While my audience here is pretty limited these days, I do feel a bit remiss that I haven’t given an update for anyone still following along. I’ve been pretty immersed in COVID-19 research since towards the end of February, and have had lots of private conversations, but I probably should have posted something earlier, considering […]
I’ve been using Linux laptops for the past few years, most recently a very portable C302 Chromebook running GalliumOS that sadly stopped charging a while back and never recovered (definitely don’t recommend), and a slightly less portable Gigabyte Aero 14 that’s taken a beating, but keeps on ticking. While the Aero still works fine, and […]
Recently I listened to an eye-opening podcast with Katherine Eban, who recently published a book, Bottle of Lies, on her 10 years of investigating generic drugs. This interview is well worth the listen, and I’d highly recommend it, but the short of it is that nearly 80% of the Indian and Chinese manufacturing plants that […]
A couple months ago I built a new AMD Zen 2 computer. There was nothing wrong with my previous Ryzen 1700 workstation, or the Hades Canyon NUC that I was also swapping off between, but those that have being paying some attention to PC hardware might understand the excitement (Zen 2 marks a milestone, cementing […]
For more general information, see also my previous overview post On Nutrition and Metabolism. This post drills into my personal n=1 experience this past year, covering the results, as well as a summary of the interventions, thought processes, and some of the research on what worked for me. This post will be a bit long… […]
Last year I started getting really interested in nutritional and metabolic health (doing a pretty deep dive starting with lots of medical talks, and subsequently reviewing tons of the primary research (all about that PubMed and Sci-Hub life)). Honestly, I’ve been working on a variation of this post for almost a year, but as my […]
I had dinner w/ Matt today and he mentioned he posted about something on his blog. Hey, remember those? Oh, the post was about custom Apple Watch faces. You want to follow @stroughtonsmith and check out SpriteKitWatchFace and its forks. Queuing launching XCode on my TODO list. A more in-depth writeup of custom Apple Watch […]
Just a nice little 2-minute clip with a bunch of interesting projects. For those of you jonesing for more graphicy goodness, this session on Light Fields and Fractals in VR is also pretty great: I tend to more regularly collect post on graphics stuff on my dedicated etech tumblr for now (still working on condensing […]
I’ve been syncing files/copying drives onto my new NAS for the past few days and I may actually end up running a bit low on space (currently up to 26/40TiB, 13M+ files and counting). While my main plan is to do mass deduplication as a part of a larger effort (there are multiple backups/copies of […]
My last NAS build was in 2016 and worked out pretty well – everything plugged in together and worked without a problem (Ubuntu LTS + ZFS) and as far as I know it’s still humming along (handed over for Lensley usage). Since I settled into Seattle, I’ve been limping along with the old Synology DS1812+ […]