Tonight as I was walking around in downtown Boulder, someone outside a bar said hi to me and asked me how it was going. I saw he was in the mood for talking, and I didn’t mind, so I told him “Fine. Just getting used to not drinking.” I told him how I’d quit a [...]
I am drunk right now, and it’s fine. I am not falling down drunk but “I’ll drink more than I planned” drunk. I don’t have a source of alcohol and its effects are wearing off so I’ll be fine. But it’s clear to me that I’m better off without alcohol, because tonight I was feeling [...]
Wordpress has this filter that enforces camelcase capitalization of the word “Wordpress”. I disagree with this decision for two reasons: I prefer to have control over my software. Whether control is wrestled from me through legal means or by design, I don’t like it. I don’t think it’s a fully settled manner whether to use [...]
A while back, I bought islessmore.com and put up a page. It answers the question “is less more” with “No.”. My justification for this answer is that I think in the information age it is too hard to get a definitive answer to something, and the value of having a definitive answer to this simple [...]
Many of my favorite programmers have two things in common: They care about elegance. They care more about innovation. Many of my favorite hackers are widely criticized. Matt Mullenweg is one such hacker. His code is subservient to his vision. WordPress’s code is written in PHP, without an external framework. It is PHP that is [...]