How To Completely Disable Your Favicon.
This site doesn’t have a favicon, and it likely never will.
Blog.
Long Live ASCII Art.
I came of age on The Internet at a time when images and the web went hand-in-hand. The proliferation of the animated GIF in the personal web page scene was an aesthetic that defines the web in the time of Y2K (and one that I used to great effect on...
Rediscovering Discovery on the Web.
When I was a kid, I loved exploring the World Wide Web. There was just so much to discover, and I was on a mission to find it all. Unlike the homogeneity of the modern web, back then everything was unique.
Embracing Offline-First Technology.
Remember when using The Internet was a chore? You had to wait for hours before the one family computer was free, and when you finally did get on it, everything was so damn slow you had no choice but to exercise a degree of patience no child should be capable...
What's on Your Open Source Bucket List?
I’m not ashamed to admit that I don’t usually contribute to open source as a way of giving back to the community for everything it has given me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great side effect, but the reason that I do it is because it makes me feel...
A Few Heroku Alternatives.
Heroku’s been taking it on the chin lately for their response to what looks to be a pretty-damn-serious security incident—and for good reason, because their communication about the whole event has been abysmal.
Adding Custom Global Arguments to Artisan Commands.
I love Laravel.
I Hate My Smartphone.
I’ve written a bit before about how my relationship with technology has changed over the years, but one thing that has become abundantly clear to me is that the ubiquity of smartphones in our world has now made it impossible to live without one.
Obsolescence Is a State of Mind.
Sometime near the end of this year, every Apple computer in my home will be rendered obsolete and insecure. To be more accurate, every Apple computer released prior to 2013 will suffer the same fate, thanks to the impending death of macOS Catalina.
The Joy of Single-Purpose Tech.
What is it about smartphones that make them the most useful technology ever
created, while at the same time being the single-largest source of brain drain
and anxiety in existence?
How To Build an Absurdly Backwards Compatible Website.
Let’s face it: the internet is broken. It feels like so much of the web is composed of clickbait, ads, popups, and a toxic amount of JavaScript that you need a modern computer just to get any value out of it. Remember when low-power computers were created for people who...
100 Days to Offload.
You know what I like? Arbitrary challenges.
I Don't (Care Enough To) Track You.
A common post I’ve seen floating around the interwebs lately is the “I Don’t Track You” statement, wherein the author assures the reader that they don’t employ any privacy-invasive analytics methods.
Installing Linux on an HP TC1100 Tablet Computer.
A few days ago, I found my old HP TC1100 tablet computer in storage and decided to see how it held up in the decade and a half since I last used it.
35 Lessons Learned in 35 Years.
It’s an odd quirk of life that the older you get, the less you feel like you know. A decade ago, you wouldn’t have been able to convince me that I wasn’t as smart as I thought I was, but now you’d have a hard time convincing me of the...