Author: Rust

I hadn’t realized that Texas had banned “sexually oriented performances” this summer. Under threat of jail for performers and fines up to $10,000 for venues/organizers (if the event is in public or where minors may be reasonably expected to attend). This totally sounds kind of reasonable, doesn’t it? No strippers in public, burlesque shows remain…

What the actual fuck, Florida? The Charlotte County School District, to be precise. We know Florida has their “Don’t Say Gay” bill and is full of hate for anyone not Christian and not heterosexual. This shouldn’t be any kind of surprise. Superintendent Vianello, bully, has issued “guidance” to the district that “all books with LGBTQ…

Maybe? We have a lot of movies and stories that look at the possibility of time travel. As a culture we seem to be at least as fascinated by the possibility of changing our past as we are about knowing our future. Short of actually inventing it, there’s only one definitive way to test for…

Twitter is an unusable mess of a platform and has been for years. Being taken over by Elon “Biff Tannen” Musk is making it worse in some ways, but the main narrative hasn’t really changed – it has a terrible user experience. Some reasons why I think this: Twitter is the 90-minute time-share presentation of…

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized it’s more important to fill your career with work that you don’t need to escape from. A vacation should be something that you want and take advantage of, not something you need. For a lot of years, I have worked in jobs that were high pressure and high stress,…

It’s been a long time since I updated any of my old code on GitHub. Life takes precedence, career, family – any number of reasons can come up that let me ignore old code for half a decade or more. Since I’ve been out of work though, I’ve been able to make a lot of…