Still Skidding Broadside
I'm 69 years old and most of my friends are gone. Not from age, but from AIDS. This is the story behind the blog, the Arch install, and a lifetime of building my own things because nobody was going to build them for me.
The Desktop Outgrew the Distro
I loved Pop!_OS and ran 22.04 for years. System76 built something special with that distro, and when they announced they were writing a new desktop en…
Death by Yes
I've Spent 43 Years Securing Systems. Here's Why I Don't Trust Software That Can't Say No.
You Built a Network of Snitches
You didn't get hacked. You just bought a bunch of devices that were designed to spy on you. Time to take your network back.
Why I Started Writing Rust in Retirement
I retired in March 2024 after 40 years of writing software. A decade at Salesforce, and before that a long trail of jobs going back to the early 80s.…
Wayland in 2026: The 'Not Stable' Myth Needs to Die
The arguments against Wayland are frozen in 2020. The technology moved on.
Why I Left GitHub
Microsoft is training AI on your code without consent. I moved to Codeberg.
Distro Hopping to Nowhere: How I Landed on Vanilla Arch for COSMIC
A year of bad decisions, documented for your entertainment.