SEATTLE IS HOSTING THE WORLD CUP!
I'm so stoked! Obviously, FIFA is a garbage organization run by criminals, but also... THE WORLD CUP IS COMING TO SEATTLE.
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When Are We Going to Do Something?
I said I'm not writing about this again, but I will continue chaining together my periodic posts about gun violence in the United States every time something particularly egregious happens again.
SEATTLE SOUNDERS ARE CONCACAF CHAMPIONS
We won the CONCACAF Champions League title tonight! It was the best soccer match I've ever attended. We set the CONCACAF Champion League attendance record with 68k+ people screaming out hearts out as…
Hacking Legacy Sites for Fun and (Non)profit
Recently at work I had to fix a few legacy websites with broken cookie banners after we did a major GDPR compliance effort across all the publicly accessible websites. These sites were initially…
What Should We Expect From FOSS?
Yesterday, a new vulnerability was reported in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Vulnerability Database regarding some "protestware" that was added to a popular JavaScript…
Pandemic Life: Year Two
Year two is over!
Static Code Analysis: Reducing Your Team’s Cognitive Burden
Have you ever run into a pull request that seemed impossible to merge? One with hundreds of comments from a dozen people, with two folks passionately arguing about choosing variable names, which…
Book Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War
Go read it.
Yew Hooks with GraphQL
Over the last year or so I've been occasionally hacking away at a web app called Dicebag, which will eventually become a collection of useful tools to facilitate in-person Dungeons & Dragons games.
2021 Year In Review
As the first year of the decade comes to a close, I can breath a sigh of relief. While 2021 wasn't great, at least this wasn't 2020.
Government as a Service (GaaS): How the Federal Government Could Streamline State Management
Last week, the Missouri governor showed the world his technological illiteracy by vowing to prosecute a "hacker" that brought a major data leak to the government's attention. The entire tech…
Podcasting's Walled Garden Problem
If you know me well, you know I'm a tad bit into podcasts. I listen to 28 different shows regularly, with 40 other shows I pick and choose from when I have the time. If I'm not listening to an…
Living with Seattle's Long Dark
It's that time of year again, where the sun sets before 7 PM and a perpetually gray blanket of clouds once again descends on the Emerald City.
The Why and How of Rust Declarative Macros
In order to prepare to conduct a technical interview of a potential future co-worker, I decided to try to solve the problem we would be presenting to the candidate. I chose to do it in Rust (even…
COVID Summer
I thought this was supposed to be over. The vaccine would show up, everybody would take it, and life would get back to that "new normal" everyone was talking about.
The Future of the Web: Why It Doesn't Have to Be JavaScript
I am a professional web developer. I use JavaScript on a daily basis, but to be honest I harbor a bit of hate for the language. Don't get me wrong, it does its job and does it well enough, but...…
Vaccinated!
I got my second poke yesterday!
First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine!
I got my first poke last weekend. Next one is on May 8th!
A Year of Pandemic Life
It's been a whole year. One that feels like a lifetime.
Farewell Flash!
Today, Mozilla shipped Firefox 85, in which they completely ripped out Adobe Flash functionality. And while Google hasn't quite shipped their Flash-less Chrome release yet, I don't care because…