Telluride Horror Show 2025 Roundup!
Sixteen years running and I finally made it to Telluride's horror fest. The standouts, the surprises, and one talk I can't shake.
Tough Times Ask for Tough Calls
I left the contract paying half my income, because I could no longer pretend the missiles weren't my problem.
Review Wednesday: ASH
Flying Lotus opens with a first act I'd have followed anywhere. Then the movie decides to explain itself.
Information Flow in Three Work Cultures
Three work cultures, and what actually moves through each of them versus what the org chart claims does.
CI/CD: More Than Commit -> Deploy
The pipeline is the easy part. CI/CD is a set of cultural commitments that happen to produce a deploy.
Review Wednesday: The Ward
Carpenter, an asylum, and North Bend, Oregon. Two of those three worked for me.
The Dangerous Appeal of Absolutism
Maximalist openness is a policy that quietly assumes nobody will take advantage of you. They will.
Review Wednesday: Blood Machines
An R-rated Daft Punk video with Giger doing the sets and darksynth on the soundtrack. The plot is thin. It does not matter.
Review Weds: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Doctorow's weirdest book is about the son of a mountain and a washing machine. Somehow it works.
The Enshittification of Game Dev
Unity decided to charge developers per install and the internet lost it. The other shoe everyone saw coming, right on schedule.
