Amtrak, B-Movies, Web Development, and other nonsense
I upgraded devenv.sh on my work laptop to 2.0.3 today and immediately ran into a fatal error with all commands: 1 Threads explicit registering is not previously enabled This is a known issue and it’s fixed in 2.0.4, but that version wasn’t available via the standard upgrade path yet. On reflection, I decided that I wasn’t quite ready to jump to devenv 2.0 and decided to downgrade to 1.11.2.
A trip report from the Empire Builder in December.
Service cuts on LANTA in January 2026
A (comparatively) quick trip to Detroit for a football game.
Mapping WiFi and cell signal strength on an Amtrak train.
A week traveling around the Northeast United States.
I was always aware of Paul Theroux growing up. I was raised in a family that traveled (and travels) by train and had read Theroux’s travel books. There was also a VHS of The Mosquito Coast , with a crazed Harrison Ford staring back at you, and a tagline proclaiming that “He planned a paradise. He created a Hell.” I think the first Theroux I read on my own was the delightful Riding the Iron Rooster…
Resolving conflicts between Subject and Keywords
Thoughts on LANTA service changes for June 2025.
A fun few days in Brunswick, Maine.
Review of the 2017 movie Mercury in Retrograde.
Review of the 1978 heist film Silver Bears
Another abstruse exercise in calculating railroad mileage
How to push to GitHub over SSH if port 22 is blocked.
Including the old AWS SDK in a Lambda function
Packaging Lambda functions in a Devenv.sh environment
A visit to the Bridgeview B&B outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Remembering the temporarily gone Capitol Limited
Rebuilding my static galleries using GitHub and Digital Ocean.
Moving a static site from S3+Cloudfront to GitHub pages.