I'm in Amsterdam for a meetup for my new team at Automattic.

When we've not been out tackling escape rooms, finding geocaches, and eating curry, we've been doing a variety of activities to help solidify our new team's goals, priorities, and expertise: y'know, the normal things you might automattic, networking, games, work, travel, escape rooms, game, netherlands

I've been using Synergy for a long, long time. By the time I wrote about my admiration of its notification icon back in 2010 I'd already been using it for some years. But this long love affair ended this week when I made the switch to its competitor, Barrier.

If you've not come across it software, networking, synergy, open source, barrier

This last month or so, my digital life has been dramatically improved by Syncthing. So much so that I want to tell you about it.

I started using it last month. Basically, what it does is keeps a pair of directories on remote systems "in sync" with one another. So far, it's like your software, networking, technology, nas, open source, backups

Last week I built Fox, the newest addition to our home network. Fox, whose specification called for not one, not two, not three but four 12 terabyte hard disk drives was built principally as a souped-up NAS device - a central place for us all to safely hold and control access to important files networking, computers, technology, nas

This is part of a series of posts on computer terminology whose popular meaning - determined by surveying my friends - has significantly diverged from its original/technical one. Read more evolving words...

Until the 17th century, to "fathom" something was to embrace it. Nowadays, it's more networking, computers, history, internet, technology, evolving computer words