view from the present

an extended meditation on presence (we also have chickens)

2025-09-05 is Trump trying to crash the US economy?
2025-09-02 yeeting oligarch tech: month 9
2025-09-01 reading the WSJ reshaped my view of economic class – but not the way my family thinks
2025-08-27 in which past me did not, in fact, overcommit (good job past me)
2025-08-15 gen AI: it's bubbles all the way down
2025-08-14 new blog title; present and presence
2025-08-11 the arts taught me how to run a business
2025-08-10 the seven habits of highly effective cats
2025-08-09 credit cards are weird
2025-08-02 my ISP wanted my opinion so I gave it to them
2025-08-01 storytime: the neediest, plead-iest ex i ever dumped
2025-07-29 project yeet broadband: broadband yote
2025-07-27 i now know what it costs to run (almost) everything in my house
2025-07-26 biiicycle...biiicycle
2025-07-13 in our AI sycophancy era
2025-07-11 did you know you can write to avoid writing
2025-07-02 Small Web July (but make it forever)
2025-07-01 today in AI fuckery: lying about my bank
2025-06-30 don't mind me, just having a midlife crisis (it's my jam)
2025-06-20 "that doesn't pay well" and other things my parents said that confuse me now
2025-06-19 chicken blog: baby book
2025-06-18 this is now a chicken blog (I'm sorry/you're welcome)
2025-06-16 on free lunches
2025-06-13 Project Yeet Broadband?: early observations
2025-06-11 commence project "yeet broadband?"
2025-06-09 neither cop nor cow can stop me now
2025-06-06 what I really want an "AI agent" to do (MBA Tears edition)
2025-06-03 yeeting social media and Oligarch Tech: month 6
2025-06-01 you have to like it better than being loved
2025-05-28 adventures in library inventory
2025-05-27 how to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit
2025-05-25 not even Ted predicted our capitulation to Surveillance World
2025-05-23 not a "not a garden blog" blog: computer brain versus compost brain
2025-05-20 going full Marie Kondo: one year later
2025-05-16 enjoying a little light forced data extraction on my bonus day off
2025-05-15 slammed
2025-05-12 shopping is an exasperating nightmare
2025-05-11 not a garden blog 7: asparagus feels like cheating; the weeds fight back
2025-05-11 Yeeting Oligarch Tech: four months out
2025-05-09 not a gardening blog 6: things I need to remind myself every year
2025-05-07 a gardening blog: digital gardening
2025-05-05 getting humankind a spiritual awakening (wait no not like that)
2025-05-04 not a gardening blog 5: brutal honesty
2025-05-03 not a garden blog 4: murdering everything in my path
2025-05-01 not a garden blog 3: cluck cluck, motherfucker
2025-04-30 not a garden blog 2: Legion of Doom
2025-04-29 Ceci n'est pas une gardening blog
2025-04-28 Sims 4 challenge: The Children of Cheesus
2025-04-24 Zuck's anti-antitrust argument is that he ruined the Internet
2025-04-23 You do need to memorize basic facts, actually

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