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Every Choice Changes Everything: The Show
About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT network. Naming things is hard, and we...
Thank You For Being a Friend
It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post, because I only have...
Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative
It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream:1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need...
The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income
The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
Let's Talk About The American Dream
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself....
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
The Great Filter Comes For Us All
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven’t any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now?(Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but...
I Fight For The Users
If you haven’t been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year, I don’t blame you. There’s a lot going on right now. It’s...
The 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet
It’s my honor to announce that John Carmack and I have initiated a friendly bet of $10,000* to the 501(c)(3) charity of the winner’s choice:By January 1st, 2030, completely autonomous...
Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era
In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career.With early computers, you didn’t boot up to a fancy schmancy desktop, or a screen full of apps...
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing
Hard to believe that I’ve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that’s yet another sign that the PC is...
The Rise of the Electric Scooter
In an electric car, the (enormous) battery is a major part of the price. If electric car prices are decreasing, battery costs must be decreasing, because it’s not like the...
Electric Geek Transportation Systems
I’ve never thought of myself as a “car person.” The last new car I bought (and in fact, now that I think about it, the first new car I ever...
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web
When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it’s also true that the web has changed a...
The Cloud Is Just Someone Else’s Computer
When we started Discourse in 2013, our server requirements were high:1GB RAMmodern, fast dual core CPUspeedy solid state drive with 20+ GBI’m not talking about a cheapo shared cpanel server,...
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up?
I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here’s my 15 second answer:We built a sort...
There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security
Remember “cybersecurity”?Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy... things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to?Unfortunately, we now live in a world...
To Serve Man, with Software
I didn’t choose to be a programmer. Somehow, it seemed, the computers chose me. For a long time, that was fine, that was enough; that was all I needed. But...