My wife Meredith and I, along with two friends, just finished doing the Camino de Costa Rica. The standard way of doing it is with a guide, but we did it independently, heavily relying on Meredith’s conversational Spanish skills and extensive travel experience in Latin America.
Clear Lake, where the McKenzie River originates. (Photo by LaurelHamers)
We use docker pretty heavily at work, and a pattern I’ve often run into is that I want to play around in a docker image to get something working, and then be able to “save” it back into the original image. This is generally a Python dependency or something similar that we’ve put into our requirements, but rebuilding all our dependencies takes a good bit of bandwidth and time.
I decided to try and write a blog post each day in January, and have now been successful! I have been inspired by folks like Simon Willison, John Gruber, and Andy Baio. They are able to keep up a rate of sharing over time, at different levels of depth.
I’ve always enjoyed this deck about the state of global decarbonization. It has lots of great high-level graphs and takeaways around the state of climate change.
Today there was some sad news, which is that the STC is shutting down. They posted a note on their website and other social media channels:
I’ve been listening to Adam Jacobs on Twitter for many years wax poetic about open source business. He finally put all his thoughts together in this video, which is a great overview of free software, open source, fair source, and how to build sustainable business.
The day has been busy with folks talking about Deepseek and it’s R1 model. I found a couple posts really useful to understand and contexutalize it:
When we traveled previously in 2018-2019, we spent summer in Europe both times. In general you are allowed to spend 90 of any 180 days in the Schengen visa area. This is a huge part of Europe, and was always a rush against the clock because we’d love to spend more time in Europe.
For some reason AWS makes browsing their instance types surprisingly hard. I’ve found Vantage’s instance viewer the best way to figure out the best option.