The late 2010s are an interesting time for music. Streaming services have effectively commoditized music, all of the world's music is available to everyone at any time, for next to nothing. Meanwhile, The Internet is effectively killing pop culture --- at least in the sense of a common experience shared across an entire generation. There … Continue reading Two Songs From Each of My Favourite Albums of All Time, Part One
Earlier today Ben Halpern posted a bit about his coding origin story on dev.to. I thought it might be interesting to share how I got my start. Growing my family was not an early computer adopter. Computers were expensive and my parents were endlessly frugal. So I don't share the common origin story for a … Continue reading My Coding Origin Story
A few times every decade we get to witness the emergence of a truly revolutionary back-end technology breakthrough. I recall following OpenID in the mid-00's, reading some of the early discussion groups and blog posts, eventually watching it become supplanted by OAuth. Which would go on to drastically simplify the way most people log in … Continue reading SQRL Poised To Save Us From Password Hell
B-Complex - Beautiful Lies (Riot Jazz Brass Band Cover) Yeah, yeah, I know jazz band covers are one of those things that high school band nerds get all obsessed with, but whatever! Riot Jazz Brass Band's cover of this Drum & Bass track is a real earworm (I'm calling this Brass & Bass). https://soundcloud.com/davejecker/riot-jazz-brass-band-beautiful-lies-prod-by-b-complex I've … Continue reading Brass & Bass, Strava, FFVPN – The greatest things of all time… This Week…
A few weeks ago I bought a basic road bike with the intention of cycling to work. And I'm totally hooked! Addicted maybe? I think I finally get it. My primary reason for biking to work is to level up the amount of exercise I get in every week, but I'm aware that leaving the … Continue reading Cycling, Javascript and Saving the Planet
