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Updated April 8, 2025
My name is Gabriel Garrido and I was born in Costa Rica. I write software and dabble in some other things that I am interested in. For a more up to date summary of what I’m doing to these days, check out my now page. Software -------- I have messed with computers and technology since I was a kid, though usually in a light and playful manner. Months before starting college I was bored and learned how to build websites. This decision ended up being life-changing for someone who was truly clueless about his later prospects in life. I was fascinated by the _permissionless_ nature of it all, and found myself employed before starting school. And so, I have been writing software professionally since then. Music ----- I took piano lessons for nearly twelve years. I did not enjoy it much at first, but soon after it became a cornerstone in my life. Fast forward to some years ago, I started to play with synthesizers and audio production. This revitalized my musical aspirations in all sorts of ways. The wide, wonderful world of electronic music consumed me. I compose music at times, particularly ambient. Ecology, permaculture, and agroecology -------------------------------------- Over the past 5 years permaculture and agroecology have become some of my main areas of interest. Back in 2019 I intended to take the Permaculture Design Course at Rancho Mastatal but it was already full when I decided to sign up. Keen on getting my hands dirty and immersing myself in these matters, I signed up for a course on syntropic agriculture1 instead. Despite being a complete beginner on agriculture and agroecology, this turned out to be my closest encounter with serendipity. I left the course determined to explore this path. Since then, I’ve continued to engage with the permaculture community in Costa Rica and participated in other courses like permaculture design, tropical agroforestry, and syntropic agriculture (again!). I’m excited to start my own project this year. Life ---- I have a wonderful labrador/pointer mix called Mila. I adopted her amidst the euphoria of Costa Rica advancing to quarter-finals back in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Costa Rica did not make it past Netherlands, and I soon learned first-hand about the challenges of raising a pup. She’s now nine years old and getting more white-haired by the month, though still much a puppy in spirit. She’s taught me so much about all sorts of things. Follow ------ You can email me at hello@garrido.io and follow me in the Fediverse at ggpsv@social.coop. You can subscribe to this blog using RSS. Check out the different feeds available. Elsewhere: * I comment infrequently in HackerNews and Lobsters as @ggpsv. * I’m in Keybase as @ggpsv. I also keep a blogroll and a link blog, wherein I share articles and websites that I find interesting.
My name is Gabriel Garrido and I was born in Costa Rica. I write software and dabble in some other things that I am interested in. For a more up to date summary of what I’m doing to these days, check out my now page. Software -------- I have messed with computers and technology since I was a kid, though usually in a light and playful manner. Months before starting college I was bored and learned how to build websites. This decision ended up being life-changing for someone who was truly clueless about his later prospects in life. I was fascinated by the _permissionless_ nature of it all, and found myself employed before starting school. And so, I have been writing software professionally since then. Music ----- I took piano lessons for nearly twelve years. I did not enjoy it much at first, but soon after it became a cornerstone in my life. Fast forward to some years ago, I started to play with synthesizers and audio production. This revitalized my musical aspirations in all sorts of ways. The wide, wonderful world of electronic music consumed me. I compose music at times, particularly ambient. Ecology, permaculture, and agroecology -------------------------------------- Over the past 5 years permaculture and agroecology have become some of my main areas of interest. Back in 2019 I intended to take the Permaculture Design Course at Rancho Mastatal but it was already full when I decided to sign up. Keen on getting my hands dirty and immersing myself in these matters, I signed up for a course on syntropic agriculture1 instead. Despite being a complete beginner on agriculture and agroecology, this turned out to be my closest encounter with serendipity. I left the course determined to explore this path. Since then, I’ve continued to engage with the permaculture community in Costa Rica and participated in other courses like permaculture design, tropical agroforestry, and syntropic agriculture (again!). I’m excited to start my own project this year. Life ---- I have a wonderful labrador/pointer mix called Mila. I adopted her amidst the euphoria of Costa Rica advancing to quarter-finals back in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Costa Rica did not make it past Netherlands, and I soon learned first-hand about the challenges of raising a pup. She’s now nine years old and getting more white-haired by the month, though still much a puppy in spirit. She’s taught me so much about all sorts of things. Follow ------ You can email me at hello@garrido.io and follow me in the Fediverse at ggpsv@social.coop. You can subscribe to this blog using RSS. Check out the different feeds available. Elsewhere: * I comment infrequently in HackerNews and Lobsters as @ggpsv. * I’m in Keybase as @ggpsv. I also keep a blogroll and a link blog, wherein I share articles and websites that I find interesting.
joemoe.win
/now
Updated April 7, 2025
> millennials going through their fourth once in a lifetime economic recession #WhiteLotus #TheWhiteLotus > > — T (@teewatterss.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T12:25:40.290Z ### What I’m up to lately * Spring is springing! I’m very excited about the warmer temperatures and more outside time. * My blog is underway and I’m really enjoying the new outlet to express ideas, document interesting project work, or simply reflect on personal things. Blogging has been around since the dawn of the internet, but I never got into it. Maybe I didn’t have anything to say until now. * Since I’m using Obsidian to manage content on this website, I’ve moved my personal collection of lists and notes there as well. I’ve been playing with the tool a lot over the years—moving my lists to Notion and back trying to decide which one is best for my needs. The direct ownership and longevity of markdown files has (yet again) won me over. This personal collection of lists is very valuable to me and I’m happy with using Obsidian going forward. * My son has been really into pirates. I made a treasure map for him out of some scrap packaging material and it’s been a big hit. Last week we watched _Muppet Treasure Island_ together. So freaking good. * I’m continuing to mess with this website and been absolutely loving it. The guy who maintains Blot is super responsive and the community is very active. This is a /now page, updated April 9, 2025.
> millennials going through their fourth once in a lifetime economic recession #WhiteLotus #TheWhiteLotus > > — T (@teewatterss.bsky.social) 2025-04-07T12:25:40.290Z ### What I’m up to lately * Spring is springing! I’m very excited about the warmer temperatures and more outside time. * My blog is underway and I’m really enjoying the new outlet to express ideas, document interesting project work, or simply reflect on personal things. Blogging has been around since the dawn of the internet, but I never got into it. Maybe I didn’t have anything to say until now. * Since I’m using Obsidian to manage content on this website, I’ve moved my personal collection of lists and notes there as well. I’ve been playing with the tool a lot over the years—moving my lists to Notion and back trying to decide which one is best for my needs. The direct ownership and longevity of markdown files has (yet again) won me over. This personal collection of lists is very valuable to me and I’m happy with using Obsidian going forward. * My son has been really into pirates. I made a treasure map for him out of some scrap packaging material and it’s been a big hit. Last week we watched _Muppet Treasure Island_ together. So freaking good. * I’m continuing to mess with this website and been absolutely loving it. The guy who maintains Blot is super responsive and the community is very active. This is a /now page, updated April 9, 2025.
colleenrobb.com
/about
Updated April 3, 2025
Design Thinking Lesson in 60 Minutes ------------------------------------ Design thinking is a skill that is arguably taught over several weeks and experiences. I was able to dig up a fantastic resource from Stanford that introduces students to the process in \[…\] Entrepreneurship or College? ---------------------------- I’ve been getting this question a lot lately, so I thought it was worth a post. Before we get going, this is my opinion on an undergraduate degree. My thoughts about this \[…\] Don’t Listen To Your Friends ---------------------------- I don’t ask my friends and family what they think of this blog. If you have a product or service you want to demo, you don’t want to ask your family and friends \[…\] A Fun (and Somewhat Sneaky) Way to Get Real Feedback on Your Class ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sure, we all have formal Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs), but how many students think deeply about what they score and what they write? In a recent article by the American Association \[…\] How to Be Sure Your Students Interview Customers ------------------------------------------------ As a college professor, I always want to trust my students do what they say they do. Unfortunately, I can’t. In a 2017 survey by Kessler International, 86% of college students admitted \[…\] The Easiest and Stupidest Way To Name Your Company -------------------------------------------------- As an entrepreneurship professor, every semester I have about 20-30 student teams developing concepts and the first big question they struggle with is: What should we name our company? While there are \[…\] Three Resources to Get Started On Your Pitch Deck – Two are Free ---------------------------------------------------------------- As you may have read in my previous post The Business Plan is Dead, the pitch deck is the key to garnering an investor’s attention. If you cannot tell your story in \[…\] Five Small Details That Give Your Investor Pitch an Edge -------------------------------------------------------- It’s the big day. You and your partners have prepared your slide deck, you have your executive summary printed, and are ready to share your amazing investment opportunity. Here are five simple tips that \[…\] How to Build a Financial Model – The Best Tool Ever --------------------------------------------------- If you’ve read my previous post on unit economics you know how important assumptions are in building a financial model for your business. However, building assumptions into a financial model requires some strong \[…\] Seven Deadly Sins of Pitching ----------------------------- There are certainly more than just seven mistakes that you can make when pitching to investors, but these seven could definitely be the nail in the coffin that prevents you from getting \[…\] Mistakes Pitching Investors – Five Examples from a Recent VC/Angel Conference (Part One of Two) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week, I attended a venture capital (VC)/angel investor conference in the Bay Area and part of the event involved entrepreneurs pitching their concepts to a panel of VCs and angels. I was \[…\] One SIMPLE Way To IMPROVE The Way You Talk About Your Business: The First Question Test --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is one of my favorite exercises for entrepreneurs. In nearly every single case, this simple exercise will help improve just about any kind of introduction for a business (it works for salespeople \[…\] 10 Phrases to Delete From Your Business Plan NOW ------------------------------------------------ After over fifteen years of working with entrepreneurs, investors, and professors in the realm of entrepreneurship, new ventures, and business plans; I’ve learned there are some very simple, yet devastating red flags that \[…\] Get Your Students to Text During Class – No, Seriously! ------------------------------------------------------- Ah, the common problems of cell phones in class. We seem to have all become somewhat addicted to our phones. A recent study actually found that female college students, in particular, spend \[…\] Over 20 Surprising Spelling Mistakes from College Seniors --------------------------------------------------------- Can you spell graduation without a computer? A college senior probably couldn’t. I remember what shocked me the most when I began teaching college students – their poor grammar and spelling skills. \[…\]
Design Thinking Lesson in 60 Minutes ------------------------------------ Design thinking is a skill that is arguably taught over several weeks and experiences. I was able to dig up a fantastic resource from Stanford that introduces students to the process in \[…\] Entrepreneurship or College? ---------------------------- I’ve been getting this question a lot lately, so I thought it was worth a post. Before we get going, this is my opinion on an undergraduate degree. My thoughts about this \[…\] Don’t Listen To Your Friends ---------------------------- I don’t ask my friends and family what they think of this blog. If you have a product or service you want to demo, you don’t want to ask your family and friends \[…\] A Fun (and Somewhat Sneaky) Way to Get Real Feedback on Your Class ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sure, we all have formal Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs), but how many students think deeply about what they score and what they write? In a recent article by the American Association \[…\] How to Be Sure Your Students Interview Customers ------------------------------------------------ As a college professor, I always want to trust my students do what they say they do. Unfortunately, I can’t. In a 2017 survey by Kessler International, 86% of college students admitted \[…\] The Easiest and Stupidest Way To Name Your Company -------------------------------------------------- As an entrepreneurship professor, every semester I have about 20-30 student teams developing concepts and the first big question they struggle with is: What should we name our company? While there are \[…\] Three Resources to Get Started On Your Pitch Deck – Two are Free ---------------------------------------------------------------- As you may have read in my previous post The Business Plan is Dead, the pitch deck is the key to garnering an investor’s attention. If you cannot tell your story in \[…\] Five Small Details That Give Your Investor Pitch an Edge -------------------------------------------------------- It’s the big day. You and your partners have prepared your slide deck, you have your executive summary printed, and are ready to share your amazing investment opportunity. Here are five simple tips that \[…\] How to Build a Financial Model – The Best Tool Ever --------------------------------------------------- If you’ve read my previous post on unit economics you know how important assumptions are in building a financial model for your business. However, building assumptions into a financial model requires some strong \[…\] Seven Deadly Sins of Pitching ----------------------------- There are certainly more than just seven mistakes that you can make when pitching to investors, but these seven could definitely be the nail in the coffin that prevents you from getting \[…\] Mistakes Pitching Investors – Five Examples from a Recent VC/Angel Conference (Part One of Two) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week, I attended a venture capital (VC)/angel investor conference in the Bay Area and part of the event involved entrepreneurs pitching their concepts to a panel of VCs and angels. I was \[…\] One SIMPLE Way To IMPROVE The Way You Talk About Your Business: The First Question Test --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is one of my favorite exercises for entrepreneurs. In nearly every single case, this simple exercise will help improve just about any kind of introduction for a business (it works for salespeople \[…\] 10 Phrases to Delete From Your Business Plan NOW ------------------------------------------------ After over fifteen years of working with entrepreneurs, investors, and professors in the realm of entrepreneurship, new ventures, and business plans; I’ve learned there are some very simple, yet devastating red flags that \[…\] Get Your Students to Text During Class – No, Seriously! ------------------------------------------------------- Ah, the common problems of cell phones in class. We seem to have all become somewhat addicted to our phones. A recent study actually found that female college students, in particular, spend \[…\] Over 20 Surprising Spelling Mistakes from College Seniors --------------------------------------------------------- Can you spell graduation without a computer? A college senior probably couldn’t. I remember what shocked me the most when I began teaching college students – their poor grammar and spelling skills. \[…\]
isthisit.nz
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Updated April 3, 2025
Analog Photography Assistant - Beta Testing ------------------------------------------- Over the last six months I have been developing an Android app to aid in my film photography. I now use it every time I go out shooting and am making it free for everyone to use. * * * Scanning Film Negatives \[Melbourne XII\] ----------------------------------------- I get my film developed at a local film lab and scan the negatives myself at home. The scanning setup is simple. I suspend the … * * * Melbourne Photography XI ------------------------ There’s an urban wasteland walking distance from the Melbourne central business district. No, not Elizabeth Street, but an in-between … * * * Maniototo Cartography --------------------- The Maniototo is a region made of plains and mountains in the South Island of New Zealand. As names go, through to the … * * * Hypernormalised Language ------------------------ Normalised language is loose convention across prose, narrative form, formality, and conciseness in text we write. Academic papers, professional writing, advertising, group chats, and workplace chats all have different forms of normalisation. Texts can also be normalised by the way they look – … * * *
Analog Photography Assistant - Beta Testing ------------------------------------------- Over the last six months I have been developing an Android app to aid in my film photography. I now use it every time I go out shooting and am making it free for everyone to use. * * * Scanning Film Negatives \[Melbourne XII\] ----------------------------------------- I get my film developed at a local film lab and scan the negatives myself at home. The scanning setup is simple. I suspend the … * * * Melbourne Photography XI ------------------------ There’s an urban wasteland walking distance from the Melbourne central business district. No, not Elizabeth Street, but an in-between … * * * Maniototo Cartography --------------------- The Maniototo is a region made of plains and mountains in the South Island of New Zealand. As names go, through to the … * * * Hypernormalised Language ------------------------ Normalised language is loose convention across prose, narrative form, formality, and conciseness in text we write. Academic papers, professional writing, advertising, group chats, and workplace chats all have different forms of normalisation. Texts can also be normalised by the way they look – … * * *
annafilou.com
/now
Updated April 2, 2025
* * * Previously ---------- ### April 2nd, 2025 I uploaded an overview of the work I’ve done at Shopflix for the past couple of years. I’ve been meaning to do that for over a year and finally carved out the time to. It’s hard to distill years of work into a concise overview (I might trim it further) and it’s even harder when you’re under an NDA (I was very inspired by this designer’s approach). And since I was at it, I thought: why not also write something about my LGBT myths project? (Because who needs sleep?) In unrelated news, I’m happy my sudden spike of acne is going away after applying an Azelaic acid cream for over a week. ### March 1st, 2025 I made a single-page Progressive Web App (PWA)! It works offline and solves a real issue for me so I’m overjoyed! I call it Calorie Grid and the idea’s been in my head for years. Now thanks to LLMs like Claude but also being more knowledgeable about JavaScript, I was able to build it in a bit over a day. It’s already taught me a lot about JS, but more importantly it’s shown me the importance of understanding every single line of code an LLM writes for you. I knew that already, but it’s painful to try to make a small change yourself only to realize your assumption about how the system works was extremely wrong. Lesson learned! ### January 21st, 2025 Pushing quality of life updates to my website. Check out the loading animation on the homepage! Granted, I copied this awesome animation from Codepen, but it was a great opportunity to learn how to make it fade out smoothly, how to make sure it doesn’t appear if the JS doesn’t load, how to avoid a flash of the page underneath before the loader appears … and to familiarize myself with Cursor! ### December 31st, 2024 Not sure how to feel about Arcane Season 2. I finished it a few days ago and can’t get it out of my head. On one hand, a lot of the things I wanted to happen did; but the way everything was handled made the world and the characters within it feel less… real, compared to Season 1 → smaller emotional investment. S2 felt more like a “videogame adaptation”, whereas S1 felt like a standalone storytelling masterpiece that I’d recommend to anyone. I still liked it, but the closure felt incomplete because the focus shifted. ### December 1st, 2024 Spent the weekend designing and coding a huge overhaul of my website’s homepage and navigation. Feedback from a third party drove me to acknowledge the shortcomings I had already noticed, but wished weren’t so bad. It was the small push I needed to make some big changes I’ve had in the back of my mind for a long time. The thing now is that the other pages look stale (to me) by comparison, and I can’t wait to update them too! ### November 29th, 2024 After years of knowing I should, I added a “Skip to content” link to my website. I’m not sure why I put it off for so long. I kinda thought it would take a long time to implement, but it took < 5 minutes… Now if anyone uses a keyboard to navigate my website, they won’t have to tab through 8 (!) nav links to get to the main content! ### October 9th, 2024 This weekend, I pushed a big update to my website’s homepage, regarding how I show previews of the projects I’ve worked on! Read about it here. I also wrote a manual for working with me after coming across manualof.me! ### May 23rd, 2024 I used ChatGPT + 5 hours to make a Chrome extension that turns my new tab into a grid with bookmarks that can be put into sections! It’s live in the Chrome Web Store! I’m very excited about it because it’s crazy to me how limited the default browser new tabs are regarding how they handle bookmarks and I’ve wanted an alternative for so long! * * * Note ---- I’ve been writing updates on my `/now` page for a much longer time, and regret that I haven’t been keeping a running log since the beginning. I could theoretically go over all my GitHub commits to populate this page and might do just that at some point.
