I have enjoyed writing using this platform we know as Medium. I have achieved a similar experience using open source software that I can monetize if I was so motivated, but I opted to trust Medium and its audience instead of commit to the work required to market a business…

An essay on the film from Darren Aronofsky — When The Whale opens, it immediately apologizes for its aspect ratio, while at the same time letting the decision explain itself: what you are about to see will be a reduction of a life into a square box. A single black square bears the emblem, “Instructor,” among a sea of…

Breaking down a tweet from the National Next Gen Director of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention — When I first saw this tweet from Shane Pruitt on Twitter, I wrote it off as another broad statement with nothing of substance. After it popped up in my Instagram feed because some of my Christian neighbors seem to agree with it, I felt the need to respond. …

In the past 12 hours I’ve managed to integrate my Twitch channel into a bot I wrote for my dev Discord server (you’re invited, by the way). Now, I’m able to have the bot send a message whenever my channel goes live. …

A brief reflection on conversations with Christians — There’s a problem with the way some Christians talk to members of the LGBTQ+ community. “I love you so I’m going to tell you the truth” is a manipulative platitude Christians often use to frame their attempts to correct someone else. I recently had a conversation with a Christian friend…

Know your audience — I recently found a note in an old notebook for work and it was from just before the bottom fell out of society in the naïve days of the fall of 2019. There was so much I was excited about then which has all been panned (or “on hold” indefinitely…

A brief introduction to michaellamb.dev — I’ve owned michaellamb.dev since I became a developer full-time because I knew one day I would be brave enough to learn in public. I am currently a Software Developer II at C Spire, a telecommunications and technology company headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. …

or What to Do with Your Time in College — This article was first published in the Mississippi College student newspaper THE COLLEGIAN in September 2013 Let’s begin with a quote from the old American comedian, W. C. Fields: “A rich man is a poor man with money.” Our roots and our backgrounds are diverse, but at the end of the day we are all facing eternity. Every one of us will stand before the creator…

What breaks my heart when I hear someone say, “I don’t know how you can live alone,” is the hidden assumption behind the words that my home is somehow a prison of inescapable torture or overwhelming loneliness and despair. More than once in the last 5 years someone has told…