Sunshine in Old Town
Caught a brief sliver of sun in Old Town Portland last weekend. City of Roses • 玫瑰之城
Eric Gardner
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Knowledge Management in the Age of AI
The Joy (and pain) of Emacs I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. —Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line Some years ago, I went through a phase that I imagine many software developers go through at least once in their careers—a period of intense fascination with Emacs . “Emacs is a great operating system that only lacks a decent text editor”,…
Recently
It’s hard to believe we are already more than a month into 2024. I had thought that finding the time to write a post like this once per month would be easy, but that’s turning out to not be the case. Let’s see how long I can keep this up. Personal We are currently in the depths of the Portland winter here. Around the middle of January, the city experienced a pretty terrible winter storm –…
Blogging with Vitepress
Happy new year! In my most recent update post , I mentioned that I had migrated this blog over to Vitepress , a promising but relatively new static site generator powered by Vue.js and Vite . I’m already familiar with these tools (we use all of them in Codex ), so it made sense to try using the same setup here. Tuning the Default Theme I’ve used a lot of static-site generator tools over the…
Recently
View of Coit Tower from my hotel room in San Francisco Hello there. It’s been a while. The last update to this site was more than a year ago, in May of 2022. Now it’s almost the end of 2023 and I’m finally able to devote some energy into this project once again. The intervening 19 months have been busy. Learning how to take care of a new baby and be a parent, taking parental leave and then…
Hello World
Iris shortly before leaving the hospital. Just after 10pm on April 13th, 2022, Laurel and I welcomed the newest member of our family into the world. Introducing Iris Kristine Gardner, birth weight 7lbs 7oz, the first grandchild on either side of the family tree. Hello world! Iris was born at Legacy Emmanuel hospital in Portland, Oregon after 22 hours of labor. She arrived nine days early, but…
Lan Su Garden
Last weekend I made it out to the Lan Su Chinese Garden for the first time in over a year. I used to work in this neighborhood back when I was at Rumors (RIP), and used to have a membership so I could come by on lunch breaks or whenever I had some spare time during the day. The Old Town area has fallen on some pretty rough times since then, but the garden itself is still worth a visit. An island…
At the Dahlia Farm
Laurel and I visited a dahlia farm outside of Portland this weekend. Here are a few photos. All pictures taken with the Fuji X-T4, 23mm ƒ1.4 lens, and a Glimmerglass 1 filter.
Wynoochee Lake
Wynoochee Lake, Washington Last month I embarked on a solo camping trip up in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. I had heard that the Olympic National Forest was beautiful, but had never ventured out that way before. After doing some research I decided to head to Wynoochee Lake – it looked like a good spot for kayaking, and it was only 3-4 hours from Portland. The reservable spots at the campsite…
Timberline Trail
Last week I completed the Timberline Trail, a roughly 40-mile loop that circumnavigates Mt. Hood in Oregon. I also turned 37. I feel like this is a pretty good note to begin a new year on. Mount Hood Our party (Laurel, myself, and two friends from CA) opted to do the hike over 5 days / 4 nights instead of the traditional 4 days / 3 nights. We all had the full week off so why rush, was the…
2020: The Year in Vue
My colleague Anne Tomasevich and I wrote about our experience using Vue.js at the Wikimedia foundation. Read the full post here: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/01/22/2020-the-year-in-vue/
Port Orford Bike Ride
Road to Cape Blanco lighthouse During the “plague year” of 2020 I didn’t get many chances to travel. By the time summer arrived, I felt pretty stir-crazy. My 36th birthday was approaching, and after months of isolation and lockdown I wanted to do something memorable. Since getting on a plane wasn’t an option, I decided to do the next best thing I could think of: take a long bike ride on the Oregon…