* * * Previously ---------- ### April 2nd, 2025 I uploaded an overview of the work I’ve done at Shopflix for the past couple of years. I’ve been meaning to do that for over a year and finally carved out the time to. It’s hard to distill years of work into a concise overview (I might trim it further) and it’s even harder when you’re under an NDA (I was very inspired by this designer’s approach). And since I was at it, I thought: why not also write something about my LGBT myths project? (Because who needs sleep?) In unrelated news, I’m happy my sudden spike of acne is going away after applying an Azelaic acid cream for over a week. ### March 1st, 2025 I made a single-page Progressive Web App (PWA)! It works offline and solves a real issue for me so I’m overjoyed! I call it Calorie Grid and the idea’s been in my head for years. Now thanks to LLMs like Claude but also being more knowledgeable about JavaScript, I was able to build it in a bit over a day. It’s already taught me a lot about JS, but more importantly it’s shown me the importance of understanding every single line of code an LLM writes for you. I knew that already, but it’s painful to try to make a small change yourself only to realize your assumption about how the system works was extremely wrong. Lesson learned! ### January 21st, 2025 Pushing quality of life updates to my website. Check out the loading animation on the homepage! Granted, I copied this awesome animation from Codepen, but it was a great opportunity to learn how to make it fade out smoothly, how to make sure it doesn’t appear if the JS doesn’t load, how to avoid a flash of the page underneath before the loader appears … and to familiarize myself with Cursor! ### December 31st, 2024 Not sure how to feel about Arcane Season 2. I finished it a few days ago and can’t get it out of my head. On one hand, a lot of the things I wanted to happen did; but the way everything was handled made the world and the characters within it feel less… real, compared to Season 1 → smaller emotional investment. S2 felt more like a “videogame adaptation”, whereas S1 felt like a standalone storytelling masterpiece that I’d recommend to anyone. I still liked it, but the closure felt incomplete because the focus shifted. ### December 1st, 2024 Spent the weekend designing and coding a huge overhaul of my website’s homepage and navigation. Feedback from a third party drove me to acknowledge the shortcomings I had already noticed, but wished weren’t so bad. It was the small push I needed to make some big changes I’ve had in the back of my mind for a long time. The thing now is that the other pages look stale (to me) by comparison, and I can’t wait to update them too! ### November 29th, 2024 After years of knowing I should, I added a “Skip to content” link to my website. I’m not sure why I put it off for so long. I kinda thought it would take a long time to implement, but it took < 5 minutes… Now if anyone uses a keyboard to navigate my website, they won’t have to tab through 8 (!) nav links to get to the main content! ### October 9th, 2024 This weekend, I pushed a big update to my website’s homepage, regarding how I show previews of the projects I’ve worked on! Read about it here. I also wrote a manual for working with me after coming across manualof.me! ### May 23rd, 2024 I used ChatGPT + 5 hours to make a Chrome extension that turns my new tab into a grid with bookmarks that can be put into sections! It’s live in the Chrome Web Store! I’m very excited about it because it’s crazy to me how limited the default browser new tabs are regarding how they handle bookmarks and I’ve wanted an alternative for so long! * * * Note ---- I’ve been writing updates on my `/now` page for a much longer time, and regret that I haven’t been keeping a running log since the beginning. I could theoretically go over all my GitHub commits to populate this page and might do just that at some point.
mcoorlim.com
/now
Updated April 2, 2025
_This is what I’m up to as of April 2, 2025._ * **Working on a Choicescript game tentatively titled Psychotronic Burst.** * **Working on a game involving a lot of minigames inspired by 70s era arcade games** * **I’ve been reading comics via Marvel Unlimited for the past couple years, starting with Fantastic Four #1.** **Currently mired in the 2016 Civil War II event.** * **Participating in the #365Games wherein I post a short video discussing a game that was important to me.** * Finished a Video Game History video on the Fairchild Channel F * Released a narrative analysis video of Sierra On-Line’s “King’s Quest II” * Got paid a pro rate to write some short fiction. * Transitioned my books from Amazon to a shop hosted here * Watched the Netflix series Warrior Nun. Like Umbrella Academy, it takes an overly edgy comic and elevates the premise. Not bad, sad we won’t be getting more. * Launched a GoFundMe to help cover my cat’s medical costs now that the insurance company is refusing to help. * I’m currently caught up to early 2015, the point at which the company is trying to position the Inhumans as a replacement for mutants due to Fox still owning the rights to the X-Men. I’m tempted to start over or do a DC readthrough instead. For now I persist. * Kathy Rain 2, a game that I did some narrative design work for, is in Beta. I’m looking forward to the release; it’s a cool adventure game, and a nice credit for my CV. I am as yet unemployed. * I’m going to make a go of being a full-time solo game developer in 2025. This will involve scaling up from the week-long and month-long projects I’d been creating as profile pieces to games that’ll take me 3-6 months to complete – something substantive enough that I feel like I can charge for it. * I’ve also moved all my game dev videos to a different channel. * I still live in Chicago with my girlfriend and our cats, Sidhe and Fog. We’re all unemployed at the moment. * I’ve picked up a copy of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones” to try and get myself back into the habit of reading again. Thus far I have yet to accomplish this. * I’ve paused the novel I was working on. The financial situation is a bit dire to spend time on a project that won’t see returns for a year or longer. This is one of the realities of being a commercial artist. * I’ve deleted my Twitter, don’t post to facebook, and neglect Mastodon. I am currently posting to Bluesky, where my account has somehow accrued 2k followers. I think I’ve ended up on a lot of lists. I’ll be trying to engage there more frequently. _This is a Now page. Find out about Now pages here._
_This is what I’m up to as of April 2, 2025._ * **Working on a Choicescript game tentatively titled Psychotronic Burst.** * **Working on a game involving a lot of minigames inspired by 70s era arcade games** * **I’ve been reading comics via Marvel Unlimited for the past couple years, starting with Fantastic Four #1.** **Currently mired in the 2016 Civil War II event.** * **Participating in the #365Games wherein I post a short video discussing a game that was important to me.** * Finished a Video Game History video on the Fairchild Channel F * Released a narrative analysis video of Sierra On-Line’s “King’s Quest II” * Got paid a pro rate to write some short fiction. * Transitioned my books from Amazon to a shop hosted here * Watched the Netflix series Warrior Nun. Like Umbrella Academy, it takes an overly edgy comic and elevates the premise. Not bad, sad we won’t be getting more. * Launched a GoFundMe to help cover my cat’s medical costs now that the insurance company is refusing to help. * I’m currently caught up to early 2015, the point at which the company is trying to position the Inhumans as a replacement for mutants due to Fox still owning the rights to the X-Men. I’m tempted to start over or do a DC readthrough instead. For now I persist. * Kathy Rain 2, a game that I did some narrative design work for, is in Beta. I’m looking forward to the release; it’s a cool adventure game, and a nice credit for my CV. I am as yet unemployed. * I’m going to make a go of being a full-time solo game developer in 2025. This will involve scaling up from the week-long and month-long projects I’d been creating as profile pieces to games that’ll take me 3-6 months to complete – something substantive enough that I feel like I can charge for it. * I’ve also moved all my game dev videos to a different channel. * I still live in Chicago with my girlfriend and our cats, Sidhe and Fog. We’re all unemployed at the moment. * I’ve picked up a copy of Stephen King’s “Bag of Bones” to try and get myself back into the habit of reading again. Thus far I have yet to accomplish this. * I’ve paused the novel I was working on. The financial situation is a bit dire to spend time on a project that won’t see returns for a year or longer. This is one of the realities of being a commercial artist. * I’ve deleted my Twitter, don’t post to facebook, and neglect Mastodon. I am currently posting to Bluesky, where my account has somehow accrued 2k followers. I think I’ve ended up on a lot of lists. I’ll be trying to engage there more frequently. _This is a Now page. Find out about Now pages here._
alreadynotyet.co
/now
Updated April 1, 2025
* home * about * portfolio * now * sharing Twitter RSS Currently... ------------ _updated in April 2025_ 1. DCA > PDX > CLT > SEA > CLT 2. Leading creative things at RVO Health, and creating things at Night Hatch 3. Writing posts like about meetings and this 4. Drawing bonsais on coffee cups 5. Making bread with just four ingredients 6. Running 7. Reading _Unreasonable Hospitality_ and Sanderson's _Stormlight_ series. 8. Still trying to read _The Brothers Karamozov_ Still. 9. On current wish list: A pair of Hiut Demin jeans ###### This is part of this
* home * about * portfolio * now * sharing Twitter RSS Currently... ------------ _updated in April 2025_ 1. DCA > PDX > CLT > SEA > CLT 2. Leading creative things at RVO Health, and creating things at Night Hatch 3. Writing posts like about meetings and this 4. Drawing bonsais on coffee cups 5. Making bread with just four ingredients 6. Running 7. Reading _Unreasonable Hospitality_ and Sanderson's _Stormlight_ series. 8. Still trying to read _The Brothers Karamozov_ Still. 9. On current wish list: A pair of Hiut Demin jeans ###### This is part of this
bayraba.com
/now
Updated April 1, 2025
**White Tigress Taoism About Ryan What People Say Books Podcast Spirituality Sexuality Relating Healing Occupy Ideas Meditation Enlightenment Other Resources Contact me** What am I doing now? (A la Derek Sievers) 1. Replacing all the systems in modern society 2. Starting with the money system 3. Becoming a professional poker player 4. Having a very intense D/s relationship (censored) 5. Practicing a New System of Healing 6. Reuniting the sexes (without shame) Updated Apr 2025 for Derek who personally asked me to. * * * Un-&^%$ your life here.
