January 12, 2024 - Putting Linux Mint with XFCE on a 14 year old laptop - Toshiba M645 [!example] Topics: Computers Its dirty, but otherwise in great condition and now running Linux Mint XFCE I rehabilitated a ~14 year old laptop, the Toshiba Satellite M645 I bought for graduate school, with Linux Mint XFCE, but...

January 06, 2024 - Hierarchy of Fulfillment 2024 [!example] Topics: GTD, Blog Chain: Hierarchy of Fulfillment My slightly redacted 2023 Hierarchy of Fulfillment The last few weeks closing out 2023 and leading in to 2024 I've been honing the list of: experiences I want to have and share with family and friends this...

December 24, 2023 [!example] Topics: Coding Summary / TLDR In 2010 I coded a program I called "Qbert" (in homage to the character of a similarly named arcade game) in C# to quickly and easily load a CSV file of people into the marketing automation tool's database, including formatting the data, applying...

December 16, 2023 [!example] Topics: Networking, Seattle 🤝 Request: Networking in Seattle Area As I've begun to put down roots in the Greater Seattle, WA area, and now have a little bit more time now that certain social constraints have been eased, I'm looking to meet up with folks. I don't have an ask or any...

December 04, 2023 [!example] Topics: Coding Summary / TLDR CodeSpider was a utility I wrote in C# in 2008/2009 as a means to evaluate the html of a large number of web pages to identify which pages contained certain IDs that needed to be changed or removed. It was the first 'useful' software I'd written. Background...

November 27, 2023 An amazing, wonderful, and sometimes misunderstood property of the internet is just how incredibly free it can be - especially in the sense of not having to pay for information, tools, services, content, etc. The incredible work of very smart people (ahem, nerds), who simply have a passion for what...

November 21, 2023 [!example] Topics: Coding Link to tech demo video on YouTube [!note] This is an article about my first ever merged pull request on an open source product. See Coding for more background on my coding experiences and my journey to consider myself a "programmer" instead of just a "coder". I'm taking...

November 14, 2023 [!example] Topics: TIL (Today I learned) TLDR: I fixed my laptop screen despite expecting to make things worse, wasting time, and forcing myself to pre-emptively buy a replacement laptop. It wasn't hard, technical (the solution was simple enough my toddler could have done it), or time consuming....

November 06, 2023 [!example] Topics: Coding, Video Games In 2013, some friends and I were writing a video game blog called "DeltaAttack" and I was weaving in my interest in data science and machine learning. At the time, the statistical programming language R was having its moment and although there were no R...

November 02, 2023 [!example] Topics: Aviation 🛩 Flight to Troutdale, OR (KTTD) in Cirrus SR-22T Not long ago I flew in an Cirrus SR-22T G6 w/ FIKI to Troutdale. I brought my partner and toddler with me to see family who live in the area. Notable on this flight is that despite the beautiful sunny day, there were high...

October 26, 2023 [!example] Topics: Coding 🦀 Rust Meetup @ Microsoft's Reactor Building Last week I was fortunate enough to attend a monthly meetup about the Rust programming language held at the Microsoft Reactor building, hosted by the Seattle Rust User Group. "Brad G", who is also in the rotation for sending out...

October 17, 2023 [!example] Topics: Coding, GTD This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. Contributing to Taskwarrior I felt like I reached a point in the process of coding my text-based game that I could be developing bad coding habits without knowing it. I also wasn't developing the...