Juneteenth is next Friday, and it's had me thinking back to a few days we spent in Washington DC in May 2017.We walked around the main monuments after dark — fewer people, the marble lit against a black sky, the spring heat finally off. Earlier that day we'd been through the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where...

My exercise journey dates back about 14 years when I first started running. The goal was very typical to lose weight. Looking back, I'm not sure I succeeded but over time my goals changed as did my view on exercise.I was probably in my best shape somewhere around the beginning of the pandemic, back then I used to...

In my recent post I wrote about my experiment with using Claude Opus to analyze my book history, quiz me about my own book preferences and then recommend my next book. As a result I started reading 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, so far only 80 pages in (my reading is squeezed into the last 30min of my day, and on many...

I love reading books, long time back when I first moved to Portland, OR and commuted to work on the light rail I would read about a book per week. I really loved that part of my daily commute just sitting and reading while the world passed behind the train windows. Now 13 years later I still read but my daily...

I spend every minute outside of work with my kids and as the weather gets nicer I tend to document their adventures both for ourselves and our family back in Europe. I also really don't like to hold my phone while I spend time with them even if it's just to take an image or video. A phone always takes me away from...

In one of my previous posts I shared images from a 2016 trip to south east Washington area surrounding the town of Walla Walla and in particular the views from Steptoe Butte in the Palouse region. The first part of the trip though was a campout at Palouse Falls State Park. The campground itself is very bare bones,...

I have always been fascinated by photography, loved watching old slide films from my parents' youth as well as revisiting old photo albums from family trips. My active journey with photography started back in 2010 after graduating from university when I spent one of my first real paychecks on then brand new Canon...

Back in 2016 my wife and I spent Memorial Day weekend in Walla Walla in eastern Washington. We both wanted to explore that area for a while and the long weekend at the beginning of summer was the perfect occasion. We started at Palouse Falls where we camped for one night then spent rest of the trip in downtown Walla...

In my last post I mentioned that PAR2 uses Reed-Solomon over a finite field to detect and repair bit rot. I ended that one saying the tech exists but nobody put it in tools normal people would use. So naturally I started writing my own implementation in Swift.I know GF arithmetic pretty well from work. I spent years...

I was watching an interesting conversation between Hank Green and Sherri Davidoff about Claude Mythos. They covered a lot of topics but one idea stuck with me. They were talking about how the future of AI probably isn’t one giant system that does everything - it’s more likely going to be lots of small, specialized...

I read Pablo’s post on AI-enhanced writing and Arun’s original piece that started the conversation. I appreciate both of them putting their thoughts out there — this is exactly the kind of discussion the open web is for.I want to start by saying I think Pablo makes some genuinely good points. Writing is a craft. The...

These images NASA posted today of Artemis II flying around the far side of the moon are simply breathtaking! I can’t get enough of them.Source: NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby)Source: NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby)Source: NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby)Source: NASA...