**White Tigress Taoism About Ryan What People Say Books Podcast Spirituality Sexuality Relating Healing Occupy Ideas Meditation Enlightenment Other Resources Contact me** What am I doing now? (A la Derek Sievers) 1. Replacing all the systems in modern society 2. Starting with the money system 3. Becoming a professional poker player 4. Having a very intense D/s relationship (censored) 5. Practicing a New System of Healing 6. Reuniting the sexes (without shame) Updated Apr 2025 for Derek who personally asked me to. * * * Un-&^%$ your life here.
jesperbylund.com
/now
Updated April 1, 2025
What I'm doing now ------------------ Updated April 2025 Originally from Stockholm, I'm currently splitting my time between Lisbon and Berlin. Reading a lot of books and enjoying life with the love of my life Agnes. Planning on getting a dog. ### I'm currently working on: * Helping startups and small companies with Product Design and User Research. Need help? * A few small side projects – have to stay curious! ### Where I am: Lisbon, Portugal (Fall 25) **Berlin, Germany (summer 25)** Stockholm (Xmas 24) Lisbon, Portugal (Fall 24) Berlin, Germany (summer 24) Lisbon, Portugal (spring 24) Berlin, Germany (spring 24) Stockholm (Xmas 23) Berlin, Germany (fall 23) Ericeira, Portugal (fall 23) Edinburgh, Scotland (fall 23) USA (spring 23) Stockholm, Sweden (Jun 22) Berlin, Germany (May 22) Stockholm, Sweden (May 22) Zurich, Switzerland (April 22) Berlin, Germany (January 22) Berlin, Germany (August 21) (cancelled due to covid) Stockholm, Sweden Berlin, Germany (May 20) (cancelled due to covid) Lisbon, Portugal (Apr 20) (cancelled due to covid) San Fransisco + Oklahoma, US (Mar 20) (cancelled due to covid) Tokyo, Japan (Apr 19) got engaged during the cherry blossom season! Marbella, Spain (Nov 18) did a short gig with a friend Munich, Germany (okt 18) just the Oktober Fest Rome, Italy (May 18) Munich, Germany (oct 17) just the Oktober Fest Berlin, Germany (Sep 17) Lisbon, Portugal (May 17) Cartagena, Colombia (May 17) Medellin, Colobia (Apr 17) San Fransisco, US (Apr 17) San Fransisco, US (Jan-May 16) join 500 Startups with a Swedish startup * * * Inspired by Derek Sivers NowNowNow.
What I'm doing now ------------------ Updated April 2025 Originally from Stockholm, I'm currently splitting my time between Lisbon and Berlin. Reading a lot of books and enjoying life with the love of my life Agnes. Planning on getting a dog. ### I'm currently working on: * Helping startups and small companies with Product Design and User Research. Need help? * A few small side projects – have to stay curious! ### Where I am: Lisbon, Portugal (Fall 25) **Berlin, Germany (summer 25)** Stockholm (Xmas 24) Lisbon, Portugal (Fall 24) Berlin, Germany (summer 24) Lisbon, Portugal (spring 24) Berlin, Germany (spring 24) Stockholm (Xmas 23) Berlin, Germany (fall 23) Ericeira, Portugal (fall 23) Edinburgh, Scotland (fall 23) USA (spring 23) Stockholm, Sweden (Jun 22) Berlin, Germany (May 22) Stockholm, Sweden (May 22) Zurich, Switzerland (April 22) Berlin, Germany (January 22) Berlin, Germany (August 21) (cancelled due to covid) Stockholm, Sweden Berlin, Germany (May 20) (cancelled due to covid) Lisbon, Portugal (Apr 20) (cancelled due to covid) San Fransisco + Oklahoma, US (Mar 20) (cancelled due to covid) Tokyo, Japan (Apr 19) got engaged during the cherry blossom season! Marbella, Spain (Nov 18) did a short gig with a friend Munich, Germany (okt 18) just the Oktober Fest Rome, Italy (May 18) Munich, Germany (oct 17) just the Oktober Fest Berlin, Germany (Sep 17) Lisbon, Portugal (May 17) Cartagena, Colombia (May 17) Medellin, Colobia (Apr 17) San Fransisco, US (Apr 17) San Fransisco, US (Jan-May 16) join 500 Startups with a Swedish startup * * * Inspired by Derek Sivers NowNowNow.
livelimitless.net
/now
Updated April 1, 2025
**What I’m working on at the moment…** -------------------------------------- I am updating this as of **April 2025** because SO MUCH has changed. Like, wow, so much. The last time I updated this page was in 2016. First, let me start by saying that everything on this page before this update has dramatically changed, showing you how much of a rollercoaster the entrepreneurship world (and just life in general) can be. I am going to move the old stuff to the bottom, even if it’s just for me to reflect on. Here it goes… **Must Do Canada** 2016 was a brutal year for us. We came home from years of travel to start a career while building our business, and the local economy collapsed. It was a dark time. However, 2017 was just around the corner, and it was the year of Canada’s 150th birthday, so I came up with an idea to road trip around the country for 150 days to make a travel series showcasing the beauty and diversity of Canada while interviewing people about what makes Canada special. We found a major sponsor to help make it happen, and that series ended up with 10 million views, giving us a new media business that changed our lives. Starting around 2020, minus a bad year due to COVID restrictions, Must Do Canada became our full-time business, and we continue to promote travel in Canada through our award-winning website, the largest travel newsletter in Canada, a popular YouTube channel, and social media. It was the first business that cracked the 6-figure mark for me and has truly become a big part of our lives. We’ve worked with hundreds of brands and DMOS and won the Best Travel Media award in 2022 at the Tourism Industry of Canada’s Award Gala in Ottawa. **Must Do Canada Scratch-Off Adventures** The new venture for us and Must Do Canada is e-commerce. For those that don’t know, Google crushed all blogs worldwide in 2024, leading to a dramatic drop of 80% of our income. This hurt us badly, and we’ve lost all trust in organic blog traffic. But we still have our brand and we still have a strong newsletter and YouTube channel, so we decided to launch our first physical product. We’ve created scratch-off cards that help people experience each province. We started with our home province of Alberta with a box of 50 must-do scratch-off adventures featuring everything from iconic attractions to hidden gems. We were featured on the local news, attended our first trade show, and it looks like we’ll be getting them into a popular retail location shortly. It’s still quite new, but we are putting our heart and souls into this, and after a decade of media, it feels pretty cool to hold something tangible. **Family** Looking back at this list, it looks like we were considering a family back in 2016. Due to some issues, it took us much longer than we anticipated. However, after a successful IVF program, we have two beautiful, healthy TWIN girls. They are almost two years old now, and they are the love of our lives. They have already taken the train across Canada, been on a ferry in the Atlantic Ocean, been in three helicopters, and have been to Mexico a couple of times. Our video projects have slowed down, but we certainly haven’t stopped. **Other Projects** While I’m always toying with ideas, I’m trying to stay focused. In all honesty, the blog, newsletter, YouTube channel, social media channels, and scratch-off cards are already too much in many ways. So, I can’t add more things until these take off in a way that they can be streamlined or managed by staff. However, if there’s one thing I WILL complete in 2025 as a personal project, it will be a children’s book I’ve been working on for many years. After years of putting it off, I spent the money to hire a professional editor from New York. She cleaned it up and improved it in ways that would have taken me ages. I sent it off to many publishers, but it’s more likely that I will need to self-publish it. If you have any tips, let me know matt @ mustdocanada (dot) com. \*\*\*\* _**Big thanks to Derek Sivers for starting the NOW movement.** It’s a cool project and I look forward to keeping you all updated on what I’m doing NOW. I also want to say thanks for sending me an email a few days ago to ask about the page, as that is what forced me to revisit it. It was nostalgic and enlightening to see how much things have changed._ \*\*\*\* **OLD NEWS (back in 2016)** This is what was written way back in 2016. **Live Limitless** I’m working very hard to build a lot of travel content. After years of travel, my wife and I have decided to stop for a while so that I can focus on turning this blog into what I envision it to be. It was often hard to maintain while backpacking, so now it’s time to focus on creating the content my readers deserve. I’ve also re-launched the Live Limitless Podcast and will be releasing a new episode every Monday. I’m also adding new content to Zero to Dream Trip, a travel hacking video course via Live Limitless. I’ve had about 15 people go through the course so far and they’ve loved it. So now it’s time to market it. In addition, I’m going to be working with a National Geographic photographer who will be showcasing my photography work. Therefore, I’m going to create a photography page on Live Limitless for people interested in travel photography and for those wanting to buy prints. So, everything in this list has changed. Live Limitless has become a personal blog, and I have long cancelled the podcast, travel hacking course, and more. Travel hacking courses are tough when others do it for free, so I have moved on. I do miss the podcast, so if I can ever find the time, I’d love to start a new one. **Canadian Free Flyers (Canadian Travel Hacking)** This is my main travel hacking site I started in 2012 for Canadians wanting to become travel hackers. Right now, I’ve just finished turning it into a video course like Zero to Dream Trip and away from the monthly membership course it once was. I’m also building a marketing a plan for the site and will likely be going on TV in Canada soon to teach people how to become travel hackers. Stay tuned… There was a time when I thought CFF was going to be my main business, and in some ways, it was for a year or two. But perhaps due to my inexperience or again, due to others doing it for free, I decided to move on. The website is active but has not been updated in 8 years. **Other Projects** At the moment, I’m working full-time while doing all of the above. I’m toying with the idea of getting my travel agent license so that I can build once-in-a-lifetime itineraries to do cool stuff around the world with people like you. There’s a chance my wife and I might also move to Mexico to work with a travel company there. There’s really so many potential opportunities at the moment so if you check back in late January, we’ll likely know more for what is happening. **Family** My wife and I would like to start a family next year so we’re busy trying to get our incomes to a more stable level ASAP. I continue to post some incredible travel shots on my Instagram page at www.Instagram.com/MatthewGBailey This page will be updated regularly. You can always find it at www.livelimitless.net/now
**What I’m working on at the moment…** -------------------------------------- I am updating this as of **April 2025** because SO MUCH has changed. Like, wow, so much. The last time I updated this page was in 2016. First, let me start by saying that everything on this page before this update has dramatically changed, showing you how much of a rollercoaster the entrepreneurship world (and just life in general) can be. I am going to move the old stuff to the bottom, even if it’s just for me to reflect on. Here it goes… **Must Do Canada** 2016 was a brutal year for us. We came home from years of travel to start a career while building our business, and the local economy collapsed. It was a dark time. However, 2017 was just around the corner, and it was the year of Canada’s 150th birthday, so I came up with an idea to road trip around the country for 150 days to make a travel series showcasing the beauty and diversity of Canada while interviewing people about what makes Canada special. We found a major sponsor to help make it happen, and that series ended up with 10 million views, giving us a new media business that changed our lives. Starting around 2020, minus a bad year due to COVID restrictions, Must Do Canada became our full-time business, and we continue to promote travel in Canada through our award-winning website, the largest travel newsletter in Canada, a popular YouTube channel, and social media. It was the first business that cracked the 6-figure mark for me and has truly become a big part of our lives. We’ve worked with hundreds of brands and DMOS and won the Best Travel Media award in 2022 at the Tourism Industry of Canada’s Award Gala in Ottawa. **Must Do Canada Scratch-Off Adventures** The new venture for us and Must Do Canada is e-commerce. For those that don’t know, Google crushed all blogs worldwide in 2024, leading to a dramatic drop of 80% of our income. This hurt us badly, and we’ve lost all trust in organic blog traffic. But we still have our brand and we still have a strong newsletter and YouTube channel, so we decided to launch our first physical product. We’ve created scratch-off cards that help people experience each province. We started with our home province of Alberta with a box of 50 must-do scratch-off adventures featuring everything from iconic attractions to hidden gems. We were featured on the local news, attended our first trade show, and it looks like we’ll be getting them into a popular retail location shortly. It’s still quite new, but we are putting our heart and souls into this, and after a decade of media, it feels pretty cool to hold something tangible. **Family** Looking back at this list, it looks like we were considering a family back in 2016. Due to some issues, it took us much longer than we anticipated. However, after a successful IVF program, we have two beautiful, healthy TWIN girls. They are almost two years old now, and they are the love of our lives. They have already taken the train across Canada, been on a ferry in the Atlantic Ocean, been in three helicopters, and have been to Mexico a couple of times. Our video projects have slowed down, but we certainly haven’t stopped. **Other Projects** While I’m always toying with ideas, I’m trying to stay focused. In all honesty, the blog, newsletter, YouTube channel, social media channels, and scratch-off cards are already too much in many ways. So, I can’t add more things until these take off in a way that they can be streamlined or managed by staff. However, if there’s one thing I WILL complete in 2025 as a personal project, it will be a children’s book I’ve been working on for many years. After years of putting it off, I spent the money to hire a professional editor from New York. She cleaned it up and improved it in ways that would have taken me ages. I sent it off to many publishers, but it’s more likely that I will need to self-publish it. If you have any tips, let me know matt @ mustdocanada (dot) com. \*\*\*\* _**Big thanks to Derek Sivers for starting the NOW movement.** It’s a cool project and I look forward to keeping you all updated on what I’m doing NOW. I also want to say thanks for sending me an email a few days ago to ask about the page, as that is what forced me to revisit it. It was nostalgic and enlightening to see how much things have changed._ \*\*\*\* **OLD NEWS (back in 2016)** This is what was written way back in 2016. **Live Limitless** I’m working very hard to build a lot of travel content. After years of travel, my wife and I have decided to stop for a while so that I can focus on turning this blog into what I envision it to be. It was often hard to maintain while backpacking, so now it’s time to focus on creating the content my readers deserve. I’ve also re-launched the Live Limitless Podcast and will be releasing a new episode every Monday. I’m also adding new content to Zero to Dream Trip, a travel hacking video course via Live Limitless. I’ve had about 15 people go through the course so far and they’ve loved it. So now it’s time to market it. In addition, I’m going to be working with a National Geographic photographer who will be showcasing my photography work. Therefore, I’m going to create a photography page on Live Limitless for people interested in travel photography and for those wanting to buy prints. So, everything in this list has changed. Live Limitless has become a personal blog, and I have long cancelled the podcast, travel hacking course, and more. Travel hacking courses are tough when others do it for free, so I have moved on. I do miss the podcast, so if I can ever find the time, I’d love to start a new one. **Canadian Free Flyers (Canadian Travel Hacking)** This is my main travel hacking site I started in 2012 for Canadians wanting to become travel hackers. Right now, I’ve just finished turning it into a video course like Zero to Dream Trip and away from the monthly membership course it once was. I’m also building a marketing a plan for the site and will likely be going on TV in Canada soon to teach people how to become travel hackers. Stay tuned… There was a time when I thought CFF was going to be my main business, and in some ways, it was for a year or two. But perhaps due to my inexperience or again, due to others doing it for free, I decided to move on. The website is active but has not been updated in 8 years. **Other Projects** At the moment, I’m working full-time while doing all of the above. I’m toying with the idea of getting my travel agent license so that I can build once-in-a-lifetime itineraries to do cool stuff around the world with people like you. There’s a chance my wife and I might also move to Mexico to work with a travel company there. There’s really so many potential opportunities at the moment so if you check back in late January, we’ll likely know more for what is happening. **Family** My wife and I would like to start a family next year so we’re busy trying to get our incomes to a more stable level ASAP. I continue to post some incredible travel shots on my Instagram page at www.Instagram.com/MatthewGBailey This page will be updated regularly. You can always find it at www.livelimitless.net/now
toolshed.com
/now
Updated April 1, 2025
Here’s a list of some current projects and interests (as of April, 2025): ### Music and more Music! * * * I’ve put out several albums designed for sync licensing—great stuff to use for your epic powerpoint, or that fantasy adventure game you’re writing on the side. I mean, it’s good for TV ads and film scores too… have a listen over at strangespecial.com. ### Exited the Pragmatic Bookshelf * * * After twenty thrilling years, I exited the Pragmatic Bookshelf (pragprog.com). Over the last several years, I’ve been slow extricating myself from day-to-day operations at the Bookshelf, moving from an active role to the board directors. As of August, 2023, I sold my stake back to the company. So much cool stuff to do, so little time ;) ### Psychological Thriller, _Weatherly Hall_: * * * After the Second Civil War, Henry buys a long-abandoned, desolate mansion from the pre-Internet era to get away from it all. But there’s more to the house’s history than the real estate listing admitted, and in that dim and murky place between the shores of consciousness and nightmare, Henry was running out of time. See weatherlyhall.com for more info, five-star reviews and samples. ### Science Fiction: _Conglommora_ and _Conglommora Found_ * * * In my first science fiction novel, _Conglommora_, the Green Earth of old was long gone. The People printed their ships and fled the devastation to find another planet, a new home. But system after system, planet after planet, they discovered there were no other suitable homes in the cosmos. So they joined their ships together at the edge of Nothing to form the **Conglommora**: a massive, stationary, ad-hoc, self-sufficient world hundreds of light-years out in deep space. Until a mysterious straggler from Dead Earth plummets them into a startling journey across the galaxy, to confront the past and threaten the future. In the sequel, _Conglommora Found_, things get complicated as our heros risk their life to find answers to the secrets of their world, and their very world gets a lot larger than anyone thought. Visit conglommora.com for details and samples. ### The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition * * * Hard to beleive it’s been twenty years, and yet the advice is as applicable as ever: _The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery_, 20th Anniversary edition. Go grab the **hardcover** on Amazon or ebook direct from pragprog.com/books/tpp20. _As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases_ Coming up next? --------------- Good question. What would you like to see? Drop me a line. _Thanks to my friend Derek Sivers for suggesting this page._ * * * Latest News ----------- * **Greenfield, Brownfield... Blackfield?** July 24, 2024 * **New article: The Limits of Process** January 25, 2022 * **New article: Habits vs. Practices** January 5, 2022 * _List All News..._ Recent Articles --------------- * **The Limits of Process** January 25, 2022 * **Habits vs. Practices** January 5, 2022 * **Why Are There So Many Misconceptions Around Agile?** November 20, 2020 * List All Articles...
