Breve No. 7
I'm back to kick off 2025 with updates on my writing projects, a 2024 retrospective, and links!
Checking In
It’s been a terribly long time since I last sent one of these newsletters. I have a goal for 2025 to do more writing, including here at Breve. So, here’s a start for January.
I figure a way to jumpstart this is to start with me: just what is Jason up to?
I moved my blog fully to micro.blog during the holiday break. I’m still working out a few little issues, but I’m pretty happy with how it all turned out. It’s accompanied with some homepage updates, too. Your RSS reader should update accordingly, but if you want the new feed you can get it here.
I wrote something of a 2024 retrospective, and my theme for 2025. It was a busy year at work and a busy year around our homestead. I’m still learning how the natural world governs the things I can/need to do/should do around our homestead. We love these tall grass prairies.
The writing projects! This newsletter, I hope, yes. But also Tack & Ink designed to share ideas, resources, sources, and thinking about my next book/digital project (Codename: Sagebrush).
Of course, personal life in 2024 has been a mix of bliss, sadness, fun, quality time, board games, hikes, camping, cooking, baking, reading, hobbies. There’s a new hobby coming 2025; but more on that later.
Richard Hipp, inventor of SQLite: “This was back in 2000, and if I recall correctly, Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton were having a fight of some sort, so all government contracts got shut down, so I was out of work for a few months, and I thought, ‘Well, I’ll just write that database engine now.’”
Here are some beautifully designed libraries.
Martin Van Buren “proceeded swiftly from senator to secretary of state, vice president and president. And though he failed to win a second term, [James M.] Bradley says, ‘He built and designed the party system that defined how politics was practiced and power wielded in the United States.’ We are living in the world Van Buren created.”
"If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?"