View by: Tags Apple once shipped a server a 12 year old could run. I rebuilt it in a VM to find out whether it still holds up in 2026, and what can be learned by examining the past. Climbing the ghost of a glacier in the Ogilvies, and coming back down faster than the mountain would like. A stolen glacier, a plum going soft, and a day in Dawson City that would not hold still. An answer to why I am here, why any of it matters, and why I intend to stick around, arrived at without the benefit of a supercomputer the size of a small planet. Twelve weeks out from the vote, and the words on the masthead matter less than the person on the ballot. Trains, now planes, soon enough my blog may even write about automobiles. Every argument against AI I hear today is one I heard against the cloud fifteen years ago, and the outcome of that earlier argument is not a hopeful precedent. A poem for the gossamer-winged butterflies of northern BC, and what such a small thing has to offer such a hard country. A day on the Northern Sea Wolf, up the fjords to Bella Coola, reading the deep past in the rock. On Peter Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, and what it teaches about beauty, possession, fidelity, and the cost of becoming real.The Golden Age of Apple Software Ended with Snow Leopard
September 07, 2026 ◦ 30 minute ◦Iron Rivers and Erratic Rocks
August 24, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦Little Moments (In the Rust and Rain)
August 24, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦42 Was Never the Hard Part
August 12, 2026 ◦ 32 minute ◦On Managing Matthew Miller's Nanaimo City Council Campaign
July 30, 2026 ◦ 8 minute ◦The Right to Repair Your Own Air Force: F-35 vs Gripen in Canada
July 29, 2026 ◦ 17 minute ◦The Cloud was the Rehearsal
July 17, 2026 ◦ 21 minute ◦Silvery Blue Gossamer-Winged Butterfly
July 10, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦The Long Way to Bella Coola
June 01, 2026 ◦ 2 minute ◦The Sublime Cannot Be Stored Like Treasure
May 17, 2026 ◦ 44 minute ◦