29 Sep, 2023
Up until my early twenties, I was a vehement dog-person. Within my friend groups, I was the dog-obsessed one. It became a running joke - to the point where I sort of inadventently integrated it into my personality. I told myself it was a kind of energy that I exuded. I told myself a lot…
This is the 5th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Toby Shorin and…
This week, two somewhat unrelated events let me to reflect on my time working at Vox Media, in the Vox Product org. The first event was relatively newsworthy, because Vox Media made the decision to su
I don’t subscribe to a particular political viewpoint that matches any of those which seem to be available, but I’ve given a lot of thought to this question of…
September 28, 2023 The change of the seasons The tree in our front yard starts turning yellow in late August. By the end of September, it has shed almost all…
Most Recent 2023/09/28#p1 Over the years, I've read many posts from different people detailing how they blog; what their inspirations and processes are. Tracy…
Yeah this isn’t the monthly post. The monthly post will be here tomorrow. It’s 3:03 am; I woke up. I am reflecting. Some ideas come to mind - Boredom is a privilege - I can afford to be bored. Boredom
Introverts make up at least one-third of the population—maybe as high as one-half—yet in so many ways the world feels as if it's made only for extroverts. How…
28 Sep, 2023 I was on Threads earlier today and I saw this post: It reminded me of a friend of mine, who two years ago had his Instagram account deleted unexpectedly. Similar to the person above, my f
This is part 3 in a series about sensory sensitivities and atypical sensory processing. Read the other parts: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 ——- While atypical sensory filtering is related to sensory sensit
28 Sep, 2023 Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple tools packed with love and attention to detail. I've written about my approach to building,
28 Sep, 2023 I've been thinking about whether to switch doctors recently. I have a rare, incurable chronic illness that I see a specialist many states away for, and as far as I know, there are only tw
It’s well-known that firms where strategy and culture align outperform firms where they do not. It follows, then, that if the two aren’t aligned, you most likely need to change your culture. The rest
Link dump of AI nonsense stuff incoming! Intellectual sharecropping We have commons on the internet, too. Despite all of its toxic corners, it is still full of…
On 24 November 2022, I came out an operating room and reported to my husband that the doctor said everything went fine. I only needed six weeks of complete…
A case for abandoning web analytics By P.C. Maffey In 2019, I wrote Roll Your Own Analytics , my simple approach to privacy-first web analytics. Since then, my feelings have evolved: I've dropped anal
Over the years, I’ve seen lots of blog posts discussing what people could blog about (anything!), exploring philosophies of blogging, and explaining how to set…
Ruminations on outsourcing our values By P.C. Maffey Published 10/22/2019 4 pages ⇜ Return to my garden This was not some momentous event. I'd been thinking about closing my account for a while now. I
27 Sep, 2023 It's been a while, friends—fortunately I have not yet shuffled off this mortal coil. I'm visiting Seattle this week, staying with two good friends. I opted to work this week rather than t
Delivering on issues that many scribes saw as core to their profession, the deal contains big leaps in AI guardrails, residuals and data transparency for writers — leaps that could be transplanted int
Quoted Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn ( P.C. Maffey ) When people long for the days of the early web, the glorious idiosyncracies of personal sites and forums,…
danah boyd : “Over the last two years, I’ve been intentionally purchasing and reading books that are banned .” The problem here is that none, literally not one…
I am a developer, and WordPress is the largest blogging platform. Naturally, I want to develop products for WordPress. But there's a problem. # Suppose I have an idea for an editor for WordPress posts
View All Thoughts 2023 August Housekeeping 25th People and Blogs 17th A moment on the 2nd biggest lake 15th Self-promotion 5th Who is to blame? 2nd Unscalable…
A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt : User-agent: GPTBotDisallow: / That felt a bit “ex post fact
Hello! Thank you for reading what I write. Sorry to ask, but… who are you? I was chatting to a friend about what it is like running a blog, finding new topics, keeping up with a daily schedule, modera
Quoted Olivia Sokolowski on Comet Powder, Campfire Smoke, Fresh Bread ( mailchi.mp ) Our national obsession with certain smells is returning alongside autumn.…
I decided to re-read Fahrenheit 451 with my eldest this last week. I don’t think that I have read this classic Bradbury text since high school. What I had…
26 Sep, 2023 I was at the hair salon this past week. This is very few and far between for me, because I kind of...avoid going to the hair salon. As ridiculous as it sounds, you could say that I fear t
I was listening to Celeste Headlee interview Anil Dash on the latest episode of the Slate podcast What Next: TBD , and Dash said something about the kind of web communities we should build, and encour
I learned to read and write on computers. Our first home computer, the Sinclair ZX81 , had BASIC shortcuts built into the keyboards: you could hit a key combination and words like RUN, THEN, and ELSE
24 Sep, 2023 Earlier this year, I started working out. I lost around 20 lbs and have been in arguably the best shape of my adult life. My workouts have been consistent and the changes my body has unde
Liked Meh by Robin Rendle ( robinrendle.com ) What I struggle with most is sharing stuff in a room full of people who don’t care, who aren’t moved, who are…
21 Sep, 2023 Over the past eleven months, I've moved my blog multiple times. I tried out different hosts and in the midst of all the energy I spent trying to find the best, I found myself unhappy. I w
Most Recent 2023/09/25#p1 This is what it's all about: All of these things are interconnected, even if barely any part of it is in direct response to any other…
It’s about time I turned this blog back to another aspect of parenting that I’ve thought a lot about. Yeah, yeah, I’ve been reading mommy blogs again. I’m not sure why, my kids are grown, so any advic
Earlier this year, we went to Legoland California for a family trip. We were lucky enough to get a VIP tour of the build room, the place where designers and architects build the displays. Inside, the
It’s no surprise to anyone that I prefer reading peoples’ long-form thoughts to tweets or pithy social media posts. Microblogging is interesting for quick, in-the-now status updates, but I find myself
Please note, this blog post talks about concerns that are mostly known about in big companies (mainly Big Tech), rather than in smaller realities or in FLOSS. While some of the issues I’m going to be
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