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  • My Career: Silverlight

    When I graduated from the University of Michigan, I decided to start my software engineering career at Microsoft. I accepted a position on a new small team working on what was at the time referred to as either Jolt or…

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  • Digital Packrat Manifesto

    Digital Packratting is the antithesis of this trend. It requires intentional curation, because you’re limited by the amount of free space on your media server and devices—and the amount of space in your home you’re willing to devote to this…

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  • Deleting ‘Justice’, ‘Dignity’, and ‘Respect’

    “Justice.” “Dignity.” “Respect.” Those words are now considered red flags by the Army as it does a wide-ranging scrub of the massive amount of digital content the service has created online over the years — a purge that is leading…

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  • Trump against Zelenskyy

    Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy EU’s top diplomat: ‘The free world needs a new leader’ (The Hill) We are perilously…

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  • I Sit up in My Window

    The world feels pretty broken right now, but it’s still worth having some hope and determination to make it a better place. Here’s another song I like along those lines: I Sit up in My Window by Jem. I Sit…

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  • Society’s Kind of Like a Video Essay

    I thought this was a well-crafted message about the focus on efficiency, not just in government, but as a goal for society as a whole. Is efficiency really what we should be aiming for? A Video Essay About Efficiency (Pillar…

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