When I originally created the Elegant Chaos site, it had a “news” section, which over time mutated into a blog.
At a later date I realised that personal things and work things were getting a bit muddled up, so I split off the personal stuff to this blog instead.
In doing so, I envisaged the Elegant Chaos blog going back to essentially just being a “news” service, and indeed most of the posts there were just announcements about software releases.
At the moment there aren’t really any software releases, however. In addition, this, which was supposed to be my personal blog, still ended up carrying a lot of technical posts, as well as completely non-technical ones.
So I’ve decided to re-organise things once again. It’ll keep you all on your toes, if nothing else.
As a result I’ve moved back most of the technical posts to the Elegant Chaos blog, and henceforth decree it as the place I’ll write about the technical things I’m doing. Born Sleepy will very much remain active, but will be restricted to non-technical things.
I expect I’ll end up changing it all again in a while, but let’s see how long this plan remains in force!
A friend pointed out to me the other day that the Facebook link (at the bottom of this page, and every other page on the site), was wrong.
It wasn’t broken, more’s the pity, but it was pointing at the wrong person. Awkward!
It’s fixed now.
For the avoidance of doubt: this is not me. On the other hand, this is me.
Glad we got that cleared up…
I’ve decided that it’s time for a change, and to move on from my work with Bohemian, so from the end of this year I’ll be footloose and fancy-free.
I intend to have a break, take a bit of time to recharge my creative batteries, and then look for new challenges.
It was 2012 when I started contracting (part-time at first) on Sketch, and a lot has happened since. We’ve gone from having just the two original founders, to a staff of 20+ great people.
It’s been intense, rewarding, challenging and fun, and I’ll always be grateful to Pieter and Emanuel for giving me the opportunity to work on such a great product, and to help to build such a great team. I wish them continued success and all the best for the future.
For me personally though - I’m really excited at the prospect of starting a new chapter in 2018. Watch this space!
In these crazy times, people have some seriously messed up ideas about democracy.
Here are some things that are not democracy:
- winning a vote by lying about what your opponents have done in the past 1 2 3
- winning a vote by making wild, unsubstantiated claims about what your opponents intend to do 1 2
- winning a vote by lying about what you have done in the past 1
- winning a vote by making wild, unsubstantiated promises, and then failing to fulfil any (or many) of them 2 4 5
- winning a vote by framing the question in a way that doesn’t allow people to choose reasonable alternatives 3 4 5
- winning a vote by framing the question in such a vague way that nobody can say what the result actually means 4
- using the result of a vote won using one of these methods to justify never holding a similar vote again 3 4 5
If democracy means anything at all, then it requires informed choice.
Informed choice requires two things: being given an actual meaningful choice, and being given the relevant facts.
When any form of lying, obfuscation or outright fraud is involved in the win, then the winner (and their supporters) do not get to claim the moral high ground.
When any form of incompetent framing is involved, the winner (and their supporters) do not get to claim some sort of finality.
If you follow this blog at all, you’ll probably have noticed by now that the site has been redesigned and simplified.
This coincides with me finally getting round to moving away from Drupal and towards a static design using Jekyll.
There is still quite a lot of the old site waiting to be ported, and quite a bit of cleanup to do on the new one, but hopefully I’ll get there eventually.