Man, what I would give to go back to 2008 Social media.

Timeline cleanse: The soft glow of a PDP-8 in a dark office.

BTW. I'm not completely anti AI. It's a tool, and tools are helpful. But if what you need is tweezers and you pick up a 20,000-pound excavator for the job...

I believe the best way to think is to write (or at least sit quietly with nothing to do). If writing is thinking, and I let an AI do my writing, then I haven’t really thought at all. It’s strange even to be thinking about this.

Prediction: 2026 will be the year of the FreeBSD desktop.

Actually ahead on my NaNoWriMo goal for this year. This is a first.

Nothing destroys a good engineer's motivation faster than a PM treating them as a "resource" instead of as a collaborator.

Okay, hear me out: A terminal (ncusrses?) client for Obsidian.

It's the end of October, which means it's time to pick out my writing platform for National Novel Writing Month. This year I'm going with the Electra 220. It's great to type on and keeps me away from the temptation of LLMs and grammar checkers. Gonna tone it down this year and shoot for 1000 words per day. I've got a story idea and the first four or five chapters in mind already.

I might actually be turning anti-cloud.

I'm seriously thinking about opening a vintage appliances business. I want boring, SUPER reliable appliances. They can use all the water they want. I just want them to work like a tank.

You’re on an island and you can bring one game. It’ll magically work indefinitely. What game?

Grok just told me it would take 5 hours to go 8350 miles at 33 knots. Was very confident about its answer so it must be correct. Question nothing. (Claude got it right BTW)

Apparently there was an AWS something something this week.

My "North" for 2026. michaeldoornbos.com/2025/10/…

A big challenge in updating your resume on a 30+ year career full of cool stuff is what NOT to include.

For the first time in many years, I'm trying to avoid burnout in my day job. /sigh

This is my favorite Amazon message. Makes me feel good about having spent money on this.

My friend Jim64 has made a Meshtastic module and software for the Commodore 64! piped.video/7gDmBlTKk90