Chris DeLuca

I’m running an in person workshop to help empower folks to better understand the internet by building it. If you live in the NYC metro area, I’d love to see you at You Own the Internet.

Started reading: Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford 📚

A very light reading year for me, at least for books. Something I’d like to improve on in 3025.

Here are the books I finished reading in 2024.

Sitting around listening to records and reading. I can’t think of a better way to spend New Year’s Day.

A treasure trove of works just entered the public domain. Can’t wait to see what artists do with it.

Happy new year everyone. Deep breath.

Proof that horror movies were about trauma before 2010. Also Santa will kick your fucking ass.

Proof that horror movies were about trauma before 2010. Also Santa will kick your fucking ass.

Come for the sumptuous dark visuals, stay for the blood drinking sounds.

Come for the sumptuous dark visuals, stay for the blood drinking sounds.

Gotta go faster.

Gotta go faster.

Gotta go fast.

Gotta go fast.

…but is it, tho?

…but is it, tho?

I made some updates to my /uses page. Anyone else use uses pages to get inspired on what to use?

My CLI wrapped most used commands.

1. 3732 git
2. 1471 ls
3. 1289 rg
4. 856 ddev
5. 745 nvim
6. 546 mv
7. 534 cd
8. 510 rm
9. 477 yarn
10. 453 cat

Generated with history | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head -10.

After exhaustive research and countless hours over nights and weekends, I’ve compiled the authoritative demographic info on the audience for each vi derivative.

1. Neovim: devs wanting a hackable IDE
2. Vim: sysadmins who work primarily over remote terminals
3. Vi: FreeBSD devs
4. Ed: The criminally insane

Well, I’ve watched all of Taskmaster UK. I don’t think I’m going for the other countries, at least not for a while. In the meantime, I keep hearing the task music in my head when I’m cleaning.

While sorting through old papers, I found a copy of the first cover letter I wrote out of collage.

I was trying to score a writing gig, and knew absolutely nothing about anything. I walked around NYC in a suit and handed out this cover letter and a resume with can’t-not-hire credits like, “wrote for my collage paper” to doormen at The Daily Show and Late Night and places like that. I tried to mask my inexperience with a funny cover letter, which, like Carmex on a blister, only servered to highlight it.

The whole thing was, of course, phenomenally ineffective. On the plus side, only several people openly laughed in my face.

The cover letter did give me a chuckle now almost twenty years later, so I’ll take that as a personal win.

Here’s the letter transcribed in its entirety.

To Whom It May Concern:

Please give me a job. I have recently graduated college with an English Degree, and am currently living in a cardboard box. I would like to purchase some duct tape to waterproof said cardboard box, but in today’s unstable economy it runs as high as $4.00, which is well outside my budget. If you could give me a position paying between twenty and thirty dollars a year, it would really help me out. Obviously, I would prefer a job paying at least $100,000.00 a tear, as I could by a lifetime supply of duct tape. Please respond as soon as possible, as the box is getting rather mushy.

Enclosed is my resume. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Christopher DeLuca

Found some old doodles while cleaning out old notebooks.

After being very sick for almost two weeks (and still on a shaky recovery), I’ve started some winter cleaning. I love throwing things out. 🗑️

Finished reading: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark 📚