SIGAVDI #43: X-Wing Edition
In which I ruminate on how “it takes work” is useless advice when given without calibration.
SIGAVDI #42: Ultimate Answer Edition
Hello friends, I spent last week on the tropical island of Anguilla with a bunch of software luminaries. My life is sometimes surreal. At the moment though, I’m looking out…
SIGAVDI #41: Officially bored with winter edition
Hello friends, “So will you stay here? How long? Where else might you go?” I’ve heard these questions from a lot of friends in the past year. I don’t know…
SIGAVDI #40: Absinthe edition
Hello friends, I found this in my notes and I can’t remember if I’ve written about it yet: You can choose the rarest, most delicious variety of olive. And pick…
SIGAVDI #39: Bird and Book Edition
Hello friends, It’s been a couple weeks. I just got back from visiting Jessica Kerr in St. Louis. We saw the St. Louis City Museum, which I can only describe…
SIGAVDI #38: New Years edition
Hello, friends. You know, the only problem with writing these is that it immediately shifts me toward a pensive mood. Like, OK, correspondence mode, time to reflect on existential ennui….
SIGAVDI #37: Reheated gas station coffee edition
Hello friends, Hey look I’m still doing this on a weekly basis!
SIGAVDI #36: Beef wellington edition
Hello friends, It feels very right to be sitting down and writing this on a Monday. Normally what I’d be doing right now is dithering over the dozens of things…
SIGAVDI #35: Jetlag edition
Hello friends, I’m just back from the YOW! conference series in Sydney/Brisbane/Melbourne, and boy howdy there is a lot to unpack from that trip. It was remarkable experience that I’m…
SIGAVDI #34: Headed down under
Hello, friends. So here I am in a laundromat in Largo, FL at 10:51 PM and I feel the urge to write to you.