Why Technology Feels Stagnated Software ate the world. Now what? Where are all the actual new technologies? The last major breakthrough in consumer technology feels like it was 20 years ago. Every piece of tech is now just a derivative of the iPad. Consumer software development has become the focus because it helps sell
Media Escapism What's your favorite show? Photo by Lucrezia Carnelos / UnsplashThis is one particular rant that will end up being more hypocritical than usual. The reason being? I certainly love my entertainment. I love my distractions. Give me circuses, give me streaming, give me streaming circuses. What am I on about this
Setting up a Self-Hosted Ghost Blog on AWS EC2 So you want to host a Ghost site on an Amazon Web Services EC2 server, eh? Luckily, it's not that complicated thanks to a nifty image from Bitnami. Disclaimer: this is how I did it, I'm not a professional web host, results may vary. If something doesn't work, go back
Has Consumerism Peaked? During the 90s, the United States was at the tail end of nearly half a century of surplus. Many Americans like myself experienced real scarcity for the first time their lives during COVID-19. We were so used to excess that even the mention of the word "shortage" sent shoppers into
New media, same old problems Years ago I was naïve enough to believe that journalism was going to be transformed for the better by the internet. In-fact, I was naïve enough to think that online journalist was a viable career choice. It was easy to believe at the time. High-definition cellphone cameras would make everyone
Why "The Veldt?" Why start a blog in 2022?Why do anything? As the old cliché goes, "this isn't so much of a blog" but rather a repository for thoughts and ideas and musings on blah blah blah. I've decided to return to writing and publishing on the web in a very small
