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Tante’s piece on techno-fascism topped the usual charts last week and the tech bros were in denial. Few want to acknowledge the harm their new toy is doing. Certainly not the source. It becomes harder to ignore reality when experiences ...

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Today was day one learning the Godot game engine. I decided I should build a game in my spare time (and full time, if I need to wait for the slopocalypse fallout to blow over.) Godot is a little overwhelming ...

At Machine Speed(opens in new tab)

Yesterday, I opened Discord to a message from my friend Bastian Allgeier that I had never quite seen in all the years I’ve been building sites with his Kirby CMS. “Today we are releasing our biggest security release in the ...

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I’ve had my head down these last two weeks. Long shifts in the WordPress mines. WordPress is still “yikes” for bespoke development. I’m tempted to write a follow-up but not much has changed. Pro tip: disable anything Automattic has added ...

Equity for Europeans(opens in new tab)

If you spend enough time in US business or finance conversations, one word keeps showing up: equity. Coming from a German-speaking, central European background, I found it surprisingly hard to fully internalize what that word means. More than that, I ...

Norman Merz 1926-2026(opens in new tab)

We are heartbroken to share that my father, Norman Merz, passed on April 20. He was 99. Dad was born in Newark, grew up in South Orange during the Depression, served in the Navy during World War II, and then ...

High-Quality Chaos(opens in new tab)

As I have been preparing slides for my coming talk at foss-north on April 28, 2026 I figured I could take the opportunity and share a glimpse of the current reality here on my blog. The high quality chaos era, ...

Coding is a Meta-Task(opens in new tab)

Coding is a Meta-Task/images/blog/coding-is-a-meta-task/header.webp/images/blog/coding-is-a-meta-task/header.webp I think a lot of people are confused about modern AI models being mostly "coding models", and thinking that because of this they're not good for other types of work. I think that's th...