Sep 24Why I Left SubstackI’m not sure if I just sensed the societal vibes about to shift based on early COVID reports, but having considered it for a while, I decided to start an email newsletter at the beginning of February 2020. At the time, the white hot Substack had tons of momentum, so…Technology2 min readTechnology2 min read
Jul 30Member-onlyTop Ten Non-Alcoholic BeersI stopped drinking a long time ago, and while I’ve since gone super deep into the wide world of seltzers as a replacement (perhaps a topic for another post), one thing I’d definitely missed during my sobriety was the taste of a good beer. Thankfully we’re living in an age…Non Alcoholic2 min readNon Alcoholic2 min read
Apr 9Member-onlyMastodon 201: You Guys, It’s TimeBack in December I posted a brief how-to for those interested in getting started on Mastodon. Since a) things have come so far since then and b) Elon has, against all odds, managed to make Twitter even more horrible, I thought I’d update my recommendations. Here goes! Step 1: On…Technology2 min readTechnology2 min read
Mar 21My Weirdest Work ExperiencesIf you count a college summer job (for which I worked on, no joke, a non-porn site called Pork Central), I’ve been working professionally on the web and web-adjacent stuff for 25 years now. 💀 As you might imagine, I’ve seen some things in my tour of duty, so I…Careers2 min readCareers2 min read
Published inInterfaith Now·Jan 14Member-onlyMy Christian RebootAside from holiday visits to my grandmother’s church as a kid, I didn’t grow up in a religious household, but my wife did, and after getting married we did some dabbling here and there before eventually going pretty all-in during the late ’00s with a local branch in the ICOC…Christianity4 min readChristianity4 min read
Dec 26, 2022Best of 2022As usual, I haven’t been able to see/listen to everything I’d like, but here are my top picks this year across movies, TV (a longer list as it’s the dominant force of the era) and podcasts… Movies: The Whale Tár Armageddon Time The Fabelmans Nope TV: Severance Better Call Saul Ozark The White Lotus Andor Interview With The Vampire The Bear The Dropout House of The Dragon The Rehearsal Podcasts: Hard ForkMovies1 min readMovies1 min read
Dec 4, 2022Member-onlyMastodon 101 (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Tusk)Now that Elon has turned Twitter into fascist Disneyland, you’ve likely been reading more and more about Mastodon as an alternative. …Recommendations3 min readRecommendations3 min read
Nov 23, 2022I Get AroundEvery so often I post about my current social media/online presence setup. It’s been a while, and uh…💀 SOME THINGS HAVE HAPPENED 💀…so here’s where I sit as of Thanksgiving 2022, should you (for some inexplicable reason) want to 👀: Primary Focus My Newsletter: I still really enjoy putting this…Technology2 min readTechnology2 min read
Nov 6, 2022Member-onlyState of SocialSomething’s in the air, gang. Giant social media services have been getting more and more problematic for a long time now, but between Elon’s Twitter now circling the drain and Meta continuing to light piles of money on fire with one hand while desperately scrambling to copy ByteDance’s TikTok with…Technology4 min readTechnology4 min read
Published inInterfaith Now·Sep 24, 2022Member-onlyObsessive Compulsive DiscipleA while back, a story made the rounds about a priest that had been accidentally swapping a single word while performing baptisms for more than 20 years, thus rendering them all invalid in the eyes of the church. While this obviously provided for some solid Twitter gold… …Life5 min readLife5 min read
