Better by Jack Garratt

Jack Garratt's Better album is a charmingly vulnerable set of ruminations on anxiety, belonging, and state of the world.

Why resurrect old blog posts?

I forget much of what I don't reflect on. Reviving old blog posts and related content gives me a chance to both reflect and remember.

52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life

"52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life" is a practical antidote to burnout for caregivers, activists, and helping professionals. (Book review)

Dr. House will yield to Deep Mind

I chuckled at this line from Dr. Ran Balicer’s 2016 TEDxTelAviv talk, “Medicine Transformed: The Algorithm Will See You Now.” Dr. Balicer is among the speakers I’m eager to hear at HIMSS 2023—not just because of his groundbreaking work in data-driven preventive medicine addressing chronic kidney disease,

Thoughts on the "Pause Giant AI Experiments" open letter

Hot takes on the "Pause Giant AI Experiments" open letter from the Future for Life Institute abound—but how many of us read the letter?

When Your Happy Dreams Are About Dying

Are you burning out? Is someone you care about on the edge? Do you want to be more resilient to overwork, heart-breaking change, and creeping existential dread? Please watch this mix of practical advice, real-life stories, and hard-won wisdom collected from the FLOSS, startup, and non-profit worlds.

I̶̶ ̶R̶o̶c̶k̶!̶ ̶Doc Rocks! :)

Notes on Doc Searl's ca. 2004 ruminations on how the software industry might develop.

Go Open 2008 Keynote

"FLOSS: What & Why?" is a keynote that I wrote for the Go Open 2008 conference in Norway.

PHP Vikinger Invitations Emailed

I just sent out the invitations for the PHP Vikinger event. My method for choosing who to invite was pretty simple - I chose people listed in the the PHP and PEAR credits who I had written personal email to in the last few years. Nepotistic? “Nay”, say I, “Nepotastic!

Good Old Times

Andrei’s Good Old Times post got me curious enough to look up my first post that MARC archived for the PHP general list. The earliest post I spotted was this, but I am pretty sure I was asking stupid questions at least a few weeks before then.

PHP Vikinger site online

After far too long, a quick-and-dirty site for the PHP Vikinger event is online. What are you waiting for? Go visit http://phpvikinger.org (and, yes, it will redirect to a Backpack URL - that is intentional :)

GPLv3 Process Definition

The FSF just announced guidelines for reviewing version 3 of the GPL. To participate in the process, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/. To learn more, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/process-definition.

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... and the "Best Quote of the Week" award goes to:

Andrei Zmievski, for the following inspired snippet: "Oh, if you are using a mail reader that screws up message threading, I will hunt you down and stuff you full of Perl internals until you look like a camel." 2024-09-22 Postscript—My standards for quote of the week seem

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Firefox 1.5 Released

Firefox 1.5 has been released! If you've been using Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, congratulations: you already have Firefox 1.5. Power users upgrading from Firefox 1.0.7 will appreciate draggable tabs, a much faster Back button, and the replacement of many error dialogs with

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Free/Open CMS and Blogging Tools Summit

Avatar of awesomeness (and fellow Vancouverite) Boris Mann just announced the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit. The summit provides a time and place for developers of the various Free Software CMS (and blog tools) to meet and share as peers. The event is scheduled from February 7 -

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Creating iCal events from messages in Mail.app

I just wrote a small bit of AppleScript that creates one iCal event for every selected email in Mail.app. Installation * Download the file at https://github.com/zakgreant/misc/blob/704167b2138275f8cc523241a3fbb713a435d8f3/mail2ical.scpt * Open it in Script Editor * Skim the comments for an overview of how the script works

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Grumble, grumble, grumble

While the idea of using my FSFE fellowship blog as my main blog is all fine and well, the slight complication is that it is not nearly easy enough to customize - many of the things that I would like to change are simply not accessible. Also, after a few

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GTD tickler functionality in Mail.app

I just wrote a bit of AppleScript to handle simple tickler functionality in the OS X Mail.app. Grab the source here, open it in Script Editor.app, and export it as a .app. Thanks to Andy Warwick for his GTD Tickle Email script. This script began life as a

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What makes a coding job rock?

I was just chatting with my friend Björn about what makes a good programmer tick - what motivates them, engages them and makes them happy? We got into the discussion because the Mayflower/ThinkPHP team is looking for skilled PHP programmers who are willing to come to Munich and work

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Foo Camp 2004 Session: HowToons

Another hard session to blog - I have been laughing too much. Saul Griffith has been showing off the great things that are happening at HowToons.com. Just go: visit, read, watch and build. :) Quotes: "A dime moving at 200 miles per hour hurts." "What do you

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Foo Camp 2004 Session: Creating Passionate Users

Just sitting in the very engaging "Creating Passionate Users" session by Kathy Sierra. Frankly, I was too engaged to blog during the session - in general, Kathy's points were roughly (from my point of view): * Create an experience that engages the user emotionally - this makes

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Foo Camp 2004: Wendy Selzer on threatened technology

I just wandered into this session after catching a few words. One of the interesting things discussed so far relates very much to the Grokster case (http://www.google.com/search?q=grokster+decision) A key part of the court decision is: The introduction of new technology is always disruptive

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Foo Camp 2004: What is Thought?

Notes from Eric Baum's "What is Thought" session at Foo Camp 24.

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Chinese Market Vegan Tofu Makhani Recipe

A plant-based twist on the classic butter chicken recipe, featuring candied papaya and Chinese persimmon.