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Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About Me

I’m a software engineer coming up on thirty years of experience programming, and I finally feel like I have something to say. I have written Go, Python, Java, and C++ on the backend, and Vue, React, jQuery, and vanilla JavaScript for browser-based applications.

On the personal side, I consume quite a bit of science fiction in books and audiobooks. I follow space news and events. I get my information through many personal blogs using NetNewsWire, Old Reddit, Bubbles.town, and Hacker News. I am interested in technology, the sciences, research, mathematics, and philosophy. I strongly support open source and am an active user of Debian Linux, KDE, Firefox, Joplin and many other open source applications.

Return to the Small Web

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve started reading Bubbles.town in the past weeks, and it is a positive experience to return to the small web. Credit to the Bubbles.town developers and content creators, you have built a new community where people can exchange ideas and have a reason to return. The text-dominant content takes a step back to the traditional form of words, meaning, and slow ideas. This direction is refreshing and increases my desire to participate.

Apple and the FBI Dance a Security Tango

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Troy Hunt successfully frames the context of Apple vs the FBI court order in his must read post, but ignores an important question. What is on the iPhone that is so important to the FBI that they would go to this length to get it? This is the first time that a court has ordered a technology company to develop new software requiring Apple to backdoor their own iOS system.

First Year of Meditation

Wed, 06 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Around this time last year I decided to make meditation part of my life. I started with five minutes a day for the month of January. There were a bunch of days where I made it more than five minutes, but everyday I did at least five minutes for whole month.

At first I did not know what to do with myself. I was under the impression my thoughts would eventually drift away and the serene inner peace I was hearing about would appear. In some ways it did, but only for very brief fleeting moments after several months of pillow time. For the most part I was left searching for something, over and over again, anything.

Vibrance

Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A sphere of energy rolls towards a glow on the horizon. Entropy glides frictionlessly adjusting the path as plasma. Once it was I, now no longer.

No Matter

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Wind rustling the summer green maple leaves, Rolling ripples from rain drops on the gentle river, Luminescent sunlight warming the desert rocks

The sound of the rain needs no translation

Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The sound of the rain needs no translation. ~Alan Watts

Monument

Tue, 04 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The world crumbles under the weight of the truths you carry. With each step the ground gives away and yet you are still standing.

Maybe it is because they are truths and not falsehoods. These truths have their own pull, strong enough to hold you where there is no support.

Where do you go from here? Lost in space, the voyage is no longer physical. Emotions are free range, pure happiness is present only to be replaced by deep sadness.

Developer Slang 101

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

All of these definitions are taken from Stack Overflow. Take a read through, they’re hilarious. Here is a summary and my favorites.

Gold Plating Adding features that are unimportant (as little as to be useless)

Build Potato When your code check-in breaks the build, you receive a build potato. It stays with you until someone else’s code check-in breaks the build.

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Hydra Code Code that cannot be fixed. One fix causes two new bugs. It should be rewritten.

Are You a Windows User?

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I switched from windows to Linux in 2004 when I was sick of windows dying once a month. I became so good at reformatting I could remember my windows key off the top of my head. That key is long gone because I haven’t used windows in years on my home machine.

I spent time with SUSE Linux, Gentoo (which I still believe is the fastest OS available) and Ubuntu. Gentoo, although I loved the speed, died on me every two or three months. An improvement from windows, but eventually after I graduated college, I didn’t have time to maintain the sandbox anymore. So I switched to Ubuntu.

Organic Algorithym

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

How can anyone look at this image and deny the internet is a sentient being? This pattern beautifully parallels the brain structure’s self referential chaos of loops, pointers and recursion. Every person plays their organic part in assembling the structure by linking, writing, reading and re-linking. We travel daily to our favorite nodes searching for nuggets to tickle our fancies and share with others. We continuously add informational nodes, yet the structure itself never changes shape, because of it’s self referential integrity. The internet is just humanity’s recursive electro-mechanical brain, and we are just nodes in the sphere of the organic algorithm.

Hello Blogosphere

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

int main {std::cout < < “Hello World\n”; return 0; }