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My Dream Static Website Generator

I’m on the hunt for a simple tool to build simple websites. In my last post I explained a bit about what I mean by that and why I find the existing options unsatisfactory.…

There Is So Much Low Hanging Fruit In Web Development

I am perpetually annoyed at how frustrating it is to build simple websites. Fair warning, this post is a bit ranty. I will explore technical solutions to these problems in a…

Ethics Are Missing From Software Development

There is something conspicuously missing from software development education. As developers, we learn all about how to write, organize, design, share, use, and test…

Building A Fast Command Line App With Clojure

Originally published on February 18, 2021

I Need People

This is the second post in a series about things the 2020 pandemic has taught me. The first was that journalism is important. This one is about appreciating my friends and…

America Is A Scam

I just came across this TikTok video on Twitter and it broke my heart. It’s a woman crying, utterly dismayed at how unfair life is, begging the totally legitimate question…

Becoming A Software Developer

I get asked a lot for advice on becoming a software developer. I didn’t study anything related to software in university, but now it’s what I do for a living. I also spent…

What I Use Now Instead Of Google

I made a goal for myself in January 2020 to stop using Google products by the end of the year. That might sound like way too generous a timeline, but Google owned pretty…

2020 Year In Review

I’m really excited that 2020 is over! This was the hardest year of my life so far. It was also the first one that was worse and not better than all the previous ones, which…

How To Set Up Codecov For a Clojure Deps Project

Update: I recently switched to using Github Actions to run my tests because I started getting git auth failures trying to fetch git deps on CircleCI. Learning the random…

How To Set Up Your Own Nextcloud Server

One of my goals for 2020 was to stop using Google’s products. There are a lot of reasons why, but that’s not the point of this post. I found out about Nextcloud last month…

BarCamp Philly 2020

A stellar example of virtual conferencing done well

I went to a virtual conference this weekend called BarCamp Philly and had a really good time. The way they ran the conference was new to me. They somehow made the experience…

Christianese For Outsiders

When I started hanging in out in religious circles in my late twenties for the first time in my life, I had a lot to learn. Not just about the diversity and depth of…

Journalism Is Important

This is the first post in a series on things the 2020 pandemic has taught me. It’s been by far the weirdest and hardest thing I’ve experienced so far in my life. It was a…

An Atheist Tries Religion

I grew up as an outsider to religion. I never considered it a worthwhile pursuit and spent quite a few years as an outspoken critic. As an adult I began to explore it for…

The Life You Can Save

What are our ethical obligations to each other? It’s a complicated question. Living in a civilised society implies abiding by a set of shared rules. Some are explicit like…

Why Are Websites So Complicated Now?

I first got into programming because I wanted to make my own websites. Back then all it took was two files, an index.html and a style sheet. I recently decided to take up…

Searching for Sunday

What is the point of going to church? I ask myself this question weekly. I didn’t grow up going to any sort of regular religious services, but I’m becoming increasingly…

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