Archive

2025

May

May 18

State of the Board May 2025

May 17

Too close to home

May 17

📸: Just hanging out, being destroyed by allergies.

May 16

A Fantastic World of Passions

May 16

📸: I only just barely had enough time to plug it all in and get it working, but I can tell you that my “record song ideas at home” setup just got a massive upgrade. In fact, now it’s a “record solid takes at home silently” setup.

May 13

📸: As I told Elsa, “I had to buy a new small box so that I could buy more small boxes.”

May 12

Everything the GOP Critiques is Actually a Wishlist

May 10

Facebook and Instagram are not your website!

May 03

📸: The Citadel. 📍 My youngest brother in law just graduated college! Elsa looks pretty good in his hat.

May 02

Remember these are tools to be used

May 02

I'm off for the weekend, but I'll be reading this paper on authorization

May 02

📸: The AVAM in Baltimore is such a weird, precious treasure.

May 02

📸: It turns out, one of the best burgers in Baltimore can be found at Camden Yards.

April

Apr 19

Maglev isn't needed, but that doesn't mean NIMBYs don't annoy me

Apr 13

Mail rules on Fastmail that make my life better

Apr 12

Apr 12

The trouble when a PM writes code

Apr 11

Apr 07

📸: It is absolutely insane to me that there’s no way to click and add this to my calendar. Who makes apps like this? It’s been this way for years.

Apr 05

📸: Pretty much where I spend my free days.

Apr 03

Always hit record

Apr 03

Maybe the users changed, not the corporation

Apr 03

My MacBook Air thoughts after a couple of months

March

Mar 24

More unambiguous failures of the US government

Mar 17

I guess I'm a Product Engineer

Mar 16

Big Beautiful Brains Hitting Find and Replace

Mar 10

📸: Alma always hits.

Mar 09

Give me that sweet Muff and 'Verb

Mar 08

Gandhi's (Donaldson's) Seven Social Sins

Mar 08

Mar 06

Mar 03

📸: I’m pretty pleased with myself for thinking, “a free standing coat rack would be great for organizing cables at our practice space…”

Mar 01

Including Photo Posts in my This Month and Archive Page

February

Feb 22

📸: This was meant to be a meal for 2. I think we’ll be eating it for three days.

Feb 20

📸: The beast was sleeping soundly until I stood up. Then she rolled on her side, and began whipping her tail around expectantly.

Feb 18

Destroying government capacity is the point

Feb 11

American Healthcare

Feb 09

New Computer: MacBook Air's are so small

Feb 08

📸: Randomly remembering that I had a huge wall covered in wallpaper depicting Earthrise (kind of, it was actually a composite of Blue Marble and Earthrise) in my childhood bedroom and it was awesome.

Feb 08

New blog layout is out

January

Jan 31

📸: She woke us up an hour before the alarm because she wanted scratches. Then she did this.

Jan 29

Inspiration Strikes— how I’m going to restructure my blog design

Jan 25

Twisting Religious Freedom into Religious Oppression

Jan 22

Compassion When I Cannot Offer Forgiveness

Jan 18

Small (good) health update

Jan 12

First show in the books

Jan 05

Turns out, sometimes you should add things to the internet of shit

Jan 04

Banning Books that are "developmentally inapporpriate"

Jan 03

Rogue One is a pretty good movie

2024

December

Dec 31

Transmit is Awesome, Google Drive Sucks

Dec 31

What hardens and what falls away-- experiencing tech as we age

Dec 29

📸: This is what 61 cookbooks looks like (along with other things).

Dec 29

📸: This mess is what 573 books (plus 5 I couldn’t find and about 30 high quality magazines and 20 or so academic journals) look like. More to go.

Dec 29

📸: I have not sufficiently expressed my hatred for whoever did this.

Dec 27

📸: Stop taunting me, Reverb.