Here’s a list of some current projects and interests (as of April, 2025): ### Music and more Music! * * * I’ve put out several albums designed for sync licensing—great stuff to use for your epic powerpoint, or that fantasy adventure game you’re writing on the side. I mean, it’s good for TV ads and film scores too… have a listen over at strangespecial.com. ### Exited the Pragmatic Bookshelf * * * After twenty thrilling years, I exited the Pragmatic Bookshelf (pragprog.com). Over the last several years, I’ve been slow extricating myself from day-to-day operations at the Bookshelf, moving from an active role to the board directors. As of August, 2023, I sold my stake back to the company. So much cool stuff to do, so little time ;) ### Psychological Thriller, _Weatherly Hall_: * * * After the Second Civil War, Henry buys a long-abandoned, desolate mansion from the pre-Internet era to get away from it all. But there’s more to the house’s history than the real estate listing admitted, and in that dim and murky place between the shores of consciousness and nightmare, Henry was running out of time. See weatherlyhall.com for more info, five-star reviews and samples. ### Science Fiction: _Conglommora_ and _Conglommora Found_ * * * In my first science fiction novel, _Conglommora_, the Green Earth of old was long gone. The People printed their ships and fled the devastation to find another planet, a new home. But system after system, planet after planet, they discovered there were no other suitable homes in the cosmos. So they joined their ships together at the edge of Nothing to form the **Conglommora**: a massive, stationary, ad-hoc, self-sufficient world hundreds of light-years out in deep space. Until a mysterious straggler from Dead Earth plummets them into a startling journey across the galaxy, to confront the past and threaten the future. In the sequel, _Conglommora Found_, things get complicated as our heros risk their life to find answers to the secrets of their world, and their very world gets a lot larger than anyone thought. Visit conglommora.com for details and samples. ### The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition * * * Hard to beleive it’s been twenty years, and yet the advice is as applicable as ever: _The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery_, 20th Anniversary edition. Go grab the **hardcover** on Amazon or ebook direct from pragprog.com/books/tpp20. _As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases_ Coming up next? --------------- Good question. What would you like to see? Drop me a line. _Thanks to my friend Derek Sivers for suggesting this page._ * * * Latest News ----------- * **Greenfield, Brownfield... Blackfield?** July 24, 2024 * **New article: The Limits of Process** January 25, 2022 * **New article: Habits vs. Practices** January 5, 2022 * _List All News..._ Recent Articles --------------- * **The Limits of Process** January 25, 2022 * **Habits vs. Practices** January 5, 2022 * **Why Are There So Many Misconceptions Around Agile?** November 20, 2020 * List All Articles...
jefftriplett.com
/about
Updated March 30, 2025
* * * Present ------- ### Revolution Systems (REVSYS) (2010-present) Jeff has been a developer at one of the premier Django consulting agencies since 2011. In 2019, he became a Partner. The agency specializes in Python, Django, Docker, performance, scaling, and team management. ### Django Software Foundation (DSF) (2024-present) Jeff joined the DSF in 2024 as a director. ### Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) (2015-present) Jeff is one of the three co-founders of DEFNA. He served as President of the Board from 2015 to 2021, and again from 2022 to 2023. ### Python Software Foundation (PSF) (2018-2023) Jeff was elected by the community as a Director of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). He served as Treasurer from 2020 to 2022 and subsequently as Vice Chair from 2022 to 2023. * * * Previous employment ------------------- ### Mediaphormedia (The World Company subsidiary) (2007-2010) Jeff joined The World Company in 2007 to work at Django Project’s birthplace. As a Senior Developer, he worked on Ellington CMS and Ellington Marketplace. ### Fast Freedom (2002-2007) Jeff was Director of Operations and started the website division/service for the company. He managed the hosting, development, wireless, and dial-up service and employees for five years. * * * Past ---- ### 2019 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize winner Jeff was awarded the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize in 2019 for contributions to the Django community. ### 2019 Python Software Foundation Fellow Member Jeff was named a PSF Fellow Member in January 2019. Jeff won an Opensource.com 2019 People’s Choice Award. ### Django Code of Conduct Committee Jeff joined the committee in 2016 as a member, serving as chair and then later co-chair. ### Django Developer Member Jeff was nominated in 2015 and has served as a member ever since. ### Python Software Foundation Contributing Member Jeff joined the Python Software Foundation in 2015. ### Conference & Event Organizing * DjangoCon US 2023 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2022 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2021 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2020 Organizer (canceled due to COVID-19) * DjangoCon US 2019 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2018 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2017 Vice Conference Chair & Organizer * DjangoCon US 2016 Conference Chair & Organizer * DjangoCon US 2015 Conference Chair & Organizer * Django Birthday 2015 Conference Chair & Organizer for Django’s 10th birthday party * DjangoCon US 2014 Last-minute Program Chair & Organizer(ish) ### DjangoPony.com Jeff is the co-creator of the Django Pony website and helped add fuel to the fire to the Django meme. Interviews & Mentions --------------------- * Espacios Abiertos Podcast Podcast interview Alternative Projects: From idea to Product * Django Chat Podcast interview Modern Django Development - Jeff Triplett - We discuss modern development tools including GitHub Actions, Docker, Tailwind CSS, and more. * Productivity in Tech Podcast interview Jeff Triplett Tells Us a Story of Django and Community! * Django Chat Podcast interview Django Testing - Jeff Triplett * 2019 Opensource.com Community - 2019 People’s Choice Award recipient * PyDev of the Week: Jeff Triplett * A Look Back on ELA Conf by Joni Trythall * DjangoCon US 2015 - Django Tales: How Django and Its Community Can Change Lives by Anna Ossowski * (Life) Lessons Learnt while Traveling by Anna Ossowski
* * * Present ------- ### Revolution Systems (REVSYS) (2010-present) Jeff has been a developer at one of the premier Django consulting agencies since 2011. In 2019, he became a Partner. The agency specializes in Python, Django, Docker, performance, scaling, and team management. ### Django Software Foundation (DSF) (2024-present) Jeff joined the DSF in 2024 as a director. ### Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) (2015-present) Jeff is one of the three co-founders of DEFNA. He served as President of the Board from 2015 to 2021, and again from 2022 to 2023. ### Python Software Foundation (PSF) (2018-2023) Jeff was elected by the community as a Director of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). He served as Treasurer from 2020 to 2022 and subsequently as Vice Chair from 2022 to 2023. * * * Previous employment ------------------- ### Mediaphormedia (The World Company subsidiary) (2007-2010) Jeff joined The World Company in 2007 to work at Django Project’s birthplace. As a Senior Developer, he worked on Ellington CMS and Ellington Marketplace. ### Fast Freedom (2002-2007) Jeff was Director of Operations and started the website division/service for the company. He managed the hosting, development, wireless, and dial-up service and employees for five years. * * * Past ---- ### 2019 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize winner Jeff was awarded the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize in 2019 for contributions to the Django community. ### 2019 Python Software Foundation Fellow Member Jeff was named a PSF Fellow Member in January 2019. Jeff won an Opensource.com 2019 People’s Choice Award. ### Django Code of Conduct Committee Jeff joined the committee in 2016 as a member, serving as chair and then later co-chair. ### Django Developer Member Jeff was nominated in 2015 and has served as a member ever since. ### Python Software Foundation Contributing Member Jeff joined the Python Software Foundation in 2015. ### Conference & Event Organizing * DjangoCon US 2023 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2022 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2021 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2020 Organizer (canceled due to COVID-19) * DjangoCon US 2019 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2018 Organizer * DjangoCon US 2017 Vice Conference Chair & Organizer * DjangoCon US 2016 Conference Chair & Organizer * DjangoCon US 2015 Conference Chair & Organizer * Django Birthday 2015 Conference Chair & Organizer for Django’s 10th birthday party * DjangoCon US 2014 Last-minute Program Chair & Organizer(ish) ### DjangoPony.com Jeff is the co-creator of the Django Pony website and helped add fuel to the fire to the Django meme. Interviews & Mentions --------------------- * Espacios Abiertos Podcast Podcast interview Alternative Projects: From idea to Product * Django Chat Podcast interview Modern Django Development - Jeff Triplett - We discuss modern development tools including GitHub Actions, Docker, Tailwind CSS, and more. * Productivity in Tech Podcast interview Jeff Triplett Tells Us a Story of Django and Community! * Django Chat Podcast interview Django Testing - Jeff Triplett * 2019 Opensource.com Community - 2019 People’s Choice Award recipient * PyDev of the Week: Jeff Triplett * A Look Back on ELA Conf by Joni Trythall * DjangoCon US 2015 - Django Tales: How Django and Its Community Can Change Lives by Anna Ossowski * (Life) Lessons Learnt while Traveling by Anna Ossowski
weisser-zwerg.dev
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Updated March 30, 2025
I d e n t i t y My Web Identities * Github * Twitter * cs224@weisser-zwerg.dev * keybase.io Newsletter Blog Posts * 2025-03-30 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: Embracing Digital Integrity * 2025-03-12 GPG Agent Forwarding with Hardware Tokens: YubiKey, Nitrokey, or Trezor on Remote Servers * 2025-03-06 Home Server Blueprint: Rock-Solid Home Server with Unattended Reboots, Secure Disk Encryption, and Cost-Effective Offsite Backups * 2025-02-27 Nym Mixnet & dVPN: A Node Operator's Guide * 2025-02-22 Take Control of Your Code: Replace GitHub by Self-Hosting Gitea with Traefik as a Reverse Proxy * 2025-02-21 Running private LARGE AI Models on Your Hardware: A Guide to Scaling Local LLMs * 2025-01-10 Private Video Conferencing with Jitsi Meet behind Traefik as a Reverse Proxy * 2024-12-17 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: Networking, VPN, Tor, Onion over VPN, I2P (Invisible Internet Project), Nym Mixnet * 2024-12-09 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: Browser, Passwords, Bookmarks, Notes, Nextcloud * 2024-11-15 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: A Practical Guide (Part II) * 2024-11-09 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: An Overview (Part I) * 2024-11-02 Running AI Models on Your PC: A Guide to Local Large Language Models (LLMs) * 2023-12-11 sigrok: UNI-T UT61E Multimiter on Linux * 2023-08-24 Implementing Teleport Identity Proxy behind a Router using the Traefik Reverse Proxy in an Intranet Environment: A Comprehensive Guide * 2023-08-16 Optimierung von Balkonkraftwerken: Die Rolle von Schatten. * 2023-08-16 Photovoltaics for Urban Spaces: Shadow Effects on Balcony Power Stations (Balkonkraftwerk) * 2023-08-08 Series: Photovoltaics * 2023-06-16 Uncover the Corresponding Version Tag for the 'Latest' Docker Image: A Comprehensive Guide * 2023-05-18 Step Up Your SSH Game: A Deep Dive into FIDO2 Hardware Keys and ProxyJump Configuration * 2023-05-08 ChatGPT - Open AI API for Proofreading Markdown Blog Posts * 2023-04-03 Ecowitt WS2910 weather station via Ecowitt GW2000 (Wittboy) and dockerized WeeWX * 2023-03-20 Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) from 0 to 10V * 2023-03-15 Ecowitt WS2910 868MHz weather station and Software Defined Radio (SDR) * 2022-10-15 Thin Clients as Home Servers: Dell Wyse 5060 and Fujitsu Futro S920: an Experience Report * 2022-08-17 Home Automation: Abstract / Conceptual View * 2022-08-06 ODROID-M1: Dockerized Home Assistant * 2022-07-12 Traefik as Reverse Proxy * 2022-07-10 Espresso Coarseness Setting may save your day! * 2022-06-25 ODROID-M1: an Experience Report * 2022-06-21 Fuel Save Alerter: a TypeScript version of the heise+ article : 'Günstiger tanken: So lesen Sie Spritpreise automatisch aus' * 2022-03-12 RFC3161 Trusted Timestamping via OpenSSL by foot: a guided tour. * 2021-11-03 My first NFT (Non Fungible Token) on the Cardano blockchain * 2021-09-14 Monte Carlo: Fundamental Concepts * 2021-09-10 Series: Monte Carlo Methods * 2021-08-26 European Central Bank (ECB) Negative Interest Rates and TLTRO III (Targeted Longer Term Refinancing Operations) * 2021-06-13 Software Engineering: Version Control Systems (VCS) * 2021-05-16 Software Engineering: Web Development * 2021-05-02 Series: Odysseys in Software Engineering * 2021-04-02 Trading Evolved: Futures Trend Following * 2020-12-29 Trading Evolved: ingest CSI-Data futures data into the Quantopian Zipline pythonic algorithmic trading and backtesting environment. * 2020-12-06 Investing: Abstract View * 2020-12-06 Series: Investing via Financial Futures Contracts * 2020-05-23 Risk of Indirection * 2020-03-18 Causality, State Based vs. Operation Based Representation * 2020-03-11 CoViD-19 Data Analysis * 2020-03-07 Model Comparison via Bayes Factor * 2019-11-04 iOS App without a Mac * 2019-09-19 ActivityPub integration via fed.brid.gy 2 * 2019-09-17 Local discourse: vagrant, ansible, lxd, docker, discourse-embedding * 2019-09-06 Webmention Test
