UBI Proposal
The Universal Dividend Act establishes a monthly per capita payment to every citizen and national of the United States, funded as a fixed and escalating percentage of federal outlays. The payment begins at 10% of the five-year moving average of federal spending, rises by 4 percentage points annually, and caps at 50%. At current spending levels, this produces roughly $190/month per person in year one, growing to approximately $1,700/month at maturity as federal outlays grow over the ten-year ramp. Payments are non-taxable, immune from garnishment, and do not affect eligibility for existing benefit programs.
白潟天満宮
Taken on 2026-03-14 Pckt のギャラリー機能を試してみた。 白潟の天神さんに詣でるのって何年ぶりだろう。少なくとも40年以上は前だな。大学受験の合格祈願で詣でたのが最後？
Some new site features
As you might imagine, we've been pretty busy this week, between being front page news in parts of the tech press and prepping for our upcoming conference! I also spoke at SCaLE last Saturday — great turnout, really engaged audience, nice questions afterward, love our community — so I've once again been cooking for a little longer than usual. That means this is going to be a short update :)
Life Update: Controlled Chaos and March
There's a particular type of tiredness that isn't about sleep. You can get eight hours (I don't, but theoretically) and still feel like you've been carrying something heavy for weeks. That's roughly where I've been lately. Not miserable, not burned out in any dramatic sense – just a bit worn around the edges. Which, honestly, is probably the most accurate description of early 2026 I can give.
Streaming millions of TESSERA tiles over HTTP with Zarr v3
How we restructured TESSERA's geospatial embeddings from millions of individual numpy files into sharded Zarr v3 stores for efficient HTTP streaming, enabling everything from single-pixel mobile lookups to regional-scale analysis with just a couple of range requests.
The Dolomites
This is a retrospective and one of a series of journal entries recapping our trip to Italy in 2024. We continued our journey from Venice to the Cadore region where my great grandparents emigrated from, and eventually returned to live out the remainder of their lives.
Φοβάμαι
Που και που φοβάμαι. Όχι κανονικό φόβο, σαν αυτόν για το ύψος ή το σκοτάδι. Φόβο παράλογο, απόκοσμο. Φόβο πως δε νιώθω. Πως δεν αισθάνομαι. Πως θα μπορούσα να κάνω το μεγαλύτερο κακό και να μη νιώσω τίποτα μετά, σαν να είναι απλά Σάββατο. Και ξέρεις κάτι; Ξέρω πως εσύ, για μένα, το πιστεύεις. Το πρόβλημά μου δεν είναι αυτό. Είναι πως αν είμαι αυτό που φοβάμαι... Τι φοβάμαι τελικά;
Alaska
A short but memorable trip to Alaska. This has been a bucket list item I’ve been picking off for 25+ years of road trips and other domestic travel. Following this, I’ve officially visited all 50 states.
Update On File Browser
Last year, I wrote a bit on maintaining open source projects. At the time, I was struggling with one of my most (unexpectedly) successful side projects, File Browser. Today, I want to give an update on it, since I never wrote again about it. I'm hoping that this post helps explaining the current status of the project.
FR#157 – Social Software Distribution
Open social protocols are expanding beyond social media into the infrastructure developers use to build, distribute, and discover software. Three recent launches show what that looks like in practice.
Waar zit jij nog graag?
Jarenlang was LinkedIn mijn primaire sociale medium om over mijn werk te praten met klanten en partners. Toen ik m’n eigen zaak begon in 2020 hielp het me om klanten te vinden. Dat is al lang niet meer het geval. Sinds een jaar of zo voelt LI dood. We voegen elkaar nog wel toe, maar alleen als we elkaar fysiek leerden kennen. De stortvloed aan slecht geschreven AI-tekstjes zitten daar zeker voor iets tussen, maar dat kan niet de hele verklaring zijn. In januari mocht ik tijdens Eurosonic in een ...
.plan-26-11: Bins, bollards, bots and biodiversity boffins
Evidence synthesis at the DEFRA science conference, TESSERA transcoding and building a new SPA, OpenStreetMap/DuckDB bindings in OxCaml, and early thoughts on vibecoding etiquette.