Even though it’s complicatedWe’ve got time to start again Teenage Fanclub, “Start Again”

By late next year, Bitcoin could be consuming more electricity than all the world’s solar panels currently produce — about 1.8 percent of global electricity, according to a simple extrapolation of the study’s predictions. That would effectively erase decades of progress on renewable energy. Bitcoin’s energy use got studied, and you libertarian nerds look even…

Today, through that web browser, there are movies and TV shows and every song ever recorded; it’s where I do my writing and chatting and messaging; it’s where my notes and calendars and social networks live. It’s everything except fun. I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore I’ve been using the…

Getting wild with digital design in 2018 means getting wild in 2018 with responsive design that’s agnostic to the kind of device you’re rocking. That’s doable, probably, but it’s really, really hard. Tim Carmody, Foreclosing on the future of the book

Hey, 2017. You were, hands down, the worst year of my life. The more distance that I’m able to put between you and I, the better. Now, don’t get me wrong. Some really great things happened this year. But the worst thing I’ve ever been through in my life — which I’d much rather be…

I’ve decided that 2018 is going to be a year of paring back. Less junk. Less apps. Less podcasts. Less distractions. Less commitments. Less eating out. Less bullshit. Less stress. I’m not really interested in obsessively measuring how successful I am at doing any of these things. Mainly because of the “less stress” item on…

Because all of the other social networks have become a huge fucking bummer, I’ve been lurking on a new peer-to-peer social network, Rotonde. Right now, the chatter over there is (mainly) a bunch of navel gazing around building Rotonde. But I kind of prefer people yapping about hacking on JavaScript to a shitload of emotionally…

I wish that Alex Norris would quit writing about my life.

There is no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. My pencils are sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark. — Ze Frank, “An Invocation for Beginnings“ Now’s as good a time as any for starting over, right? So let’s do something new. Something without all of the cruft. Something that doesn’t feel like an…

I know things are normally pretty quiet around here. But I have some actual, legitimate news. In just a couple weeks, I’ll be joining the Managed WordPress team at Liquid Web as their Senior Performance Engineer. It’s an opportunity for me to get out of Marketing—where I’ve been broadening my skillset since last fall—and back…

While I was in Austin last week, work graced me with a new set of business cards. And they’ve got my new(ish) title! Don’t they look fucking handsome? I’m sure that everyone I hand them to will silently curse me for their non-standard size, but maybe that’ll become less of an issue once they notice…