A year ago I started doing morning pages — three handwritten pages, first thing, no editing, no rereading. Julia Cameron recommends it in The Artist’s Way as a way to clear mental clutter and unlock creativity. I was sceptical. I did it anyway.
Read MoreA good commit message is a gift to your future self. Here’s the format I follow, loosely based on the Conventional Commits spec:
Read MoreI used to say yes to almost everything. Drinks I didn’t want to go to, projects I didn’t have capacity for, favours that cost me a full evening. I told myself it was generosity. I think it was mostly conflict avoidance.
Read MoreAfter years of using npm (and a brief stint with Yarn), I switched to pnpm on all my projects about six months ago. Here’s the short version of why I’m not going back.
Read MoreIn April I deleted Instagram, Twitter/X, and TikTok from my phone. Not deactivated — just removed the apps. The accounts still exist. I just made them inconvenient to access.
Read MoreNetwork Entropology (n.): The study of chaos in data network systems; the discipline concerned with understanding how order degrades, complexity accumulates, and entropy propagates across connected infrastructure, and the practice of bringing order back to it. A field that exists whether or not its practitioners know they are in it.