Dec 23

Social Security solvency seems pretty easy

Dec 21

Adventures in Hugo 0.140.0 on Micro.blog and the need for a better build system

Dec 13

📸: I am a Burrata Babe

Dec 13

Our healthcare problem is not a science problem

Dec 13

Indulging Dubious Health Science and Conspiracy Doomed Us

Dec 07

November

Nov 23

📸: Happiness

Nov 23

📸: Art deco coffee

Nov 21

Four issues without ambiguity

Nov 17

My closet organization

Nov 16

📸: This was an adorable jalopy parked by the gym.

Nov 12

ARP or Biden Bucks?

Nov 10

The only data tracking that works is incidental and pervasive

Nov 09

A Quick Check in on Finances this Year

Nov 06

This is who America is

Nov 04

Campaigns and tactics are not the story

Nov 04

AMA November Question 4: Bad Decisions

Nov 03

AMA November Question 3 -- urban and transit policy

Nov 02

AMA November Question 2

Nov 01

First Question of AMA November

Nov 01

The paper cuts of corporate computing

October

Oct 29

I don't know, maybe Siri is fine.

Oct 29

Sins of the Magic Mouse

Oct 26

Why We’ve Leased Cars for More than Ten Years

Oct 25

The End of Norms

Oct 25

📸: Always find the bookstores

Oct 22

TikTok really has broken pop music

Oct 22

📸: New Tele day

Oct 17

📸: Another day, another HDCP issue.

Oct 09

If HTML and CSS are so simple, why haven't static sites reigned supreme?

Oct 07

A messy, deeply personal struggle with October 7th

Oct 04

What I’ve Been Watching

September

Sep 28

📸: Home alone, no car, little food, random desire for baked pasta. I must admit, I love radiatori.

Sep 24

Thinking about software rewrites and domain models

Sep 23

Common programming advice -- what stinks and what's helpful?

Sep 22

📸: I don’t love either of these pictures, but they tell an interesting story. The first one came up as “On This Day” five years ago– back before I knew about my keratoconus and was still using glasses. So grabbed another shot of me today. You can see the …

Sep 19

As Exhausting as The Last Jedi Haters

Sep 15

When it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Sep 14

Who is the cranky, stubborn one?

Sep 08

Gain staging and dirt pedals, the never ending quest

Sep 07

Sep 07

Delivery Delayed

Sep 04

📸: I was excited about what I had heard about JPEGXL. But this sounds terrifying.

Sep 04

Analytics are actionable!

Sep 03

OS platforms have a responsibility to do age verification

Sep 03

POSSE is still cool

August

Aug 30

What's behind the SSO Tax?

Aug 29

Aug 29

Ownership, connection, and control— IndieWeb stuff

Aug 26

📸: This is like some weird SEO album name thing… and it totally works.

Aug 23

No one uses clients, so we don't get first class APIs

Aug 14

I’m worried about my wallet

Aug 12

Arguing over the perfect thing is tiresome

Aug 07

The Democrats Nominate Role Models

Aug 06

Google Monopoly (I)

Aug 06

I don’t heal like I used to

July

Jul 30

A long flight to come

Jul 30

Jul 28

📸: Relay 10 was a great time. Of course TimeKoalaSing (something no one remembers) had to make the schlep. But it was a solid excuse to visit London for the first time.

Jul 28

📸: This Boy and A Heron

Jul 28

📸: Liberty was fascinating to walk through. Sure, it’s a fancy department store. But it is gorgeous and well preserved. A balance of modern and functional and old that does not exist on my usual side of the world.

Jul 21

President Joe Biden Triumphs

Jul 18

Some blog stats

Jul 18

Tech has no answers for you

Jul 17

📸: Only true heat can empty out good neighbor’s outdoor seating.

Jul 15

The tech industry is not the only place people are excited about AI

Jul 12

📸: As if I’m not pissed enough at the NYTimes, they go and attack me like this?

Jul 06

📸: Not yet secured down and fully wired, but this is what I’m thinking for the current State of the Board.

Jul 04

Some stats from 10 years of tracking flying

Jul 03

📸: Last new pedal day for a bit. Maybe.

