Personal post:

My mum’s currently undergoing chemo, and five weeks today I’ll be running the London Marathon trying to raise £7500 for Macmillan

I’m a LONG way from my target, so if you’ve ever found any posts helpful, please consider donating:

2025tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/chris-med...

My Linux laptop is named "Grandma" because every time it goes to sleep there's a terrific chance it's never gonna wake up again.

When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations.

When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

Our pleasure! We will continue to share our knowledge for as long as we can.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military: