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  1. I've got a Novella Out Now
    Jun 17, 2026 · original
    img src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/WoT.png" alt="Weight of a torch banner image. Robed figures holding real big candles." / pThe title pretty much says it all! I've got a Novella (really, it's five short stories in a novella format that are directly related to one another) out now at The Arcanist: a href="http
  2. Asahi on Macbook Air M2
    May 5, 2026 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/asahi/cover.png" alt="Asahi and Macbook" /br / subShutterstock #2041259501 and Asahi Logo/sub/p pOver on Mastodon I mentioned, offhand, that I'd been daily driving (meaning, using daily but not as my primary machine) Asahi on a Macbook Air M2 (15") and some folks were c
  3. LLMs are a Cognitohazard
    Dec 22, 2025 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/cognitohazard/cover.jpeg" alt="Cognitohazard image" //p pSo, I've been watching a bunch of folks whom otherwise have reasonable takes about LLMs who, under very specific circumstances, have extremely weird takes about how much an LLM is helping them do a thing, and their int
  4. Mozilla is now an AI company
    Nov 22, 2025 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/mozilla-ai/cover.jpg" alt="" /br / subShutterstock #1956259915/sub/p pIn an ongoing series of my disappointment with this AI bubble, a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/rewiring-mozilla-ai-and-web/"Mozilla has gone all-in on the AI Hype Train/a. Their thesis is dodgy
  5. Big Tech is Wrecking Community
    Apr 3, 2025 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/big-tech-community/shutterstock_1832963167.jpg" alt="Apocalypse" /br / subbreakermaximus @ Shutterstock #1832963167/sub/p div class="callout-block default" span😈/span span While this is a post about Big tech, it's also an indictment of privately run social commons in genera
  6. Big Tech and Consent
    Jan 29, 2025 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/tech-consent/cover.jpg" alt="Garbage Fire" /br / subA garbage fire seemed like an appropriate cover image. konstantinos69 @ Shutterstock #1442040206/sub/p pThis is going to be a rant. It'll hopefully be very short, but no promises. Since LLMs became a thing it feels like all
  7. Chuwi Minibook X N100 and Aurora
    Jan 17, 2025 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/chuwi/cover.jpg" alt="Minibook showing Aurora on my desk" //p div class="callout-block default" span😈/span span Don't mind the messy desk... /span /div pTurns out a href="https://getaurora.dev/en"Universal Blue Aurora/a works great on a Chuwi Minibook X, with only minor iss
  8. Auth Series 5: The Other Stuff
    Dec 11, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/auth-series/part-5/cover.png" alt="Header showing the Kerberos and JAMF logos" //p pWelcome to the last post in my end-of-2024 Auth series. This post covers the "other" stuff that I didn't cover in the previous 4 posts. It's mostly just the fun wrap up post to hit
  9. Auth Series 4: Passkeys
    Dec 4, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/auth-series/part-4/cover.png" alt="Auth Series 4: Passkeys" /br / subI'm apparently obliged to tell you: The passkey icon is a trademark of FIDO Alliance, Inc/sub/p pHere we are again! This time we're going to talk about one of my favorite subsets of this topic: Passkeys. Yo
  10. Auth Series 3: SSO
    Nov 27, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/auth-series/part-3/cover.png" alt="Intro image showing the logos of SAML, OAuth, and OIDC" //p pRight! Welcome back to the third post in the Authentication Post series and this time we're going to talk about single sign on (SSO) and other federated identity protocols./p pI'l
  11. Auth Series 2: Multifactor Authentication
    Nov 20, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/auth-series/part-2/cover.png" alt="Logos of Authy, Yubico, and a Fingerprint" //p pWelcome to part 2 of the rambling journey through how to do authentication systems yourself (or at least understand how they work). This time it's an extension of part 1, where we learned how
  12. Auth Series 1: Sessions and Passwords
    Nov 13, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/auth-series/part-1/cover.png" alt="Auth Post part 1: Sessions and Passwords" //p pHello and welcome to the first part of a multipart post series where I'll dig through the depths of authentication knowledge and share all of that with you, including some deep lore of how we g
  13. Authentication Series Introduction
    Nov 4, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/auth-series/cover.png" alt="Key and Lock" /br / subDesign by me, affinity designer. I spent 4 minutes on it. I'll do better next time./sub/p pHey there friends, I've decided to do something outside of my normal one-off posts and talk about something near and dear to me. Auth
  14. Ergonomic Static Site Blogging
    Oct 23, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/static-posting/cover.jpg" alt="" /br / subShutterstock #2298461049 by One Photosub/sub/sub/p pI've been blogging a lot the last couple of weeks across both 11ty and Ghost, and it's no secret that I really like Ghost's authoring experience. I'd love to replicate that in a sta
  15. Riding Amtrak from PDX to LAX
    Oct 21, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/train-trip/cover.jpeg" alt="Superliner Train Cars" //p pI've always wanted to travel the slow way across the country, taking a train somewhere overnight. Watching the scenery go by the window when I'm in no particular hurry to get anywhere. I had the opportunity to do just t
  16. 11ty and Ghost
    Oct 15, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/11ty-and-ghost/Preview.png" alt="Ghost/11ty" //p pI run two separate blogs which I post to regularly (well, for this blog semi-regularly): This site (a href="https://alextheward.com/"https://alextheward.com/a) and my TTRPG / LLC blog a href="https://cthonicstudios.com/"Cthon
  17. Putting Manjaro on a 2015 Macbook Air
    Sep 9, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/linux/manjarobanner.jpg" alt="Manjaro on a MBA 11" //p pAs the world hurtles more towards shoving Generative AI into absolutely everything to make investors happy, I've been looking more into hardware sustainability and the viability of running things for longer (especially
  18. Self Driving Car Update
    Aug 19, 2024 · original
    pAbout 10 years ago, I got up on a stage to give a lightning talk about self-driving cars. If you want to relive that person I was, it’s still up on Youtube (and my a href="https://alextheward.com/talks"talks/a page, so I can’t be accused of hiding stuff). Here’s an embed:/p iframe width="560" height="315" src="https:/
  19. ChimeraOS on an Aya Neo Air
    Aug 12, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/chimera/cover.jpg" alt="ChimeraOS Logo" //p blockquote pThis is a follow-up post to a href="https://alextheward.com/posts/surface-bluefin/" title="Putting Bluefin on a Surface Go" Putting Bluefin on a Surface Go /a/p /blockquote pIn my quest to put Linux on absolutely everyt
  20. What the heck is going on over at Proton?
    Jul 26, 2024 · original
    pimg src="https://alextheward.com/static/img/proton-what/Blog-WTF-Proton-Cover.png" alt="" //p blockquote pstrongtl;dr/strong I’m no longer recommending Proton services to anyone and have moved off to other services./p /blockquote pRight, so up until recently I was a happy Proton customer at the annual unlimited tier.

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