Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Tag: Humanity

  • On Breaking Glass

    On Breaking Glass

    The past two years have had a shadow hanging over them. Every happy moment has had an asterisk.  Ever since we heard news of the kidnappings on October 7th, it was impossible to experience anything as purely good. How can you experience joy, or enjoy yourself, when you know that your family is in a…

  • Dignity in Tech

    Dignity in Tech

    In my senior year of high school I taught myself HTML. That was right after HTML4 came out, and it made more complicated web designs possible. I had to lay out images using tables, but I could still do it. I was learning Pascal in school and took to coding like a dog to a…

  • Ep6 – Owning Books

    Ep6 – Owning Books

    On April 8, 1933, the Main Office for Press and Propaganda of the German Student Union proclaimed a nationwide “Action against the Un-German Spirit”, which was to climax in a literary purge or “cleansing” by fire. On May 10, 1933, Nazi Germany staged an event unseen since the middle ages young German students from universities,…

  • We Choose

    Today 45 years ago one of our species landing on another world. For a moment all mankind were bound together by accomplishment and ingenuity. We looked up at the heavens and for the first time, we knew one of us was looking back. Oh the force of the human spirit.   There is no strife,…