This weekend I dug a few old posts out of old git repositories for old versions of my website. They run a small gamut of interests, and might be of interest to some.
- Post-IPO Facebook: Echoing the Dot-Com Boom
- From my archive, a prophecy that went unheard but not unfulfill’d: I saw Facebook’s enshittification coming, but didn’t think it would be this bad.
- Worldbuilding: Mutual Aid vs the Welfare State
- I’m not an expert in economics or in political economy, but the more I tried to think things through the more impossible it became to justify writing a straightforward right-libertarian utopia.
- Derelict by L. J. Cohen: a YA Worthy of Heinlein
- a review resurrected and expanded from the archives; I had bought the book and gotten my money’s worth
- The Alpha Male Myth
- Alpha wolves don’t exist in the wild, only in captivity. Research has shown this. If alpha men exist at all, it’s because we’ve made a prison of our society.
- Review: The Winter Boy
- I had gotten a free copy in my World Fantasy Convention 2014 book bag and had the pleasure of meeting Sally Wiener Grotta and attending a reading.
- Programmer Passion Considered Harmful
- I might have been drunk when I posted this on Medium, but I meant it and I stand by it today.
- I Know I’m Fat. Did You Know You’re An Asshole?
- I don’t want or need your acceptance. You can think whatever you want; just don’t make your prejudice my problem.
- Finding the Sweet Spot: Purple Prose and Fire Emblem Fates
- What if purple prose, used in moderation, wasn’t the aesthetic atrocity that style fascists and writers even more pretentious than I am make it out to be?
You might remember some of these. Hopefully with at least a little fondness.