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Life is like a pack of hockey cards – You never know what you’re gonna get. Chocolates on the other hand have that little map that tells you what each one has inside. So you can avoid the orange ones, anyway… When I came across a couple bags of old hockey cards at a thrift […]
Many years have past since I last shot colour film. Maybe 20 years ago I was using the Lomo Smena 8m camping. Mostly FujiFilm because I liked the greens. Once I started shooting Black & White and developing the film myself, I really didn’t see the need to have someone else develop the film. Digital […]
I’ve got a bunch of old film I need to get through. Stored properly – I shouldn’t need to add too many additional stops.I think this may be the golden age. Enjoy while you can.
My latest interest in microcontrollers has me learning all about Meshtastic mesh radio devices.The Meshtastic website puts it concisely – “An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices”.A lot to unpack right there but definitely within my Venn diagram of interests. As I dig in to this niche community […]
At todays “blink to think” event a new Arduino board was released, the Arduino Q, however perhaps most important was the announcement that chipmaker Qualcomm had acquired Arduino for an undisclosed amount. After watching the entire two hours of announcements I’m not crazy about this but I remain cautiously optimistic. My first Arduino was the […]
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Between Microsoft's two-day outage and the FAA ground stop yesterday, there's plenty of ink spilled about who's responsible, why these things happened, etc. But it made me think back to some of the infrastructure and ops teams I've worked on, and similar (though much smaller scale) outages we encountered. Having an ops mindset is fundamentally different from a development or project management mindset. And it took me over a decade of software development to understand why.
I’ve been getting back into the politics fandom this past month.
A few weeks ago I was up late in my kitchen. I've always been a bad sleeper, starting from when I was 10 and would spend whole nights reading books and watching the clock slowly wind it way to when I had to get up and go to
The resiliency startup has slashed the amount it spends on AI; down from $4,500 per dev, per month, in August, to $1,600 now.
Nathaniel Christopher has a lovely recap of his time at WordCamp Canada. Very cool that the dashboard widget helped connect him to the local community. Hat tip: Anne.
