On Not having Kids: the Choices we Make: https://taonaw.com/2026/11/05/on-not-having-kids-the.html

Shorter days, work, and running out of spoons. But the spiral has slowed, and I’m hungry for projects again — the blog, Emacs, new games, a good book. Watching friends make permanent childfree choices mirrors my own resolve.

Too Much to Say about Games and No Time to Say it: https://taonaw.com/2026/11/04/too-much-to-say-about.html

Writing can’t show what a game looks like, and a video takes more than a week I don’t have. Same dilemma as always: too much to say, and not enough time to say it.

Nice day for a walk and a vote 📷🇺🇸

Catching some needed sun. This is my favorite season.

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi 📚 doesn’t disappoint. Already half through it! Record time for me. https://micro.blog/books/9781429914710

RIP Patrick Stewart. Thank You: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/31/rip-patrick-stewart-thank-you.html

Patrick Stewart died at 86. TNG introduced me to him in my teens, and his Park Slope years felt oddly local — I worked in that neighborhood. I’m considering Picard again, and DS9, maybe with a cup of Yorkshire Gold — it was never Earl Grey.

Got Old Man’s War by @scalzi 📚. I liked his villain book, and I like the guy from what I see online. One chapter in and I’m nodding and chuckling. I think I’m going to like this one. https://micro.blog/books/9781429914710

I picked up a new “Mozzarella cheese” from a vegan brand I like. I understand the marketing, but calling vegan products cheese or meat is bullshit. They don’t taste like the real thing. People who look to replace the real thing with the “fake” version get disappointed anyway.

Isn’t “Cashew spread with herbs and spices” more appealing? Need to market it? How about “Cashew spread with a kick” or something similar? It would also skip the ... https://taonaw.com/2026/10/29/i-picked-up-a-new.html

181 Cabrini.

How do you Read it Later?: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/26/how-do-you-read-it.html

Turns out Micro.blog has quietly been archiving a copy of every link I’ve ever posted, like a squirrel with a library card. I was sorting through my stuff, and now I wonder: how do others handle the potential link rot?

A Weekend Hike and Turning Off Work Mode: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/25/a-weekend-hike-and-turning.html

A nearby trail, a comfy hotel, five hours of walking, two nights, and turning off work mode

How do you Title your Posts?: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/22/how-do-you-title-your.html

I’ve been writing headlines since college and never settled on a capitalization convention, which is why the titles on my blog are inconsistent. I looked up the AP Stylebook, which used to be my guide, but it made things worse. Back to the drawing board.

Afternoon Walks like these are one of my best life hacks. Boosts the mood and allows perspective that can narrow down to a tunnel vision during work. 📷

I love how one blog led me to another, which led me to a cool IndieWeb thing, which got me to write an email, which put me in a good mood to write a quick post like this. IndieWeb is live and well, and it’s good to have colorful blogs in the morning before I dive into the grind.

On Pages that aren't Pages: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/19/on-pages-that-arent-pages.html

Marisabel is hosting this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, and the theme is Pages. What do pages mean to me? The paper notebooks that never stuck, the Denote info-notes, and the other writing that isn’t measured… Is that good, bad, or neither?

Glove80: One Month In: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/17/glove-one-month-in.html

One month with the Glove80: RSI is gone, but so is my WASD as a gamer. My thumbs now expect function keys that no other keyboard has. I cringe at normal keyboards now. Short version: I turned into a keyboard snob

It's not Enough, but it's Something: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/15/its-not-enough-but-its.html

The Cornell case and why the real work is the awkward conversation with the men around you. I’ve heard those jokes at work too, and I stayed quiet because the cost of speaking up was too high.

It's Time to Wipe my Desktop: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/14/its-time-to-wipe-my.html

Wiping your computer is like moving. You promise yourself you’ll label the boxes this time, then spend a week hunting for a script that lets you rotate videos in MPV with a hotkey.

Finished Silo season 3, and I have questions. Of course I do. That’s why they’re making season 4.

The big one is still why. I was glad when Juliette started pushing people to ask that too, and I like that it was a good catalyst for what eventually led to the survival of Silo 18 at the end.

What I don’t like are all the clichés and the parallel storyline which, while important to the show and interesting in its own right, was ... https://taonaw.com/2026/10/12/finished-silo-season-and-i.html

One thing I’m enjoying over at Bubbles is the non-tech blogs. Every other blog list I visit is usually mostly tech-related stuff, and then it’s usually developers. I’m a techie myself, and I don’t have anything against developers, but it’s nice to see more blogs about humans just being humans. https://bubbles.town/