June

Jun 30

📸: I’m thinking about getting rid of this pedal after… 16 years. But the insides are just so pretty, maybe I’ll hold onto it.

Jun 29

📸: First new pedal day of the week. I was looking for a modulation effect. I was not looking for dirt. But damn, BSRI has amazing dirt pedals.

Jun 26

Death to the artist

Jun 22

Capturing what it’s like to be young

Jun 18

📸: This is about to be fun.

Jun 14

📸: Sometimes the touristy stuff is pretty cool.

Jun 10

Of course there are people who want AI features. That’s the wrong critique

Jun 09

Dr. Z Maz Jr MKII Joins the Crew

Jun 09

📸: Checking out Ovenbird Bakery after eating their cookies at good neighbor for years.

Jun 08

📸: I definitely did not intend to buy this amp today.

Jun 05

Hurt, Confrontation, Stop, Listen, Learn, Grow, and Forgive

May

May 28

Manu's consumption-to-creation ratio-- time is what counts

May 28

📸: After my allergy shots this morning, I took a long walk home…ish. I decided to stop down in the Wyman Park Dell, which was one of Gracie’s favorite spots in the world. I kind of regret not taking her here on her last day.

May 28

📸: This old photo came up and I suddenly thought, “If I crop this and make it black and white I bet it’ll look cool.” Sure enough, I think it does..

May 28

📸: This is looking much better than yesterday. Trying Elixirs again.

May 27

📸: This disgusting boy is going to get cleaned up tomorrow.

May 27

Communities are bundles of belief

May 21

Takes spread like wildfire

May 20

📸: Ocean City, MD

May 12

📸: I didn’t feel like pulling out my receiver to double check, but realized I could just scroll through the labeled inputs. Confirmed that’s one thing I don’t have to buy.

May 12

Ugh, now I have to buy a record player

May 11

I have no use for lyrics

May 11

When ChatGPT sort of works, is it any better than anything else?

May 06

Not all popular tools are popular because they are "labor arbitrage"

May 02

📸: Well. Here’s something that unexpectedly hit hard this afternoon.

April

Apr 30

📸: Gracie is gone. Our love for her was deeper than deep. But she couldn’t live on our love alone, or she would have lived until at least 120.

Apr 27

In defense of using analytics on your personal blog

Apr 26

Apr 21

Two Decades of Hibernation

Apr 19

📸: If all days looked like this.

Apr 14

Apr 14

Facelifting json.blog

Apr 07

Some things are too easy, some things should be hard, but I don't think blogging should be hard

Apr 02

📸: The last time I took extended “relax” time for myself was almost a year ago in Portland, OR for a weekend. Where should I recharge next?

Apr 01

📸: A special time between light and dark

March

Mar 24

Using Spaces on macOS

Mar 23

I think Apple loves you’re using an older Mac

Mar 17

📸: Quick breakfast while waiting for my haircut.

Mar 16

Mar 07

Mar 02

Rules for my personal blogging

February

Feb 23

Measuring software quality is hard

Feb 23

I have mixed feelings about Meow Wolf's expansion

Feb 19

Technology Report Card 2023

Feb 17

📸: Not a bad view to wake up to.

Feb 16

📸: Weekend getaway with the pups and Elsa.

Feb 11

📸: Yeah that was a pretty good breakfast.

Feb 10

Self-censorship

Feb 03

Elsa did good today

Feb 03

Letters: January 24 W4

January

Jan 26

Letters: January 24 W3

Jan 18

Our system is being attacked from inside the house

Jan 15

Letters: January 24 W2

Jan 15

Forget AI, this is purely about interest rates

Jan 14

📸: Used my sunglassess as a UV filter for this photo.

Jan 09

Letters: January 24 W1

Jan 08

📸: Politics at work mean choosing to rip off someone else’s Apple content idea to make a point instead of choosing to highlight people, events, or places of note that are worthy of additional attention. Think about what Basecamp could have done. They could have included national …

2023

December

Dec 31

Letters: December W4

Dec 30

Low-code skepticism

Dec 30

📸: It took quite a while for the sun to break through the clouds, but eventually we had a hell of a view in Philly.

