Archive - Chris’s Substack

Needy or Elderly in Rural America

Or, random thoughts after a low speed collision while waiting for the ferry.

Apr 16 •

March 2025

60 Hours a week? How about 4 uninterrupted hours a day?

..or...the AGI meetings will continue until morale improves.

Mar 4 •

Knowledge Anchoring within Deepseek.

...or how a cute conversation with deepseek went a little overboard

Mar 2 •

February 2025

State Department Intake Thoughts...

In which I talk about days gone by, and how much I think about my friends in federal service in the age of muskrump mismanagement of government. Doge…

Feb 27 •

January 2025

Deepseek, open source and the growth of the Internet

History is rhyming again...

Jan 30 •

Loss aversion, early smart phones and car wrecks..

An attendance prize, Force = Mass * Acceleration and Apples.

Jan 22 •

December 2024

Contract Killer: License efficiency and Open Source Software

This is part of a regular series of Open Source fundamentals that I'll release and update on the regular.

Dec 11, 2024 •

November 2024

Vampire Survivors, Chicory, Hard Drive Failures and Google's approach to Enshittification

Sunday computing is Funday computing.

Nov 3, 2024 •

October 2024

Domains, from Network Solutions to the Google Domains shutdown.

..and that time when I tried to become the moons TLD manager.

Oct 27, 2024 •

Slashdot, karma, Abusive users and Twitter

There's a new book "Character Limit" out about Elon's assumption of Twitter, and that prompted some musing about the early days of the web, Slashdot…

Oct 23, 2024 •

The day Google stopped hiring non-engineers...

... or how mid 2000s era hiring at Google was pretty wild.

Oct 15, 2024 •

When Open Source goes proprietary, or starts thinking about the law...

A roundabout post about a 2012 chrome meeting that could have ended the open source chromium project.

Oct 3, 2024 •

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