May 2026
A proper, open-source replacement for CleanMyMac, which has become essentially unusable at this point. It’s called Mole. Have to give it a try.
What have you tried? Four brilliant words I need to start using. All. The. Time.
April 2026
Pureblog is the kind of blogging software that I can be into. PHP based and simple. Maybe one day I’ll make the leap.
March 2026
Open Screen. An open source alternative to screen recording tools that actually seems pretty slick.
I thought this random aside from Warren Ellis was kind of interesting.
(Marc Andreesen, of all people, once suggested to me that if I produced half my usual word count a day, then the words would be of twice the quality. That, sadly, is not how it works. Also, if you follow that argument all the way down, the highest quality word count on any given day would be one.)
delphitools. A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. Very cool. Palette generator, SVG optimizer, image convertor, background remover, px to rem, regex tester, etc, etc.
January 2026
In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Roy Bland captures a cynical, post-ideological, corrupt English society: “You scratch my conscience; I’ll drive your Jag.” You could say the same of today’s Silicon Valley. It used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.
Think Different? Not anymore.
Om captures the lost soul of Silicon Valley. Where do we go from here?
Stuart Robson may have solved the problem of refactoring legacy CSS. Though I have to be honest, the web history buff in me just wants to use this to do some genuine digital archaeology on some long-running codebases.
Look how cool this is:

Trying food from every country in the world, only in New York City in the most open-hearted and curious way. Seeing something like this, in the midst of everything else, is really something.
I never want to hear any moral grandstanding from these boys ever again. The next time Tim Cook says “privacy is a human right,” the only possible response is to laugh in his face.
Elizabeth Lopatto brings the truth over on the Verge.
September 2025
This one is going to stick with me for a while.
“Liberalism in the last half-century, our society has undergone a radical, nihilistic transformation towards pure form without substance, and mere existence without anything you could reasonably describe as life. So when people complain that life feels meaningless today, that’s because it is.”
I have to say I’ve been feeling this for quite some time. It feels like we’ve been completely stripped of ideology.
Liberalism marches on.
July 2025
The term “open source” was designed as a callback to the early days of software, when source code had been bundled by default. The strategy was to sell Fortune 500 companies on using this software, rather than employ the grassroots evangelism that had been the bread and butter of the free software movement.
This buildup of open source happens to coincide with the rise of Web 2.0, zero interest growth, growing optimism, etc. it was built for a web that used to exist
June 2025
I think that the best we can hope for is the eventual financial meltdown leaving a few useful islands of things that are actually useful at prices that make sense.
And in a decade or so, I can see business-section stories about all the big data center shells that were never filled in, standing there empty, looking for another use. It’s gonna be tough, what can you do with buildings that have no windows