did i pick up a cursed amulet or something

A hard thing to wrap your head around is that most people aren’t particularly bad or good. I mean I think most people would like to be good but it really depends on how they’re feeling that day or what else they’ve got going on. Like, I try to give cash to beggars in the street but I’m not usually going to go out of my way if I don’t have cash that day or I’m in a hurry or they rub me the wrong way. I’d like to think this doesn’t

Occasionally people will ask me why I have a blog instead of Substack (or a Buttondown, or whatever else is popular now). Ghost, the hosting service I use, is functionally designed to be an open-source version of Substack - I just disabled all the email functionality.

First, I don't actually like reading newsletters very much. Even though I have been making myself blog most days for the past few months I have very little desire to have someone else's writing in my inbox at a regular cadence. I like to be able to choose to visit a blog! I like

I've been using VSCode Neovim for a while, but had been irritated at the tradeoff of access to the VSCode ecosystem at the cost of losing my once-heavily curated .vimrc setup. Turns out you don't have to live that way!

A lot of doing dev work on Windows feels like making a Rube Goldberg machine to make it behave more like Linux, and this is not particularly different, but I do wish I'd moved faster to replicate my preferred IDE setup in VSCode. You really can have your cake and eat it too, sort of. Some stuff doesn't work the