remain that way.…

i hate how much i crave attention. i hate how it's still at my core th reason i do things. like yes i write for myself and i don't cater to others with my writing but i still am motivated by…

My kids have already been in school for a week because the school board decided to start the year two weeks earlier than last year, just stealing two weeks of the summer break that we can never get…

The little things mail club theme is here, with a gratefulness worksheet on the back of the postcard! Only available for the month of August!☕1 week left! ♡(*´︶`*人) patreon.com/chibird

Sam posted this on his blog (RSS feed) in the context of “AI” code review comments, but is broadly applicable: I wish people would just go back to being themselves. By Ruben Schade in…

Hi Nala, I miss you more than I ever thought I might. You’ve strangely been gone for four long months yet they feel so short, too. In fact, it sort of feels like yesterday that we got home in…

Up to the shops, a barramundi for dinner and fresh bread for the weekend. Home again over the bridge. Same trip I’ve been doing for years. Sadly, same driver behaviour. Angry old mate in a…

Today i learned that re-reading books can be a stim. Mind? Blown. Also, the last couple years, i keep learning things that point toward me probably being autistic. Might need to start looking into…

🚩 Disclaimer: The following is a daft, dream-like set of alternative Schrödinger-cat universe conversations where body language lost in translation and consistently unmet personal development…

August 21 2026 - 15:11 Last (or second last if I somehow do 1 tomorrow morning) one before Nashville. I realized I can just put some flat shit underneath this…

I’m always proud that I try my best. I try my best to build what I build in the best way possible. I try my best to succeed in life, to survive, to learn, and to take advantage of…

This morning I found that my 17-year-old declawed, arthritic, blind cat who’s missing 9 teeth managed to catch and kill a mouse. I really don’t like that this is the second mouse we’ve had in the…

happy friday imaginary constructs

Good Grief! I walked into Lowes in Kahului, Maui a couple of days ago and was greeted with this assortment of scary accessories. Halloween is still another two and half...

I haven't been able to sit and write what I want at all this week! So I did a short ramble about that, also Outer Wilds.

This week I have learned: The week in media: Saw Read Listened Next week: Some questions to answer. The week in photos:

eBookDaily is offering a free Kindle download of my historical novel The Tern Schooner. This is happening only today, 21 August, so get a-clickin’!

just a quick update about how it’s going… I’ve started working again this week after a 2 week holiday break and it has been HARD. I’m still waiting for my rheumatology appointment on the 1st of…

God’s Sovereign Plans Behind Your Most Unproductive Days / In My Father’s School Are Many Classrooms / Dads: When You Stumble, Stumble Forward / The Weight of Glory / What New Opportunities and…

Read on for all the details about my next book!

...Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store let's talk about what happens in 365 days. that is, it's been 365 days since…

My wife and I arrived to pick our daughter up from cheerleading practice but, since we were early, decided to use the extra time to take our dog for a walk. Looking at the fields where two hundred…

The other day I asked my husband when he was going on his work trip. He said, "Why?" I told him I just wanted to know, but I could tell he felt suspicious cause I normally never ask him about his…

I’m writing this on a Friday morning, a time I normally block off for editing the weekly MacStories member newsletter. A creature of habit, I find routines both comforting and very hard to break,…

i am tired. i used to be used to this tho, like, before i moved out of my mom's home. the constant tension, alertness and feelings of being dismissed were my norm. i didn't even realize it was like…

i have spectacularly failed the challenge and have toyed with the idea of deleting old posts, pretending it had never happened. nobody would know... i wonder why it feels so vulnerable to fail…

From the August 19, 2026, issue of my This Week in Sound email newsletter: ▰ In a Pickle I can hear what’s happening behind that fence long before I see it: the pops, plinks, thwacks and smacks of…

An August 12, 2026 notice (received via email) for Vancouver’s next AI community meetup promotes an upcoming August 2026 meeting on this event page, Taleeb Noormohamed, eh? This description of M.…

I'm angry. I hate writing when I'm angry. I think it makes me too emotional, too attached to copy and most importantly makes my brain move too fast having ideas pop up and die before I can…

I recently got a marketing email that suggested that I put this prompt into ChatGPT: Tell me about author Robert J. McCarter. What do they write? Who are their books for? What themes come up in their…

Effective immediately I’ve chosen to walk away from my co-hosting duties on NPC: Next Portable Console. It’s been an absolute pleasure working on the show, and I’ve deeply loved discussing...

I was traveling yesterday and so didn't get a chance to write about this right away. Shams broke the news on Wednesday evening:Cavaliers receive: Peyton Watson, Cam Whitmore, 2027 2ndClippers…

My daughter collected her GCSEs yesterday and, having successfully achieved the requisite grades for her choice of course, is going to college* in September. This isn’t really my news to share,…

Everyone wants a glamorous job. This naturally means that a lot of people are willing to compete for it; some people will even do it for free, as a hobby.  When people are used to getting…

It’s been four years since I talked to you. I wonder if you would still be here if I had paused my life and put all my energy into helping you get back on your feet. Confused about my own life’s…

Social media, influencers and endless self-improvement

When HOA Enforcement Starts to Feel Personal Just when I thought my HOA story couldn't get any more ridiculous, another warning letter arrived. This time? My fence. A fence that was installed in…

Well, Hawaii is a senior now. I don't know if this is a national trend, but being a senior here comes with far more rituals and traditions than it did when I was a senior in high school. (For…