I d e n t i t y My Web Identities * Github * Twitter * cs224@weisser-zwerg.dev * keybase.io Newsletter Blog Posts * 2025-03-30 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: Embracing Digital Integrity * 2025-03-12 GPG Agent Forwarding with Hardware Tokens: YubiKey, Nitrokey, or Trezor on Remote Servers * 2025-03-06 Home Server Blueprint: Rock-Solid Home Server with Unattended Reboots, Secure Disk Encryption, and Cost-Effective Offsite Backups * 2025-02-27 Nym Mixnet & dVPN: A Node Operator's Guide * 2025-02-22 Take Control of Your Code: Replace GitHub by Self-Hosting Gitea with Traefik as a Reverse Proxy * 2025-02-21 Running private LARGE AI Models on Your Hardware: A Guide to Scaling Local LLMs * 2025-01-10 Private Video Conferencing with Jitsi Meet behind Traefik as a Reverse Proxy * 2024-12-17 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: Networking, VPN, Tor, Onion over VPN, I2P (Invisible Internet Project), Nym Mixnet * 2024-12-09 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: Browser, Passwords, Bookmarks, Notes, Nextcloud * 2024-11-15 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: A Practical Guide (Part II) * 2024-11-09 Digital Civil Rights and Privacy: An Overview (Part I) * 2024-11-02 Running AI Models on Your PC: A Guide to Local Large Language Models (LLMs) * 2023-12-11 sigrok: UNI-T UT61E Multimiter on Linux * 2023-08-24 Implementing Teleport Identity Proxy behind a Router using the Traefik Reverse Proxy in an Intranet Environment: A Comprehensive Guide * 2023-08-16 Optimierung von Balkonkraftwerken: Die Rolle von Schatten. * 2023-08-16 Photovoltaics for Urban Spaces: Shadow Effects on Balcony Power Stations (Balkonkraftwerk) * 2023-08-08 Series: Photovoltaics * 2023-06-16 Uncover the Corresponding Version Tag for the 'Latest' Docker Image: A Comprehensive Guide * 2023-05-18 Step Up Your SSH Game: A Deep Dive into FIDO2 Hardware Keys and ProxyJump Configuration * 2023-05-08 ChatGPT - Open AI API for Proofreading Markdown Blog Posts * 2023-04-03 Ecowitt WS2910 weather station via Ecowitt GW2000 (Wittboy) and dockerized WeeWX * 2023-03-20 Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) from 0 to 10V * 2023-03-15 Ecowitt WS2910 868MHz weather station and Software Defined Radio (SDR) * 2022-10-15 Thin Clients as Home Servers: Dell Wyse 5060 and Fujitsu Futro S920: an Experience Report * 2022-08-17 Home Automation: Abstract / Conceptual View * 2022-08-06 ODROID-M1: Dockerized Home Assistant * 2022-07-12 Traefik as Reverse Proxy * 2022-07-10 Espresso Coarseness Setting may save your day! * 2022-06-25 ODROID-M1: an Experience Report * 2022-06-21 Fuel Save Alerter: a TypeScript version of the heise+ article : 'Günstiger tanken: So lesen Sie Spritpreise automatisch aus' * 2022-03-12 RFC3161 Trusted Timestamping via OpenSSL by foot: a guided tour. * 2021-11-03 My first NFT (Non Fungible Token) on the Cardano blockchain * 2021-09-14 Monte Carlo: Fundamental Concepts * 2021-09-10 Series: Monte Carlo Methods * 2021-08-26 European Central Bank (ECB) Negative Interest Rates and TLTRO III (Targeted Longer Term Refinancing Operations) * 2021-06-13 Software Engineering: Version Control Systems (VCS) * 2021-05-16 Software Engineering: Web Development * 2021-05-02 Series: Odysseys in Software Engineering * 2021-04-02 Trading Evolved: Futures Trend Following * 2020-12-29 Trading Evolved: ingest CSI-Data futures data into the Quantopian Zipline pythonic algorithmic trading and backtesting environment. * 2020-12-06 Investing: Abstract View * 2020-12-06 Series: Investing via Financial Futures Contracts * 2020-05-23 Risk of Indirection * 2020-03-18 Causality, State Based vs. Operation Based Representation * 2020-03-11 CoViD-19 Data Analysis * 2020-03-07 Model Comparison via Bayes Factor * 2019-11-04 iOS App without a Mac * 2019-09-19 ActivityPub integration via fed.brid.gy 2 * 2019-09-17 Local discourse: vagrant, ansible, lxd, docker, discourse-embedding * 2019-09-06 Webmention Test
sacrideo.us
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Updated March 29, 2025
Computing on Indices -------------------- I received this inquiry from Daniel Lyons, and I wanted to post my response here, since this is a favorite Chatting with Jon Smith and Conor, Tacit Talk Podcast, Ep 27 ------------------------------------------------------------ I am speaking at LambdaConf 2025 -------------------------------- I will be giving two talks at LambdaConf 2025 this year in Estes Park, CO, USA! Aaron Hsu | LambdaConfDo Programming APL Workshop at LambdaConf 2025 ------------------------------- I will be giving a workshop at LambdaConf 2025 in Estes Park, CO, USA this year. I'm excited ARRAY '25 CfP ------------- Here's the CFP for ARRAY '25 this year! Dear all We are organising ARRAY'25 which Speaking at Functional Conf 2025, January 23 - 24 ------------------------------------------------- Functional Conf 2025 - Designing your Data: The Bread and Butter of APL Performance I'll be speaking at APL SEEDS '24 Registration Open ------------------------------- APL Seeds ’24 - DyalogDyalog If you're new to APL or interested in learning more about the language, Advent of Code Review Stream ---------------------------- We'll be doing a review of the Advent of Code problems on the 18th! Advent of Code 2024 ------------------- This year I'm doing Advent of Code with the goal of trying to at least get some points. Dyalog User Meeting Survey -------------------------- Survey Link This is a survey from Dyalog asking for feedback and thoughts on their User Meetings. If you'
Computing on Indices -------------------- I received this inquiry from Daniel Lyons, and I wanted to post my response here, since this is a favorite Chatting with Jon Smith and Conor, Tacit Talk Podcast, Ep 27 ------------------------------------------------------------ I am speaking at LambdaConf 2025 -------------------------------- I will be giving two talks at LambdaConf 2025 this year in Estes Park, CO, USA! Aaron Hsu | LambdaConfDo Programming APL Workshop at LambdaConf 2025 ------------------------------- I will be giving a workshop at LambdaConf 2025 in Estes Park, CO, USA this year. I'm excited ARRAY '25 CfP ------------- Here's the CFP for ARRAY '25 this year! Dear all We are organising ARRAY'25 which Speaking at Functional Conf 2025, January 23 - 24 ------------------------------------------------- Functional Conf 2025 - Designing your Data: The Bread and Butter of APL Performance I'll be speaking at APL SEEDS '24 Registration Open ------------------------------- APL Seeds ’24 - DyalogDyalog If you're new to APL or interested in learning more about the language, Advent of Code Review Stream ---------------------------- We'll be doing a review of the Advent of Code problems on the 18th! Advent of Code 2024 ------------------- This year I'm doing Advent of Code with the goal of trying to at least get some points. Dyalog User Meeting Survey -------------------------- Survey Link This is a survey from Dyalog asking for feedback and thoughts on their User Meetings. If you'
blog.pgpkeys.eu
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Updated March 28, 2025
PGPKeys.EU Blog --------------- Latest Posts ------------ March 2025: * The Principles of User-Friendly Cryptography (Andrew, 2025-03-28) February 2025: * OpenPGP Stack Layers (Andrew, 2025-02-06) January 2025: * Analysis of OpenPGP Reserved Code Points (Andrew, 2025-01-29) August 2024: * A Summary of Known Security Issues in LibrePGP (Andrew, 2024-08-19) * Keyserver Updates and Roadmap, August 2024 (Andrew, 2024-08-01) January 2024: * The State of the Keyservers in 2024 (Andrew, 2024-01-02) December 2023: * A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates” (Andrew, 2023-12-07) Links ----- * PGPKeys.EU OpenPGP keyserver * Hockeypuck project
PGPKeys.EU Blog --------------- Latest Posts ------------ March 2025: * The Principles of User-Friendly Cryptography (Andrew, 2025-03-28) February 2025: * OpenPGP Stack Layers (Andrew, 2025-02-06) January 2025: * Analysis of OpenPGP Reserved Code Points (Andrew, 2025-01-29) August 2024: * A Summary of Known Security Issues in LibrePGP (Andrew, 2024-08-19) * Keyserver Updates and Roadmap, August 2024 (Andrew, 2024-08-01) January 2024: * The State of the Keyservers in 2024 (Andrew, 2024-01-02) December 2023: * A Critique on “A Critique on the OpenPGP Updates” (Andrew, 2023-12-07) Links ----- * PGPKeys.EU OpenPGP keyserver * Hockeypuck project
blog.zorin.com
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Updated March 26, 2025
19 September 2024 #### Zorin OS 17.2 Has Landed Our most capable, customisable, and compatible version yet. 1 July 2024 #### Celebrating 15 Years of Zorin OS A message from our founders Artyom & Kyrill Zorin. 7 March 2024 #### Zorin OS 17.1 Is Released The latest improvements to take your computing experience further. Education edition now also available. 31 January 2024 #### Upgrades From Zorin OS 16 to 17 Are Now Available Upgrade directly and keep your existing files, apps, and settings. Available to all Zorin OS 16 Core and Pro users. 23 January 2024 #### Test the Upgrade From Zorin OS 16 to 17 Upgrade directly and keep your existing files, apps, and settings. Available for testing today. 20 December 2023 #### Zorin OS 17 Has Arrived Our most advanced version ever. Exciting new features and improvements take your computer to a whole new level. 4 December 2023 #### A Sneak Peek at Zorin OS 17 Test the Beta today. Experience exciting new features and improvements to take your computer to a whole new level. 27 July 2023 #### Zorin OS 16.3 Is Released Our most advanced operating system gets even better.
19 September 2024 #### Zorin OS 17.2 Has Landed Our most capable, customisable, and compatible version yet. 1 July 2024 #### Celebrating 15 Years of Zorin OS A message from our founders Artyom & Kyrill Zorin. 7 March 2024 #### Zorin OS 17.1 Is Released The latest improvements to take your computing experience further. Education edition now also available. 31 January 2024 #### Upgrades From Zorin OS 16 to 17 Are Now Available Upgrade directly and keep your existing files, apps, and settings. Available to all Zorin OS 16 Core and Pro users. 23 January 2024 #### Test the Upgrade From Zorin OS 16 to 17 Upgrade directly and keep your existing files, apps, and settings. Available for testing today. 20 December 2023 #### Zorin OS 17 Has Arrived Our most advanced version ever. Exciting new features and improvements take your computer to a whole new level. 4 December 2023 #### A Sneak Peek at Zorin OS 17 Test the Beta today. Experience exciting new features and improvements to take your computer to a whole new level. 27 July 2023 #### Zorin OS 16.3 Is Released Our most advanced operating system gets even better.