Dec 29

📸: Getting a little frisky.

Dec 27

📸: Dinner at Cry Baby Pasta

Dec 27

Birchtree found my post— a response to the response

Dec 27

There’s a lot more meat on the AI bone

Dec 27

OpenAI is just Uber

Dec 26

Incompetence abounds and it's exhausting

Dec 25

Big Boxing Day Plans

Dec 22

Ten years in the same domain has broken my ability to teach

Dec 20

Letters: December W3

Dec 10

Letters: December W2

Dec 04

📸: Every episode of The Gilded Age. Literally the only show on any streaming service on the Apple TV.

Dec 03

Letters: December W1

November

Nov 30

Anyway, I’m back from Paris

Nov 25

📸: Our first long, tired day in Paris.

Nov 21

When did a bit of tech last blow my mind?

Nov 17

📸: I was at a conference this week that really served the rainbow for lunch.

Nov 12

Budgeting and wealth management apps are not meant for me

Nov 12

A bit about The Marvels' performance

Nov 10

📸: This tree has been gorgeously overgrown for quite some time.

Nov 10

Default Apps -- alright let's do this

Nov 09

Letters: November W1

Nov 06

Apple has the right dekstop lineup.

Nov 05

📸: Caught a bit of nature before two straight conference weeks.

Nov 01

I still think that POSSE has it right

Nov 01

Nov 01

Tools for Product Management

October

Oct 29

📸: Happiness is a pickle bar.

Oct 28

Letters: October W4

Oct 28

Humans. We really can't do cross-cultural empathy.

Oct 28

📸: Baltimore, where it’s 80 degrees at the end of October and the trees are doing this.

Oct 22

📸: Yesterday was breezy, though you can’t tell from the photo.

Oct 22

Letters: October W3

Oct 21

📸: New Greek place was chef kiss.

Oct 18

📸: Hotels still have 30-pin connectors.

Oct 17

📸: We started the second day of our executive retreat with an hour long walk in Baltimore City where we hung out with these two.

Oct 11

📸: 26 hours in Denver.

Oct 08

Ahsoka, like most of Star Wars, just isn't that good

Oct 08

Letters: October W2

Oct 08

📸: Not at all indicative of what my time in Jamaica was like, but this abandoned hotel (transitioning to office space) was pretty neat.

Oct 08

aws s3 sync is basic af

Oct 04

Letters: October W1

Oct 01

Something I never quite got over

Oct 01

Letters: September W3

September

Sep 20

Letters: September W2

Sep 19

I wrote this about a year ago in my journal

Sep 16

Tumblr endlessly pisses off those who use it, while being totally inscrutable to everyone else

Sep 11

Gracie and Quality Time

Sep 07

Letters: September W1

Sep 04

Mostly we should just write on our blogs

Sep 04

The first post in a thread was alwways a title. A post 1/X

Sep 04

It's good that COVID spending and supports are going away, even if we'd like to keep some or all of them

Sep 02

There is no center that sits above politics (values)

Sep 01

Letters: August W4

August

Aug 21

📸: I had some heads down time working at a coffee shop this morning. When I came home, Gracie was sleeping on her bed in my office, waiting for me. It has become her favorite day time spot, whereas she used to stay alone on the couch downstairs.

Aug 16

Letters: August W1

Aug 06

They always just tear the roads up again and again

Aug 06

Losing the flow

Aug 01

📸: It didn’t feel disgusting outside today for the first time in a long time.

July

Jul 29

Police don’t solve crimes

Jul 24

Letters: July W3

Jul 22

📸: The number of showings makes it clear as day, it’s Barbie’s world, and we’re just living in it. Nice to see a female-forward movie getting all of the time.

Jul 20

Letters: July W2 HeyDingus Edition

Jul 18

School Closures and Reopening during COVID

Jul 16

📸: I’m at a bar alone. I have one non-fiction and one fiction book with me. Lethal Weapon is on one TV; Happy Gilmore is on the other.

