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Being the room

I’ve written before about my computing origin story , and it’s still true. These boxes of sand, they can change the world, but only with the right programming. On its own, a computer isn’t even a fancy calculator. With software, it can be whatever it needs to be. Who wouldn’t want to write software that could change someone’s life for the better? It’s still the dream. I moved into management when I remembered that programming was a means to an end. I had become enamoured with programming as its own craft, but I knew I was never going to be that one programmer that you’d give an impossible prob

Relative Sanity · EN

It's NOT always DNS.

I’ve written down a new rule (no name, sorry) that I’ll be repeating to myself and those around me. “If you can replace ‘DNS’ with ‘key value store mapping a name to an ip’ and it still makes sense, it was not, in fact, DNS.” Feel free to repeat it along with me. Sure, the “It’s always DNS” meme is funny the first few hundred times you see it – but what’s less funny is when critical thinking ends because a DNS query is involved. DNS failures are often the first observable problem because it’s one of the first t

Paul's Notes · EN

Sylvia (2026)

Written and directed by Jessie Barr Starring Jena Malone, Amanda Carlin, and Tyler Rice *Made possible by MOS Silent Film Grant 2025 and Isabella Rossellini All…

Vimeo Short of the Week · EN