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My New Digs
This is the new site. It’s going to take a while to get set up. I’m giving myself until 2026 to replace my EC2 server with this (hopefully) totally static yet interactive blog/site/portal
I’m playing around with a lot of stuff, seeing how dynamic and pain-free I can make blogging, so bear with me. It’s all coming together, but it’s going to be a while. Meanwhile, I believe the RSS feed is up. Just use index.xml
Hard at Work
The new site architecture is coming along. I think I have the basic flow down and scripted. I’m now testing the script. Eventually I’ll put some dynamic stuff on here, including commenting. You guys will probably want to see that in a fully static blog! I know I will. I have no idea how I’m going to pull it off. That’s why I love coding so much! So bear with me. I hope to have it all done and working — at least the mission critical parts — by the first of the year.
Test Blog Entry
What kind of stuff are you going to talk about?
I don’t know. I’m not “staying on message” and I don’t have anything to sell to you. So far in my writing life I’ve talked about these things:
Programming
What makes for a good program? A good programmer? Why is hiring and running teams such a painful unsolved problem in the industry? How can you decide which new tech to chase and which to let slide on by?
Philosophy
Books I’ve Written
Science-Fiction/Fantasy
The Door To Nowhere
Debian Newbury is an oddball flight instructor from a small town in rural Virginia. Samuel Featherstone is an outstanding student finishing his post-grad work in cyber security and Large-Language Models. Together they fight their way through secrets that their family, job, and society have kept from them to touch the reality behind the world we experience.
Fans of Greg Egan, Clive Barker, and M. Night Shymalan will love this mind-bending adventure! Buy The Door To Nowhere
First Light
The worst part of Tuesday wasn’t writhing in pain, having flames shoot from her head, voiding her bowels and dying in screaming agony in front of a crowd of cheering onlookers. No, the worst part of Tuesday for Beverly Castler was finding out that the afterlife began in Newark, New Jersey. What a dump…
For Lem, his day ended in being abducted by drug runners in a magic truck full of corncobs and cocaine. It didn’t seem right to Lemuel Rickenbacker that it started with desperately wanting to boil the children in hot oil, but it did. Perhaps that was the punishment. There was also the matter of why anyone would want 24,000 pounds of chicken beaks and an assortment of items including a pile of rusty tricycles and three pairs of brand-new Canadian Sauna Pants…
And so begins an epic tale of life, death, faith, doubt, good, evil, serial kills, sauna pants, corncobs, meaning and redemption in a world both part of our everyday lives and far beyond them. Buy First Light
Daily Newspaper
I feel sad that modern journalism has fallen so low, so I decided to make some sort of automated/curated newspaper. The links are above. The idea is to make it as bogus-slant-BS free as possible.
My Imaginary Team
One of the more fun things I’m doing is creating a virtual problem-solving team to help clarify problems and solve them easier.
The first step is to find as many hard problems as I can for MIT to solve. Here’s the current list:
- Digital Holodeck Memorial
- Christmas Tree Machines
- Making history podcasts even better
- Starting a restaurant
- The New News (which ended up actually being a thing. See above.)
- Subcontracting a landscaper
- Digital Picture What’s Playing Frame
- The Drone biz
I’ll update as we go along, but since it involves LLMs, I feel like I must include some sort of fancy diagram.
