2024-12-21: Testing Photos Testing Photos 1234
2024-12-21: There are still some things about photo handling at Micro.blog that aren’t to my taste (I want …
2024-12-21: I’ve been playing with the Photo Collections feature that was recently added to micro.blog. It …
2024-12-20: Half dome at night. Yosemite National Park. November, 2024.
2024-12-19: Yosemite Falls. November 2024.
2024-12-19: After a multi-year experiment trying to self-host my blog I’m giving up and going back to …
2024-10-24: Alan Jacobs nails it: Warzel errs here in assuming that when people in MAGAworld make declarative …
2023-03-24: Sun Kissed The tips of the snow-covered San Fransisco Peaks are illuminated at sunset beneath a darkening …
2023-03-22: Less AI I’ve grown tired of AI/GPT news, but I apparently don’t have the self control to just …
2023-03-02: I will never understand people who like code linters.
2023-03-01: Spent the entire day snow skiing yesterday, for the first time in 15+ years. Woke up today without …
2023-03-01: Eons Light snow covers the upper edges of the cliffs of the Grand Canyon. Date Taken February 27, 2023 …
2023-02-27: Rented skis to go snow skiing for the first time in over a decade tomorrow. I’m pretty apprehensive. …
2023-02-27: Went to the Grand Canyon today, which was an audible on original plans, and it was exactly the right …
2023-02-19: Currently reading: Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
2023-02-19: Finished reading: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 📚 Very interesting stories in this …
2023-02-12: Home Assistant Config for a Basic JSON REST Device After much effort (and help from the forums), I was able to get a config working for my backyard …
2023-02-11: Thought experiment: a lossy compression algorithm that includes noise in the decompression phase. …
2023-02-11: Home Assistant API Call for Setting Dimmable Lamp Brightness I had to play around with the Home Assistant API to figure out how to set the brighness of a …
2023-02-07: Currently reading: The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl, Book 2) by Eoin Colfer 📚
2023-02-06: If the CEO of OpenAI thinks that you are a stochastic parrot, then that means that he doesn’t …
2023-02-05: Spent way too much time trying to get my ESP32 board to send data to my mqtt broker. Still haven’t …
2023-02-01: Use AWS_PROFILE when working with AWS SDKs of all kinds It turns out that if you set an environment variable named AWS_PROFILE, all AWS SDKs (including the …
2023-01-25: Currently reading: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 📚
2023-01-25: Finished reading: Abandon by Blake Crouch 📚 Well written but too hopelessly dark for my taste.
2023-01-25: ChatGPT and its ilk may well result in a better experience for searching than Google — for a while. …
2023-01-24: Docker is just terrible. The default options always seem wrong. The error output is often …
2023-01-23: Enshittification This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they’re locked in, …
2023-01-23: There is no way that the people who work on docker actually ever use docker.
2023-01-14: Currently reading: Abandon by Blake Crouch 📚
2023-01-11: Finished Andor. What a show.
2023-01-09: UPS Error LASSO_1010 For months I haven’t been able to login to “My UPS” (which is now the only way to …
2023-01-03: Replaced a thumb stick in a VR controller tonight. Required a full tear down, but cost $15 instead …
2023-01-03: On Personal Computing … the impulse to repair arises from and is sustained by love — and that the particular form of love …
2023-01-03: GPIO Button Handling on RaspberryPi in Ruby I’ve working on adding some physical controls to my kitchen status display. The setup is very …
2023-01-02: eInk Displays For a long while now I’ve had a weather/calendar/status display on the wall in my kitchen. Powered …
2023-01-02: Source: Katie Mansfield / @ tragicgirlsco.
2023-01-02: Criterion Collection: Room Tone 2022 I’m a sucker for stuff like this.
2022-12-28: Winter Fire Backlit clouds are illuminated by the afternoon sun, as misty clouds obscure the top of a snowy, …
2022-12-27: Currently reading: Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs 📚
2022-12-27: Currently reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr 📚
2022-12-26: Setting BLTouch Z Offset These are my notes to myself for adjusting the Z Offset for the BLTouch for my Ender 3V2 Printer. …
2022-12-23: Speaking of eBooks, if you aren’t familiar with Standard Ebooks, check it out! Free, high …
2022-12-23: I feel so torn about eBooks sometimes. I absolutely love my Kindle — it’s one of my favorite …
2022-12-23: Finally got my old bookshelf speakers out of a box in the garage and set them up in my bedroom. I …
2022-12-20: Golden Unicorn Alpenglow illuminates Unicorn Peak just before sunset in Yosemite National Park, California. Date …
2022-12-19: AirPods Pro II I got the first generation of AirPods Pro shortly after they came out, and I’ve loved them. …
2022-12-19: My question about all this is: And then? You rush through the writing, the researching, the …
2022-12-06: Recursive Regression If tools like GPT result in the creation of large amounts of new content, and then that content gets …
2022-12-06: Thinking about ChatGPT Security Imagine the attention these ML systems will attract once it becomes public that big …
2022-12-04: Being Human From this thought-provoking article by Jessica Martin (via Alan Jacobs): in our world dominated by …
2022-12-04: ChatGPT Played around with ChatGPT a bit this weekend, which is currently at the peak of some kind of hype …
2022-11-23: A fog bank lies below the mountains surrounding Mono Lake in California. Date Taken November 23, …
2022-11-21: Sunset lights up the snow-covered peaks south of Mammoth Lakes, California. Date Taken November …
2022-10-28: How to use a Github Personal Access token for cloning a repo: $ git clone …
2022-10-04: Moonlight Sonata Moonlight illuminates Tuolumne Meadows beneath a clear dark sky in Yosemite National Park. Date …
2022-09-05: CloudFlare Tunnels And Multiple Accounts Confirmed today that CloudFlare Tunnels supports multiple accounts on the same machine (in my case, …
2022-08-22: Turns out I’m not the only one feeling glum about tech lately.
