The Boston Diaries

Notes on an overheard conversation between a prescriptivist and a descriptivist

Some more notes on the “wireless service unit”

My post about banning a Chinese web bot? Apparently, that was really about me being shadow banned from Hacker News … which is news to me

A neat idea, but I can see this leading to the Balkanization of the Internet

I did not get the memo, because if I did get the memo, it went straight into the spam bucket

Commenting runtime state changes

“Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!”

More issues with the Monopolistic Phone Company's “wireless service unit”

Notes on an overheard conversation while at lunch with friends

It was as bad as I feared, but not in the way I was expecting

Notes on an overheard conversation while at dinner

“I've got a bad feeling about this”

A first world problem that is partially my own fault, but I must also lay some blame to the Monopolistic Phone Company who took untold billions from the government for infrastructure upgrades, failed to do so while at the same time driving out other DSL providers

I'm afraid Benjamin just won't be reclaiming his property any time soon

A bit of a deep dive into the Feedly bot

Notes on an overheard conversation of two people opening a package

There's a van Gogh joke in here somewhere