Archive - thefsb

Time travel, future fear, and the banal indignity of nostalgia

I may finally be ready to sell my soul to the devil if the bargain is right. Enjoy your nostalgia. I want progress.

Apr 15 •

February 2025

Debug someone else's AI-generated code?

I dream of the datacide from Lem's "Peace on Earth"

Feb 11 •

May 2024

Rick Beato is the Ignatius J Reilly of youtube

It's true and you know it

May 28, 2024 •

April 2024

Response to Aurelien's "The Revolt of the Outer Party"

We agree on consequences and visible effects, not on ultimate causes

Apr 4, 2024 •

October 2023

The Freedom-Sucking Daemon

The practice of freedom involves exercising available choices. When some choices seem unavailable, for whatever reason, we lose freedom.

Oct 26, 2023 •

April 2023

The nginx location matching prayer/algorithm

A daily devotion for webmasters

Apr 28, 2023 •

January 2023

Alan Turing's sub-critical and super-critical minds

Two interesting similes for what I find it's like to be bipolar

Jan 31, 2023 •

December 2022

502 Bad Gateway

Substack had a problem today

Dec 21, 2022 •

November 2022

Ashamed to be a computer pro

After all these years, how did we manage to make so few things people do with computers actually easy?

Nov 4, 2022 •

September 2022

A queen dies. What changes?

I'm not even really much of a democrat or republican. I just really don't trust the "Windsors".

Sep 13, 2022 •

Compensatory consumerism as we service The Man

Graeber makes yet another good point

Sep 7, 2022 •

Replacing material

Sep 6, 2022 •

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