On retreat again, October 2022.
Time and funds permitting, I try to go on retreat every year or two. I like driving someplace new, someplace I've never been before, and getting off the grid for a couple of days. I find that it makes...
View ArticleBuilding a weather station.
Note: There are some affiliate links in this post. You don't have to buy stuff with them if you don't want to.One of the things I always wanted to build was a weather station. For some odd reason they...
View ArticleOrganics, AI, and what people want to believe.
You pretty much have to have been living inside a farday cage with a stack of dead trees for company to have not heard anything about large language models taking the tech world by storm. Without going...
View ArticleOrienteering in life.
"Don't follow me, I don't know where I'm going either."--UnknownSince I got my last big project finished up I've been trying to figure out what to do with myself. A certain amount of debugging was...
View ArticleNeologism: Avocado Toast
Avocado toast (n): a cheap luxury, especially one which is perceived as being very expensive but is actually trivial; can also refer to the trivial cost thereof."Oh, hey, when can I drop off that...
View ArticleKicking the dam loose.
In an attempt to get myself writing again I'm doing a couple of low-effort posts, like this update to my .plan file. All of the usual warnings apply, so use discretion.
View ArticleCrash handlers in Python
Some weeks ago when I was trying to get the bot that runs my weather station stable, I ran yet again into a problem that for various reasons I hadn't put forth the brainpower to come up with a solution...
View ArticleFirst imprints.
From time to time lately I've been thinking about what Cory Doctorow called the enshittification of just about everything and peoples' reactions to it. Sometimes there are less shitty alternatives...
View ArticleOversight Committee, 26 July 2023, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.
This is one of those really difficult posts to write. Not just because I've got a lot of stuff going on (when do I ever not, you're probably asking yourself) but because of the sheer volume of data at...
View Article802.11w causing random wireless problems.
A couple of weeks ago I found that I had to replace the wireless router upstairs because its radios were spiking to extemely high temperatures a couple of times a day. 1 When anything spikes over ten...
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