Jul 16

Two quick observations about Threads

Jul 14

Letters: July W2

Jul 13

📸: A rare event— a new US city for me.

Jul 11

Letters: July W1 — HeyDingus Edition

Jul 10

Letters: July W1

Jul 09

Jul 09

Changing of the keycap guards

Jul 09

Turns out the US has reduced emissions, but not by much.

Jul 07

Social thoughts

Jul 02

Jul 02

David’s thoughts on Letters— and mine halfway

Jul 01

Letters: June W4

June

Jun 27

📸: After three nights in the ER, Gracie came home the other day. Her condition is not improving, so we’re moving to a different phase of care here. It seems pretty certain I’ll have very little time left with her. Our hearts are breaking.

Jun 24

📸: First night with all green rings since May 27th.

Jun 22

📸: It’s been a long month of bad sleep.

Jun 21

Letters: June W3

Jun 20

Data interoperability and standards were the goal

Jun 19

Jun 17

📸: Haven’t even boarded my plane and I’m already missing my god son.

Jun 16

📸: A bit heavy, but delicious. The recommended pork rib was an A+ addition.

Jun 16

📸: My dear friend, Darwin.

Jun 16

Solo dining at The Pink Door

Jun 14

Letters: June W2

Jun 11

Meow Wolf keeps growing

Jun 09

📸: Oh yeah, that’s why I like Portland. Random place on Yelp 3 mins from me.

Jun 08

📸: My Travel focus mode.

Jun 07

New CREDO, and some plausible stories about heterogenous results for charters

Jun 06

Maybe we have a glimpse of the post-television living room of my dream

Jun 03

A terrible, inefficient, no good way to download things (App Dot Net) with Elixir

Jun 02

Tapped out on being a true fan

Jun 02

Letters: June W1

May

May 28

Places I've Been

May 28

Letters: May W4

May 27

📸: Guess which days I’ve felt happiest.

May 22

Letters: May W3

May 16

Letters: May W2

May 16

Letters: April W4

May 14

📸: No edits, just remarkable colors on a beautiful day.

May 13

Scleral lenses are a miracle

May 11

📸: Who is walking who?

May 10

Localism is bad for transit (and education)

May 09

Letters: May W1

May 05

Jordan Neely died beacuse we're cruel

May 04

Brown redid the CS curriculum right after I graduated and it's awesome

April

Apr 29

Letters: April W3

Apr 25

Discovery is also content moderation

Apr 22

📸: Inner peace achieved

Apr 15

The Most Important Travel Hack

Apr 15

Letters: April W2

Apr 10

We're just trying to erode trust at this point

Apr 08

📸: I mean I’m not going to order this, but I feel like a should, just to support somewhere that would have this.

Apr 05

Letters: March W4

Apr 02

We might be done with the movies

Apr 02

Letters: April W1

Apr 01

March

Mar 26

Buerger Bros 1885-1929 Denver, Colorado

Mar 21

Letters: March W3

Mar 20

📸: Not my least productive day.

Mar 20

Do you ever miss a possibility?

Mar 19

📸: Is there a better breakfast than a baguette with poached egg in tomato? Probably not.

Mar 17

They're lying about guilt

Mar 17

Mar 17

Building a page for Letters

Mar 13

Letters: March W2

Mar 12

The experience of working on your own blog

Mar 10

Mar 08

📸: Strange sight while taking a quick walk for dinner.

Mar 07

📸: She spends the whole day like this.

Mar 06

Letters: March W1

Mar 06

📸: For years, I just used my own pots, weights, and Macguyvered contraptions when using the sous vide, but it’s really so much nicer to use tools that are engineered for my specific use.

Mar 05

I'm writing daily pages now?

Mar 05

📸: It seems like everywhere you look in Mexico there’s detailed tile work. It’s an amazing and enduring bit of architectural heritage.

Mar 04

📸: This machine just zips through creating keys.

Mar 03

📸: When do I feel peaceful solitude? Is it while looking up on a silent winter night or listening to the cacophony of summer? Maybe it’s during pouring rain storms like we have tonight.

