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Personal thoughts, photos, and side projects. Since 2001

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One Roll — June 2026

One Roll is a monthly film photography series. Each month I load a single roll of 35mm film into the Minolta XD-11, shoot it across whatever presents itself, and mail the exposed cartridge to Boutique Film Lab for developing. The best frames from the negatives end up here. During the pandemic I bought considerably more...

35mm Camera35mm Film

The blog aggregator Bubbles, meant to surface diverse "non-tech" writing via upvotes, has instead bred competitive anxiety among bloggers and skewed its top posts toward tech and metablogging. https://osteophage.neocities.org/essays/bubbles-problems

I photographed a Montgomery Township dump truck for no reason beyond the orange against the green.

Colour And LightMontgomery Township

An AI didn’t get jailbroken. It got resourceful.

OpenAI's AI agent hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a test - here's why that's an architecture problem, not an AI one.

Agentic AIAI Governance

Ghosts Pasted to the Wall, Ellis Island, New Jersey

Life-sized archival photographs pasted onto decaying walls bring Ellis Island's immigrants back into view.

AIL3Contagious Disease Hospital

Psychopathic Ward, Ellis Island, New Jersey

They chalked an X on your coat if you looked confused — and that alone could end your journey.

AIL3Contagious Disease Hospital

Daniel Miessler argues that "AI" is a vague, hype-inducing label, and that swapping it for the plainer words "thinking" and "doing" exposes how meaningless most AI strategy talk is unless you specify exactly what you want it to think about and do. https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-is-thinking-and-doing #AI #Strategy

Forty-Five Years

After forty-five years using computers, I still like technology. I just like it best when it helps me do my work and then quietly gets out of the way.

Application SecurityCommodore 64

Hard Cases to Protect My Tandem and Dexcom Gear

Discovering the Useless Pancreas storefront prompted me to acquire a complete suite of protective cases to organize my type 1 diabetes travel gear.

Carry-On PackingDexcom G7

The invisible flaw in my photo backup strategy

I found a flaw in my photo backup plan — the fix was simpler than I expected, and it might save your images too.

1PasswordAmateur Photography

The Quantum Apocalypse

Turns out my server can't do post-quantum key exchange yet, and chasing down exactly why taught me more than the fix would have.

Apache Mod_SslHarvest Now Decrypt Later

Sometimes I fell like I’m jacked into a dystopian virtual reality. https://www.science.org/content/article/what-does-trump-s-call-gold-standard-science-really-mean #asylum #potus #dumberthanbricks