2024 Toyota Rav4 Cost of Ownership Analysis - Forecast vs Actual [!topics] Topics: FIRE 2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid XSE Summary Back in 2024 we purchased a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. Before the purchase I modeled the expected costs of various other make/models/trims. For the RAV4 we estimated ~$13.6k / year cost of ownership,...

December 31, 2025 | 🧑‍💻 The birthday prank that resulted from sniping my friend's personal website domain and porting his game from 🐍 Python to 🦀 Rust [!topics] Topics: Coding The Mega Man 2 Puzzle Attack - 🦀 Carcinized Title Screen To close out 2025, I want to share a big focus of my year, the effort and...

2025-09-09 | 🧑‍💻 Attending Rustconf 2025 in Seattle, WA 🦀 [!topics] Topics: Coding Rust's Mascot, Ferris, visits Seattle Background RustConf is an annual conference about the Rust programming language hosted by the Rust Foundation - the nonprofit that manages the Rust programming language and its community. This...

July 26, 2025 | 🧑‍💻 Two Years In: Becoming a Programmer [!topics] Topics: Coding, Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) My Github contribution graph for 2023 A Personal Development Goal On July 26, 2023, I wrote that I'd started a journey to turn my hobby of coding into a profession of programming: For a long time, I've...

July 22, 2025 | 🛩️ Trip Report: Airplane Camping on Orcas Island, WA [!topics] Topics: Aviation Runway and taxiway lighting define the Orcas Island Airport (KORS) at twilight, against a distant, tree-lined coast. Preface I'm writing and sharing this trip report because when I was preparing to go airplane camping for...

March 07, 2025 | An LLM ("AI") Stochastic Parrot in the Sheets (SPITS) I just want a Google Sheets formula function that lets me ask an LLM about some of the data in my file. Surprisingly, Google has yet to implement this, so I made one[1]. If you have a Google Sheet with data like this: A B C 1 Transaction Date...

✅ May 18, 2024 | Uncommitting To free up more of myself for more important objectives in my Hierarchy of Fulfillment, I will not be writing here as regularly as I have been in the last twelve months, where I have written almost weekly. Instead, I expect the writing to be a bit more sporadic and in small bursts as...

May 11, 2024 | 🛩️ A Mostly Boring Flight [!topics] Topics: Aviation Inside the cockpit of a Cirrus SR-20 flying on a clear sunny day with Mt. Rainier in the distance, covered in white snow One of the challenges I've found with flying isn't the flying itself but having a sustaining reason for flying. To me, it feels...

May 05, 2024 | Mossters of the Forest [!topics] Topics: Hiking A particularly twisted abomination This is one of the best times to hike in the Pacific Northwest. What I especially love is how many of the lowland hikes are tours through moss-covered forests. The moss covers absolutely everything. It is a vibrant...

April 27, 2024 | 🛩️ What Flying an FAA Authorized Simulator Looks Like [!topics] Topics: Aviation, Video Games The "AATD" Cirrus Flight Simulator I recently used [!Caution] The following contains what may be inaccurate, incomplete, or maybe even wrong aviation knowledge. Do not use this information in lieu of a...

April 20, 2024 | Building a Roguelike in Rust's Bevy Game Engine [!topics] Topics: Coding A screenshot of my "game" in an emulated terminal emulator One of my goals this year, per my Hierarchy of Fulfillment, is to write four types of software applications: a game a Command Line Interface ("CLI") application an...

April 13, 2024 | Approaching FIRE: How much do I need? [!topics] Topics: FIRE Coincidentally, a couple friends who don't know each other, both inquired within the past couple days about my budgeting and planning process. I assume they both know me as an organized, goal-oriented, data-inspired, and...