Not the actor, nor the senator. 📍Based in Atlanta, GA My feed is mostly cross-posts from my blog: https://doug.pubhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pubhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mkdahjxk4n2gBEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge "I’ve reviewed a lot of tech products over the past decade and a half, and all I can tell you is that it is a failure when you ask people to adapt to computers. Computers should adapt to people. As... https://doug.pub/2026/04/25/beware-software-brain-the-verge.html25 Apr 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdahjxk4n2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mjbapo7lku2r12 Apr 2026 01:55 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjbapo7lku2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mimf6ytdrk2pFilm Photography: https://doug.pub/2026/04/03/film-photography.html03 Apr 2026 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimf6ytdrk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3milqdcbmtd26This barred owl lives in this magnolia tree right near our home!03 Apr 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3milqdcbmtd26https://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mhsuyo6sjp2nTrump’s latest salvo to upend offshore wind: Pay firms… | Canary Media "In its efforts to block U.S. offshore wind development, the Trump administration has halted project construction, rolled back tax credits, and spread misinformati... https://doug.pub/2026/03/24/trumps-latest-salvo-to-upend.html24 Mar 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsuyo6sjp2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mhrapjjjpi2zA portal in El Morro.23 Mar 2026 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhrapjjjpi2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mh4qukdt3z2zFinished reading: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚15 Mar 2026 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh4qukdt3z2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mgunb6esah2pOtra de Vieques12 Mar 2026 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgunb6esah2phttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mgujr4m3cb2rAdios desde Vieques12 Mar 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgujr4m3cb2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mgnxn7wtvr22Hola desde Vieques09 Mar 2026 23:02 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgnxn7wtvr22https://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mgn2g6j2nh2wPhantom Obligation (Text Version) | Terry Godier "But when we applied that same visual language to RSS (the unread counts, the bold text for new items, the sense of a backlog accumulating) we imported the anxiety without the ... https://doug.pub/2026/03/09/phantom-obligation-text-version-terry.html09 Mar 2026 14:17 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgn2g6j2nh2whttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mgikgfe3xo2oTechnology Connections YouTube video: You are being misled about renewable energy If this doesn’t convince you that the continued pursuit of fossil fuels is friggen stupid and that the people who are pushing for this are l... https://doug.pub/2026/03/07/technology-connections-youtube-video-you.html07 Mar 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgikgfe3xo2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mf5etywzs52wThe AI Vampire | Steve Yegge "With a 10x boost, if you give an engineer Claude Code, then once they’re fluent, their work stream will produce nine additional engineers’ worth of value. For someone. But who actually gets to keep that val... https://doug.pub/2026/02/18/the-ai-vampire-steve-yegge.html18 Feb 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5etywzs52whttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3metjbl36ko2mFinished reading: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson 📚14 Feb 2026 17:07 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3metjbl36ko2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mcpmvli4rz2cAI, Software Development, and Centralization: https://doug.pub/2026/01/18/ai-software-development-and-centralization.html18 Jan 2026 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcpmvli4rz2chttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mck3hlwfof2hCurrently reading: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson 📚16 Jan 2026 12:15 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mck3hlwfof2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mcgkrtlc7p27Finished reading: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 📚 Epic! I read this with a book club, and I’m very glad this was the club’s pick because I’m not sure I would have read it otherwise. Moby Dick was very different than what I expected, more enjoyable and more relevant than my expectations.15 Jan 2026 02:39 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcgkrtlc7p27https://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mbojjm4xe32fpluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3 "Which is why I’ve come to Hamburg today. Because, after decades of throwing myself against a locked door, the door that leads to a new, good internet, one that delivers both the technological self-... https://doug.pub/2026/01/05/pluralisticnetc-which-is-why-ive.html05 Jan 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbojjm4xe32fhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3mbhgzsjhxz2zYear in books for 2025: https://doug.pub/2026/01/02/year-in-books-for.html02 Jan 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhgzsjhxz2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3may63u6ofm2zFinished reading: Neuromancer by William Gibson 📚 The cyberpunk classic. I’ve read it before but it’s been a long time and I had forgotten the plot. It’s such a great book and incredible that it defined a genre.27 Dec 2025 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3may63u6ofm2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3ma5hbe4wjf2ujwz: The original Mozilla “Dinosaur” logo artwork "It has come to my attention that the artwork for the original mozilla.org “dinosaur” logo is not widely available online. So, here it is." https://doug.pub/2025/12/16/jwz-the-original-mozilla-dinosaur.html17 Dec 2025 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma5hbe4wjf2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m7veoivhba2gPerl’s decline was cultural "There’s been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on th... https://doug.pub/2025/12/13/perls-decline-was-cultural-theres.html13 Dec 2025 19:44 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7veoivhba2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m76sbhu3yx2vHank Green And The Fantastical Tales of God AIs "Savannah, Georgia—In the old lacquered coffee shop on the corner of Chippewa Square, I eat a blueberry scone the size of a young child’s head and sip cold black coffee while staring i... https://doug.pub/2025/12/04/hank-green-and-the-fantastical.html https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/04 Dec 2025 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m76sbhu3yx2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m744uvb7uv2yFinished reading: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk 📚 This book is funny and wild! It starts with an epigraph to Moby Dick, which is fitting since I’ve been reading that with my book club.03 Dec 2025 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m744uvb7uv2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m6gbizt63u2nWas not expecting to find some hope and inspiration on the topics of climate change and politics from Al Gore on the Zero podcast: Part 1 Part 2 https://omny.fm/shows/zero25 Nov 2025 02:15 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6gbizt63u2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m4ounk5rzy27Some photos from the nearby Doll’s Head Trail:03 Nov 2025 01:25 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ounk5rzy27https://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m4otl3hci72hMy current thoughts on LLMs: https://doug.pub/2025/11/02/my-current-thoughts-on-llms.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification03 Nov 2025 01:07 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4otl3hci72hhttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m3pxconjiv2tCoffeeneuring Ride #3: Switchyards Cabbagetown Sure, this is a coworking space but they have coffee and tea. Today I’m having a green tea. #Coffeeneuring202521 Oct 2025 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pxconjiv2thttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m3kxlfzim22oCoffeeneuring Ride #2: Stereo Hip spot that plays records. At night, it’s a bar with DJs. But today I’m drinking a cortadito. #Coffeeneuring202519 Oct 2025 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3kxlfzim22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/doug.pub/post/3m3ihm2rtim2tI made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025 "Apple’s late-2000s WYSIWYG website creator still works, as long as you have an old Mac." https://www.spacebar.news/making-iweb-website-2025/18 Oct 2025 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:utmlow7gap54cimuzky6ydxn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ihm2rtim2t