Essay Archive

Future Archives

"Create meaningful archive" has long been on my list of things to do for this site. The problem is that most archives are horrible. They provide you with a huge list of posts without a lot of context or meaningful organization besides chronology. Wouldn't it be better if there were lists of posts, with useful descriptions of the content, arranged by theme and issue? It would be nice, but I've not managed to get something like that built. In the mean time, please consult the search tool, and the following list of the most recent posts. Additionally I provide full source for the website for archival purposes.

Series

I tend to write posts in loose series that focus on a common train of thought and examine ideas from a number of different perspectives and angles. Following the diatribe above on archives, in an effort to provide archives that *suck less*, I've collected (by hand!) some of these series into indicies that I hope are useful for introducing you to the work that I do on tychoish.com. If you would like to suggest an edit or would like to request an additional archive, please feel free.

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Recent Essays

Covered In LaTeX — 31 August 2010
Console Use for the Uninitiated — 13 August 2010
Collaborative Technology — 05 August 2010
Saved Searches and Notmuch Organization — 30 July 2010
Gear Mongering — 27 July 2010
Creating Useful Archives — 22 July 2010
In Favor of Simple Software — 13 July 2010
Focus and Context Switching — 08 July 2010
Fan Fiction is Criticism — 06 July 2010
The Overhead of Management — 01 July 2010
Jekyll Publishing — 29 June 2010
The Meaning of Work — 22 June 2010
There's Always Something New to Learn — 17 June 2010
The Old Projects Project — 16 June 2010
Jekyll and Automation — 08 June 2010
Organize Your Thoughts More Betterly — 02 June 2010
The Schedule — 26 May 2010
Knowing Mars, a Novella — 19 May 2010
In Favor of Unpopular Technologies — 18 May 2010
The Worst Technologies Always Win — 13 May 2010
Who wants to be a PHP Developer? — 11 May 2010
Ease and The Stack — 06 May 2010
The Internet in Real Life — 04 May 2010
Strategies for Organizing Wiki Content — 30 April 2010
A Git of One's Own — 27 April 2010
I want ZFS in the Kernel — 21 April 2010
Why Open Source Matters — 20 April 2010
Ritual, Velocity, and Getting Things Done — 15 April 2010
Objective Whatsis — 13 April 2010
Skill and Mastery — 12 April 2010
Planned Obsolescence and Gadgets — 08 April 2010
Content Management Beyond Wordpress — 07 April 2010
Installing Mcabber .10-rc3 on Debian Lenny — 05 April 2010
Overheard — 02 April 2010
Enterprise Linux Community — 31 March 2010
Analyzing the Work of Open Source — 30 March 2010
The Successful Failure of OpenID — 29 March 2010
Common Lisp, Using ASDF Install With SBCL — 25 March 2010
Why Cloud Culture Isn't — 24 March 2010
Analyzing the Work of Open Source — 22 March 2010
File System Metaphors — 18 March 2010
Why Bother With Lisp? — 16 March 2010
Where is Java Today? — 15 March 2010
Things I'm Wiking On — 12 March 2010
Input in the Next Wave — 10 March 2010
If Open Source is Big Business Then Whither the Community? — 09 March 2010
Conceptualizing Scale — 08 March 2010
Distance from the Divine — 05 March 2010
Software as app Store — 03 March 2010
Coming of Age In The Science Fiction Community — 02 March 2010
The Things I'm Going To Do Today — 01 March 2010
Kindle and Paradise Regained — 25 February 2010
There's a Widget for That — 24 February 2010
Tumblr Killed the Tumblelog Star — 23 February 2010
A Flurry of Contra Dance — 22 February 2010
Simple Gifts — 17 February 2010
Managing Management Costs — 16 February 2010
System Design and Organization — 15 February 2010
Some Future in your Science Fiction — 12 February 2010
Git Tips for Writers — 10 February 2010
iPad Reactions — 09 February 2010
Status Update — 06 February 2010
Putting the Wires in the Cloud — 04 February 2010
Decreasing Emacs Start Times — 02 February 2010
Winter Break in Reality — 29 January 2010
Wikish and the Personal Public Wiki — 26 January 2010
Independent Web Services — 25 January 2010
Bash Loops — 21 January 2010
git magic — 20 January 2010
Beyond Lists in Org Mode — 19 January 2010
The Two Year Sweater — 18 January 2010
Beyond SQL and Database Technology — 15 January 2010
Time Management — 13 January 2010
Starting a Collaboration — 12 January 2010
End User RSS — 11 January 2010
The Blog, Next in Lisp — 07 January 2010
Corporate Government — 06 January 2010
Common Lisp, Practically — 05 January 2010
Another One Already — 04 January 2010
The Care and Feeding of a Writer — 31 December 2009
Thinking Like a Web Developer — 30 December 2009
Reading Habits — 29 December 2009
Three Predictions — 28 December 2009
Web Frameworks — 23 December 2009
Deleuze and the Utility of Materialism — 22 December 2009
Perhaps Someday We'll Call This Deleuzian — 21 December 2009
We'll Always Have Debian — 17 December 2009
Poems are Made out of Words — 16 December 2009
Getting the Most from Arch Linux — 15 December 2009
Links on the Art of Techology — 14 December 2009