Mar 03

Letters: February W5/March W1

Mar 02

📸: The weather this morning was gloomy, but I was still back on my bullshit. Feels good to lift again.

Mar 02

📸: She was sick today, but the way she can deeply sleep, often on her back, let’s me know she feels safe and secure with us at home.

February

Feb 28

Stop with the rules, pay for results

Feb 27

One last trip to the moshav

Feb 26

Are you a grown-up?

Feb 25

Letters: February W4

Feb 25

A rant about budgets, data, and abstractions.

Feb 20

📸: I was thinking of Fiona earlier and then her picture came up on my Photos widget. Sure enough, today is the midpoint between her untimely death on 2020-02-18 and when I learned about it 4 days later. I miss her terribly.

Feb 17

Letters: February W3

Feb 13

📸: America— where your prize for caring about something enough to dedicate time and effort into becoming an expert means you’ll be mistrusted and therefore struggle to have an impact.

Feb 11

One carefully chosen item at a time

Feb 09

Letters: February W2

Feb 06

📸: I am never sad to have a plate like this.

Feb 05

Feb 05

📸: New political email filter just dropped.

Feb 03

📸: I have struggled to change my coffee habit into an at home thing. Sure, I’d save money. But there’s something about the stupid little walk, small talk, and brown noise while I sit and sip that settles me and helps me think.

Feb 03

📸: I haven’t seen sleep like this in two months. HVAC and sea level agree with me.

January

Jan 31

📸: The moment I realized that wine from 2003 is 20 years old. 💀

Jan 31

Letters: February W1

Jan 28

📸: Last haircut, December 18th. New haircut, today. I can’t see the difference. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Jan 28

Poverty is the bleeding

Jan 28

Letters: January W4

Jan 27

Vouchers and ESAs are about the rich and the religious

Jan 27

📸: Today was mostly a bad day. But I did have 3009 day old mole at Pujol and it didn’t disappoint.

Jan 22

Delimited files are hell-- a comparison of methods to read bad files

Jan 19

Letters: January W3

Jan 16

A thought experiment on replacing my Synology with a Mac mini

Jan 10

Letters: January W2

Jan 07

Jan 07

How did ”fun” go in 2022?

Jan 06

More articles on friendship

Jan 05

DayOne is a great travelogue

Jan 05

We need bike infrastructure and e-bike subsidies

Jan 05

Internet communities should be fragmented--so should identity

Jan 03

📸: Sign of the times— the restaurant I’m in has TV screens up for the music it’s playing. The playlist is Top Songs for 2022, and Billboard, Spotify, and TikTok are the listed sources.

Jan 03

In defense of views, likes, reposts, webmentions, trackbacks, etc. Blogging about blogs again.

Jan 01

Letters: January W1

2022

December

Dec 31

📸: Happy New Year

Dec 31

Reading in 2022

Dec 29

Signs of Mexico

Dec 29

📸: Pretty solid ramen for CDMX

Dec 28

📸: Bookshop in a park on a lake with crepes and coffee.

Dec 27

📸: Walking around La Condesa.

Dec 24

📸: Puebla is quite the city.

Dec 22

📸: I did finally leave the house today. It felt nice. I’m back in bed recovering though.

Dec 19

Consistent and Complete

Dec 17

Reading, Writing, Discovery

Dec 16

📸: Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.

Dec 04

📸: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

November

Nov 28

Why do I want to publish correspondence on my blog?

Nov 28

A new project for 2023-- seeking multiple collaborators!

Nov 28

📸: Look, if your taco place doesn’t have an assortment of salsas and pickled veggies and chilis toreados to zhuzh them up, it’s not any good.

Nov 24

📸: Three years ago today we ate this for dinner and it was great

Nov 19

📸: We leave behind pieces of ourselves like clay shavings in the places that shape us.

Nov 17

📸: The only sticker I’ve ever put on my laptop.

Nov 14

The world we have or the one that we want?

Nov 12

📸: Today I felt almost normal. Pretty sure it’s the first time I’ve closed all three rings since surgery.

