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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • This may be the first time since the 80s where the OS you’re first exposed to will be anything other than Windows or Mac.

    We’re already well past that point, honestly. Kids graduating high school this year grew up on iPadOS and ChromeOS. Last year I taught someone who is going to college this fall how a directory structure works.

    As for me, our household is a Windows-free environment (except for a VM on my personal laptop that I use for DRM’d ebooks). We’re Mac-free except for my work computer. My kids are learning Linux as their first real desktop OS (previously they had only used school Chromebooks), and it’s been pretty smooth sailing.









  • Four months ago, we packed up our family and moved from middle America to New Zealand. It’s been amazing, eye-opening, terrifying, beautiful, fascinating, freeing experience. But through it all, I’ve fallen even more in love with my family.

    And I’ve always been a family sort of guy, but facing this challenge with my wife as a teammate (she’s a force of nature!) and seeing my kids take to the new situation and flourish…I love these folks. It’s been hard, but they’ve been not just the reason we did it but also the reason it’s been a good experience.