2022-08-22: It occurred to me this morning that any time you see “Smart X” you can replace …
2022-08-20: Bicycles over Bombs For as long as I can remember I’ve loved computers and computer technology. Some of my …
2022-07-24: One of the biggest scams has been people attributing fires to climate change when the real culprit …
2022-07-19: Feels like my feeds have been drowning in pessimism this week. Deep, dark fatalism.
2022-06-30: Well, turns out Larry Scott did succeed in his quest to destroy the Pac-12.
2022-06-30: Well this looks awesome. s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket … a new …
2022-06-27: Got my PlayDate at the end of last week and spent the weekend working up a Blackjack game for it. …
2022-06-16: Was growing ever more frustrated by TimeMachine and mdsync slowing down my computer. Today I found …
2022-06-13: Reverse engineering SkiFree Gosh, I played this game so much as a kid. Great read. Can’t help …
2022-06-13: I think I finally figured out the source of one of my frustrations of setting up a complicated test …
2022-06-11: What a crazy bug.
2022-05-26: Adoration of Moloch permeates the country, imposing a hushed silence as he works his will. One …
2022-05-24: Most days Docker really feels like a tremendous step backward for software development.
2022-05-18: Came across this library, via the GitHub command line tool, that offers support for in-terminal …
2022-05-16: Turns out influenza still sucks.
2022-05-15: What an absolutely horrific end to the Suns season. Abysmal.
2022-05-12: I recently wrote about how we sped up our CI pipeline at CompanyCam by over 4x.
2022-05-12: Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own …
2022-05-11: Alan Jacobs on “the speed of God."
2022-05-08: Grand Seiko Snowflake. Finally got to see one in person. Incredible.
2022-05-03: Alan Jacobs: The older I get, the more common this experience becomes: finding that I am simply …
2022-05-01: This footage of a tornado in Andover, KS is one of the most amazing pieces of footage you’ll …
2022-04-27: Photos of the debris left over from the Mars Perseverence landing, taken by the Ingenuity …
2022-04-27: I wonder what would happen if players had to call their own fouls in NBA games, like we did at …
2022-04-25: Magical animated Rick Astley QR code.
2022-04-21: Read this post today on Kottke, which is mostly commentary around this twitter thread. One quote …
2022-04-19: Another great Twitter thread, this one about how Hall Thrusters work.
2022-04-19: This is an absolutely magnificent thread by Yishan Wong on the challenges faced by anyone who wants …
2022-04-13: The smallest Docker image to serve static websites | Florin Lipan lipanski.com lipanski.com …
2022-04-13: Been working near/with Terraform at work lately, and while I understand what it’s doing in the …
2022-03-29: Interview with Senior JS Developer in 2022 Watch On YouTube I can’t stop laughing.
2022-03-24: Globally, humpback whales have recovered to about 70 percent of their pre-whaling population size …
2022-03-24: Weather Line, the best weather app for iOS by far, is now a week out from shutting down. I’ve …
2022-03-22: GoPro Camera Inside a Dishwasher This video justifies my punctilious approach to loading the dishwasher. Via Kottke
2022-03-22: Casiopea Came upon this story today: Which led me to search for the album on Apple music. It’s great! …
2022-03-21: Really cool visualization (and auralization - is that a thing?) of the more than 5,000 explanets …
2022-03-20: Currently reading: The Warden And The Wolf King by Andrew Peterson 📚
2022-03-20: For Sale: Sony Alpha a6600 & Lenses Sony Alpha a6600 APC Camera Body. 24MP, SteadyShot, 4K Video. Includes battery, charger, 64GB Micro …
2022-03-20: Currently reading: The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers 📚
2022-03-19: A little spring color for the office.
2022-03-17:
Tad
We lost our pet cat, Tad, this week.
2022-03-17: Weaver Mountains after Snowstorm
2022-03-17: Sharkfin Cove, California.
2022-03-17: McWay Falls, California.
2022-02-04:
Photo: Orion
The Orion Nebula
2020-09-22: Fragments Promises broken The jagged fragments of our alloy Split apart Piercing my soul Cutting the path For …
2020-09-21: Dust Trampled under foot Worn down by eons Broken into pieces One grain at a time. The rock you used to …