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My nonsensical House rep, Buddy Carter, filed a bill to rename Greenland to “Red, White and Blueland.” This isn’t the first time Buddy’s been ridiculous in public, embarrassing his constituents. Here’s a letter I sent to him this morning. Dear Mr. Carter, What are you doing? Greenland doesn’t belong to us. It’s not ours to […]
12.2.2025 16:45The Nonsense Continues UnabatedMay you prosper in your intentions!
2024 was a lot of things, a lot of them not so great. But, there was good stuff too! Here’s a quick recap of some good things and favorites from 2024: I think that’s all for now. I’m still trying to figure out what my intentions (aka resolutions) are for 2025, but I think they’ll […]
2.1.2025 19:27A Quick 2024 Retrospective of Good ThingsIn reply to <a href="https://lawver.net/2024/02/the-thief-in-the-public-square/#comment-3034">Allyn Gibson</a>. I do self-host, but I also use Jetpack, so Automattic has backups of all of my posts, so they do have my data. It's also a bad look from a stewardship point of view, which feels like a sign of future enshittification.
28.2.2024 14:49Comment on The Thief in the Public Square by Kevin LawverDo you self-host your WordPress blog, or is your blog hosted by wordpress.com? If the former, Automattic has none of your data; your data is not on their servers to be sold. If the latter, then you should look to migrate.
28.2.2024 00:48Comment on The Thief in the Public Square by Allyn GibsonAutomattic, the owner of both Tumblr and WordPress, admitted that they’re working with AI companies to sell their users’ creations to help train AI models. This site has been on WordPress for a long time, and moved WordPress installations between hosts at least twice. This is so hard to take. So much of the web […]
27.2.2024 23:55The Thief in the Public Square[…] stemmed from my browsing The Twitters yesterday. I read Kevin‘s […]
5.1.2024 16:12Comment on About by Work won’t love you back – contemplations in markupI am apparently not in the musical consumption mainstream. I still love sitting down to a meal of an entire album instead of singles. I keep my playlist of favorites from the year still, but I love albums. This year, I’m trying to avoid albums by artists I’ve called out in previous years, so even […]
26.12.2023 17:25My Favorite Albums of 2023I don’t know if you watched Carl Sagan as a kid, but a friend shared this poem, and I was instantly transported back to watching him tell me I was made of star stuff when I was 6. We have calcium in our bones,iron in our veins,carbon in our souls,and nitrogen in our brains. 93 […]
20.12.2023 18:49We are all made of star stuffElisa had some things to say about cheese while Radim had some things to say about watches, and together they’ve put me in mind of a story about a trip I took to France.
5.12.2023 01:07Comment on Wrapping up National Blog Post Month by Bix FrankonisBetween writing a blog post almost every day and going back to the beginning of this blog and re-reading stuff I wrote over twenty years ago, it’s been a bloggy month over here! I only missed two days. I can live with that. I’ve blogged more this month than I have in years, and that […]
30.11.2023 14:33Wrapping up National Blog Post MonthI’ve played product manager more often this year than I have in years. It’s been a fun role to get back into. It’s also been a long time since I played product manager at a larger company. The last two times were tiny startups, and well, it’s a very different experience. With tiny startup product […]
29.11.2023 13:32The expert is calling from inside the houseI mentioned this last week, but while I’ve been fixing formatting issues on my old blog posts, I’ve made the mistake of reading some of them. Getting a glimpse of me 20 years ago has been interesting – he was so angry, usually about work, and talked about it a lot. That guy was on […]
28.11.2023 19:20Avoiding cynicismI was off all last week for Thanksgiving, and I had a very hard time getting back into work mode… which I guess is the sign of a good vacation (even though we didn’t go anywhere). On top of that, I’m prepping for a big allergy test, which means I’ve been off of all antihistamines […]
27.11.2023 21:39First day backI just searched my old posts for “soccer” and there are a bunch, but none about the Premier League and proper football. I’ve been going through the 2,500+ posts on my blog, fixing things broken by moving platforms, and there are so many posts about American football. Jen and I used to Tivo all the […]
25.11.2023 15:17Football, no, the other oneKevin great to "see" you! My company started using Incentfit, an app to reimburse you for working out ... I'm not affiliated with Incentfit & no one's getting rich getting reimbursed; but it's been fascinating having that weird small financial incentive to to get back in shape. The app connects to Health & Fitness apps to track a variety of workouts. You first is a hard thing to pull off especially with respect to eating and exercise; so just pointing out something that's been working for me. But, for the record, you're wrong: most of the time I suspect you're a single point of success. Paul
10.7.2023 14:11Comment on Clarity by PaulYou've selflessly made many other things your priority over the years and now it's time to put yourself first. Glad to hear it, my friend.
Nice post. I’m finding it hard focusing on my health and using my time wisely, but spending time with my kids, reading and taking breaks along the May River, has really help me making my health and making proper use of my time a top priority for me. Things really changed for me the moment I hit 40.
6.7.2023 21:42Comment on Clarity by Brandon HunterIn reply to <a href="https://lawver.net/2023/01/aggressive-accessibility/#comment-3013">Coralie Mercier</a>. (I posted this on Mastodon too) That’s a great question that I’m not sure I (as a man who’s benefited quietly from my privilege my entire career - so it’s hard to separate) have an answer to. I’ve got another post about being your own cheerleader / work accomplishment marketing brewing that I think could help? My personal observation is that a lot of the women I’ve worked with hesitate to promote their own work - which is an important step in getting recognition, ESPECIALLY for things considered “glue work”.
26.1.2023 20:37Comment on Aggressive Accessibility by Kevin LawverGood advice
I wonder how well it can be transposed to any position (not just tech, not just devs). I also wonder if women grow the same way you describe, if they take the advice.
Of course the reason I’m chiming in is that I’m in tech but not a dev, I step up to help and I volunteer (not very overtly) and it’s helpful to the work and the people I help.
BUT, they (men because it’s who I get to work with the most) get visibility as a result and I don’t. And everyone takes me for granted.