Monthly recap (January 2023)
Major updates New year, new beginnings: joined a bunch of very interesting people doing very interesting work at Luminary Cloud Minor updates * Dishwasher, dryer and a toilet all failed on one we…
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Monthly Curations: January 2023
* On caring for abandoned strangers * On art as “the overcoming of death” * Beauty in the philosophy of cosmism is not an aesthetic category, but an ontological one.…
Monthly Curations: December 2022
* LiDaR is the gift that keeps giving, in the dense forests of South America * It's good to make things for fun * A reasonable overview of Urbit * On over-hyped claims and throwing around the…
Monthly Summary (December 2022)
Major updates * India trip to meet family * Decided to start at a new place post-Sigma (will follow-up with a post with details on each) Minor updates * Traded in my troublesome Subaru Out…
Monthly recap (November 2022)
Major updates * Moving on from Sigma (more on this later) * Trip to Kauai * Tara’s birthday Minor updates * Meeting various people, some after many years * Bunch of birthday p…
Monthly Curations — November 2022
* A new space station lives! * Looking at structures found in the Azores * A stock-sentiment-tracking service built on Lisp * Great old forth blog (from about 15 years…
Monthly Curations — October 2022
* I had initially dismissed this "crater full of ice" photo (on Mars) as too-good-to-be-true, but ... it is real ! * NeoVim is now just as much of an extensible editor (the eas…
Monthly recap (October 2022)
Minor updates * Pre-ordered the illustrated version of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, which arrived a couple of weeks ago * Some dental mishaps * Diwali * Halloween (felt like back…
Monthly Recap (September 2022)
Major update(s) * Went for a 10k run * Dental implants Minor updates * AC stopped working on the hottest weekend of the summer, had to get a whole new one installed * Various meeting-peopl…
Monthly Curations — September 2022
* A look at the engine that made the SR-71 Blackbird possible * Some words from a HackerNews post: The longer I am a software engineer the longer I begin to understand that the soft skills are much…
Monthly Summary: Aug 2022
Major update(s) * Nearly a week in Big Island * A month-long saga of problems with my car came to an end, able to drive again Minor update(s) * Playdates * School re-opened!…
Monthly Curations- August 2022
* Public art in a surprising place Hilton Waikoloa’s art collection In pursuit of that goal, Hemmeter traveled to China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and beyond. He spent at least a year trave…