New Thinkpad Means Back to Mac OS
On Wednesday I picked up a new (to me) Thinkpad P14s Gen 4. I was excited to finally get off my System76 Pang12, a computer that works, but has a long list of hardware and reliability issues. Thinkpad...
Recall on My Vaast A/1
A couple of years ago I started my journey into cycling with a Vaast A/1 gravel bike. It features a magnesium frame, which touts being nearly as light as carbon for a fraction of the cost. I’ve put ne...
Moving to Pure Blog
Awhile back I built mdServer, a markdown based blogging engine. It was fun to build, but I’ve found I want to focus on other projects (and writing). With that, I’ve decided to move to Pure Blog, the e...
re:On AI-Enhanced Writing
Pablo posted a very well put together reaction to another post regarding the use of LLMs in the writing process. Pablo did an excellent job of conveying the thoughts I've had around this subject. I've...
Laptop Upgrade
For the past couple of weeks I've been considering buying a new laptop. My daily driver has been a MacBook Pro with a M1 Pro and 16GiB of memory. It's a good machine, but the RAM is limiting and I've...
Are Design Tools Still Relevant?
I was a product designer for a few years. I had switched careers to design after suffering burn out as a software engineer. During those years, my entire day was spent in Figma, building high fidelity...
Will AI Kill Software?
Yes (to a degree). I've always dreamt of running my own software company, something akin to Panic, 37Signals, Beagle Bros (from back in the day). Recently, I've been struggling a with the thought that...
Built for Distraction
We have a rental car right now, our neighbors backed into one of our cars a few weeks ago (need a new door, thankfully that's all). The rental is a Kia Telluride, not sure exactly what year but I'd sa...
My Love of Email
My (personal) email has become something that I look forward to checking every morning, thanks mostly to the small web. I make it a point to reach out to people after reading their blogs, and often ti...
Ride Leaders & Team Leaders
The Ride Leader One of my favorite things in cycling is being a part of group rides. A group ride involves a number of cyclists riding together, typically in a pace line (either a single or double col...
Why I Find Writing So Hard
I've had blogs on and off since I was a kid, but I typically never stick with them. I'll write a few articles, then give up once my drafts folder becomes larger than my published. So I figured I'd wri...
Make Building Software Fun
I've been writing software for a long time. When I was a kid, I loved making text adventures, spending countless hours planning the dungeons on pieces of paper. I wrote games and sold them to kids in...