My favorite rapper is Nas, so I was curious when royal.io announced two Nas song NFT drops. These NFTs will drop on Tuesday (Jan 24, 2022). Royal.io is doing more interesting things with NFTs than your average monkey. The company is attaching NFTs to songs that give you not just bragging rights, but also a [ ]
Getting up the ridge was hard. Getting down it wasn’t that hard, but most of them fell a lot. Here is the story of a band of eight, who skied through snowy wilderness to make lentils in a recently condemned, then renovated, ski hut in the Tahoe National Forest. Arrival at Claire Tappan (Sunday) It [ ]
Anna and I took the kids out to Henry W. Coe State Park for a three-night trip. This was the kids longest stay in the woods so far. At four and a half years old, Adlai is quite a little hiker, and he ll walk for miles a day if you provide enough snacks. Calliope will turn [ ]
Let s see if embedding a Gaia GPS trip works in a WordPress blog post. And a folder too:
We needed to internationalize the user documentation for Gaia GPS recently, so I wrote some open source scripts that automate Zendesk+Gengo localization. I found this to be a delightful task as a programmer it was a finite problem, with a clear cut solution, and I could just kind of code away and see it [ ]
Aji Keshi passed away today. He had lymphoma, which often gets Golden Doodles, but it was tragic he died so young, at six and a half. He was loving and gentle, the perfect big beast of a dog. It was hard to watch him get sicker, and then choose exactly the moment to let go. [ ]
An Errand The car decided it should next delivery a hefty order of sushi from the Inner Sunset to the Haight, and claimed the job. But it would only work if the passenger agreed, and the car had 15 seconds to release the job, or it would hurt its rating. The car dimmed the music [ ]
The Gaia GPS blog has a great article today on how to read a topo map. This is a particularly useful piece for Gaia users, and I learned a thing or two myself.
I started working on a free and open source book recently, called Coding for Managers. I aimed the book at people who have no previous coding experience but wanted to do practical things with code. You might be a manager, entrepreneur, or other knowledge worker. I don t expect this curriculum to turn someone into a professional [ ]
This recipe has a high flavor-for-effort ratio. I’ve cooked it several times for my family, and soy honey chicken thighs please both my wife and kids. Soy Honey Chicken Ingredients and Supplies Tool-wise, you will need: a shallow bowl or dish to mix ingredients (microwavable) a frying pan with a lid a pair of tongs [ ]