Some random thoughts including how the band Imagine Dragons is kinda like Metal for kids; distributing apps, even without involving Apple at all, is deeply annoying on macOS; Pokemon ZA is fun, but I think that I’m a turn-based girlie at heart; my partner has been playing a lot o … | Continue reading
A friend recently asked how to get started watching Gundam, and as I tripped all over myself, equal parts excitement and not wanting to sound like a lunatic, I fumbled around for a good answer. What I landed at was inelegant and I eventually panicked and found a watch list online … | Continue reading
Timber, I’m not gonna lie, I kinda hated you. At the same time I am surprised to find how gutted I am now that you are gone. I was, like with all cats, terribly allergic to you. But you were nothing but a giant snuggle machine. You loved my kids and partner more than the world an … | Continue reading
I’m trying out delta chat. If that’s your jam, feel free to say “hi.” | Continue reading
Someone I grew up with happened to go to the same college as me, and now we happen to live in the same relatively small city. We’ve been totally casual but pretty consistent mainstays of each others’ lives for going on 20 years at this point. She’s also one of the few people that … | Continue reading
The other day a co-worker showed me a project that seemed genuinely useful, but I didn’t love some bits of how complicated and resource intensive its architecture were, so, I made my own version of it! Check out diff heatmap. Your browser does not support the video tag. You … | Continue reading
Turning to fall. While playing a little squash this morning one of the pros that hangs out at the courts asked if he could give me and one of my kids some tips. He then proceeded to spend 40 mins or so with us. It was honestly rad. Totally changed how I approach playing squash in … | Continue reading
Hello RSS goblins. It’s unseasonably warm here, and well, I suppose everywhere. That’s…frightening, but before I let that weigh to heavily on this post I must move on. It’s been a gorgeous weekend. We took the kids to the beach Friday after dinner, expecting to play on the sand a … | Continue reading
Here are 3 mostly unedited paragraphs from a blog post that fizzled out and I decided not to finish…but then I posted it on mastodon and it seemed to resonate with folks, so, here it is as an RSS exclusive plus some other thoughts, too! I have a weird relationship with video gam … | Continue reading
Kartik recently reminded me of my own project playground that I do use from time to time, but that I’ve always been a little frustrated with. That reminder paired with that frustration lead me to revisit something similar that I’d started a while ago, but hadn’t finished. Noteboo … | Continue reading
There’s a whole lot going on, and I’ve been feeling myself develop bad habits concerning doom scrolling. I can’t reconfigure my life to not have a phone, so, instead, I made a thing to replace those things that invite me to doomy scroll. Meet Read the Book. Read the book is a rel … | Continue reading
Biked around the back cove on an unseasonably warm weekend. | Continue reading
Published September 27, 2025 Tags image fall Mount Washington | Continue reading
We went to the Franconia Notch, which is on objectively funny thing to name a region. It was beautiful and the weather was wildly clear. Even on top of Mount Washington, the highest peak in the entire north eastern United States, it was sunny and calm. We could see all the way ba … | Continue reading
I tried to sit at my standing desk today for the first time in an eternity. My ability to focus on any task immediately went from pretty fucking solid to “oooh, what if stare into the middle distance?” so I guess I’ll be continuing to exclusively stand at my desk for the next 10 … | Continue reading
A Counterfeit - a Plated Person - I would not be - Whatever strata of Iniquity My Nature underlie - Truth is good Health - and Safety, and the Sky. How meagre, what an Exile - is a Lie, And Vocal - when we die - – Emily Dickinson I made another game! This one pretty much has one … | Continue reading
I haven’t posted anything remotely resembling week notes since the middle of June! Since then many things have happened including, but not limited to: a trip to Minnesota to visit Isaac, a couple trips to New Hampshire for work, a family trip to Mount Desert Island to revisit our … | Continue reading
tags; programming, programming language, Baba Yaga, Q and A My previous post found its way to Hacker News; I don’t have an account there, but a commenter asked a few questions that I thought I could answer in a follow up post. The evaluation model is strictly call-by-value Baba Y … | Continue reading
Inspired by conversation at a recent Future of Coding event, I decided I’d write up a little something about the programming language I’ve been working on (for what feels like forever) before I’ve gotten it to a totally shareable state. I have a working interpreter that I’m prett … | Continue reading
Published August 15, 2025 Tags image summer forest | Continue reading
Published August 14, 2025 Tags image summer vacation | Continue reading
A friend online recently replied to something I wrote about awk by saying: […] it’s a danged shame [awk] didn’t continue to evolve the way Ruby, Python, PHP have evolved over the decades. I had exactly this thought while working on my slightly unhinged “lets see if I can implemen … | Continue reading
I am hesitant to wade into the tumultuous waters that are the discourse around generative AI and LLMs, but this morning I came across a thing that so thoroughly melted my brain I feel uncontrollably compelled to respond. This morning, at evidently 4:10 AM (no mention of timezone) … | Continue reading
