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I'm Sisyphus and my website is my (worry)stone

I don't want a static site anymore because it doesn't do or provide what I want anyore. But I also can't find what I'm looking for off the shelf.

Being nice for free is a bad idea

The only obligations I have are to be good to my people and to my community.

A realignment of things

Closing accounts, making backups and making choices.

Where I'm going with the work I'm leaning into now

First Olamaelcu. Next the neighborhood.

An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI

As a Black software engineer and leftist in the United States, I contend with the notion that generative artifical intelligence can be used in a materialistic way that moves the needle forward for pro…

What I'd like to do with my website (and with the Internet as a whole)

It used to be fun to write and publish for the Internet, if not a bit fulfilling. Now that we've collectively normalized the vacuuming of information for the sake of profit of a select few companies, …

Adherence to societal norms as a form of acceptable self harm

Destacked: Why I Avoid Substack As Much as Possible

From Substack LLC's attempt to capture the concept of a newsletter as a verb to their overt encouragement and support for Neo-Nazi content, don't expect me to post anything on that platform. I explain…

Black August

We return to the time of memorialization in those we've lost to the prison industrial complex and work on personal growth to become more useful to the abolitionist movement.

Clocking My Autochattering in Relation to it All

What's Supposed to be Different about Livtet?

It's been about half a year since I've "started" working on Livtet and I couldn't tell you what I'm doing with it.

Focusing on Livtet Yet Again

Finding myself in need of a way to manage my book collection and my reference material, I've decided to revisit my ambitions with Livtet.

Nation Sovereignity Only Matters When it's a Colonial One

Nah, Y'all Got It

Collective ignorance around the nature of American fascism — a multi-century tradition of domestic and foreign policy — will keep it as the cobblestone of operations in the nation.

Left, Right and Center: A Reference

Mozilla Needs to Fall Apart to Make Space for Others

Mozilla had its time. Its executives have decided that it's best to cosplay as a small department with Google's ecosystem instead of doubling down on what its alleged mission was about. Let it fall.

Tech Contractors Need to Recognize Class

Why and how do I blog?

Creating with Intention

It's more important to make things that communicate the worlds that we want to see.

An Erosion of my trust in the Web

I deactivated my accounts and will be deactivated more.

In the Dark of the Night

Some of the thoughts and experiences I had during Hurricane Milton.

Dropping the 'Vegan' Label from my Political Banner

My Mumblings on Reading, Writing and the Field of Literature with Media

Is it possible for multimedia adaptions of literature to take people away from the act of literary engagement itself? I wrestle with this idea from some experiences I have and other books I've read.

One's Place in the Open Social Web

Given that places like X/Twitter, Meta/Threads/Instagram and the like are fully cemented in upholding the vices of capital and technology; how do people envision the open social Web to support the pot…

The Potential Case against Microblogging

Protocol Bickering is Going to Wreck the Open Web

My (Subtle Want to Engage in a) Divestment from the Open/Social/IndieWeb/Small Web

People Need to be More Critical of their Tech Environment

My Experience Observing Black August

Some reflection on how I went about observing Black August, what I'd like to do differently and what I learned.

I Decided to Invest a Bit More in RSS

After some want to pull away from the rivers that make up my timelines across so many social networking sites

Bringing back Bookmarks

The Wrong Ideas about the Wrong Things

A bit of self-criticism and self-reflection on how I engage people in my personal life and circles around technoactivism, abolition and what it is that I need to do next.

The Wrong Ideas

Thoughts on how I try to approach a decolonialist lens to working in the tech industry, what's worked (and hasn't) and what I want to do going forward.

Incorporating Lua with Livtet

How Livtet's integration of Lua helps allow for more library collections to appear with little change to the core library experience.

Making Livtet: A Project for Book Lovers

Slowly Pulling out from the Fediverse

Thinking more about why and where I'm putting my thoughts and what I should be spending my online time on.

Electoral Politics Online isn't Helping My Soul

A want to regulate my expectations and a need for grounding.

I Read 'The Tech Resume Inside Out' and Updated My Resume

After getting a free copy of the book for laid off folks, I decided to write about what I learned, my findings and what I managed to take away from the book.

Why do I continue to post on social media?

What is it that I'm trying to get out of using social media? How does my past experiences and that of others influnece these decisions?

Black August

My plans for observing Black August this year.

Find me at (my) home (server)

I'm Not Bothering with Electoral Politics Online Anymore

Like do we want change or do we want to be on America's Next Top Commander?

The Job Hunt is Driving me Mad

Making A Place for My Reading and Research

Do I Regret Focusing on 'Just Being' A Software Engineer?

When People with Privilege Don't Use It

Boxing Up Common Parts of an App

A Question on Domain Names in the IndieWeb

Hard Reset