I am not a sentimental person about old toys, childhood art, achievements, or anything that my mother lovingly and regularly calls to ask if I want to keep.

But URLs…well now that’s a different story! What if that blog I stopped writing 14 years ago has a chance at revival?? Perhaps just ONE MORE year of domain renewal…right?

I broke my only 10mm socket today (right at the end of some work). I can’t believe I only had one.

My goal for the new year is making this site syndicate out to the social places on the Internet that I have had trouble keeping up with.

This started out as an innocent, “I should make an old school video about something i learned and share it”, to “oh surely I need to edit this”, and evolved into “huh, I should do A/B testing to try out thumbnails” (ironically contributing to the algorithm I am normally trying to avoid)

Every time I go back onto social sites and start browsing and getting sucked back in like the algorithms are designed to do….I realize it’s all quite hollow. It doesn’t represent real social connection. I often don’t learn things. I just get sad. Angry. Lonelier. Sigh. I’m not sure the old way that social media worked was any different, but I used to enjoy the delusion more.

I feel like a part of getting older is being less impressed by the plastic of the toys and more impressed by the cardboard boxes themselves and all the logistics that bring safely them to our doors.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

I hope this year is the Greatest Of All Time holidays for you and yours…

Google: We’re, like, SO good at AI

Also Google: We can save you 20 milliseconds on your navigation, so we are sending you through a circuitous route through the dodgiest part of town

[Old guy rant] Back in my day, you didn’t need to scroll a third of the way down the page to get past AI and sponsored results on Google!

I know I am just joining the chorus, but if the coding tools out in the world are so groundbreaking (as every new tool release and every evangelist talks about them that way), why aren’t software and software products…better?