Lately I’ve buried myself in reading fiction. Stand outs from among the crowd are, of course, Middlemarch but also a lot of sort of scholarly fairy fiction; works that follow the scholastic adventures of studious professorial types in vaugely magical settings. Namely Emily Wilde’ … | Continue reading
My dad is an electrical engineer and physicist. Measuring things is a core part of his professional life, and something he seems to spend a lot of time doing around the house. This is all to say my dad is relatively expert in the ways of measuring things so I think it’s hilarious … | Continue reading
“…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” George Eliot, Middlemarch | Continue reading
I read A Court of Throne and Roses this weekend. Not my usual fare but what the heck it was there so I read it. I found it to be an unremarkable, relatively conservative romantasy. What stood out to me, though, is that everyone is so stinky. The main character is always describin … | Continue reading
This morning I set up our new composter. This entailed shoveling a lot of compost from the old one into the new so that it can actually finish cooking. Shoveling 4 years worth of mostly kitchen scrap compost is a very very stinky endeavor. Despite wearing gloves I don’t know if m … | Continue reading
While everyone is up to their eyeballs in puzzles playing Blue Prince I’ve been playing some Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword on the Gameboy Advanced. I’ve also set up the playdate to mirror at my computer and have been having fun exploring the games in season 2! Mostly just Dig! Dig! … | Continue reading
I self host a lot of stuff — these days, mostly weird little utility scripts and toys that run in the background, but also some web apps like plex, calibre, and a suite of irc things. For a long time I ran such things on a VPS, but being incredibly cheap, and hardly ever leaving … | Continue reading
I usually read pretty fast. I’ve been intentionally reading Middlemarch slowly. Chapter by chapter. This forced restraint makes reading Middlemarch feel sort of religious in pace and intention. I fell back down the type theory hole, and have once again thought to myself “what abo … | Continue reading
In a flash I think I “get” liveliness in relation to programming. It’s talked so much about in the context of programming systems and languages — as being something they do or do not intrinsically have or support…but what if it’s actually about the process of doing the thing, and … | Continue reading
I like programming partially because it’s a practice I can, with appropriate to unhealthy application of effort, usually accomplish something at least proximal to my intention. This isn’t true for visual art, nor music. Lately I’ve been feeling like the little games and toys I wa … | Continue reading
I’ve finished my little exploratory jaunt through the writings of Sally Rooney this week. I’ve left aside one of her novels for some other time, Beautiful World, Where Are You. Some authors have clear habits, or “projects.” Rooney strikes me as such an author. Naming either seems … | Continue reading
In reply to: Common Cyborg | Jillian Weise | Granta They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our langu … | Continue reading
In reply to: The rise of end times fascism, from The Guardian Second, we counter their apocalyptic narratives with a far better story about how to survive the hard times ahead without leaving anyone behind. A story capable of draining end times fascism of its gothic power and gal … | Continue reading
Some RSS exclusive week notes: I finished reading Emily St. James’ Woodworking I started reading Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo I took a break from re-watching Frieren for the third time I used that break to start watching The Apothecary Diaries, which isn’t at all what I assumed it w … | Continue reading
Folks what that haunt me (positive) on the Fediverse may have seen me sharing progress shots from this, but here I am, and I have made another camera application for the web. Leibovitz combines a lot that I learned making my other camera applications into one, hopefully less clun … | Continue reading
The forecast predicted snow, but even with that knowledge I held out hope that it wouldn’t. The shade over the window in the bedroom doesn’t close all the way. It always stops short of totally covering the window with about an inch further to go. It is too short. When I woke up t … | Continue reading
I didn’t go to work today. Six month ago I took the day off when I made my kids a dentist appointment. So, this morning I took them to the dentist where we played Mario Kart in the waiting room on the Nintendo the dentist keeps set up there. After that, I dropped them each at sch … | Continue reading
I don’t write about work here. Not really as a rule, but out of habit. It is a Saturday, and this morning at around 1 AM the federal government here in the U.S. fired my entire team, and the whole group they worked out of, 18f. This means that the team I was on is now just me. I … | Continue reading
My previous post included a video. I made that video with OBS which outputs .mkv video files. I wanted to do my best to ensure that folks with a variety of devices and browsers would be able to watch the video if they wanted to, so, I converted it into a few different formats. He … | Continue reading
I’d never thought about adding playlists to my website, but then I did it and now I wanna add more. While I wait to put together another playlist, here’s the song that I’m listening to right now — Lady Lamb’s “Crane Your Neck.” We had a few big snows, so the kids spent extra time … | Continue reading