The Archivist Within
Twitter played a significant community role for me when I first started out in my career. When Elon Musk purchased Twitter in 2022, I archived my tweet history and crafted a personal CRM. Today, I found my Twitter archive.
Topic
Development
A collection of 24 posts
Mapping the Self: Data, Introspection, and the Future of Human-Centered Knowledge
Our digital lives are increasingly noisy, shaped by the gigabytes of information that we consume on a daily basis. The bits and bytes that make their way into our psychology via messages, articles, videos, shorts, and podcasts are algorithmically curated to latch into relevancy.
AI and Human Intent in the Algorithmic Age
As our realities trend toward the algorithmic, we’re no longer just technology users — we are participants in an evolving dialogue between human intent and machine capability. We can watch from the sidelines as a new paradigm in human-computer interaction evolves or we can build it.
Data Introspection & Reclaiming my Digital Self
I hold a lot of value in the 'self' that I express through technology. Platforms like Facebook have an 'irrevocable use' clause in their terms of service that allows them to do what they'd like with your data in the name of 'improving their services', but you technically still own your data.
Logarithmic Tetris
I wanted a version of Tetris that had a logarithmic board instead of a square grid. I couldn't get the idea out of my head, so I turned to AI.
Incident Report: Site Outage 07 October
Multitasking got to the best of me today when I distractedly decided to update my web host server from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04.
Chat-based Interfaces, Trust, and Guilt
Trust can be found between individuals, within organizations, and between an individual and an institution. When we consider the concept of trust, we might think about people we trust to be vulnerable around when we are going through a difficult time in our lives.
TIL: Writing a Custom AdBlocker Ultimate Filter to hide LinkedIn's AI Feature Upsell
On the list of "things that annoy me about AI", trying to upsell AI features as part of a service is close to the top. I've recently noticed that my LinkedIn feed has been shoving an AI icon and related "coaching prompts" into my
Extending Ubuntu via GNOME Shell Extensions in 2024
The "personal computing" market has dramatically shifted from the original visions evolving out of Xerox PARC and the innovation labs of the past into a multi-level mediated... mess. Thankfully, open source operating systems are thriving, and the barrier of entry into an actually personal computing
Being a Pregnant Developer in the Age of AI is Weird
As I'm writing this, I'm wearing a green t-shirt with a giant eyeball over my rapidly growing stomach. It's Halloween, and I've decided to dress up as Mike Wazowski - it feels like I'm all stomach these days, so it