It’s been a busy summer for me - I started a new job at a different company but also I was able to set up an exhibit with a lot of my best art pieces at a public library here in SoCal. That exhibit will be on display at the Valencia Public Library in Santa Clarita until September 30. Official Information - https://santaclaritaarts.com/2026/07/22/outdoor-explorer-solo-exhibition/ I wish I had taken…
NASA absolutely crushed it with the Artemis mission, and it’s a huge victory for the theory that normal people can go to space and have a good time. For too long, space discourse has been dominated by this wannabe counter-cultural narrative that you can’t do it with a weenie sissy DEI culture, or the government, or whatever. Everyone needs to be a macho man that works 20 hours a day and sleeps in…
It’s been one of my deepest fears for a while that someone who has no real technical background will eventually make a better app than any of the stuff that I’ve created and I’ll just be sitting there with my 5+ years of professional experience developing software like, “Yeah, that’s really cool. I guess.” It’s probably why Losing My Edge is one of my favorite songs. To a certain kind of flawed…
When I was 24 years old, I got into a car accident that changed the rest of my life. It was 2014, and I had fallen asleep on a remote stretch of highway while driving from Arizona to Colorado. I ended up spending a lot of time in the emergency room and then ICU supported by machines until my vital signs stabilized. There was something odd about being brutally forced to realize: everything I was…
This was not originally intended to be an ongoing series when I started writing about it in November 2023 , but a lot has happened with the open source silicon movement in the intervening time. I was lucky enough to make another trip up to the Bay Area for Open Sauce 2025 to see what is going on with it now. The Open Sauce 2025 logo etched onto some wafers for semiconductor manufacturing. The…
After seeing all the bickering on Twitter (“X”) about H1-B visas, and the resulting spillover into the media, it’s hard not to add my perspective as somebody that has been working in tech as long as they’ve been able to find an opening. Here it is: TECH IS NOT THE ONLY INDUSTRY IN AMERICA THAT MATTERS. Tech skills are not the only thing that matter to most people in life. Tech is just one thing we…
After getting laid off from my job on Wednesday I really had nothing else to do so when I heard about a hackathon on board an aircraft carrier parked in the San Francisco Bay on Friday night, I decided to get in the car and drive up. Really nothing to lose right? The USS Hornet It was a pretty worthy use of time. The hackathon turned out to have been put together with a lot of help from the…
Today I had the opportunity to attend a live workshop in La Jolla hosted by Matt Venn from TinyTapeout where everyone in the audience had to design their own chip. Matt Venn leading us in song, probably. In the past, this would have been impossible to squeeze into a day long workshop with a lunch and plenty of breaks for music and chatter. With today’s open source tools, it was basically easy for…
No, it’s real. There’s never a good time to just come out with it, is there? I woke up the first morning in my new apartment in Los Angeles with a view of the Hollywood sign out my bedroom window and had dozens of messages from friends and family about the bridge collapse a few miles from my former home in Baltimore. Well, now’s not a good time, is it? That’s so awkward. Everyone just wants to…
Mommy, Daddy? Where do computer chips come from? I’m phrasing the question like this because the answers you usually get when you ask are pretty childish. “Well, Timmy, they come from CHINA and Taiwan. We need to INVADE TAIWAN before CHINA does, because it’s where the chips come from.“ Vague, politicized, and childish. You can’t build much of anything talking to people who dispense wisdom like…
“Have you found anything good to watch on streaming?” I asked. I knew the answer was going to be no. There was nothing new and interesting to watch on streaming, because Hollywood had been on strike for the entire summer with no end in sight. After some discussion, I landed on a possible solution to my thirst for new content: I could cancel all of the streaming apps I already have, that I had long…
This was maybe the one pandemic-era project I didn’t fully get to during the covid era. I unwittingly devOps’ed myself into a corner by buying a maxed out gaming PC and then installing a bunch of complicated software on it for playing with virtual instruments and using my keyboard rack as a MIDI controller. And then I had no idea how to actually use any of that effectively and mostly just got…
Mt. Esja. I have no idea if there would’ve been any sort of signal up there anyway. DFW is rapidly becoming my least favorite airport, even though I know nothing can be as bad as O'Hare. I texted my mom from the familiar post-covid sight: a gate that was completely overcapacity for the amount of people using it, with incomprehensible delays on a day with no inclement weather and no excuses, and a…
“I’m paying $8 a month, and they’re treating us like guinea pigs. They’re using us as the guinea pigs. They’re just making changes, and rolling them out without testing, and using us as the guinea pigs.” My friend, the kind of close friend where you know all the dirt, have been to all the apartments, just had their editorial published in the New York Post. Not just online! In PRINT! It should have…
Well, that doesn’t really require a whole lot of explanation does it? I was looking for another challenge to see if I could really defeat the Carbon X1’s capabilities ( part 1 of that exercise here ) and I decided to take a stab at 3D printing the off-brand Oreos that had been sitting in the cabinet since Thanksgiving. I will never eat them anyway, so they became a thing I was going to study to…
There are many other things I was supposed to be doing today, but today ended up becoming the day of throwing everything I know how to do and then some at the 50-pound Carbon X1 3D printer now occupying what was originally a dining room table and later became a desk as covid WFH entered a second year. I am back at the replacement kitchen table again, the inevitable outcome of taking a job that…
This is an old project that I created using CBDQ (Cheap Bots Done Quick) but I updated the JSON dictionary that powers the Lilly Pulitzer Print Bot for the first time since 2017 in honor of Elon Musk’s pointless battle against the Twitter bots. https://twitter.com/lilly_print_bot
I built an SSH keygen simulator on Codepen that shows you what it would be like if it spit out random emoji instead of ascii art. Obviously this is just a toy thing, there’s about 1 million ways this could be improved or made more like the real thing. There’s no form validation or anything, for example. But the main emoji array is actually shuffled around in something like a genuinely random way .
This is a post I put together for the website of the company I work for www.corsosystems.com . I wrote several Python scripts that work to export the text labels from an Ignition Perspective build and then generate the new XML schema to import with a second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) language. External link - https://corsosystems.com/corso-systems/language-translation-in-ignition
Something I’ve been experimenting with a little bit as time permits. Here’s the original - I can’t find the source of the looping color square pattern, I had forked it from somewhere. My twist on it - “mermaid scales” I spent a lot of time learning Javascript over the summer and learned to love Codepen as a result. It’s so nice to be able to iterate and fiddle with things really quickly without…