With the Pope’s Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas recently posted, I have seen some of the worst takes online: All from people that have not read the thing they are critiquing. They will see a short soundbite from the Vatican’s meeting with Anthropic, and that will be their entire understanding. The piece is 42,000...

The Vatican has just released Leo XIV’s Encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and I figured I would read through and give my commentary on such a pivotal document in the era of “AI” and the continual lockstep toward dehumanizing all of humanity. I sit at an interesting crossroads between Catholicism and Technology, and...

I just got off the phone with my bank, wasting about 30 minutes of my ever-shortening life to be told that I need not worry about the email that came in this morning and nearly gave me a heart attack. Opening my email inbox this morning, I see two emails about my address and information being updated from my bank....

“All of man’s miseries stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal When I think about the challenge of living in the modern world, the constant that continually crosses my mind is that we are so unable to revel in silence anymore. We fill the potential silence with noise, continual...

I never thought I would reach 5k subscribers on Youtube, so I owe everyone a massive thank you! To all of my new friends and the support over the last few years, it’s been an awesome time. Here’s to 50,000 in the future! People have asked in my comments about a “thinkpad collection” tour, and I thought I would do...

“The measure of love is to love without measure.”— St. Francis de Sales Our second child came into the world a few days ago, and I recall a conversation I had with a good friend of mine (also a dad) about how it would be possible to love the next kid as much as the first. But, we very quickly came to the conclusion...

If you only use social media and video hosting frontends - getting fed by algorithms and visiting the same 5 sites everyday on constant doomscroll, then the internet has never been alive for you. That experience is perhaps ~3-5% of what the internet could be. For the vast majority of people, yes - the internet is...

When people talk about the “internet dying” - what they are really talking about is slop overtaking the algorithm - of social media becoming unuseable because it’s all bots. But that is not the internet, not by a long shot. If you live and die by the algorithm, then your experience will be one of curation. It will...

In my ever-increasing desire to use emacs as my sole computing environment, I have started to take browsing the web inside it far more seriously. Where I previously had thought EWW to be a niceity but far from capable, after using it for a few days it seems to be useable for about 85-90% of use cases - even on the...

While Org-mode is fantastic in its core functionality, there is a lovely little extension that creates a way to build a wiki for all personal knowledge, ideas, writing, work, and so much more: org-roam. A “clone” of ROAM research, if you are familiar with logseq or obsidian, this will have you feeling right at home...

I recently discovered Meow as a modal editing replacement for evil-mode, and it has become a mainstay in my recent vanilla emacs configuration. Meow piggybacks on the Kakoune/Helix style of editing (of which I had never used prior, and I quite like it!) to visually select and then act upon text in a way that makes...

I had the absolute pleasure to be joined by the great Protesilaos Stavrou for a conversation about emacs, minimalism, life philosophy, interconnectedness, and infinite depth. Come along for the ~2 hour journey! As always, God bless, and until next time. If you enjoyed this post, consider Supporting my work, Checking...