Monthly recap (October 2019)
Major updates: * Home with Tara for a week * Trick-or-treating with Tara š * Poor sleep discipline š Minor updates: * Finally got a āReal IDā * Met up with friends a couple of times * Dā¦
Random synchronicity
1. Thereās a particular house with a very elaborate Halloween setup, with movie scene recreations, and a screen playing various scenes. I take a few pics when I pass it once, about a week ago, settinā¦
Interesting links: October 2019
(I feel Iām making up for the lack of links for the last three months ...) * Running a blog for 25 years! * The active core of our galaxy * Craziness of San Francisco policy * The effects of lighā¦
Books give-away, featuring Airtable
Roughly every three years, I find Iāve amassed too many books, and have to give some (around 50-75) away. There was a great āused books storeā in downtown Mountain View, which (tragically1) had to clā¦
Against Everything
Just picked this up, seems ... uh ... promising?ā¦
Monthly Curations: October 2019
* Leo talking about making games in Common Lisp * Moving log data at massive (10x LHC) scale * Habits of good software design(ers) * An OS being built for ā¦ after the apocalypse * Quirky selectioā¦
Rorschach tests
Sometimes I have flashback memories of certain small well-defined thing-experiences, this is one of them. Itās about a book, this book, and the timeframe here is ā¦ about 12 years ago (!), a year afteā¦
Quick rules for personal technology
(Edit: found this while cleaning old posts, must be about 2-3 years ago, but seems very relevant still š) Bunch of suggestions from me, take it or leave it: * get off social media * no more freeā¦
Dark Crystal
I kept watching past the last episode, and āthe making of ā¦ā was just as thrilling as the episodes themselves! Puppets? Puppets! Glorious, CGI-enhanced puppets in so many shapes and sizes, requiringā¦
More on Notion and Airtable
I had talked about tentatively trying out both Notion and Airtable earlier, and I have more to report on that. Airtable is just a really great experience, makes it so easy to ājust create a Baseā, adā¦
Interesting links: September 2019
* Growing cotton leaves on the moon * A reading list of āhard science-fictionā with a focus on computers * Locating our Sun within the Milky Way * Video tours of communal living in Rusā¦
Monthly recap (Sep 2019)
Minor updates: * A team offsite that involved sailing in the bay (on the USA-76) * Some frustration with the limited AT&T data plan that I have * Went for a Gulzar event * Rapunzel at the Plaā¦