As we near the end of the most intense pride month I have ever lived through, I want to talk a little bit about the anti-police protests we’ve been seeing...
I’ve been doing a lot of gaming since the stay-at-home order went out. Tabletop games translate really well to an online format—it’s easy to play D&D, for instance, over a video...
For folks like me who often have a pretty full schedule of tech conferences, the lack of them on the calendar right now is a particularly weird-feeling aspect of the...
I’ve really been checking all the boxes in my “Millennial quarantine stereotype” checklist. Baking my own bread, check. Adopted a new pet, check. Yep, I watched Tiger King too. And...
This Twin Peaks inspired poem was originally published at Pink Plastic House as the featured poem for the week of April 29th, 2020. tiny, frightened minds say,there’s a sort of...
This is a piece of fiction written from the perspective of Orville, the dodo who works at the airport desk in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Orville never leaves the 24-hour airport,...
Do you remember Notpron? I certainly do, although I distinctly remember it being called notpr0n—which I suspect is more a remnant of online culture in the late 2000s when it was originally...
As more of us are getting quarantined, sheltered in place, locked down and generally stuck inside, I’ve seen people taking on “quarantine projects.” I have a few of my own!...
I recently attended (and presented at) DevOpsDays NYC. It was my third DevOpsDays event and it was a fantastic conference, as the other two had been! What I didn’t realize...
Humans are herd animals. Herds meander, move in an uncoordinated way. But vampires are pack animals. Predators. And packs move with strategy and intention. That’s what makes vampires so scary....
