i have written
complicated code
for people who dont understand
and machines that dont care

or the other way around perhaps

but on this monday night
there is a train going across canada
i wish i were on
going from somewhere to nowhere

or the other way around perhaps

The Crack-Up F. Scott Fitzgerald confronts the pressures of fame in this now-legendary essay from Esquire 1936.

My yearly reminder that this is the best thing you will read this year: www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...

Early 2026 thoughts. I feel like the origin of our Sisyphean struggle arises from an inability or perhaps a refusal to understand. Take work for example. Studs Terkel, famously, correlated all work…... Early 2026 thoughts. I feel like the origin of our Sisyphean struggle arises from an inability or perhaps a refusal to understand. Take work for example. Studs Terkel, famously, correlated all work ...

While I dwell on this Cloudflare malarkey, I spewed forth something unelated

www.linkedin.com/posts/manuka...

Hm.

Brb, going to spend the first Friday evening of 2026 deep diving into a social engineering exploit that I almost fell for.

Update:

Yikes! Thanks for the heads up. My spider sense were tingling throughout, thanks for confirming!

Hi @cloudflare.social

Never run into this before. Surely, we must have friendlier ways, yeah?

The disintermediation of thought First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The firs...

Some half-chewed drivel I wrote at the Inn that is Linked.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/disint...

This poem's been doing rounds in my head lately.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/159685...

On the tyranny of solutions II I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Gastown at a table looking out into the street. There’s a bus stop on the other side and it is raining.

I've written a few words about the nature of problems. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tyrann...

This week at work has stolen a lot of my joy. Extremely greedy companies with tight deadlines that they created.

Fuck bit corporate

"It would have been much better to pay the thieves not to rob the Louvre." Schneier on the Louvre heist.
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.