On kids’ perspective
In awe of small moments viewed from a child’s perspective. (128 words)
Behind the Viewfinder
Thoughts, stories and ideas.
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A Short Hike: magic of indie games
Replayed A Short Hike and remembered why I love indie games — small ideas built with craft and love. The final act made me tear up just like the first time. (345 words)
Reading: Sea of Tranquility
My second Emily St. John Mandel novel, Sea of Tranquility. A slow-paced story that kept me on the edge of my seat, with pandemic themes that land differently after living through one. Another five out of five. (222 words)
Down the rabbit hole of classic watches
After ten years of smartwatches, tech fatigue pushed me toward a classic analog one. A Braun BN0301 was meant to be the whole plan — then I fell down the rabbit hole of amateur watch collecting. (599 words)
LumiVault - a photo backup story
After the backup scares and bit rot posts, I built LumiVault — a macOS app that hashes, error-corrects, and mirrors my photos across drives and B2. Free and open source. (370 words)
Reading: Station Eleven
Finally read Station Eleven after loving the HBO adaptation. The book diverges sharply in its second half but carries the same ache — survival is insufficient. Kept me up past my alarm-mandated bedtime. 5/5 (187 words)
We the people, pending review
Juneteenth is next Friday. Revisiting a May 2017 night walk through the DC monuments — and the license-plate Constitution, now in a museum whose exhibits are under federal review (482 words)
A million meters
Fourteen years into running, my routine fell apart after my kids were born. A rower bought in 2024 pulled me back — and this week, 240 workouts later, I crossed a million meters. (552 words)
On recommendation algorightms
An AI talked me into reading 2666, but a post about Sea of Tranquility reminded me Emily St. John Mandel wrote Station Eleven. Turns out the best recommendation algorithm is still another human. (240 words)
The reading experiment
Curious whether an LLM could recommend a better next read than the Apple Books algorithm, I fed Claude ten years of finished books and let it quiz me A/B style. Next up: 2666 by Bolaño. (747 words)
Putting the phone down: an Osmo Nano workflow
I don't like holding my phone around my kids, so I carry a Fuji XE5 and a DJI Osmo Nano instead. Here's the Mac automation that grades Osmo footage in the background while I'm back outside with them (862 words)
Palouse Falls
A 2016 trip to the Palouse started with a night at the primitive campground on the rim of Palouse Falls. No water, no cell, no bathrooms, just sage, basalt, and the roar of 200ft of water below
My photography journey
My photo journey, fifteen years of cameras and editing software, from a Canon 550D in Warsaw to a Fuji X-E4 in Kirkland. How I finally figured out what style I actually like.
Steptoe Butte
Rolling hills of Palouse stretching all the way till the horizon from Steptoe Butte.
Finite field math on the GPU
Writing metal shaders for finite field math is much simpler than I thought! About implementing Reed-Solomon error correction on Apple Silicon GPUs. (664 words)