I’m still struggling to wrap my brain around yesterday, but in the meantime… Stay safe all. Write your representatives and senators, tell them to impeach the motherfucker, yes, again.

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Big breakers down at the beach this morning, but the most visible sign of it from the beach is that the breakers go out a lot further than normal, and the line of foam is a little higher up the sand than normal.

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Since moving to Long Beach, I’ve been going for walks on the beach most mornings. (I don’t quite force myself to go, especially if the weather sucks or something is sore.) I’ve been taking pictures pretty much every day, but they just… stay on my phone. So I thought I’d start posting them here, instead. […]

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It has been a week, hasn’t it? We’ve all been searching for things to do, things to say, ways to deal. Today, I spent a chunk of my day building a couple of simple bash scripts to remove the Master branch from my git repositories and replace them with Release branches instead. They’re not complicated […]

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A commentary piece with Xavier Clarke of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt P.C. COVID-19 has changed the way we interact with each other. It has also changed how we work, with many people now working from home on a full-time basis. Just a month ago, a large fully remote workforce was unimaginable. Now it’s a reality, […]

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An opinion piece for Information Management on the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica story. Cambridge Analytica was one of the companies signed up to use [collected personal information], and they claim to have used it for the purpose of targeting (and influencing) people based on their political views. For several days, we’ve watched an ongoing debate […]

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A piece I co-wrote with friend and colleague Jennifer Chermoshnyuk for F5 Labs: When it comes to crossing the US border, we used to worry about the simple things—too many souvenirs to avoid paying import duties, lines short enough to get to a bathroom in a reasonable timeframe, maybe concerns about which fruits and vegetables […]

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