An adult autism diagnosis shouldn't be a luxury. Two reflections: on the privilege of being able to afford one, and on how to start understanding yourself even before a formal diagnosis.
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My new album: nine original tunes, complete with downloadable lead sheets in PDF and MuseScore format.
In June 2026, at fifty-one, I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, level 1. It wasn't a surprise: it was a confirmation.
Paolo Nori says a madman is a useless masterpiece. I think exactly the opposite: he is an extremely useful masterpiece, in fact a necessary one.
A door taken off its hinges, then a mind taken off its hinges, then a compliment. The slow journey of a metaphor that still works because of the hinge it pictures.
How a Trojan prince's name became a verb for browbeating. The seventeenth-century London gangs that stole it, and what hectoring still names that argument and anger do not.
How to get the Touch ID prompt to work with sudo on macOS, including the pam_reattach workaround needed inside terminal multiplexers like zellij and tmux.
An old word for an old kind of joy — where frolic comes from, why its k quietly fell off, and what the word still protects that its more serious cousins do not.
A practical tour of the until loop: syntax, when it reads better than while, and five real-world examples for waiting on services, files, ports, retries, and background jobs.
On the checkered paper under the pizza, the sketches drawn between a Margherita and a Diavola, and the grease ring that landed squarely on the retry policy.
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