Thank Goodness Universal Basic Income Saved the AI Economy
- 8 January, 2026
- 398 words
- 1 minute read time
…because without dramatic policies that addressed the disruption that artificial intelligence products introduced, we'd be in a bad spot.
continue...439 Days, 8,369 Miles, and 2 Kids with an Electric Vehicle
- 6 January, 2026
- 2,391 words
- 10 minute read time
This is the blog post I wished I could have read when making electric vehicle (EV) purchasing decisions in 2024.
continue...To monitor my backups, I had to first invent the universe
- 15 August, 2025
- 1,807 words
- 7 minute read time
I store all of my critical data in ZFS and replicate it offsite nightly with zrepl.
The monitoring page of the zrepl docs mock me with:
Monitoring endpoints are configured in the global.monitoring section of the config file. […] zrepl can expose Prometheus metrics via HTTP.
systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
- 8 July, 2025
- 1,782 words
- 7 minute read time
The year is 2013 and I am hopping mad.
systemd is replacing my plaintext logs with a binary format and pumping steroids into init and it is laughing at me.
The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU plus Linux)?
The Human Resources Alignment Problem
- 18 June, 2025
- 692 words
- 2 minute read time
Today I realized that – distinct from the idea of AI misalignment – today's human resource departments have misaligned incentives for how employees will (or are?) using large language models.
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