Josh's Brain Blog

The New Alvies.org, Part One

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I hadn't done a whole lot with my eponymous website in a decade; not as if the thing gets a boatload of traffic, but as someone who makes his living and has his major hobbies all connected to the web, it was a bit awkward to have something quite so stale.

Don't Trust Tech Too Much

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As we are the masters of our technology, we should trust our instincts when our technology does something we don't expect or don't understand. If we lack sufficient mastery of the technology to recognize this situation, we should either get it or seek out those who have it. I trust the people who build our smart devices, but I shouldn't forget that I'm the one actually using them.

Mmmmmmm, Text Pastries

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Does a Homer Simpson reference read in the title of a blog post? I don't think so, but that's what this is. Also, the article is about Sublime Text, which if you're still using by the time you read this blurb, you probably already know everything therein.

Project in Detail: CoN World Cup

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I've been a soccer player for the vast majority of my life, but my path to being a soccer fan was a slower one. That's something for some other blog, probably. But over at the Caves of Narshe, still my primary online community, there have been over the years a lot of folks who have been soccer fans just like me, and a fair amount of banter around the Beautiful Game, as they say.