Nov 12

Do we let creators/influencers/web projects end?

Nov 11

There's always some *coin

Nov 09

📸: Old Preferences: Software Updates list the software and release notes. New Settings: Click More Info. Click on the only update listed to highlight it. THEN you get release notes. This sucks.

Nov 09

We still stink at probability and uncertainty. It's time for Steel Man Narratives.

Nov 06

A birthday present for Jess

October

Oct 29

📸: Watching TV together.

Oct 29

📸: I love getting photos from the dog walkers.

Oct 28

Oct 22

All that time in a bed, and yet…

Oct 02

📸: The lighting off Capital One Arena last night made for a modern cinematic moment.

September

Sep 24

📸: Having roasted (air fryer) crunch chickpeas was awesome. This process was not.

Sep 24

📸: Oysters should always come with freshly grated horseradish. Despite that oversight, these were excellent.

Sep 18

Updating my story

Sep 11

Tips, Service Fees, Plus Tax

Sep 11

Time for fresh lenses again

Sep 03

Mens’ skincare products

Sep 03

📸: Pittsburgh throwback

Sep 03

📸: Friday’s afternoon cocktail (not pictured: lemon)

August

Aug 31

The Historical Accuracy of Semi-Fascist

Aug 28

Aug 27

📸: Lazy Saturday

Aug 20

Aug 20

📸: So happy I stopped puttering around in the kitchen and sat down with them.

Aug 20

📸: I did it.

Aug 14

📸: Dumps and noods

Aug 13

Aug 13

Wandering in Pittsburgh

Aug 13

Aug 08

📸: On a rooftop in Los Angeles, where it’s easy to love the weather and forget about all the cars.

Aug 06

📸: Baltimore’s taco game just went up a level.

Aug 06

Delegating tasks to next week

Aug 06

TV I still haven't watched

July

Jul 30

Jul 29

📸: I’m going to miss my buddy Darwin when he goes off on all his adventures. One last goodbye.

Jul 19

I smell like lobster and I'm not mad about it

Jul 15

📸: When we moved, they had just received approval to expand the church with this side chapel. It’s quite striking.

Jul 15

Spending some time in one of my homes, Providence.

Jul 09

📸: LA Bahn Mi

Jul 07

The vacation after COVID that revealed my problems

Jul 06

Jul 05

Is it the frameworks or the developers?

Jul 04

📸: Stunning day in Baltimore

June

Jun 26

Jun 25

📸: Because I ate this deliciousness I signed up for more volleyball.

Jun 22

Entanglement and Lemon

Jun 21

Morning coffee vibe

Jun 21

Jun 18

📸: This was so much better than it looks in this picture.

Jun 13

Office vibes today

Jun 03

Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

Jun 02

May

May 31

He fired over 300 rounds

May 25

📸: Apparently, I live here now.

May 20

May 19

🦀 Crabs with some out of town friends.

May 17

📸: Last Chicago dish is from a classic red sauce joint. Been fun eating my way through an extended weekend here.

May 17

May 16

May 16

Monday afternoon in Chicago

May 16

May 15

Walking About Chicago

May 15

Girl & the Goat

May 14

📸: Hello, you gorgeous meat and cheese casserole!

May 13

Day 1 in Chicago.

May 09

📸: A healthy work culture

May 01

April

Apr 30

Eight years at Allovue

Apr 26

Shortcuts -- who can use this thing?

Apr 26

Tumblr and Twitter’s Failure

Apr 26

Matching Mark One

Apr 25

📸: Baltimore was looking pretty good again today.

Apr 25

Always. Be. Begging.

Apr 24

Sherwood Gardens

Apr 14

Apr 10

Silicon Valley Icons Gonna Tech Bro

Apr 02

Dinner was fine -- Cosima with Dad

March

Mar 24

📸: I’ve had a craving for oysters for weeks.

Mar 20

Some thoughts on The Batman

Mar 19

📸: Early signs of spring from the front yard.