incolumitas.com
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Updated March 26, 2025
Home Archives Categories Tags Impressum Contact Atom On Achieving your Dreams ------------------------ Posted on March 26, 2025 in Personal • Tagged with Work, Life, Business • 8 min read My thoughts after achieving the lifelong goal of creating a profitable Internet business. It turns out that you must be careful what you wish for. Continue reading * * * The State of this Blog ---------------------- Posted on October 01, 2023 in Uncategorized • Tagged with Update, News • 1 min read An update regarding the state of this blog Continue reading * * * How to find the ASN for any IP Address? --------------------------------------- Posted on July 31, 2022 in Programming • Tagged with autonomous system, ASN, API, Security • 4 min read In the Internet, each IP Address belongs to an autonomous system (AS). In this blog article, it is demonstrated how any IP address can be mapped to an AS number. The necessary information and sources to map each IP Address to an Autnomous System is provided as well, since they were not easy to find. Continue reading * * * db.js — In-Memory Key-Value Database with Persistent File Storage ----------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on May 29, 2022 in Open Source • Tagged with db.js, in-memory database, key-value storage, JSON file persistance • 5 min read Instead of using one of the many battle proofed and reliable database solutions out there, I rather created my own solution. In this quick blog post, I am announcing the release of `db.js` - A in-memory database with persistant file storage. Continue reading * * * How to find out if an IP address belongs to a Hosting / Cloud Provider? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on March 09, 2022 in Security • Tagged with API, Datacenter, Hosting, Cloud-Provider, IP API, Bot-Detection, VPN-Detection, IP-Intelligence, IP-Lookup • 8 min read It is not entirely trivial to find out if an IP address belongs to a datacenter / cloud provider. In this blog article, I try to find an algorithm that outputs with high confidence if an IPv4 / Ipv6 address belongs to a hosting provider or not. Continue reading * * * Fingerprinting TLS - Core differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on January 18, 2022 in Security • Tagged with TLS Fingerprinting, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3 • 16 min read In this blog post, I highlight the core differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 and investigate how we can use several properties of the protocol to obtain fingerprinting entropy from TLS clients. Continue reading
Home Archives Categories Tags Impressum Contact Atom On Achieving your Dreams ------------------------ Posted on March 26, 2025 in Personal • Tagged with Work, Life, Business • 8 min read My thoughts after achieving the lifelong goal of creating a profitable Internet business. It turns out that you must be careful what you wish for. Continue reading * * * The State of this Blog ---------------------- Posted on October 01, 2023 in Uncategorized • Tagged with Update, News • 1 min read An update regarding the state of this blog Continue reading * * * How to find the ASN for any IP Address? --------------------------------------- Posted on July 31, 2022 in Programming • Tagged with autonomous system, ASN, API, Security • 4 min read In the Internet, each IP Address belongs to an autonomous system (AS). In this blog article, it is demonstrated how any IP address can be mapped to an AS number. The necessary information and sources to map each IP Address to an Autnomous System is provided as well, since they were not easy to find. Continue reading * * * db.js — In-Memory Key-Value Database with Persistent File Storage ----------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on May 29, 2022 in Open Source • Tagged with db.js, in-memory database, key-value storage, JSON file persistance • 5 min read Instead of using one of the many battle proofed and reliable database solutions out there, I rather created my own solution. In this quick blog post, I am announcing the release of `db.js` - A in-memory database with persistant file storage. Continue reading * * * How to find out if an IP address belongs to a Hosting / Cloud Provider? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on March 09, 2022 in Security • Tagged with API, Datacenter, Hosting, Cloud-Provider, IP API, Bot-Detection, VPN-Detection, IP-Intelligence, IP-Lookup • 8 min read It is not entirely trivial to find out if an IP address belongs to a datacenter / cloud provider. In this blog article, I try to find an algorithm that outputs with high confidence if an IPv4 / Ipv6 address belongs to a hosting provider or not. Continue reading * * * Fingerprinting TLS - Core differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Posted on January 18, 2022 in Security • Tagged with TLS Fingerprinting, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3 • 16 min read In this blog post, I highlight the core differences between TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 and investigate how we can use several properties of the protocol to obtain fingerprinting entropy from TLS clients. Continue reading
journal.jatan.space
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Updated March 25, 2025
Hi, I’m Jatan, a slow thinker, web wonk, and (a)social being. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to _Journal J_. While I’m a space writer by passion and profession, this personal blog is where I share musings about the Internet, life, writing, technology, and more. As part of it, I write a newsletter for friends as a calmer alternative to stay in touch against the slurp and slop of social media. If you’re new to this blog, start here: * Embracing a simple but effective digital life * Yes and No * Intriguing insects of Jakkur * A little bit about me as a human being * Common writing mistakes to avoid * Rules to effectively use social media * The one app to read them all * Introducing a network for thoughtful conversations * Newsletter for friends Follow ------ If you like what you read on this little corner of the human Internet, you can subscribe to get new posts in your inbox for free. Subscribe via email: or manually visit this site like the old Internet. :) Connect with me --------------- Email remains the best medium on the Web to deeply connect with people. Write to me to say hi or share your thoughts: * * * You can get me coffee grounds to celebrate personal blogging!
Hi, I’m Jatan, a slow thinker, web wonk, and (a)social being. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to _Journal J_. While I’m a space writer by passion and profession, this personal blog is where I share musings about the Internet, life, writing, technology, and more. As part of it, I write a newsletter for friends as a calmer alternative to stay in touch against the slurp and slop of social media. If you’re new to this blog, start here: * Embracing a simple but effective digital life * Yes and No * Intriguing insects of Jakkur * A little bit about me as a human being * Common writing mistakes to avoid * Rules to effectively use social media * The one app to read them all * Introducing a network for thoughtful conversations * Newsletter for friends Follow ------ If you like what you read on this little corner of the human Internet, you can subscribe to get new posts in your inbox for free. Subscribe via email: or manually visit this site like the old Internet. :) Connect with me --------------- Email remains the best medium on the Web to deeply connect with people. Write to me to say hi or share your thoughts: * * * You can get me coffee grounds to celebrate personal blogging!
marcjenkins.co.uk
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Updated March 24, 2025
What I’m doing now ------------------ * I recently became a Dad. What a ride, heh? We welcomed Isla May Jenkins to the world on 2nd December, 2024. * Working on several client projects via 16by9 and Noise & Grain. * I'm starting to work on a rebrand of 16by9. Will be blogging about the journey. * Migrating this blog from WordPress to Eleventy. Expect things to be a bit wonky for a while. * Taking as many photos as I can. Currently reading ----------------- * Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World * The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) Seishi Yokomizo * The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music Dave Grohl **Last updated:** _24th March, 2025_. Inspired by Derek Sivers.
What I’m doing now ------------------ * I recently became a Dad. What a ride, heh? We welcomed Isla May Jenkins to the world on 2nd December, 2024. * Working on several client projects via 16by9 and Noise & Grain. * I'm starting to work on a rebrand of 16by9. Will be blogging about the journey. * Migrating this blog from WordPress to Eleventy. Expect things to be a bit wonky for a while. * Taking as many photos as I can. Currently reading ----------------- * Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World * The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) Seishi Yokomizo * The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music Dave Grohl **Last updated:** _24th March, 2025_. Inspired by Derek Sivers.
erinroseglass.com
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Updated March 20, 2025
Currently, I work as a product manager at Chainguard, a software supply chain security start up. Previously, I led the Developer Education team at DigitalOcean, where I helped create and maintain free educational materials on open source software development for millions of visitors a month. Before joining industry, I served as the Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC San Diego, where I founded and directed KNIT, a non-commercial digital commons (with 2,400+ users) for UC San Diego, the San Diego Community College District, and San Diego State University. While at UC San Diego, I also co-organized the Cultured Data Symposium with Robert Twomey, co-organized and taught at the bi-annual Association of Research Libraries Digital Scholarship Institute, and served as the digital pedagogy consultant on two multimillion-dollar Mellon grant projects serving community college transfer students. You can read about my keynote on Education and the Future of Software Freedom at LibrePlanet 2023 and find a link to the recording here. My keynote on edtech and agency — “def tech\_liberation(): teaching agency in a programmed world!” — at !!ConWest 2020 is available to watch here. My dissertation Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline examines the potential role of higher education for fostering a more ethical approach towards digital technology and practice. I explain how students and higher education can help save the web in this Design@Large talk at UC San Diego. In a similar spirit, I co-founded Ethical EdTech, a wiki and online learning community devoted to ethical and open approaches to academic technology with Nathan Schneider. Social forms of knowledge making and education have long been critical to my work. As a graduate student, I envisioned and co-developed Social Paper, a platform for networking student writing and feedback, with The Commons In A Box team and support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. I received the 2018 Emerging Open Scholarship Award for #SocialDiss, a project in which I socialized dissertation drafts across multiple writing platforms for public review. I served as the 2019-2020 Wikipedian in Residence at the University of Victoria and gave two talks: “Open Access in the Age of Surveillance Technology” and “Who’s Afraid of Social Scholarship,” which I hope to post soon. This site is dreadfully outdated, but you can find more information in my talks, publications, and projects pages. Say hi at erin.glass@gmail.com.
Currently, I work as a product manager at Chainguard, a software supply chain security start up. Previously, I led the Developer Education team at DigitalOcean, where I helped create and maintain free educational materials on open source software development for millions of visitors a month. Before joining industry, I served as the Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC San Diego, where I founded and directed KNIT, a non-commercial digital commons (with 2,400+ users) for UC San Diego, the San Diego Community College District, and San Diego State University. While at UC San Diego, I also co-organized the Cultured Data Symposium with Robert Twomey, co-organized and taught at the bi-annual Association of Research Libraries Digital Scholarship Institute, and served as the digital pedagogy consultant on two multimillion-dollar Mellon grant projects serving community college transfer students. You can read about my keynote on Education and the Future of Software Freedom at LibrePlanet 2023 and find a link to the recording here. My keynote on edtech and agency — “def tech\_liberation(): teaching agency in a programmed world!” — at !!ConWest 2020 is available to watch here. My dissertation Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline examines the potential role of higher education for fostering a more ethical approach towards digital technology and practice. I explain how students and higher education can help save the web in this Design@Large talk at UC San Diego. In a similar spirit, I co-founded Ethical EdTech, a wiki and online learning community devoted to ethical and open approaches to academic technology with Nathan Schneider. Social forms of knowledge making and education have long been critical to my work. As a graduate student, I envisioned and co-developed Social Paper, a platform for networking student writing and feedback, with The Commons In A Box team and support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. I received the 2018 Emerging Open Scholarship Award for #SocialDiss, a project in which I socialized dissertation drafts across multiple writing platforms for public review. I served as the 2019-2020 Wikipedian in Residence at the University of Victoria and gave two talks: “Open Access in the Age of Surveillance Technology” and “Who’s Afraid of Social Scholarship,” which I hope to post soon. This site is dreadfully outdated, but you can find more information in my talks, publications, and projects pages. Say hi at erin.glass@gmail.com.
benkaiser.dev
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Updated March 20, 2025
Hey! I'm Ben. I'm a software engineer that works on the SharePoint team @ Microsoft. I live on the Gold Coast of Australia. I'm married and I have three beautiful kids. My hobbies include playing Call of Duty, Chess, working on any number of programming side projects, and running. Some of my programming interests (to name a few) are open source, crypto, canvas animations and music players. Some of my past accolades have been: * Grand prize winner of Google Code-in 2013 * Graduating my masters of Software Engineering @ age 20 * Being promoted to Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft in under 3 years
Hey! I'm Ben. I'm a software engineer that works on the SharePoint team @ Microsoft. I live on the Gold Coast of Australia. I'm married and I have three beautiful kids. My hobbies include playing Call of Duty, Chess, working on any number of programming side projects, and running. Some of my programming interests (to name a few) are open source, crypto, canvas animations and music players. Some of my past accolades have been: * Grand prize winner of Google Code-in 2013 * Graduating my masters of Software Engineering @ age 20 * Being promoted to Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft in under 3 years
ryanckulp.com
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Updated March 20, 2025
2025 speedrunning my 30s. built a crimson rock trail beside my pond. renovating my barn. getting ripped (again). not being social. **2024** crowdfunded a hardware startup, TRMNL. acquired Fera.ai. built the Hacker House with my bare hands. produced chicken nuggets. **2023** began ethical hacking, woodworking, calisthenics, and built RIGD with friends. **2022** sold Fomo, bought a ranch, acquired GetReviews.ai, started a **solo talk show**, **began learning** to farm. **2021** started a career in K-Pop, launched a Korean board game, opened a film studio. between releasing my first Korean album and becoming a reality tv star i won 1st place in a Korean singing competition, learned Solidity, and sold out multiple NFT projects (1, 2). **2020** temporarily retired, moved to Seoul, launched Founder/Hacker. **2019** created Micro Acquisitions, began learning Korean, wrote a book, and explored 15 countries while running Fomo.com. _last updated March 19, 2025_ thanks **Derek** for the inspiration.
2025 speedrunning my 30s. built a crimson rock trail beside my pond. renovating my barn. getting ripped (again). not being social. **2024** crowdfunded a hardware startup, TRMNL. acquired Fera.ai. built the Hacker House with my bare hands. produced chicken nuggets. **2023** began ethical hacking, woodworking, calisthenics, and built RIGD with friends. **2022** sold Fomo, bought a ranch, acquired GetReviews.ai, started a **solo talk show**, **began learning** to farm. **2021** started a career in K-Pop, launched a Korean board game, opened a film studio. between releasing my first Korean album and becoming a reality tv star i won 1st place in a Korean singing competition, learned Solidity, and sold out multiple NFT projects (1, 2). **2020** temporarily retired, moved to Seoul, launched Founder/Hacker. **2019** created Micro Acquisitions, began learning Korean, wrote a book, and explored 15 countries while running Fomo.com. _last updated March 19, 2025_ thanks **Derek** for the inspiration.
