I had planned to write about our vacation (our first in five years) today, but there is something far more important and serious I need to talk about. Today, an unelected group of people revoked a human right from all women in the United States of America. Using specious logic (logic they specifically used the opposite conclusion of to expand concealed firearms the day prior) they took away the right of women to control their own healthcare....
Why Do We Care What People Carry For years, I have been very keen on exploring what people consider essential for work, play, and otherwise living life. I tend to believe that most people can learn a whole lot by watching what others us to accomplish great things. This can be as simple as a set of small tools or as complex as the toolset that a specialized engineer would carry to investigate a sophisticated piece of equipment in the field....
This post was edited to add my newest addition, a 60% Keychron K12 The Backstory When I was a very young child, my father had a workstation issued to him from Digital Equipment Corporation that had my favorite toy: a keyboard. This wasn’t just any keyboard, it was a great big clicky-clacky keyboard, and if you typed something it didn’t like, it would beep at you. This was easily my favorite sound in the world as a toddler....
My Second Trip to Angel Island This week I took Thursday and Friday off having secured an extremely popular campsite on the San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island. I have camped here before, back in 2017 with my partner, but this was my first solo trip just for fun and solitude. Campsite Location is Important I first camped on an East Bay side campsite on Angel Island. It was fantastically wild for being so close to San Francisco, with perfect darkness at night with only the foghorns reminding you that you are right in the middle of one of the largest metropolises in the United States....
Why do I keep getting top spec machines? This bugs me, and I feel bad for complaining about it. In my career, I have generally been issued laptops that I flat out will not use to their maximum capabilities. I work on highly automated SaaS apps. I have worked on this type of an application for years. There are lots of dependencies and running a full stack locally just doesn’t make sense....
The Great Reengineering of 2022 I tend to view programming and computers as a professional mechanic views cars; I do as little as possible with them after I am off the clock. Unless it’s something fun. There exists a point of inflection between tedious and satisfying that any professional experiences when doing something that, while technically “work,” is genuinely enjoyable and fun. I have been neglecting a lot of my key domain infrastructure for the past few years, and I want to use tools like Terraform, GitHub, and AWS to build a reference design that I am proud of for both the management of resources/configuration and the deployment of web application code....
Why am I doing this? This is my attempt to add to, and revive, the “World Wide Web” that I miss the most. Stumbling on an actual person’s own website where you could really dig into what makes them tick. That is an almost forgotten art, writing for your own satisfaction. Is this a blog? My goal with this redesign and reimagining of this website is to move toward a more introspective point of view, but also I won’t be holding myself to any sort of schedule for new posts....