Category: Culture
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Are we still doing BMI?
I wanted to email my doctor about this. There doesn’t seem to be a way to do that, so it’s going on my blog instead. I went into my yearly checkup with more paperwork than usual. The past year included a strange medical episode that turned out to be nothing, which meant I arrived with…
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Adventures in Vibe Coding
I like creating software again I’ve been seeing a lot of my peers — web developers like myself who have been doing this for 15-20 years+ — talk about how “vibe coding” has renewed their old love for writing code building software. I get it. My interest in software started as a way to scratch…
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Time for Usonia
The fact that we refer to the USA as “America,” its citizens as “Americans” has always mildly annoyed me. “America” describes two entire continents. Canadians are Americans. Colombians are Americans. Why does one country get to own the word? The recent events in Minneapolis, a city I love dearly, pushed that mild annoyance into something…