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The trend of VC-backed tooling ending in abandonment rears its ugly head again. But hey, people gotta eat, right? The community will pick up the slack and steward the projects, right?

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2026 28

  1. Self-hosting Mastodon and Bluesky
  2. Beginning of the Ende
  3. Should developers design?
  4. Arguments for Apple enthusiasts whenever an Android user
  5. Customizing my Compaq MX-11800 keyboard
  6. How to migrate from Gel to Disc, in Production
  7. How do we make being online, better?
  8. remarks
  9. The Human Advantage
  10. What I’d do with a BILLION dollars
  11. How to migrate from Gel to Disc
  12. Filoli Photoshoot
  13. I made a database
  14. uchū pastel
  15. Sabbatical Retrospective
  16. Favorite photos I’ve snapped this month
  17. Rap Slop
  18. The beauty of creating your own tools
  19. Self-hosting my code with cgit (again)
  20. Cyberpunk 2077 5th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
  21. Hosting a forum in 2026
  22. How to write CSS
  23. Fashion Trip to L.A.
  24. Weaning off GreedCorp™
  25. Neue Email
  26. I hate the word "impossible"
  27. The Reason Why We’ll Never Get Another Bell Labs
  28. Using Old Tech in the New Age

2025 17

  1. My Favorite Photos of 2025
  2. Planning and implementing the Neue Internet
  3. macOS (2025)
  4. Neutral
  5. WM 075
  6. Dap, the Handshake successor
  7. ChronVer — Chronologic Versioning
  8. In Defense of "AI"
  9. Introducing Nickel
  10. Good Grief
  11. Next‑Generation Computing
  12. Stalwart Email Setup
  13. Enter the Matrix
  14. Spitball with Claude
  15. Where’s socii?
  16. Why I won’t touch React
  17. Year in Review

2024 7

  1. Remembering my grandma
  2. Twitter
  3. Elon Musk mind virus
  4. Farcaster will never scale
  5. Election
  6. A personal renaissance
  7. manifesto.neue

2023 1

  1. Twitter

2022 2

  1. A hard fork in the Handshake community
  2. Things I learned from my parents

2021 6

  1. Four years to prove ourselves
  2. Being Brave: a Handshake retrospective
  3. How to setup a Handshake site with Caddy
  4. An update on socii
  5. The Internet is (not) broken
  6. New year, who dis?

2020 3

  1. In favor of small modules and plumbing
  2. Migrating from MongoDB to RethinkDB
  3. 2030: The next decade

2019 8

  1. Year in Review
  2. A personal API
  3. A decade in tech: a retrospective
  4. Socii Dispatch 07
  5. The Future of the Operating System: Revisited, Part 1
  6. The Bullshit of Facebook
  7. Neat npm modules - Vol 1
  8. Year in Review

2018 12

  1. My Wants for 2019
  2. The Fallacy of Imposter Syndrome
  3. Socii Dispatch 05
  4. Decentralization, Privacy, and Everything Between
  5. Socii Dispatch 04
  6. Socii Dispatch 03
  7. Using nginx and express-session
  8. Socii Dispatch 02
  9. Using nginx and Socket.io
  10. Socii Dispatch 01
  11. Why the Job Search Sucks
  12. Year in review

2017 21

  1. Who the hell creates a social network?
  2. Easy deployment with Vagrant
  3. Antank battery case for Nintendo Switch review
  4. Nintendo Switch browser capabilities
  5. APFS preboot install issues no more!
  6. How I met my wife
  7. iPhone X is my dream phone
  8. 1984 review
  9. Interview with MailChimp
  10. I’m done with Kickstarter
  11. Neglected Projects
  12. BeachfrontDigital — June Update
  13. Black Privilege review
  14. V2 of BeachfrontDigital is live!
  15. BeachfrontDigital — April Update
  16. Nintendo Switch review
  17. Roadmap for BeachfrontDigital
  18. Count Zero review
  19. The appeal of the Swiss and Swedish work life
  20. MacBook Pro (Late 2016) review
  21. Books I plan to read this year

2016 2

  1. What I’ve achieved in 2016
  2. And so, it begins