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One week ago today was my last day as a Craigslist employee. After a 15+ year adventure involving Perl, MySQL, Linux, MongoDB, Sphinx / Manticore, and various other homegrown and open source technologies, I decided it was time to take Continue reading
A collection of stuff that has caught my attention recently: Eating Less Meat won t save the planet. Here s why. (YouTube) Blue Ridge Parkway I had no idea this existed and would like to drive it some Fall How Tech Continue reading
Some stuff I ve come across recently and found interesting some way or another: How Initialized Investor Garry Tan Turned A $300,000 Bet On Coinbase Into A $680 Million ‘Golden Ticket’ (Forbes) That s quite an investment return! Is The tp-link Omada Continue reading
Here s a short collection of interesting things that have crossed my radar: Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics (NYT) 1 in 3 Covid survivors suffers neurological or mental disorders, study finds (CNBC) Particle mystery deepens, as Continue reading
Stuff I ve found and read or watched recently: Ham and Split Pea Soup Recipe A Great Soup (AllRecipes) we made this the other night and it came out great. Why use old computers and operating systems?E (HackerNews) which pointed Continue reading
The new house we re nearly done building has a shallow pitch standing steam metal roof upon which I needed to mount Dishy for my Starlink backup Internet service. TLDR: I ended up with something like this one. To get started, Continue reading
It s been a long time since I used by blog. It s time to stop being lazy and get back on the wagon. To start, here s a recurring I might do post a list of Interesting Things that I ve read recently. I Continue reading
A couple weeks ago I decided to order some new tools for current and upcoming yard work. I decided that a set of devices that all use the same 40V rechargeable batteries was the way to go and, for reasons Continue reading
A weird thing happened recently in my flying: I got comfortable flying left-handed. I started flying gliders as a teenager back in Michigan and have always had the stick in my right hand and used my left hand for things Continue reading
For a while I ve been using AdBlock Plus and Ghostery in both Chrome and Firefox to reduce the amount of shitty ads I see and also reduce the number of trackers that I m exposed to on various web sites. But Continue reading