2024-07-28 Note: This is a transcript for a talk I delivered to Joel Carpenter's UQ Optics class in 2022. I found it in my notes and did not bother to re-read it before uploading. Feel free to yell at me if I've made any mistakes. From...

I built myself a digital typewriter!

I recently started a new job and found myself in the Go ecosystem. To be honest, it has been a bit of a shock. I’ve written .NET code for the past 15 years and know its ins and outs pretty well. As a language, I don’t mind writing Go...

It’s July, and the passage of time continues to be disorienting. If you’re reading this in your RSS reader, I must implore you to read it on my blog itself because I designed a nice new post layout just for this and I want you to look at...

Life can be a beach if you choose wisely Photo by Mickey O’neil What does anyone go into retirement hoping for? No more work – check. No more 9-5 – check. Time to spend the way you want to, not the way someone expects you to. Most of the...

I’ve been using Obsidian to write a story, partly for fun, partly as a de-stresser, but also to try my hand at a different form of writing. And one feature that I adore is the graph view which shows the relationships between your...

We had a conversation with one of my designer friends, Maria, a while ago. We talked about the usefulness of engineers' feedback on designs and how to make it helpful. I pondered the topic after our discussion. My friend was doing user...