blog.codinghorror.com
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Updated March 20, 2025
_The following is drawn from a speech I delivered today at_ _Cooper Union’s Great Hall_ _in New York City, where I joined Lieutenant Colonel_ _Alexander Vindman_ _to discuss the future of the American Dream:_ What is the American Dream? In 1931, at the height of the Great Depression, James Truslow Adams first defined the American Dream as > “\[...\] a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. \[...\] not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which \[everyone\] shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position” I wanted to know what these words meant to us today. I needed to know what parts of the American Dream we all still had in common. I had to make some sense of what was happening to our country. I’ve been writing on my blog since 2004, and on November 7th, I started writing the most difficult piece I have ever written. I asked so many Americans to tell me what the American Dream personally meant to them, and I wrote it all down. Later in November, I attended a theater performance of The Outsiders at my son’s public high school – an adaptation of the 1967 novel by S.E. Hinton. All I really knew was the famous “stay gold” line from the 1983 movie. But as I sat there in the audience among my neighbors, watching the complete story acted out in front of me by these teenagers, I slowly realized what “stay gold” meant: _sharing the American Dream._ We cannot merely attain the Dream. The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans. That act of sharing is the final realization of everything the dream stands for. Thanks to S.E. Hinton, I finally had a name for my essay, “Stay Gold, America.” I published it on January 7th, with a **Pledge to Share the American Dream**. In the first part of the Pledge, the short term, our family made eight 1 million dollar donations to the following nonprofit groups: Team Rubicon, Children’s Hunger Fund, PEN America, The Trevor Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, First Generation Investors, Global Refuge, and Planned Parenthood. Beyond that, we made many additional one million dollar donations to reinforce our technical infrastructure in America – Wikipedia, The Internet Archive, The Common Crawl Foundation, Let’s Encrypt, pioneering independent internet journalism, and several other crucial open source software infrastructure projects that power much of the world today. I encourage every American to contribute soon, however you can, to organizations you feel are effectively helping those most currently in need. But short term fixes are not enough. The **Pledge To Share The American Dream** requires a much more ambitious second act – deeper, long term changes that will take decades. Over the next five years, my family pledges half our remaining wealth to plant a seed toward foundational long term efforts ensuring that all Americans continue to have the same fair access to the American Dream. Let me tell you about my own path to the American Dream. It was rocky. My parents were born into deep poverty in Mercer County, West Virginia, and Beaufort County, North Carolina. Our family eventually clawed our way to the bottom of the middle class in Virginia. I won’t dwell on it, but every family has their own problems. We did not remain middle class for long. But through all this, my parents got the most important thing right: they loved me openly and unconditionally. That is everything. It’s the only reason I am standing here in front of you today. With my family’s support, I managed to achieve a solid public education in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and had the incredible privilege of an affordable state education at the University of Virginia. This is a college uniquely rooted in the beliefs of one of the most prominent Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson. He was a living paradox. A man of profound ideals and yet flawed – trapped in the values of his time and place. Still, he wrote “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” at the top of the Declaration of Independence. These words were, and still are, revolutionary. They define our fundamental shared American values, although we have not always lived up to them. The American Dream isn’t about us succeeding, alone, by ourselves, but about connecting with each other and succeeding together as Americans. I’ve been concerned about wealth concentration in America ever since I watched a 2012 video by politizane illustrating just how extreme wealth concentration already was. I had no idea how close we were to the American Gilded Age from the late 1800s. This period was given a name in the 1920s by historians referencing Mark Twain’s 1873 novel, The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today. During this time, labor strikes often turned violent, with the Homestead Strike of 1892 resulting in deadly confrontations between workers and Pinkerton guards hired by factory owners. Rapid industrialization created hazardous working conditions in factories, mines, and railroads, where thousands died due to insufficient safety regulations and employers who prioritized profit over worker welfare. In January 2025, while I was still writing “Stay Gold, America”, we entered the period of greatest wealth concentration in the entirety of American history. As of 2021, the top 1% of households controlled 32% of all wealth, while the bottom 50% only have 2.6%. It’s difficult to find more recent data, but wealth concentration has only intensified in the last four years. We can no longer say “Gilded Age.” We must now say “The First Gilded Age.” Today, in our _second_ Gilded Age, more and more people find their path to the American Dream blocked. When Americans face unaffordable education, lack of accessible healthcare, or lack affordable housing, they aren’t just disadvantaged – they’re trapped, often burdened by massive debt. They have no stable foundation to build their lives. They watch desperately, working as hard as they can, while life simply passes them by, without even the freedom to choose their own lives. They don’t have time to build a career. They don’t have time to learn, to improve. They don’t get to start a business. They can’t choose where their kids will grow up, or whether to have children at all, because they can’t afford to. Here in the land of opportunity, the pursuit of happiness has become an endless task for too many. We are denying people any real chance of achieving the dream that we promised them – that we promised the entire world – when we founded this nation. It is such a profound betrayal of everything we ever dreamed about. Without a stable foundation to build a life on, our fellow Americans cannot even _pursue_ the American Dream, much less achieve it. I ask you this: as an American, what is the purpose of a dream left unshared with so many for so long? What’s happening to our dream? Are we really willing to let go of our values so easily? We’re Americans. We fight for our values, the values embodied in our dream, the ones we founded this country on. Why aren’t we sharing the American Dream? Why aren’t we giving everyone a fair chance at Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by providing them the fundamentals they need to get there? The Dream worked for me, decades ago, and I deeply believe that the American Dream can still work for everyone – if we ensure every American has the same fair chance we did. The American Dream was never about a few people being extraordinarily wealthy. It’s about everyone having an equal chance to succeed and pursue their dreams – their own happiness. It belongs to them. I think we owe them at least that. I think we owe _ourselves_ at least that. What can we do about this? There are no easy answers. I can’t even pretend to have the answer, because there isn’t any one answer to give. Nothing worth doing is ever that simple. But I can tell you this: all the studies and all the data I’ve looked at have strongly pointed to one foundational thing we can do here in America over the next five years. Natalie Foster, co-founder of the Economic Security Project, makes a powerful case for the idea that, with all this concentrated wealth, we can offer a **Guaranteed Minimum Income** in the poorest areas of this country – the areas of most need, where money goes the farthest – to unlock vast amounts of untapped American potential. This isn’t a new idea. We’ve been doing this a while now in different forms, but we never called it Guaranteed Minimum Income. In **1797**, Thomas Paine proposed a retirement pension funded by estate taxes. It didn’t go anywhere, but it planted a seed. Much later we implemented the Social Security Act in **1935** . The economic chaos of the Great Depression coupled with the inability of private philanthropy to provide economic security inspired Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal government programs. The most popular and effective program to emerge from this era was Social Security, providing a guaranteed income for retirees. Before Social Security, _half_ of seniors lived in poverty. Today only 10% of seniors live in poverty. In his **1967** book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, Martin Luther King Jr made the moral case for a form of UBI, Universal Basic Income. King believed that economic insecurity was at the root of all inequality. He stated that a guaranteed income — direct cash disbursements — was the simplest and best way to fight poverty. In **1972**, Congress established the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, providing direct cash assistance to low-income elderly, blind, and disabled individuals with little or no income. This cash can be used for food, housing, and medical expenses, the essentials for financial stability. As of January, 2025, over 7.3 million people receive SSI benefits. In **1975**, Congress passed the Tax Reduction Act, establishing the Earned Income Tax Credit. This tax credit benefits working-class parents with children, encouraging work by increasing the income of low-income workers. In 2023, it lifted about 6.4 million people out of poverty, including 3.4 million children. According to the Census Bureau, it is the second most effective anti-poverty tool after Social Security. In **2019**, directly inspired by King, mayor Michael Tubbs – at age 26, one of the youngest mayors in American history – launched the $3 million Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration. It provided 125 residents with $500 per month in unconditional cash payments for two years. The program found that recipients experienced improved financial stability, increased full-time employment, and enhanced well-being. In my “Stay Gold, America” blog post, I referenced the Robert Frost “Stay Gold” poem and S.E. Hinton’s famous famous novel The Outsiders, urging us to retain our youthful ideals as we grow older. Ideals embodied in the American Dream. Which brings us to another Robert Frost poem, The Road Not Taken. Our proposal to ensure access to the American Dream is to follow the path less travelled by: **Guaranteed Minimum Income.** GMI is a simpler, more practical, more scalable plan to directly address the root of economic insecurity with minimum bureaucracy. We are partnering with GiveDirectly, who oversaw the most GMI studies in the United States, and OpenResearch, who just completed the largest, most detailed GMI study ever conducted in this country in 2023. We are working together to launch a new Guaranteed Minimum Income initiative in **rural American communities**. Network effects within communities explain why equality of opportunity is so effective, and why a shared American Dream is the most powerful dream of all. The potential of the American Dream becomes vastly greater as more people have access to it, **because _they share it__._** They share it with their families, their friends, and their neighbors. The groundbreaking, massive 2023 OpenResearch UBI study data showed that when you give money to the poorest among us, they consistently go _out_ _of their way_ to share that money with others in desperate need. The power of opportunity is not in what it can do for one person, but how it connects and strengthens bonds between people. When you empower a couple, you allow them to build a family. When you empower families, you allow them to build a community. When you guarantee fundamentals, you’re providing a foundation for those connections to grow and thrive. This is the incredible power and value of community. That is what we are investing in – each other. A system where there are no guarantees creates conflict. It creates inequality. A massive concentration of wealth in so few hands weakens connections between us and prevents new ones. America began as a place of connection. Millions of us came together to build this nation, not individually, but together. Equality is connection, and connection is more valuable than any product any company will ever sell you. Why focus on rural communities? There are consistently higher poverty rates in rural counties, with fewer job opportunities, lower wages, and worse access to healthcare and education. It’s not a new problem, either — places like Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and American Indian reservations have been stuck in poverty for decades, with some counties like Oglala Lakota, SD (55.8%) and McDowell, WV (37.6%) hitting extreme levels. Meanwhile, urban counties rarely see numbers that high. The data from the US Census and USDA Economic Research Service make it clear: if you’re poor in America, being rural makes it even harder to escape. Rural areas also offer smaller populations, which is helpful because we need to start small with lots of tightly controlled studies that we can carefully scale and improve on for larger areas. We hope to build a large body of scientific data showing that GMI really does improve the lives, and the communities, of our fellow Americans. ### The initial plan is to target a few counties that I have a personal connection to, and are still currently in poverty, decades later: * My father was born in Mercer County, West Virginia, where the collapse of coal mining left good people struggling to survive. Their living and their way of life is now all but gone, and good jobs are hard to find. * My mother’s birthplace, Beaufort County, North Carolina, has been hit just as hard, with farming and factory jobs disappearing and families left wondering what’s next. * Our third county is yet to be decided, but will be a community also facing the same systemic, generational obstacles to economic stability and achieving the American Dream. We will work with existing local groups to coordinate GMI studies where community members choose to enroll. We will conduct outreach and and provide mentorship to these opt-in study participants. It will be teamwork between Americans. We hope Veterans will play a crucial role in our effort. We plan to work with local communities and veteran-serving organizations to engage veterans to support and execute our GMI programs – the same veterans who served our country with distinction, returning home with exceptional leadership skills and a deep commitment to their communities. Their involvement ensures these programs reflect core American values of self-reliance and community service to fellow Americans. We’ll also partner with established community organizations — churches, civic groups, community colleges, local businesses. These partnerships help integrate our GMI studies with existing support systems, rather than creating new ones. GiveDirectly and OpenResearch will build on their existing body of work, gathering extensive data from these refined studies. We’ll measure employment, entrepreneurship, education, health, and community engagement. We’ll conduct regular interviews with participants to understand their experience. How is this working for you? How can we make it better? You tell us. How can we make it better together? Economic security isn’t only about individual well-being – it’s the bedrock of democracy. When people aren’t constantly worried about feeding themselves, feeding their family, having decent healthcare, having a place to live… we have given them room to breathe. We have given them freedom. The freedom to raise their children, the freedom to start businesses, the freedom to choose where they work, the freedom to volunteer... the freedom to _vote_. This isn’t about ideology or government. It’s about us, as Americans, working together to invest in our future – possibly the greatest unlocking of human potential in our entire history. I do not say these things lightly. I’ve seen it work. I’ve looked at all the existing study data. A little bit of money is incredibly transformational for people in poverty – the people who need it the most – the people who cannot live up to their potential because they’re so busy simply trying to survive. Imagine what they could do if we gave them just a little breathing room. GMI is a long term investment in the future of what America should be, the way we wrote it down in the Declaration of Independence, perhaps incompletely – but our democracy was always meant to be malleable, to change, to adapt, and improve. I’d like to conclude by mentioning Aaron Swartz. He was a precocious teenage programmer much like myself. Aaron helped develop RSS web feeds, co-founded Reddit, and worked with Creative Commons to create flexible copyright licenses for the common good. He used technology to make information universally accessible to everyone. Aaron created a system to download public domain court documents from PACER, a government database that charged fees for accessing what he believed should be freely available public information. A few years later, while visiting MIT under their open campus policy and as a research fellow at Harvard, he used MIT’s network to download millions of academic articles from JSTOR, another fee-charging online academic journal repository, intending to make this knowledge freely accessible. Since taxpayers had funded much of this research, why shouldn’t that knowledge be freely available to everyone? What Aaron saw as an act of academic freedom and information equality, authorities viewed as a crime—he was arrested in January 2011 and charged with multiple felonies for what many considered to be nothing more than accessing knowledge that should have been freely available to the public in the first place. Despite JSTOR declining to pursue charges and MIT eventually calling for leniency, federal prosecutors aggressively pursued felony charges against Aaron with up to 35 years in prison. Facing overwhelming legal pressure and the prospect of being labeled a felon, Aaron took his own life at 26. This sparked widespread criticism of prosecutorial overreach and prompted discussions about open access to information. Deservedly so. Eight days later, in this very hall, there was a standing room only memorial service praising Aaron for his commitment to the public good. Aaron pursued what was right for we, the people. He chose to build the public good despite knowing there would be risks. He chose to be an activist. I think we should all choose to be activists, to be brave, to stand up for our defining American principles. There are two things I ask of you today. ---------------------------------------- 1. Visit givedirectly.org/rural-us where we’ll be documenting our journey and findings from the initial three GMI rural county studies. Let’s find out together how guaranteed minimum income can transform American lives. 2. Talk about **Guaranteed Minimum Income** in your communities. Meet with your state and local officials. Share the existing study data. Share outcomes. Ask them about conducting GMI studies like ours in your area. We tell ourselves stories about why some people succeed and others don’t. Challenge those stories. Economic security is not _charity_. It is an _investment_ in vast untapped American potential in the poorest areas of this country. My family is committing 50 million dollars to this endeavor, but imagine if we had even more to share. Imagine how much more we could do, if we build this together, starting today. Decades from now, people will look back and wonder why it took us so long to share our dream of a better, richer, and fuller life with our fellow Americans. I hope you join us on this grand experiment to share our American Dream. I believe everyone deserves a fair chance at what was promised when we founded this nation: Life, Liberty, and _the pursuit of The American Dream._
