For as long as I can remember, I’ve been worrying about my legacy.

As a child learning the history of so many who came before me, I always wondered what there would be to say about me when it was all said and done. Would I one day be a great physist?¹ Would I be immortalised on the periodic table by uncovering a new element?

When I haphasardly fell into computing instead, I had dreams of being compared to Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman² one day. Of creating software so remarkably useful that it would solidify my name in computing history.

I saw a post earlier today by Andrew Leahey advertising that he’d added a Now page to his site. This was the first I came across the concept, but it seemed like a fun idea, so I’ve now added one to this site as well.

The world is full of laws, policies, and rules that fall apart at the slightest iterrogation. Today I was met with one of those.

Ben Werdmuller writes:

There’s an America I’m delighted to be a part of; one that I’ve come to truly love. It’s the America that understands the impact it’s had and has, both on its own communities and on the world, and genuinely wants to do much better. … It’s not the only America, and it’s not the loudest America. But it’s the best one, by far. I think it’s worth saying that I do love it; I want to support it; I want it to be the defining experience of being in and from this country.

Like Ben, I’ve been thinking about America today, and my relationship with this nation.

The topic of computer AI (Artificial Inteligence) has taken a foothold in the mainstream since OpenAI brought their ChatGPT service to the masses in late 2022.

In a recent conversation, someone asked me why people should bother learning to code anymore, when GenAI¹ / LLMs² can just generate code for you these days.

As the output of that conversation, this is a list of reasons why I am not worried for my career.

As recently mentioned I’m now using Hugo as the technology upon which this blog is built. There are many things I like about Hugo, but one factor had been a bit annoying: To preview what my changes will end up looking like, I need access to a machine that has Hugo installed.

I’ve recently been using the Panel framework on a Python project.

Deep in the bowels of the documentation, it is mentioned that a custom auth plugin can be provided if a project needs to use a different authentication mechanism than those bundled with the framework, which is exactly what I needed.

Over the course of the past couple of days, I’ve migrated this blog from Squarespace to Hugo. In so doing, I had to review each of the existing posts, as part of the conversion process.

Recently someone close to me asked that I explain what exactly it is that I do at my job.

I recently wrote a bit about wanting to return to tinkering with web technologies, without all of the noise that tends to get in the way in modern web development.

Given that many people aren’t familiar with web development at all, and of those who are, I suspect many of the more junior folks haven’t ever done things the “old” way, I wanted to take a moment today to describe what exactly it takes to make a web page in this manner.

My first foray into web development was in 2010, at the time I was a first year student at HTX Roskilde, taking the mandatory “Communications & IT” course taught by one of the school’s newer teachers, Bartek.

Ever since I first visited the U.S. at an age of 14, I’ve had a bit of a personal goal that most people find odd: To sample each of the mainstream American fast foods.

The internet era is marked by many things, but the sheer speed and volume of communication stands out to me as perhaps the most significant.

Earlier this summer I had the pleasure of attending the first ever FOSSY conference¹ in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

I had a pleasant time getting to know new faces in the FOSS community. As my first conference since moving to the US, it was great to get back out there and feel that sense of community that can sometimes be fleeting when working from home.

For one reason or another, I never really got around to using RSS during its heyday. Perhaps I was too young to care, or perhaps the sites I followed didn’t implement RSS in any significant way. Whatever the reason, it just never came to play a significant role in my life.

It is a well kept tradition to reflect on the year behind us as we slip past the longest winter night, the opulent holiday parties, and into a “new” year on the calendar.

Whilst I’m dubious of the idea that a new number on a calendar, in and of itself inspires any profound change in any of us, the practice of self reflection undoubtedly leads to better people.

A while ago I came to the realization that my Docker knowledge was rather lacking. I had heard of the tool on and off over the years, even completed the quick-start tutorials once or twice, but I had never made a container for a project of my own.

Back in 2015, whilst I was still a student, I had a part time job at the educational institution I attended. As is too often the case, we had severe budgetary constraints, a lack of goodwill from upper management, and conflicting desires between the professors.