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Things I actually think. No thesis required.

  • June 2026

    Buying a Used Car

    You think you're getting a deal. The car knows better.

  • June 2026

    Em Dashes

    AI ruined a perfectly good punctuation mark and I had to adapt. This pisses me off.

  • June 2026

    Poverty Is the Great Accidental Conservator

    The things that survive aren't always the things we chose to preserve.

  • March 2026

    Naming Things Is Hard

    I have spent more time naming a config directory than the president spent naming a war in which people are dying.

  • March 2026

    The Aesthetic of Permanence

    I built twenty websites about things nobody asked me to. My wife accidentally told me what they all have in common.

  • March 2026

    Serious Men

    Reflections on the verbatim corpus. The system designed by men communicating via months-long letter chains now governs a nation where the president communicates via 280-character posts.