For My Fellow Patriots
One if by land...
Perfect protest. No notes. Preserving for posterity. As seen on Reddit.
Daniel Verastiqui
Author
For My Fellow Essayists
My Dinner With Andre Lunch With Carl
Let it not be said that I have a problem with the English. I don’t. They’re a lovely people—clever, polite, and adorned with delightful accents that sound like they were born in velvet robes and Oxford libraries. I find those accents hilarious, not in a mocking way,
For My Fellow Full Stack Hacks
The Code Basically Writes Itself: Using the Modern G(PT)LAMP Stack
At my last job, I built a web app called Central, and I loved it like a firstborn. It was a sleek, efficient, under-documented monstrosity that pulled customer data from disparate sources and unified it into a single, moderately coherent interface. Sales could use it to figure out why people
For My Writers
Leaving Amazon is Expensive
For the longest time, Amazon was all a self-published author really needed. Upload your book, let them assign you an ISBN, and boom—you're published. Simple. Easy. Almost too easy. But now that I'm stepping outside the walled garden and going wide, I'm running
Black & White Stories
March in Black and White
For My Tech Nerds
Daniel Dislikes: Razer Leviathan V2: Multi-Driver PC Gaming Soundbar with Subwoofer
If you're in the market for a nice soundbar to shove beneath your monitor to keep things nice and tidy, may I recommend you stay the hell away from the Razer Leviathan. Yes, it sounds fine. Yes, it has pretty colors that dance along to the music. But
Newsletters
Vinestead International Employee Bulletin
Issue #98-01 | January 1998 | For Internal Distribution Only Hello Team, Welcome to another edition of the Vinestead International Employee Bulletin, your official source for updates, reminders, and a few friendly words to help guide us through Q2 of FY98. As always, we remain committed to transparency, efficiency, and the continued
Flashes From the Verse
An Oral History of the Margate MESH
by Frank Gattis, Junior Aggregator, Banks Media Productions The more things change, the faster they change. At no time in our history was that more true than in the years between 2018 and 2026, when America and most of the civilized world were almost brought to a technological standstill by
Flashes From the Verse
A Return to Anonymity
Pattrn itself is not the problem. It’s social media as a whole that needs to go. Every network that has come and gone in the last two decades has promised to revolutionize the way we connect with people. Instead, they’ve degraded an instinct that is vital to our survival as a species.
Flashes From the Verse
An Oral History of the Calle Cinco de Mayo Massacre
by Frank Gattis, Junior Aggregator, Banks Media Productions Living in America means taking things for granted. We assume there will always be water to drink, food to eat, and electricity to keep the lights burning. We expect roads to be in good repair, buildings to remain standing, and VNet to
For Readers
State of the WIP: March 2025
For My Fellow Job Seekers
Note to Self: How to Find Your Next Role
Congrats, Daniel. You landed a sweet new role at a tech company in Austin. That's great to hear because you were kinda losing your mind there for a minute, and by a minute, I mean for the last six months. But that's all in the past