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Welcome to my personal website. This is mostly a place to put my blog posts, with a few other things thrown in when I get excited about them.
Blog Entries¶
Here are my 10 latest posts:
Atop the Oregon Cascades, a University of Oregon team finds a huge buried aquifer - Feb 04, 2025
A pattern for updating dependencies in a Docker image - Feb 01, 2025
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.
31 days of posts - Jan 31, 2025
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.
Nat Bullard’s deck on decarbonization - Jan 30, 2025
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.
Society for Technical Communication (STC) shutting down - Jan 29, 2025
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:
Adam Jacobs on open source business - Jan 28, 2025
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.
Two good Deepseek explainers - Jan 27, 2025
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:
Staying in Europe (Schengen) longer than 90 days as an American - Jan 26, 2025
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.
The easiest way to find an AWS instance - Jan 25, 2025
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.
A NY Times piece on Mt Bachelor - Jan 24, 2025
Our not-so-little local mountain got a write up in the NY Times, which is always fun to see. It’s about a local effort to try and buy the mountain (~$200M, so some very rich locals..). Lots of funny little nods to the culture of Bend:
