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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.
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._
blog.nukemberg.com
/about
Updated March 18, 2025
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.
mostlytrue.life
/about
Updated March 18, 2025
about ----- * * * Bienvenue, mes amis! I've always been fascinated by the idea of the Unreliable Narrator, and how memories and time change the stories you're _sure_ are true. In a way, any writing is only mostly true. Originally this started as a place to only tell stories, but I'm also using it as a digital garden for my thoughts and ideas about life and accessibility. My name is Tim Eaton, but all my friends call me Virgil. It's nice to have a real name that I chose, one that I always dreamt I was called. I stick with Tim for work and legal reasons, but Virgil is way more fun. A few things to know about me: I've spent my whole life traveling. My parents moved from Worcestor, where I was born, to Missouri and Vermont and New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. I left home for Spokane and Seattle, and found myself in nearly every city in the US, playing music and making friends. As I grew older, my circle expanded to include Ireland, The Philipines, France, China, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, and Colombia. These days home is Switzerland, with my lovely wife Julie, and two cats, one old, one young and diabolical. There's also a roommate, her son, and her dog. We have a grand apartment together, near the Lake, 15 minutes from Geneva by train. Botched surgeries ended up with several years spent in the hospital as I turned 40, and now I use a wheelchair for my travels. This is new enough that I'm still processing all the implications. I try to work through them by writing about my thoughts and feelings on this blog. I fully expect them to change over time. Anger and despair do flair up, but in general I remain myself, curious and happy-go-lucky. > "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."― Isaac Asimov I have been a writer and a programmer for most of my life, but I've had many jobs, from volunteer fireman to disaster relief, barista to chef, street musician to animal caretaker, day laborer to director to teacher - all around the world. During this time I've met many people and gathered many stories to tell. As for the rest, you'll discover that over time. I can't ever say no to an adventure, not even though I need a wheelchair now, so I'm going to sit and write about people and happenstances. Please enjoy! > "The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see." - Edward Abbey ### A note on AI: I never use AI to write, but I have found one prompt that I find very engaging and will continue to use. > _Acting as an editor, are you engaged by this story? Are there any confusing parts? If so, please explain._ The response is great, like notes from an editor. I find this to be ethical, because I use the notes (or ignore them) to rewrite entirely in my own words. I never use it to change or generate content. ### Colophon: I designed this site myself to be fluid and easy on the eyes, using Astro as the engine and Vercel for hosting. The only font used is Arvo, which I love for readability and headers. The main image was created with OpenAI, and any photographs will be attributed in the stories. I have an RSS feed if you'd rather view it in your own preferred program. If you or anyone you know need design or programming help, I charge on a sliding scale - anything from cups of coffee and a _pain au chocolat_ for bit of help, to hard Euros for corporate work. You can find my freelancer site at timeaton.dev. I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have about building your own Astro site! I'm also thrilled to meet anyone who passes through Geneva, and emails from strangers make my day. ### Enjoying this? Let me know or send me a story via email. Send me your blog and I'll read it! Subscribe to my newsletter. More of my stories are below. You can follow my feed, tip me a coffee on ko-fi, or move on to my favorite links. Thanks for visiting! All Stories -----------
about ----- * * * Bienvenue, mes amis! I've always been fascinated by the idea of the Unreliable Narrator, and how memories and time change the stories you're _sure_ are true. In a way, any writing is only mostly true. Originally this started as a place to only tell stories, but I'm also using it as a digital garden for my thoughts and ideas about life and accessibility. My name is Tim Eaton, but all my friends call me Virgil. It's nice to have a real name that I chose, one that I always dreamt I was called. I stick with Tim for work and legal reasons, but Virgil is way more fun. A few things to know about me: I've spent my whole life traveling. My parents moved from Worcestor, where I was born, to Missouri and Vermont and New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. I left home for Spokane and Seattle, and found myself in nearly every city in the US, playing music and making friends. As I grew older, my circle expanded to include Ireland, The Philipines, France, China, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, and Colombia. These days home is Switzerland, with my lovely wife Julie, and two cats, one old, one young and diabolical. There's also a roommate, her son, and her dog. We have a grand apartment together, near the Lake, 15 minutes from Geneva by train. Botched surgeries ended up with several years spent in the hospital as I turned 40, and now I use a wheelchair for my travels. This is new enough that I'm still processing all the implications. I try to work through them by writing about my thoughts and feelings on this blog. I fully expect them to change over time. Anger and despair do flair up, but in general I remain myself, curious and happy-go-lucky. > "Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."― Isaac Asimov I have been a writer and a programmer for most of my life, but I've had many jobs, from volunteer fireman to disaster relief, barista to chef, street musician to animal caretaker, day laborer to director to teacher - all around the world. During this time I've met many people and gathered many stories to tell. As for the rest, you'll discover that over time. I can't ever say no to an adventure, not even though I need a wheelchair now, so I'm going to sit and write about people and happenstances. Please enjoy! > "The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see." - Edward Abbey ### A note on AI: I never use AI to write, but I have found one prompt that I find very engaging and will continue to use. > _Acting as an editor, are you engaged by this story? Are there any confusing parts? If so, please explain._ The response is great, like notes from an editor. I find this to be ethical, because I use the notes (or ignore them) to rewrite entirely in my own words. I never use it to change or generate content. ### Colophon: I designed this site myself to be fluid and easy on the eyes, using Astro as the engine and Vercel for hosting. The only font used is Arvo, which I love for readability and headers. The main image was created with OpenAI, and any photographs will be attributed in the stories. I have an RSS feed if you'd rather view it in your own preferred program. If you or anyone you know need design or programming help, I charge on a sliding scale - anything from cups of coffee and a _pain au chocolat_ for bit of help, to hard Euros for corporate work. You can find my freelancer site at timeaton.dev. I'm more than happy to answer any questions you might have about building your own Astro site! I'm also thrilled to meet anyone who passes through Geneva, and emails from strangers make my day. ### Enjoying this? Let me know or send me a story via email. Send me your blog and I'll read it! Subscribe to my newsletter. More of my stories are below. You can follow my feed, tip me a coffee on ko-fi, or move on to my favorite links. Thanks for visiting! All Stories -----------
mostlytrue.life
/now
Updated March 18, 2025
now --- * * * This is what I'm currently working on, reading, and thinking about. Inspired by Derek Sivers' now page movement. ### currently working on * Learning some elements of digital game design, for fun (and profit?) * Getting a solid wheelie on my chair so I can jump onto/off sidewalks and other obstacles (skateboard?). * Heading to Italy for the first time, in two weeks! * Learning more songs in French - I'm being largely influenced by the Quebecois neo-folk scene, which is probably ruining my French pronunciation. ### currently reading * "The Bad Muslim Discount" by Syed M. Masood * "Chokepoint Capitalism" by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow * "The Anti-Ablist Manifesto" by Tiffany Yu ### currently thinking about * Ethics in AI - My takeaway comes down to "Ethics are good, I mostly like them." * How can I increase my French level? And what about Swiss German? In general, I'm continuing to learn how I can be myself in a wheelchair. So much of my history is based on adventure and climbing or running or walking... Now all of that is far more complicated. Often I respond to new things with a bit of rebellion even if I say "yes, our course!" This is no different. I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I'm doing it. I'm trying to maintain kindness and curiosity, and not immediately assume people are looking down at me or forgetting about me. Right now, this means giving my friends specific instructions about how to help me: don't touch without asking, or at least letting me know... Always take public transportation if possible because cars are much more painful... Try not to leave things in the doorway so I get trapped... And so forth. People need to keep being reminded, gently. ### because kindness is punk as hell. _Last updated: 14 julliet 2025. Vive la France!_ ### Enjoying this? Let me know or send me a story via email. Send me your blog and I'll read it! Subscribe to my newsletter. More of my stories are below. You can follow my feed, tip me a coffee on ko-fi, or move on to my favorite links. Thanks for visiting! All Stories -----------
now --- * * * This is what I'm currently working on, reading, and thinking about. Inspired by Derek Sivers' now page movement. ### currently working on * Learning some elements of digital game design, for fun (and profit?) * Getting a solid wheelie on my chair so I can jump onto/off sidewalks and other obstacles (skateboard?). * Heading to Italy for the first time, in two weeks! * Learning more songs in French - I'm being largely influenced by the Quebecois neo-folk scene, which is probably ruining my French pronunciation. ### currently reading * "The Bad Muslim Discount" by Syed M. Masood * "Chokepoint Capitalism" by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow * "The Anti-Ablist Manifesto" by Tiffany Yu ### currently thinking about * Ethics in AI - My takeaway comes down to "Ethics are good, I mostly like them." * How can I increase my French level? And what about Swiss German? In general, I'm continuing to learn how I can be myself in a wheelchair. So much of my history is based on adventure and climbing or running or walking... Now all of that is far more complicated. Often I respond to new things with a bit of rebellion even if I say "yes, our course!" This is no different. I'm not sure what I'm doing, but I'm doing it. I'm trying to maintain kindness and curiosity, and not immediately assume people are looking down at me or forgetting about me. Right now, this means giving my friends specific instructions about how to help me: don't touch without asking, or at least letting me know... Always take public transportation if possible because cars are much more painful... Try not to leave things in the doorway so I get trapped... And so forth. People need to keep being reminded, gently. ### because kindness is punk as hell. _Last updated: 14 julliet 2025. Vive la France!_ ### Enjoying this? Let me know or send me a story via email. Send me your blog and I'll read it! Subscribe to my newsletter. More of my stories are below. You can follow my feed, tip me a coffee on ko-fi, or move on to my favorite links. Thanks for visiting! All Stories -----------
micouy.github.io
/about
Updated March 17, 2025
my github my 𝕏 2025-03-17 Places in London 2024-12-18 My LÖVR workflow 2024-11-29 Drag & drop in VR with LÖVR 2022-03-19 I do understand the \* operator in Rust now (updated) 2021-04-27 My Rust workflow 2021-04-21 Chromatic aberration 2020-07-17 Low level stuff pt. 1 - Booting to 'Hello Rust!'
my github my 𝕏 2025-03-17 Places in London 2024-12-18 My LÖVR workflow 2024-11-29 Drag & drop in VR with LÖVR 2022-03-19 I do understand the \* operator in Rust now (updated) 2021-04-27 My Rust workflow 2021-04-21 Chromatic aberration 2020-07-17 Low level stuff pt. 1 - Booting to 'Hello Rust!'
xhuangcv.github.io
/about
Updated March 17, 2025
Biography --------- I am currently a final year Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), supervised by Prof. Qing Wang. My research interests lie in 3D vision and computational photography, with a particular focus on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), Neural Camera Models, and 3D AI-Generated Content (AIGC). From 2021 to 2023, I worked as a research intern at the Visual Computing Center, Tencent AI Lab, under the mentorship of Qi Zhang. I also interned with the 3D Vision and Computational Photography Group at Tsinghua University, guided by Prof. Yebin Liu. I was a research intern at Shanghai AI Lab, collaborating with Tengfei Wang and Ziwei Liu. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from the School of Computer Science, NPU, in 2020. News ---- \[2025/03/17\] Material Anything got accepted by **CVPR 2025 (Highlight)**! 🎉 \[2024/08/23\] LTM-NeRF got accepted by **IEEE TPAMI**! 🎉 \[2024/02/27\] HumanNorm got accepted by **CVPR 2024**! 🎉 \[2023/12/26\] The code of HumanNorm has been released. \[2023/02/28\] Two first-author papers LIRF and NeuCam got accepted by **CVPR 2023**! 🎉🎉 \[2022/06/08\] The code of HDR-NeRF has been released. \[2022/03/03\] One first-author paper HDR-NeRF got accepted by **CVPR 2022**! 🎉 \[2021/08/14\] I started an internship at Tencent AI Lab. Publications ------------ **Material Anything: Generating Materials for Any 3D Object via Diffusion** **Xin Huang**, Tengfei Wang, Ziwei Liu, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025 (**CVPR 2025 (Highlight)**)_ Home Paper Code **LTM-NeRF: Embedding 3D Local Tone Mapping in HDR Neural Radiance Field** **Xin Huang**, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Hongdong Li, Qing Wang _IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (**IEEE TPAMI 2024**)_ Home Paper **HumanNorm: Learning Normal Diffusion Model for High-quality and Realistic 3D Human Generation** **Xin Huang**\*, Ruizhi Shao\*, Qi Zhang, Hongwen Zhang, Ying Feng, Yebin Liu, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (**CVPR 2024**)_ Home Code arXiv Video **Inverting the Imaging Process by Learning an Implicit Camera Model** **Xin Huang**, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Hongdong Li, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (**CVPR 2023**)_ Home Code arXiv Video **Local Implicit Ray Function for Generalizable Radiance Field Representation** **Xin Huang**, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Xiaoyu Li, Xuan Wang, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (**CVPR 2023**)_ Home arXiv Video **HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields** **Xin Huang**, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Hongdong Li, Xuan Wang, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022 (**CVPR 2022**)_ Home Code arXiv Video **Stereo Unstructured Magnification: Multiple Homography Image for View Synthesis** Qi Zhang, **Xin Huang**, Ying Feng, Xue Wang, Hongdong Li, Qing Wang _arXiv 2022_ arXiv **SA-AE for Any-to-Any Relighting** Zhongyun Hu, **Xin Huang**, Yaning Li, Qing Wang _European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops: (**ECCV 2020 Workshops**)_ Paper Talks ----- * 高动态范围神经辐射场—HDR-NeRF (深蓝学院) Honors and Awards ----------------- * **China National Scholarship**, 2024. * **Outstanding Graduate Students (6%)** in Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2020. * **Champion** in China Robot Competition - Dancing Robots Project, 08/2019. * **Champion** in China Robot Competition - Dancing Robots Project, 08/2018. * **Meritorious Winner (7.2%)** in International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), 02/2018. * **Outstanding Students** in Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2017 and 2019. * **First Prize ($7,200)** in Face Recognition Hackathon, Shaanxi, China, 11/2017. The source code of this website is borrowed from Yuliang Xiu **The page is last updated at**
Biography --------- I am currently a final year Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science of Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), supervised by Prof. Qing Wang. My research interests lie in 3D vision and computational photography, with a particular focus on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), Neural Camera Models, and 3D AI-Generated Content (AIGC). From 2021 to 2023, I worked as a research intern at the Visual Computing Center, Tencent AI Lab, under the mentorship of Qi Zhang. I also interned with the 3D Vision and Computational Photography Group at Tsinghua University, guided by Prof. Yebin Liu. I was a research intern at Shanghai AI Lab, collaborating with Tengfei Wang and Ziwei Liu. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from the School of Computer Science, NPU, in 2020. News ---- \[2025/03/17\] Material Anything got accepted by **CVPR 2025 (Highlight)**! 🎉 \[2024/08/23\] LTM-NeRF got accepted by **IEEE TPAMI**! 🎉 \[2024/02/27\] HumanNorm got accepted by **CVPR 2024**! 🎉 \[2023/12/26\] The code of HumanNorm has been released. \[2023/02/28\] Two first-author papers LIRF and NeuCam got accepted by **CVPR 2023**! 🎉🎉 \[2022/06/08\] The code of HDR-NeRF has been released. \[2022/03/03\] One first-author paper HDR-NeRF got accepted by **CVPR 2022**! 🎉 \[2021/08/14\] I started an internship at Tencent AI Lab. Publications ------------ **Material Anything: Generating Materials for Any 3D Object via Diffusion** **Xin Huang**, Tengfei Wang, Ziwei Liu, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025 (**CVPR 2025 (Highlight)**)_ Home Paper Code **LTM-NeRF: Embedding 3D Local Tone Mapping in HDR Neural Radiance Field** **Xin Huang**, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Hongdong Li, Qing Wang _IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (**IEEE TPAMI 2024**)_ Home Paper **HumanNorm: Learning Normal Diffusion Model for High-quality and Realistic 3D Human Generation** **Xin Huang**\*, Ruizhi Shao\*, Qi Zhang, Hongwen Zhang, Ying Feng, Yebin Liu, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (**CVPR 2024**)_ Home Code arXiv Video **Inverting the Imaging Process by Learning an Implicit Camera Model** **Xin Huang**, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Hongdong Li, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (**CVPR 2023**)_ Home Code arXiv Video **Local Implicit Ray Function for Generalizable Radiance Field Representation** **Xin Huang**, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Xiaoyu Li, Xuan Wang, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (**CVPR 2023**)_ Home arXiv Video **HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields** **Xin Huang**, Qi Zhang, Ying Feng, Hongdong Li, Xuan Wang, Qing Wang _Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022 (**CVPR 2022**)_ Home Code arXiv Video **Stereo Unstructured Magnification: Multiple Homography Image for View Synthesis** Qi Zhang, **Xin Huang**, Ying Feng, Xue Wang, Hongdong Li, Qing Wang _arXiv 2022_ arXiv **SA-AE for Any-to-Any Relighting** Zhongyun Hu, **Xin Huang**, Yaning Li, Qing Wang _European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops: (**ECCV 2020 Workshops**)_ Paper Talks ----- * 高动态范围神经辐射场—HDR-NeRF (深蓝学院) Honors and Awards ----------------- * **China National Scholarship**, 2024. * **Outstanding Graduate Students (6%)** in Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2020. * **Champion** in China Robot Competition - Dancing Robots Project, 08/2019. * **Champion** in China Robot Competition - Dancing Robots Project, 08/2018. * **Meritorious Winner (7.2%)** in International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), 02/2018. * **Outstanding Students** in Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2017 and 2019. * **First Prize ($7,200)** in Face Recognition Hackathon, Shaanxi, China, 11/2017. The source code of this website is borrowed from Yuliang Xiu **The page is last updated at**
roycifer.com
/now
Updated March 16, 2025
Now --- Here's what I'm doing \_now\_... * 2025 has been a heavy one. We lost my sister to colon cancer. She was 41. * Meanwhile, I’ve been in the middle of planning my wedding… * But otherwise, I’ve been laying low. * I refreshed my portfolio site as I’m making myself available for freelance work this spring. Have a peek. * * * Inspired by nownownow. Last updated: Mar 16, 2025
Now --- Here's what I'm doing \_now\_... * 2025 has been a heavy one. We lost my sister to colon cancer. She was 41. * Meanwhile, I’ve been in the middle of planning my wedding… * But otherwise, I’ve been laying low. * I refreshed my portfolio site as I’m making myself available for freelance work this spring. Have a peek. * * * Inspired by nownownow. Last updated: Mar 16, 2025
takeonrules.com
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Updated March 16, 2025
wrote this post 2012-11-01 2025-03-16 My Public Key -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- xjMEZeTtrhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAIHrdS0jXQUc1s328E/xvfe11+yFU4Nrd /ICegyrHMYnNL2plcmVteUB0YWtlb25ydWxlcy5jb20gPGplcmVteUB0YWtl b25ydWxlcy5jb20+wowEEBYKAD4FgmXk7a4ECwkHCAmQ8PPztur3ShYDFQgK BBYAAgECGQECmwMCHgEWIQShq6VwmMSCXC7LYzPw8/O26vdKFgAA51gBAIvp e/5hEpZGAIbQ1BkjTrBkONosT6J7Ka/Aznl7Zto5AQDZdwhQikvHdzTl25RV ymQht+4dLH/ckoOIWX4cnuyAAM44BGXk7a4SCisGAQQBl1UBBQEBB0DO/ZoO 2c6s76FZo54mXMsTgm2MAlLrl+aNrsODMujAeQMBCAfCeAQYFgoAKgWCZeTt rgmQ8PPztur3ShYCmwwWIQShq6VwmMSCXC7LYzPw8/O26vdKFgAAseMA/237 XWODmWDNmW9RSR1xLpyNlXGyeJM17Haj4sKm4uREAP0T/19Ca4AtMtRJlbRC i4bk0fZADawBKRibhm5XChMGDA== =3Jel -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Welcome to Jeremy Friesen’s personal blog. My blog. It’s an E/N style blog. (Sidenote: The website’s content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of the world.) I often write about games but don’t limit posts to games. Please contact me if you’re so inclined. You can subscribe to my site’s Atom RSS feed, RSS XML feed, or JSON feed. I am available as a consultant for a variety of services . Or maybe you’d like to review my resume; I love what I do but that doesn’t mean I’m not open for other opportunities. I have published and sold some game materials . I release some content on this site as Open Game License (OGL 📖) . Checkout the different licenses I've published under . I do my best to tag posts and group some posts into series . You may be interested in my reviews , interviews , or session reports . I have created a Site Map page to help you navigate a site I’ve been maintaining since 2011. I also committed, for the time being, to host S John Ross’s Medieval Demographics Made Easy . You’ll notice that I link to a lot of games. I often use affiliate links; I choose this as one small way to get a bit of jingle for my blogging efforts. In working on this website, I’ve ensured it works _well_ without Javascript. (Sidenote: The site works without Javascript. When you enable javascript, the Search feature shifts using DuckDuckGo’s basic search to using a local LunrJS search. A nice feature of the LunrJS search is that I can the search on my local machine.) I’ve tried to build towards an accessible experience, referencing accessibility guidelines from Penn State. (Sidenote: Go to the top of the page, click the top left corner, then hit the TAB key. I love that feature. I learned that from a Skip Links accessibility tutorial.) Beyond posting new blog posts and pages, you can see what’s changed about the site . I provide a list of updates that I've made to the content. Me Around the Web ----------------- You can find me in other places. Here’s a list of my other profiles: * @takeonrules@dice.camp * Github Profile * LinkedIn And a list of other places where I contribute: * Samvera's Github * Samvera Labs's Github * Samvera's Wiki Updates ------- ### Jan 2, 2021 update Following the recommendation of WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, I removed `accesskey` usage. ### Apr 20, 2020 update Adding content about the changelog and updates . ### Apr 17, 2020 update Switching Atom RSS feed from `/feed.xml` to `index.xml` and JSON feed from `/feed.json` to `/index.json`. This addressed an issue in Hugo’s `ExecuteAsTemplate`, which did not render absolute URLs. ### Mar 9, 2020 update Adding callout to Atom RSS feed and JSON feed ### Dec 17, 2019 update On December 16th, as an experiment, I tweaked my blog. First, I stopped using custom fonts. Instead, I’m using three long-standing fonts: Times, Courier, and Arial; I wanted to use Helvetica, but encountered an odd rendering issue beyond my skills. Second, I opted to inline the CSS files; Instead of referencing them as a link. Inlining the CSS added 14KB to each page. Both of these changes reduced the number of HTTP requests speeds up performance and improves the stability of the page. ### Oct 12, 2020 update I added a section on the available access keys for my site.
wrote this post 2012-11-01 2025-03-16 My Public Key -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- xjMEZeTtrhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAIHrdS0jXQUc1s328E/xvfe11+yFU4Nrd /ICegyrHMYnNL2plcmVteUB0YWtlb25ydWxlcy5jb20gPGplcmVteUB0YWtl b25ydWxlcy5jb20+wowEEBYKAD4FgmXk7a4ECwkHCAmQ8PPztur3ShYDFQgK BBYAAgECGQECmwMCHgEWIQShq6VwmMSCXC7LYzPw8/O26vdKFgAA51gBAIvp e/5hEpZGAIbQ1BkjTrBkONosT6J7Ka/Aznl7Zto5AQDZdwhQikvHdzTl25RV ymQht+4dLH/ckoOIWX4cnuyAAM44BGXk7a4SCisGAQQBl1UBBQEBB0DO/ZoO 2c6s76FZo54mXMsTgm2MAlLrl+aNrsODMujAeQMBCAfCeAQYFgoAKgWCZeTt rgmQ8PPztur3ShYCmwwWIQShq6VwmMSCXC7LYzPw8/O26vdKFgAAseMA/237 XWODmWDNmW9RSR1xLpyNlXGyeJM17Haj4sKm4uREAP0T/19Ca4AtMtRJlbRC i4bk0fZADawBKRibhm5XChMGDA== =3Jel -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Welcome to Jeremy Friesen’s personal blog. My blog. It’s an E/N style blog. (Sidenote: The website’s content means everything to the publisher, but it could mean nothing to the rest of the world.) I often write about games but don’t limit posts to games. Please contact me if you’re so inclined. You can subscribe to my site’s Atom RSS feed, RSS XML feed, or JSON feed. I am available as a consultant for a variety of services . Or maybe you’d like to review my resume; I love what I do but that doesn’t mean I’m not open for other opportunities. I have published and sold some game materials . I release some content on this site as Open Game License (OGL 📖) . Checkout the different licenses I've published under . I do my best to tag posts and group some posts into series . You may be interested in my reviews , interviews , or session reports . I have created a Site Map page to help you navigate a site I’ve been maintaining since 2011. I also committed, for the time being, to host S John Ross’s Medieval Demographics Made Easy . You’ll notice that I link to a lot of games. I often use affiliate links; I choose this as one small way to get a bit of jingle for my blogging efforts. In working on this website, I’ve ensured it works _well_ without Javascript. (Sidenote: The site works without Javascript. When you enable javascript, the Search feature shifts using DuckDuckGo’s basic search to using a local LunrJS search. A nice feature of the LunrJS search is that I can the search on my local machine.) I’ve tried to build towards an accessible experience, referencing accessibility guidelines from Penn State. (Sidenote: Go to the top of the page, click the top left corner, then hit the TAB key. I love that feature. I learned that from a Skip Links accessibility tutorial.) Beyond posting new blog posts and pages, you can see what’s changed about the site . I provide a list of updates that I've made to the content. Me Around the Web ----------------- You can find me in other places. Here’s a list of my other profiles: * @takeonrules@dice.camp * Github Profile * LinkedIn And a list of other places where I contribute: * Samvera's Github * Samvera Labs's Github * Samvera's Wiki Updates ------- ### Jan 2, 2021 update Following the recommendation of WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool, I removed `accesskey` usage. ### Apr 20, 2020 update Adding content about the changelog and updates . ### Apr 17, 2020 update Switching Atom RSS feed from `/feed.xml` to `index.xml` and JSON feed from `/feed.json` to `/index.json`. This addressed an issue in Hugo’s `ExecuteAsTemplate`, which did not render absolute URLs. ### Mar 9, 2020 update Adding callout to Atom RSS feed and JSON feed ### Dec 17, 2019 update On December 16th, as an experiment, I tweaked my blog. First, I stopped using custom fonts. Instead, I’m using three long-standing fonts: Times, Courier, and Arial; I wanted to use Helvetica, but encountered an odd rendering issue beyond my skills. Second, I opted to inline the CSS files; Instead of referencing them as a link. Inlining the CSS added 14KB to each page. Both of these changes reduced the number of HTTP requests speeds up performance and improves the stability of the page. ### Oct 12, 2020 update I added a section on the available access keys for my site.
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Derek Sivers 在《Anything You Want》中写道：“我遇到的所有最酷的人，都是通过我写的东西找到我的人。”，从我有限的经验来看，我也是，所以请不要吝啬，如果你觉得我们的书呆子气质有点契合，那么 i 人也可以先建立一种联系（因为是 i 人，所以我们可以只建立联系而暂时不说话）！ 我的生活哲学 ------ **追求注意力自由而不是财富自由。** 虽然财富自由会有更大的机率获得注意力自由，但是追求注意力自由却不一定非要财富自由。 如果我们能抱着一种朴素主义的生活态度，其实根本不需要那么多的财富去获取注意力自由。 我们需要多少钱才能辞职过上注意力自由的生活？换句话说，需要攒多少钱，就可以 10-15 年不用工作也没问题？ 在中国的语境下，维持一个健康而简朴的生活，每个人 5 万元/年可能是一个不错的平衡。也就是说没有负债，50 万元以上的存款，即可享受 10 年以上的注意力自由，我想称之为“穷有闲阶级”。 但是注意力自由并不意味着我们完全不会收入，恰恰相反，只有注意力自由之后，我们才能发挥真正的创造力，没有边界的探索任何事情。而且，在这个过程中，我们非常有可能获得一些未知的财富。即便 10 年过后没有获得任何财富，在经历 10 年的闲暇时间之后，我们一定在各方面都成为了一个更好的自己，从而拥有更多的能力去做任何事情。 我知道整个世界都是建立在工作伦理上的，所以我以前也会对闲暇时间感到焦虑，浪费。但是在经历过大公司，独立开发者，创业公司的阶段后，我现在可以对闲暇时间表达最强烈的赞美，如果我有公司，我会聘用那些有幸拥有过更多闲暇时间的候选者，对我自己而言，我会将注意力自由作为人生最高的追求。我有倾向认为有更多闲暇时间的人通常会更博学，而较忙的人很可能在很多事情上很无知。 在这里强调我的生活哲学是因为我很遗憾没有在更早的时候看到类似的想法，这导致我以前对闲暇时间感到焦虑。我想给那些正在经历闲暇时间并感到焦虑的同学一个笃定的视角，希望我们最终都能获得注意力自由。 找到我的方式 ------ * 我为这个博客建立的 Telegram 讨论群组：https://t.me/+m124rcTl9FE3M2Vh * 我的电子邮件：`owen#owenyoung.com` (把`#`换成`@`) * 推特 @OwenYoungZh * Telegram 频道: https://t.me/owenyoungzh * Telegram 私人账户: https://t.me/itsowenyoung * 微信朋友圈（现在很少发朋友圈，但是我会看，请大胆通过邮件或者 Telegram 联系我索要微信号，或者告诉我你的微信号～) * Twitter English @TheOwenYoung 关于这个博客 ------ 我喜欢用明文纯文本记录东西，因为这是最通用的格式，不会被运营商锁定，在所有平台都能开箱即用的直接编辑。该博客全部内容托管在这个Github 的 Repo 里，用Zola (getzola.org)生成，最终部署在Cloudflare Pages上。 和大多数的博客不一样的是，这个博客不只是文章，我把这里当成是我的数字花园，里面主要包含6 类内容： * 博文, 这个和传统的博客类似，当我想写点什么的时候我会把它放在这个类别下,博文主要分为： * 技术类，这个下面放纯技术类的文章。 * 通用,这个下面放任何其他类的文章，我不喜欢分类，对于一篇要写的文章来说，我只能一眼判断出这篇文章是技术还是非技术，所以我只有这两个分类。 * 我在阅读什么 我会把定期把我最近看过的优质文章的链接，以及我的对此的简要总结放在这个分类下。 * 笔记，我会精心收集某个主题下相关的链接，然后把他们归类到某个主题的笔记里，比如： * 探索互联网上高质量的内容 * 最好用的工具集合 * 有意思的问题收集 * 收集一些给人灵感的东西 * 收集值得阅读的文章 * 收集一些有意思的社区 * 英语学习相关资源 * 读书笔记 读书如果只是阅读的话，那么随着时间的流逝，总会慢慢淡忘，所以我要求自己对每本书都要写读书笔记，大多数时候是摘抄其中的一些高亮段落。 * 短想法 其实就只是一篇长期更新的普通的文章，但是我在里面写我的各种短想法，相当于推特，但是不会出现在别人的时间轴上，所以我可以在里面随便写，不用担心别人的眼光。 * 引用 也是一篇长期更新的普通文章，我在里面记录我看到的一些有意思的高亮段落。 我有一个 Now 页面，这个页面是响应Derek Sivers的呼吁，用Now 页面 `/now/` 代替 About 页面，用于记录最近在做的事，`/about/`页面是只是一个概览页面。 点这里查看我最近在做什么 我还有一个Change Log页面，里面会存放这个博客本身的更新日志。 这个网站遵循 IndieWeb 的规范，支持 webmention， 但是我现在有点无感了，因为现在对于这种高门槛的技术越来越失去兴趣，它没有促进交流，反而增加了很多障碍，但是我一时之间又没找到什么喜欢的替代品，很可能最后会自己再造一个轮子。 这个博客加入了Webring，这是一个古早的互联网概念，大概是这样：加入 Webring 的博客，需要在底部加一个如下的链接： ← An IndieWeb Webring 🕸💍 → 点击前后的箭头链接，会随机的跳转到另一个 Webring 里的博客，这样就大大的增加了独立博客的可发现性，经常能发现一些很有意思的博客，比友情链接这种方式要更好。 其他链接 ---- * Github @theowenyoung * Github Sponsors * Patreon @theowenyoung #### 你也可以通过填写下面的表单来联系我： 该博客没有评论系统，我正在实验有意义的讨论是否更易在社群中发生，不知道为什么，人在社群中，似乎会有更好的行为规范。然后如果有高质量的讨论，我会手动再精选到原文。为此，我建立了一个 Telegram 讨论群组，你可以在里面讨论这篇文章，点此复制文章标题和链接 。
Derek Sivers 在《Anything You Want》中写道：“我遇到的所有最酷的人，都是通过我写的东西找到我的人。”，从我有限的经验来看，我也是，所以请不要吝啬，如果你觉得我们的书呆子气质有点契合，那么 i 人也可以先建立一种联系（因为是 i 人，所以我们可以只建立联系而暂时不说话）！ 我的生活哲学 ------ **追求注意力自由而不是财富自由。** 虽然财富自由会有更大的机率获得注意力自由，但是追求注意力自由却不一定非要财富自由。 如果我们能抱着一种朴素主义的生活态度，其实根本不需要那么多的财富去获取注意力自由。 我们需要多少钱才能辞职过上注意力自由的生活？换句话说，需要攒多少钱，就可以 10-15 年不用工作也没问题？ 在中国的语境下，维持一个健康而简朴的生活，每个人 5 万元/年可能是一个不错的平衡。也就是说没有负债，50 万元以上的存款，即可享受 10 年以上的注意力自由，我想称之为“穷有闲阶级”。 但是注意力自由并不意味着我们完全不会收入，恰恰相反，只有注意力自由之后，我们才能发挥真正的创造力，没有边界的探索任何事情。而且，在这个过程中，我们非常有可能获得一些未知的财富。即便 10 年过后没有获得任何财富，在经历 10 年的闲暇时间之后，我们一定在各方面都成为了一个更好的自己，从而拥有更多的能力去做任何事情。 我知道整个世界都是建立在工作伦理上的，所以我以前也会对闲暇时间感到焦虑，浪费。但是在经历过大公司，独立开发者，创业公司的阶段后，我现在可以对闲暇时间表达最强烈的赞美，如果我有公司，我会聘用那些有幸拥有过更多闲暇时间的候选者，对我自己而言，我会将注意力自由作为人生最高的追求。我有倾向认为有更多闲暇时间的人通常会更博学，而较忙的人很可能在很多事情上很无知。 在这里强调我的生活哲学是因为我很遗憾没有在更早的时候看到类似的想法，这导致我以前对闲暇时间感到焦虑。我想给那些正在经历闲暇时间并感到焦虑的同学一个笃定的视角，希望我们最终都能获得注意力自由。 找到我的方式 ------ * 我为这个博客建立的 Telegram 讨论群组：https://t.me/+m124rcTl9FE3M2Vh * 我的电子邮件：`owen#owenyoung.com` (把`#`换成`@`) * 推特 @OwenYoungZh * Telegram 频道: https://t.me/owenyoungzh * Telegram 私人账户: https://t.me/itsowenyoung * 微信朋友圈（现在很少发朋友圈，但是我会看，请大胆通过邮件或者 Telegram 联系我索要微信号，或者告诉我你的微信号～) * Twitter English @TheOwenYoung 关于这个博客 ------ 我喜欢用明文纯文本记录东西，因为这是最通用的格式，不会被运营商锁定，在所有平台都能开箱即用的直接编辑。该博客全部内容托管在这个Github 的 Repo 里，用Zola (getzola.org)生成，最终部署在Cloudflare Pages上。 和大多数的博客不一样的是，这个博客不只是文章，我把这里当成是我的数字花园，里面主要包含6 类内容： * 博文, 这个和传统的博客类似，当我想写点什么的时候我会把它放在这个类别下,博文主要分为： * 技术类，这个下面放纯技术类的文章。 * 通用,这个下面放任何其他类的文章，我不喜欢分类，对于一篇要写的文章来说，我只能一眼判断出这篇文章是技术还是非技术，所以我只有这两个分类。 * 我在阅读什么 我会把定期把我最近看过的优质文章的链接，以及我的对此的简要总结放在这个分类下。 * 笔记，我会精心收集某个主题下相关的链接，然后把他们归类到某个主题的笔记里，比如： * 探索互联网上高质量的内容 * 最好用的工具集合 * 有意思的问题收集 * 收集一些给人灵感的东西 * 收集值得阅读的文章 * 收集一些有意思的社区 * 英语学习相关资源 * 读书笔记 读书如果只是阅读的话，那么随着时间的流逝，总会慢慢淡忘，所以我要求自己对每本书都要写读书笔记，大多数时候是摘抄其中的一些高亮段落。 * 短想法 其实就只是一篇长期更新的普通的文章，但是我在里面写我的各种短想法，相当于推特，但是不会出现在别人的时间轴上，所以我可以在里面随便写，不用担心别人的眼光。 * 引用 也是一篇长期更新的普通文章，我在里面记录我看到的一些有意思的高亮段落。 我有一个 Now 页面，这个页面是响应Derek Sivers的呼吁，用Now 页面 `/now/` 代替 About 页面，用于记录最近在做的事，`/about/`页面是只是一个概览页面。 点这里查看我最近在做什么 我还有一个Change Log页面，里面会存放这个博客本身的更新日志。 这个网站遵循 IndieWeb 的规范，支持 webmention， 但是我现在有点无感了，因为现在对于这种高门槛的技术越来越失去兴趣，它没有促进交流，反而增加了很多障碍，但是我一时之间又没找到什么喜欢的替代品，很可能最后会自己再造一个轮子。 这个博客加入了Webring，这是一个古早的互联网概念，大概是这样：加入 Webring 的博客，需要在底部加一个如下的链接： ← An IndieWeb Webring 🕸💍 → 点击前后的箭头链接，会随机的跳转到另一个 Webring 里的博客，这样就大大的增加了独立博客的可发现性，经常能发现一些很有意思的博客，比友情链接这种方式要更好。 其他链接 ---- * Github @theowenyoung * Github Sponsors * Patreon @theowenyoung #### 你也可以通过填写下面的表单来联系我： 该博客没有评论系统，我正在实验有意义的讨论是否更易在社群中发生，不知道为什么，人在社群中，似乎会有更好的行为规范。然后如果有高质量的讨论，我会手动再精选到原文。为此，我建立了一个 Telegram 讨论群组，你可以在里面讨论这篇文章，点此复制文章标题和链接 。
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