2025 Posts
✦ January
Making shavings
I’ve been learning to turn wood. It is a wonderful craft skill that is easy to learn but hard
Johnny Rodgers
2023 Posts
✦ June
Fulcrum
No crises in sight
I turn forty in a few months. Forty is an interesting one. It’s a reasonable
2022 Posts
✦ January
Who belongs here?
This is inspired by a true story a neighbour told me about a bear encounter. I couldn’t stop thinking
2021 Posts
✦ December
The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack
“We have to shut down the game.” Stewart Butterfield said to me. I looked at him out of the corner
2020 Posts
✦ December
Building a modern home
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
Ann Douglas
A lot of people dream of building
2020 Posts
✦ August
A man on fire
Warning. This post contains graphic content and detailed descriptions of the scene of a car accident. If you have experienced
2019 Posts
✦ July
Burnout
I have burned out twice – once at 26, once at 30. Each time it took months to come back and
2019 Posts
✦ February
At home on the internet
I’ve been online for 25 years. My family got an internet connection at home in 1994. We had a