There's been a deluge of sentiment, articles, and posts about people feeling dissatisfied, trapped, and alienated by the state of the tech industry. I'm no stranger to it; I'm one of them. I spend most of my days at work and in my free time thinking about AI—usually against my will. (I wrote that em-dash myself, thank you very much.) ... Continue reading

Music is terribly important to me, and so is owning my data. I don’t use streaming services, and over the last ten or so years, I developed a pretty bad habit of just dumping all new of my music in a “To Sort” folder. Flash forward to now, I have over 2000 albums and singles to sort through. This is particularly a problem due to legitimate limitations (or bugs) in network file access protocols like SMB and NFS, making accessing my music in the apps I use pretty unstable. ... Continue reading