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maugre (prep.)

(archaic) in spite of; notwithstanding

About

In retrospect, I grew up during a weird time. We were among the last to remember life without the Internet, while also being young enough to grow up with AOL and ICQ and things like Geocities and webrings. The Net was new enough that "The Conscience of a Hacker" (1986) or the "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (1996) could still be unironically written. HTML was being taught to people so they could put up their own homepages on Geocities, or webhosts like Angelfire, while CSS and ubiquitous Javascript were both not yet Things, and people built their own small communities on forums and personal websites and mailing groups.

How did we get from there to here?

I'm interested in technology policy and hacker culture -- not just the technologies in themselves, but also the communities they emerge from, the issues they give rise to, and how things could be different.

I also like photography, coffee, and cats.

Pikkulog

Monthly collections of smaller fragments of writing from life.

=> pikkulog: Mar 2022 | pikkulog: Dec 2021 | pikkulog: Nov 2021 | pikkulog: Aug 2021 | pikkulog: Apr 2021 | pikkulog: Mar 2021 | pikkulog: Feb 2021 | pikkulog: Jan 2021 | pikkulog: Dec 2020 | pikkulog: Nov 2020

Writing

Here is where I place (are placing? will place? will have placed?) a bunch of entirely half-baked writings. The date prefix for each item follows a YYMMDD format.

=> 201101: The Problem of the Transhuman in Science Fiction | 210208: Brute Technology, Cunning Technology | 201111: Arendt and Complicity | 201109: These small and personal machines | 200701: The smolnet of smol things