Henry Catalini Smith

Give me lava chicken or give me death

Rasmus Fleischer made an interesting appeal earlier today.

The future of open source is democratic, community-led and non-profit

I’m so fucking bored of companies.

My smartphone was making me fat

It’s been about five months now since I stopped carrying a smartphone. Recently my BMI re-entered the “healthy” range for the first time in about five years. I’m pretty convinced the two are connected and here’s why.

Rosa Luxemburg predicted the AI crash and its consequences in 1913

The Accumulation of Capital is a book from 1913 by Rosa Luxemburg which predicts the collapse of the AI bubble. Cool, right?

The Tinder Box is a Morrowind Let's Play

When I was little my grandad used to read me this book called The Tinder Box. I got hold of a copy a few years back in order to have something with some nostalgic value in the bedtime story rotation. I’ve been reading it quite frequently ever since.

Glory Days Or Bust

The road back to my coding happy place, i.e. a terminal emulator running Vim.

Democracy Kicks Ass

Contrasting the sense of helplessness about Microsoft's agenda for GitHub with the community-led democracy of Codeberg.

Notes from three months without carrying a smartphone

Got a Nokia 2660 for my birthday a few months back. Looks like this.

Nine Nine Six

Life after streaming

Been a lot of buzz about getting off Spotify due to the military industrial profiteering. It’s fair enough, but I’d like to encourage people to treat it as an opportunity to upgrade their relationship with music rather than just installing a competing app and trying to carry on as before. I uninstalled that app myself a while ago for other reasons and tried a bunch of the competitors for a while before coming to this conclusion. Maybe I can save you wasting a bunch of time pissing around with importing and exporting playlists over and over.