A rough archive of things I've found interesting since 2005 — technology, music, and a long tail of link posts from an era when everyone had a Delicious account and thought RSS would save the world.
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- 2026-08-29
dfy0936hqry1l8.archive.md →Iovine: I’m very pro-A.I. in music creation. I don’t see the downside at all. There will be some crappy music. There’s crappy music now.
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[Dr. Dre enters the room.]
Iovine: We’re talking about A.I. He’s the guy to ask.
Dr. Dre: I don’t see it as a threat. I think the only people that see it as a threat are the people who have trouble creating.
Iovine: That’s all you have to know.
- 2026-08-08From Jekyll to Astro (via Posterous, via Gatsby)A blog worth keeping is a blog worth migrating every few years
- 2026-04-07Reddit, on my own diskA public archive, a selective torrent, and Datasette doing all the hard bits
- 2026-01-04Getting fifteen years of reading out of GoodreadsThe API is gone, but the CSV export is still an escape hatch
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- 2026-08-27Recent events inspired me to give it a challenge to work through:…
- 2026-08-27We should be more tired than the modelnewsletter.vickiboykis.com
- 2024-03-19Weetbix is not seafood
- 2024-03-18Dear Australian political parties
- 2021-05-19This is Your Tech Leader Speaking
- 2019-05-14“We only hire seniors” and other anti-patterns
- 2019-05-14Who is the VP Engineering anyway?
- 2019-05-09Move fast and fix things
- 2019-04-30Using Gatsby with Github Pages and Actions
- 2019-02-08Managing Motivation
- 2018-11-09How we achieve continuous learning in a fast-paced workplace
- 2016-05-29Blockchain contracts and the second-hand marketplace
- 2012-10-16Loading dummy app routes from a mountable engine
- 2012-09-03Fun with Bundler and RVM
- 2011-02-25New Beginnings
- 2010-11-01Google Apps Account Check
- 2010-06-16Facebook nearly gets network-level privacy rightflickr.com
- 2010-05-28Wireless on the ASUS EEE 1000HE with Fedora 13
- 2010-05-26Installing Fedora 13 via USB boot disk
- 2010-05-06Giving Valve Games That Special Apple Touchwired.com