Counting Stuff

I pretty much spent the entirety of my pre-adult life in New York City. While on occasion the family would go on trips outside, I was 100% a city kid and grew up taking the busses and trains to school and essentially hanging out within the confines of the

For over a year and a half, on our fun little Discord server, I had been giving updates on one of the silliest home projects I've had to work on - the removal of a hole. It's actually an old, dead, pond, lined with concrete and stones, but for various rea

Hi subscribers, I've spent much of this week chipping away at the worldgen game in the small gaps of free time that I have, so here's an update on this bit of silliness. It's gotten to a surprisingly interesting place even though there's plenty of flaws a

Every once in a while, I wind up posting screenshots from lightningmaps.org because I'm a nerd and am regularly amazed that we humans have the technology to accurate locate the location where lightning has occurred to within a few hundred meters ON THE EN

Phew, I've been off the plane for a weekend and between jetlag and catching up with work I'm exhausted. But at least I'm back!Every so often, someone asks me what types of products I like working on more, consumer or enterprise products? For the past deca

Last post that I have to write off my phone! At least I'm not writing from a plane seat this time. But the heat index is close to 100F, save me Today, the primary thought in my head is "aging infrastructure". In the software world that we data folks typic

Week two of writing while traveling! Formatting is really difficult, and I have to write in details from memory, so please excuse the small fuzzy details here and there. In continuing with learning how complex things work by building, this time it is a fu

I'm on a plane, on very few hours of sleep, as I write this. This trip is already turning out to be a doozy in terms of unexpected chaos and stress. Vacation! In a world where code itself is cheap but deep knowledge is increasingly difficult to obtain, my

Nothing says "ready for vacation" like... frantically booking hotels and stuff last minute because I've been too busy with stuff to finalize pesky details like where I'll be sleeping.Anyways, I'll be out and about roughly 3 weeks with nothing but my phone

Quick announcement. For the next few weeks I will be traveling on a much-needed family vacation. I intend on writing on the road (the 7yr streak must go on), but due to time zones I might accidentally be off by half a day or something. I also expect to be