_The following is drawn from a speech I delivered today at_ _Cooper Union’s Great Hall_ _in New York City, where I joined Lieutenant Colonel_ _Alexander Vindman_ _to discuss the future of the American Dream:_ What is the American Dream? In 1931, at the height of the Great Depression, James Truslow Adams first defined the American Dream as > “\[...\] a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. \[...\] not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which \[everyone\] shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position” I wanted to know what these words meant to us today. I needed to know what parts of the American Dream we all still had in common. I had to make some sense of what was happening to our country. I’ve been writing on my blog since 2004, and on November 7th, I started writing the most difficult piece I have ever written. I asked so many Americans to tell me what the American Dream personally meant to them, and I wrote it all down. Later in November, I attended a theater performance of The Outsiders at my son’s public high school – an adaptation of the 1967 novel by S.E. Hinton. All I really knew was the famous “stay gold” line from the 1983 movie. But as I sat there in the audience among my neighbors, watching the complete story acted out in front of me by these teenagers, I slowly realized what “stay gold” meant: _sharing the American Dream._ We cannot merely attain the Dream. The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans. That act of sharing is the final realization of everything the dream stands for. Thanks to S.E. Hinton, I finally had a name for my essay, “Stay Gold, America.” I published it on January 7th, with a **Pledge to Share the American Dream**. In the first part of the Pledge, the short term, our family made eight 1 million dollar donations to the following nonprofit groups: Team Rubicon, Children’s Hunger Fund, PEN America, The Trevor Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, First Generation Investors, Global Refuge, and Planned Parenthood. Beyond that, we made many additional one million dollar donations to reinforce our technical infrastructure in America – Wikipedia, The Internet Archive, The Common Crawl Foundation, Let’s Encrypt, pioneering independent internet journalism, and several other crucial open source software infrastructure projects that power much of the world today. I encourage every American to contribute soon, however you can, to organizations you feel are effectively helping those most currently in need. But short term fixes are not enough. The **Pledge To Share The American Dream** requires a much more ambitious second act – deeper, long term changes that will take decades. Over the next five years, my family pledges half our remaining wealth to plant a seed toward foundational long term efforts ensuring that all Americans continue to have the same fair access to the American Dream. Let me tell you about my own path to the American Dream. It was rocky. My parents were born into deep poverty in Mercer County, West Virginia, and Beaufort County, North Carolina. Our family eventually clawed our way to the bottom of the middle class in Virginia. I won’t dwell on it, but every family has their own problems. We did not remain middle class for long. But through all this, my parents got the most important thing right: they loved me openly and unconditionally. That is everything. It’s the only reason I am standing here in front of you today. With my family’s support, I managed to achieve a solid public education in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and had the incredible privilege of an affordable state education at the University of Virginia. This is a college uniquely rooted in the beliefs of one of the most prominent Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson. He was a living paradox. A man of profound ideals and yet flawed – trapped in the values of his time and place. Still, he wrote “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” at the top of the Declaration of Independence. These words were, and still are, revolutionary. They define our fundamental shared American values, although we have not always lived up to them. The American Dream isn’t about us succeeding, alone, by ourselves, but about connecting with each other and succeeding together as Americans. I’ve been concerned about wealth concentration in America ever since I watched a 2012 video by politizane illustrating just how extreme wealth concentration already was. I had no idea how close we were to the American Gilded Age from the late 1800s. This period was given a name in the 1920s by historians referencing Mark Twain’s 1873 novel, The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today. During this time, labor strikes often turned violent, with the Homestead Strike of 1892 resulting in deadly confrontations between workers and Pinkerton guards hired by factory owners. Rapid industrialization created hazardous working conditions in factories, mines, and railroads, where thousands died due to insufficient safety regulations and employers who prioritized profit over worker welfare. In January 2025, while I was still writing “Stay Gold, America”, we entered the period of greatest wealth concentration in the entirety of American history. As of 2021, the top 1% of households controlled 32% of all wealth, while the bottom 50% only have 2.6%. It’s difficult to find more recent data, but wealth concentration has only intensified in the last four years. We can no longer say “Gilded Age.” We must now say “The First Gilded Age.” Today, in our _second_ Gilded Age, more and more people find their path to the American Dream blocked. When Americans face unaffordable education, lack of accessible healthcare, or lack affordable housing, they aren’t just disadvantaged – they’re trapped, often burdened by massive debt. They have no stable foundation to build their lives. They watch desperately, working as hard as they can, while life simply passes them by, without even the freedom to choose their own lives. They don’t have time to build a career. They don’t have time to learn, to improve. They don’t get to start a business. They can’t choose where their kids will grow up, or whether to have children at all, because they can’t afford to. Here in the land of opportunity, the pursuit of happiness has become an endless task for too many. We are denying people any real chance of achieving the dream that we promised them – that we promised the entire world – when we founded this nation. It is such a profound betrayal of everything we ever dreamed about. Without a stable foundation to build a life on, our fellow Americans cannot even _pursue_ the American Dream, much less achieve it. I ask you this: as an American, what is the purpose of a dream left unshared with so many for so long? What’s happening to our dream? Are we really willing to let go of our values so easily? We’re Americans. We fight for our values, the values embodied in our dream, the ones we founded this country on. Why aren’t we sharing the American Dream? Why aren’t we giving everyone a fair chance at Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness by providing them the fundamentals they need to get there? The Dream worked for me, decades ago, and I deeply believe that the American Dream can still work for everyone – if we ensure every American has the same fair chance we did. The American Dream was never about a few people being extraordinarily wealthy. It’s about everyone having an equal chance to succeed and pursue their dreams – their own happiness. It belongs to them. I think we owe them at least that. I think we owe _ourselves_ at least that. What can we do about this? There are no easy answers. I can’t even pretend to have the answer, because there isn’t any one answer to give. Nothing worth doing is ever that simple. But I can tell you this: all the studies and all the data I’ve looked at have strongly pointed to one foundational thing we can do here in America over the next five years. Natalie Foster, co-founder of the Economic Security Project, makes a powerful case for the idea that, with all this concentrated wealth, we can offer a **Guaranteed Minimum Income** in the poorest areas of this country – the areas of most need, where money goes the farthest – to unlock vast amounts of untapped American potential. This isn’t a new idea. We’ve been doing this a while now in different forms, but we never called it Guaranteed Minimum Income. In **1797**, Thomas Paine proposed a retirement pension funded by estate taxes. It didn’t go anywhere, but it planted a seed. Much later we implemented the Social Security Act in **1935** . The economic chaos of the Great Depression coupled with the inability of private philanthropy to provide economic security inspired Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal government programs. The most popular and effective program to emerge from this era was Social Security, providing a guaranteed income for retirees. Before Social Security, _half_ of seniors lived in poverty. Today only 10% of seniors live in poverty. In his **1967** book Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, Martin Luther King Jr made the moral case for a form of UBI, Universal Basic Income. King believed that economic insecurity was at the root of all inequality. He stated that a guaranteed income — direct cash disbursements — was the simplest and best way to fight poverty. In **1972**, Congress established the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, providing direct cash assistance to low-income elderly, blind, and disabled individuals with little or no income. This cash can be used for food, housing, and medical expenses, the essentials for financial stability. As of January, 2025, over 7.3 million people receive SSI benefits. In **1975**, Congress passed the Tax Reduction Act, establishing the Earned Income Tax Credit. This tax credit benefits working-class parents with children, encouraging work by increasing the income of low-income workers. In 2023, it lifted about 6.4 million people out of poverty, including 3.4 million children. According to the Census Bureau, it is the second most effective anti-poverty tool after Social Security. In **2019**, directly inspired by King, mayor Michael Tubbs – at age 26, one of the youngest mayors in American history – launched the $3 million Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration. It provided 125 residents with $500 per month in unconditional cash payments for two years. The program found that recipients experienced improved financial stability, increased full-time employment, and enhanced well-being. In my “Stay Gold, America” blog post, I referenced the Robert Frost “Stay Gold” poem and S.E. Hinton’s famous famous novel The Outsiders, urging us to retain our youthful ideals as we grow older. Ideals embodied in the American Dream. Which brings us to another Robert Frost poem, The Road Not Taken. Our proposal to ensure access to the American Dream is to follow the path less travelled by: **Guaranteed Minimum Income.** GMI is a simpler, more practical, more scalable plan to directly address the root of economic insecurity with minimum bureaucracy. We are partnering with GiveDirectly, who oversaw the most GMI studies in the United States, and OpenResearch, who just completed the largest, most detailed GMI study ever conducted in this country in 2023. We are working together to launch a new Guaranteed Minimum Income initiative in **rural American communities**. Network effects within communities explain why equality of opportunity is so effective, and why a shared American Dream is the most powerful dream of all. The potential of the American Dream becomes vastly greater as more people have access to it, **because _they share it__._** They share it with their families, their friends, and their neighbors. The groundbreaking, massive 2023 OpenResearch UBI study data showed that when you give money to the poorest among us, they consistently go _out_ _of their way_ to share that money with others in desperate need. The power of opportunity is not in what it can do for one person, but how it connects and strengthens bonds between people. When you empower a couple, you allow them to build a family. When you empower families, you allow them to build a community. When you guarantee fundamentals, you’re providing a foundation for those connections to grow and thrive. This is the incredible power and value of community. That is what we are investing in – each other. A system where there are no guarantees creates conflict. It creates inequality. A massive concentration of wealth in so few hands weakens connections between us and prevents new ones. America began as a place of connection. Millions of us came together to build this nation, not individually, but together. Equality is connection, and connection is more valuable than any product any company will ever sell you. Why focus on rural communities? There are consistently higher poverty rates in rural counties, with fewer job opportunities, lower wages, and worse access to healthcare and education. It’s not a new problem, either — places like Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and American Indian reservations have been stuck in poverty for decades, with some counties like Oglala Lakota, SD (55.8%) and McDowell, WV (37.6%) hitting extreme levels. Meanwhile, urban counties rarely see numbers that high. The data from the US Census and USDA Economic Research Service make it clear: if you’re poor in America, being rural makes it even harder to escape. Rural areas also offer smaller populations, which is helpful because we need to start small with lots of tightly controlled studies that we can carefully scale and improve on for larger areas. We hope to build a large body of scientific data showing that GMI really does improve the lives, and the communities, of our fellow Americans. ### The initial plan is to target a few counties that I have a personal connection to, and are still currently in poverty, decades later: * My father was born in Mercer County, West Virginia, where the collapse of coal mining left good people struggling to survive. Their living and their way of life is now all but gone, and good jobs are hard to find. * My mother’s birthplace, Beaufort County, North Carolina, has been hit just as hard, with farming and factory jobs disappearing and families left wondering what’s next. * Our third county is yet to be decided, but will be a community also facing the same systemic, generational obstacles to economic stability and achieving the American Dream. We will work with existing local groups to coordinate GMI studies where community members choose to enroll. We will conduct outreach and and provide mentorship to these opt-in study participants. It will be teamwork between Americans. We hope Veterans will play a crucial role in our effort. We plan to work with local communities and veteran-serving organizations to engage veterans to support and execute our GMI programs – the same veterans who served our country with distinction, returning home with exceptional leadership skills and a deep commitment to their communities. Their involvement ensures these programs reflect core American values of self-reliance and community service to fellow Americans. We’ll also partner with established community organizations — churches, civic groups, community colleges, local businesses. These partnerships help integrate our GMI studies with existing support systems, rather than creating new ones. GiveDirectly and OpenResearch will build on their existing body of work, gathering extensive data from these refined studies. We’ll measure employment, entrepreneurship, education, health, and community engagement. We’ll conduct regular interviews with participants to understand their experience. How is this working for you? How can we make it better? You tell us. How can we make it better together? Economic security isn’t only about individual well-being – it’s the bedrock of democracy. When people aren’t constantly worried about feeding themselves, feeding their family, having decent healthcare, having a place to live… we have given them room to breathe. We have given them freedom. The freedom to raise their children, the freedom to start businesses, the freedom to choose where they work, the freedom to volunteer... the freedom to _vote_. This isn’t about ideology or government. It’s about us, as Americans, working together to invest in our future – possibly the greatest unlocking of human potential in our entire history. I do not say these things lightly. I’ve seen it work. I’ve looked at all the existing study data. A little bit of money is incredibly transformational for people in poverty – the people who need it the most – the people who cannot live up to their potential because they’re so busy simply trying to survive. Imagine what they could do if we gave them just a little breathing room. GMI is a long term investment in the future of what America should be, the way we wrote it down in the Declaration of Independence, perhaps incompletely – but our democracy was always meant to be malleable, to change, to adapt, and improve. I’d like to conclude by mentioning Aaron Swartz. He was a precocious teenage programmer much like myself. Aaron helped develop RSS web feeds, co-founded Reddit, and worked with Creative Commons to create flexible copyright licenses for the common good. He used technology to make information universally accessible to everyone. Aaron created a system to download public domain court documents from PACER, a government database that charged fees for accessing what he believed should be freely available public information. A few years later, while visiting MIT under their open campus policy and as a research fellow at Harvard, he used MIT’s network to download millions of academic articles from JSTOR, another fee-charging online academic journal repository, intending to make this knowledge freely accessible. Since taxpayers had funded much of this research, why shouldn’t that knowledge be freely available to everyone? What Aaron saw as an act of academic freedom and information equality, authorities viewed as a crime—he was arrested in January 2011 and charged with multiple felonies for what many considered to be nothing more than accessing knowledge that should have been freely available to the public in the first place. Despite JSTOR declining to pursue charges and MIT eventually calling for leniency, federal prosecutors aggressively pursued felony charges against Aaron with up to 35 years in prison. Facing overwhelming legal pressure and the prospect of being labeled a felon, Aaron took his own life at 26. This sparked widespread criticism of prosecutorial overreach and prompted discussions about open access to information. Deservedly so. Eight days later, in this very hall, there was a standing room only memorial service praising Aaron for his commitment to the public good. Aaron pursued what was right for we, the people. He chose to build the public good despite knowing there would be risks. He chose to be an activist. I think we should all choose to be activists, to be brave, to stand up for our defining American principles. There are two things I ask of you today. ---------------------------------------- 1. Visit givedirectly.org/rural-us where we’ll be documenting our journey and findings from the initial three GMI rural county studies. Let’s find out together how guaranteed minimum income can transform American lives. 2. Talk about **Guaranteed Minimum Income** in your communities. Meet with your state and local officials. Share the existing study data. Share outcomes. Ask them about conducting GMI studies like ours in your area. We tell ourselves stories about why some people succeed and others don’t. Challenge those stories. Economic security is not _charity_. It is an _investment_ in vast untapped American potential in the poorest areas of this country. My family is committing 50 million dollars to this endeavor, but imagine if we had even more to share. Imagine how much more we could do, if we build this together, starting today. Decades from now, people will look back and wonder why it took us so long to share our dream of a better, richer, and fuller life with our fellow Americans. I hope you join us on this grand experiment to share our American Dream. I believe everyone deserves a fair chance at what was promised when we founded this nation: Life, Liberty, and _the pursuit of The American Dream._
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A long time ago I worked for a Porn company. As someone who grew up orthodox Jew and turned secular later in life, I had to consciously reorient my moral compass regularly; When a recruiter for that company contacted me I suspended my knee jerked “no” reaction and asked myself “why?” - it’s not like I hadn’t watched porn occasionally (I later learned to avoid it, it’s basically sexual junk food), so what’s my problem supporting its creation? And if I do have a problem with it, where do I draw the line? participating in a movie was an obvious “no”, but would I work for a company that had Porn companies as clients? pragmatically and morally it was an obvious “yes” for me - somewhere between these were my boundaries. When you do these kind of mind exercises, it soon becomes clear that practical applied morality (as opposed to abstract ideological morality) is very fluid. I ended up realizing I don’t view porn as _morally_ problematic but rather as _aesthetically_ problematic, so as long as my particular job was interesting and didn’t involve watching too much junk I was ok with it.
A long time ago I worked for a Porn company. As someone who grew up orthodox Jew and turned secular later in life, I had to consciously reorient my moral compass regularly; When a recruiter for that company contacted me I suspended my knee jerked “no” reaction and asked myself “why?” - it’s not like I hadn’t watched porn occasionally (I later learned to avoid it, it’s basically sexual junk food), so what’s my problem supporting its creation? And if I do have a problem with it, where do I draw the line? participating in a movie was an obvious “no”, but would I work for a company that had Porn companies as clients? pragmatically and morally it was an obvious “yes” for me - somewhere between these were my boundaries. When you do these kind of mind exercises, it soon becomes clear that practical applied morality (as opposed to abstract ideological morality) is very fluid. I ended up realizing I don’t view porn as _morally_ problematic but rather as _aesthetically_ problematic, so as long as my particular job was interesting and didn’t involve watching too much junk I was ok with it.
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