Geek, electronics nerd, database nerd, aviation nerd, father of three.
Last year I wrote up a summary of my biking for 2024, and I thought I d continue that nascent tradition by writing a similar post for 2025, so here it is. This was another good year of biking slightly less than last year, but with more long trips, and new for this year, a few [ ]
So you want to run a group ride? Group bike rides are one of the most fun ways to explore a city with your friends, or just to spend a few hours or a day out. Joining organized group rides such as Critical Mass in your city is a great way to meet like-minded people [ ]
Since shortly after moving to Seattle in July 2022, I have not driven a car. I ve gotten around by bike and public transit. During 2023, I stayed mostly in the Seattle region, with the exception of a trip to Victoria BC for Tour de Victoria and back to Seattle by bike. In the fall of [ ]
Who? You! Anyone can help if you can spend a bit of time and muscle power. Whether you like to bike, walk, or just happen to drive by the trail and see others using it, or have never even seen it and want to make Seattle a better place – come on out! We can [ ]
I thought since it s been exactly a year since I upgraded my Giant Explore E+ to a Rohloff Speedhub 500/14 internal gear hub, that it s a good time for an update. As for stats: I have put 5,180+ miles on this bike since the conversion. A custom 3D-printed speed sensor mount One of the items [ ]
“The customer is always right” – that’s a saying that serious businesses actually say sometimes, with a serious and straight face. It’s one of those sayings rooted in good intentions and immediately polluted with the messy reality of the real world. When you’re working in Database or even Network Engineering, the real answer is far [ ]
One of the reasons we moved to Seattle in July, 2022 was to have more opportunities to contribute in building a community while living more sustainably. Anyone visiting Seattle even briefly would notice that there s trash just everywhere. Shortly after moving here I started volunteering both by myself and with a few other groups such [ ]
In September 2022, I got a 2022 Giant Explore E+ 2 GTS e-bike, which has been great (a more thorough review is possibly overdue), and I have put more than 2,000 miles on it in those few months. It s a practical bike for my purposes: okay for road riding, gravel/dirt and light off-road, and of [ ]
[Note: I shared this post on Twitter and there has been a fair bit of discussion about it there. Please feel free to re-share if you find it interesting or you learned something, and I m happy to answer questions or read your comments there, or in the blog post comments here, as well. Thanks for [ ]
MySQL has had an interesting optimization for years now1, which has popped up from time to time: in certain circumstances, it may choose to use an index that is index-wise less efficient, but provides the resulting rows in order, to avoid a filesort of the result. What does this typically look like in production? A [ ]