I wrote something similar about Medium back in July to what Ben Werdmüller writes now. Medium isn't doing something bad, it's just that they changed directions over the last years. From being a platform, where anyone can write anything and anyone can read anything for free, it's now something like ...
I decided in late October that I want to be off Facebook by the new year. I think the company is awful for a lot of reasons. At that time, the most recent reasons were Zuck saying Facebook wouldn’t prohibit political ads with outright lies in them. They also took down some pro-vaccine ads while le...
Back when nuclear power stations were first proposed, we were promised "energy which is too cheap to meter". That is, the cost of electricity would be so low, invoicing for its use would be prohibitively expensive.
Well, that didn't exactly turn out that way! But as our electronics have become more ...
The ten-year photo thing is going around again which gave me a good excuse to go through old photos on Facebook and re-live fun memories. I chose this photo mostly because it was easy to re-create in the moment, and I loved that shirt.
on the left, a photo of me from October 2009. on the right, a ph...
“The good ones go into the pot, the bad ones go into your crop.
High power 13s (48V) discharge test with around 2A. First results: Sony cells really do suck (literally). BAK 18650C4 outperform all other cells. All cells are from salvage Laptop batteries. #DIYPowerwall https://t.co/UoY1Vsxggn”
I saw this prompt that I thought would be interesting to write about:
“there’s only ONE MONTH left in the decade. what have you accomplished?” — @stfutony
I saw some impressive accomplishments, but Katherine’s response made me stop and think:
“I’m pretty close to disconnecting my self ...