Data analysis, photography, and the occasional thought.
JARED KNOWLES.
Jared KnowlesSpent more time than I want to admit cleaning out dust and dead bugs from my server enclosure today. I’ve had some high temp alerts lately and I’m concerned about one drive in my ZFS pool so I’m hoping adding some airflow will keep things running until HDD prices come back down.
https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/06/17/25-its-only-when-you-look-back/ →
This is a fun retrospective on technology. It’s good to stop amid the hype and hyperbole of the tech industry and take the wider view. Humbling and inspiring and grounding.
This is the self-hosted backend I am using to syndicate my posts across my social media accounts - it is super easy to set up and incredibly well documented.
Jared KnowlesNew website is live and I am so happy about it! Lots of work to get here, but the post once, syndicate everywhere workflow is great, and having it independently operating on my own infrastructure feels good!
https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/ →
Anil Dash is one of my favorite writers about technology. And this is why you will no longer see any Civilytics or Jared Knowles content on Twitter/X - I deleted all our posts after reading this article.
I was reading this nodding along and realized at some point, awhile back, I had no clue what it was talking about. But I was still enjoying it.