notes from /dev/null - life

Leaving Instagram

2025-01-22T14:58:00-08:00

Events of late have gotten me to reconsider (again!) my usage of social media, in particular what I give to it. If you follow me on Instagram, I've routinely posted photos of my goings about town there. Henceforth I’m only posting those moments here on this blog and sharing them on Mastodon (@kickingvegas.sfba.social) and Bluesky (@kickingvegas.bsky.social). If you follow me on Instagram, I invite you to do likewise on either my Mastodon or Bluesky account. I will be severely curtailing my usage of Meta platforms from now on.

For readers who use RSS, I invite you to subscribe to the main feed of this blog. Readers interested in only certain topics can find feeds for specific tags I’ve put on blog posts. Two such feeds are for Photo (my slice of life photos) and Emacs (posts I’ve made about my Emacs journey)

Readers looking for my rationale in doing this are invited to do a deep reading of “History in the making: Whistleblowers and big tech” by Mar Hicks. The article captures many of the events that inform my thinking on social media today.

Finally, if you are new to my website, welcome! This website talks a lot about computers but not exclusively so. Hopefully you will find something of interest.

What happened to February?

2023-03-05T11:28:00-08:00

Noticed it’s been a while since I’ve posted and just like that February is gone. All I can say is that I spent a fair amount of time making a very niche macOS app, news of which will hopefully be forthcoming soon. I’m pretty excited about it though and hope others will feel the same.

Odds and Ends

2022-09-23T13:19:00-07:00

Wow, so much to call out over the past nine years that I have not posted here. It's a bit overwhelming to think on much less capture so I'll make some quick bullet points. Thinking I'll elaborate more on these points in future posts, but we'll see. 😏

I officially left the employ of Tile on August 1, 2022. I started there as employee 2 in the summer of 2013 and was their first engineering hire. I was brought on to architect and write the Tile app for iOS which was achieved to successful effect.
Wow we had a GLOBAL PANDEMIC. It was and still is awful.
Bicycling is my primary mode of transportation now.
Combining pandemic living and bicycling, I started routinely posting photos of San Francisco from my bike rides on Instagram/Facebook (Meta).
I use Emacs and in particular Org Mode daily. Profoundly life-changing, and that's understating their impact.
In late 2017, I let Marie Kondō in my life and combined with Org Mode, they markedly improved it.
Immersed in DJ culture again (especially thanks to Twitch), especially over the past two years. So grateful for my years DJing at WTJU that started it all.
My French-style omelet game now is undefeated.