Mark Atwood

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I learn amazing things, and meet awesome people, and introduce them to each other. Shape Rotator. Quiet Mind. Fan of good pens, fine paper, deep writing, home grown food, skilled work.
Touting 'sophisticated ACL' as a feature is like selling a minivan by bragging about 'window cranks'.
Life is a moment, and a moment, and a moment. Nostalgia is the embalming fluid.
Every sufficiently complex storage system implementation contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of ZFS
"Listen to your heart" is the worst advice anyone has ever given anyone.
Hard UV-C in HVAC should be as mandatory as potable water filtration. The fact that it isn't, even now, demonstrates everything you need to know about the priorities of the people in charge. Not safety. Not resilience. Just appearances, grifts, and pay-offs.
If barndos were being built in Marin County with exposed concrete, Scandinavian furnishings, and a fawning Dwell feature, rchitects would be calling them "rural industrial minimalism." But when it’s someone in Texas doing it with sweat equity and a Home Depot card, suddenly it’s “low-brow.”
A PO with net-180 risk isn’t revenue. It’s a liability.
When I bought my place in 2020, I decided no fake lawn. I seed clover, herbs, hardy grass, and let moss take over where it wanted. I mow after it seeds. It’s soft, full of life, and sometimes there are frogs. Best decision.
Any device launching in 2025 with a proprietary magnetic charger and no good reason is a customer hostile dark pattern design decision. And no, your little device is not a good reason.
Better to endure the lone prophet raving in the square than the crowd chanting in unison.