Category: Longform
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A Lodge is No Place for a Leftist
Reflections on spending a year inside the world’s oldest fraternity — and realizing it wasn’t built for people like me.
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Introducing Postalgic
Early into 2023 I decided I would make my own blogging CMS (Content Management System) and started thinking about it enough that I came up with a name and even registered a domain name: Postalgic(.app). But then it seems like I got distracted, and it wasn’t until over two years later (about a month ago)…
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Why Does Everything I Like Suck Now?
There’s a war going on in gaming right now, and it has nothing to do with graphics, gameplay, or innovation. It’s about identity, algorithms, and outrage. And it’s exhausting.
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Introducing Ealain for macOS v1.0
About two years ago I released a screensaver for macOS called Ealain, and versioned it v0.1 because it was not quite living up to my original vision for the screensaver. And while it has grown in popularity regardless, I always knew it could be better. Ealain is meant to be a macOS screensaver that is…
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Re-Introducing “staires! an adventure in listening”
In my early teens and twenties, I was a consummate blogger. Well, really, I was more of a diarist, spewing thoughts about my life nearly continuously onto a blog of some form or another. In the late 2000’s, I decided to use my ability to spew text to promote music I liked, by converting my…