April 3, 2024 - Quick Lunch Flight in Cirrus SR22 Turbo from Renton, WA to Gig Harbor, WA [!topics] Topics: Aviation The "tennis ball". I had booked a plane with a more humble color, but the club bumped me in to this aircraft for reasons of "it would help them out". Mostly for the purposes of maintaining my flying...

March 30, 2024 - How I replaced my vendor with a very small C# script | Mistaking an Opportunity as a Problem [!topics] Topics: Coding I may have accidentally fired a vendor, drove a small business to close shop, and maybe missed a half million dollar market opportunity by making a free app. Early in my career, I...

March 20, 2024 - My 2023 Hierarchy of Fulfillment Report Card [!topics] Topics: Hierarchy of Fulfillment, GTD My slightly redacted 2023 Hierarchy of Fulfillment For the past several years I've been iterating on a goal setting framework whose intent is to help me align how I spend my time to the things that...

March 16, 2024 | 🔥 Hike and a Fire [!topics] Topics: Hiking, Mountaineering, Camp Fires On a morning hike, the sun filters down between and through the green moss clinging to standing and fallen trees The last few days have been particularly pleasant in the Pacific Northwest ("PNW") - warm, sunny days that finally...

March 09, 2024 | 🎮 Valheim [!topics] Topics: Video Games A screenshot of my character's tower-keep in Valheim Valheim is a "Survival sandbox" video game developed by Iron Gate Studio and published by Coffee Stain Studios. I would describe it as a bit of Minecraft with the combat of a Souls game, but with cozy-comfy...

March 02, 2024 - Embedded 'Hello World' in Rust with a Raspberry Pico [!topics] Topics: TIL (Today I learned) Raspberry Pico on a bread-board lighting up an LED with a jumper wire Last month I attended the Seattle Rust User Group monthly meetup at the Microsoft Reactor building in Redmond, WA. While the monthly...

February 23, 2024 | 🪴 One Year of TIL (Today I Learned) [!topics] Topics: TIL (Today I learned) A tree with branches and leaves grows up out of a brain A year ago I wrote my first post on this - my relaunched personal vanity website - and some of its tent pole content: TIL (Today I learned). I wasn't wholly sure...

February 17, 2024 - Tackling my Reading Backlog with Deliberate Intent [!topics] Topics: PKM, Obsidian, GTD I have a backlog queue of internet articles I've saved to read that is more than 1,000 items long. I'd like to winnow that backlog down. However, I'd like to do it in a way that is intentional, effective,...

February 10, 2024 - Journaling in Obsidian [!topics] Topics: PKM Screenshot of my Obsidian.md Daily Note with Journal Header This year, I've started a habit, that I track in Daylio, to journal in my private Obsidian vault. The goal isn't to exhaustively write about my day, but rather jot down the most notable of...

February 02, 2024 - Six-month check-in on Coding -> Programming [!topics] Topics: Coding, Blog-Chain: Write an App Google Bard Generated Image: An image of a person walking toward the horizon on a path made of matrix-like code symbols On 2023-07-26, I wrote about starting a journey from just being a hobbyist coder...

January 25, 2024 - Programming a Dungeon Crawler Roguelike in Rust [!topics] Topics: Coding, Video Games Dungeon Crawler Roguelike from Hands-on Rust by Herbert Wolverson As part of becoming a programmer rather than just a coder, I've been learning the Rust programming language. Although I've already successfully...

January 20, 2024 - The Novelty and Awe of Flying Airplanes [!topics] Topics: Aviation, Hierarchy of Fulfillment Flying over the Seattle-area sound in the vicinity of Gig Harbor, WA The reason that my Hierarchy of Fulfillment Framework has "Experiences of Novelty and Awe" at the top, is that there is research to...