Mar 19

Getting old, but looking alright

Mar 17

📸: Seems appropriate for today in Baltimore.

Mar 14

Mar 14

Mar 14

San Pedro Cholula

Mar 14

Mar 12

📸: So I ordered a second by mistake. Tastes like sangria, but made with mezcal. Uh oh.

Mar 11

📸: This was a resounding success.

Mar 10

📸: Our hotel is kind of ridiculous.

Mar 10

📸: Ordering seven tacos felt like a great idea.

Mar 10

📸: The horchata was incredible and almost makes up for Mexico’s standardization on Coke Zero (sin azucar) instead of Diet Coke (light).

Mar 07

📸: I’m always struck by the horrible decision American cities made to reduce green space in the core street grid, favoring parks with manicured lawns over old growth trees in embedded public squares.

Mar 06

📸: These albondigas tho’.

Mar 06

📸: Making friends already

Mar 05

Are there good new apps for macOS?

Mar 05

February

Feb 27

Peach 🍑 or Coconut 🥥

Feb 27

📸: You like garlic bread? How about when I add some roast beef and pepper jack?

Feb 14

Abandoning Control

Feb 13

📸: Maybe I should have worked from here for the week…

Feb 13

It’s not the COVID cautious preventing you from “normalcy”

Feb 13

Routine siphons vitality

Feb 12

Feb 12

📸: Lunch views

Feb 11

Not the Worst: Puerto Rico in February

Feb 06

The Curse of Ubiquitous Fandom

Feb 04

🔮Add this to the vision board.🔮

Feb 02

📸: No matter how many times I tell her, Gracie doesn’t mind that begging me for snacks for hours isn’t very lady like.

Feb 02

(Not so) Funny Stories

Feb 02

📸: I love how mascs wear “compression pants” and femmes wear “leggings”.

January

Jan 30

Age Appropriate

Jan 27

Not bad for a healthy breakfast

Jan 26

Maus is banned. Now what?

Jan 23

Hands-off Pork and Beans by Carla Lalli Music

Jan 22

Who has a better life?

Jan 22

📸: I added deli mustard and Aardvark hot sauce to the just ok yogurt-based dressing I have. Perfection.

Jan 17

Huevos, without the Johnny Bread

Jan 17

Ten Years(ish) Apart

Jan 16

Blog Changelog: Books Page 📚

Jan 15

Corporate Executives are also Sorting

Jan 13

What Have I Done for Fun?

Jan 12

Reading Together

Jan 10

The Holy Trinity

Jan 09

Returning to News Journalism Immediately Reminded of the Blogosphere's ”Why”

Jan 09

📸: Stop what you’re doing right now. It’s sumo season.

Jan 01

First Lego Kit Since 5th Grade

2021

December

Dec 28

I Loved Middle School

Dec 24

Dec 23

Gracie’s First Beach

Dec 16

📸: Estes Park, Colorado

Dec 16

📸: Over an hour delay post boarding. I will be demanding a full can of Diet Coke for this inconvenience. At least I had time for Root Down before the flight.

Dec 12

📸: Resisting the urge to pour several cups of rice into the remains of these ridiculously good Dan Dan noodles.

Dec 11

Dec 10

Dec 08

Dec 07

Resource Allocation Models Are Powerful Policy Levers

Dec 07

The Ultra _Fine_ Monitor Market

Dec 05

Down Time: My New Focus Mode

Dec 05

November

Nov 28

Nov 27

📸: I guess she had too much to eat this holiday.

Nov 25

📸: Home again

Nov 25

This year’s plate

Nov 20

📸: Dwell is thinking about how to define a “livable” city. It seemed like it was going well until the last criteria— community agency. If I’ve been convinced of anything when it comes to planning, it’s that concentrating power locally preclude all other elements of livability.

Nov 19

📸: Trying something new this vacation, which may turn into my new evening and weekend routine. No app Home Screen. No notifications except from Elsa.

Nov 16

Off to the Woods

Nov 14

📸: Milk and cookies at a bar with a book? Alright.

Nov 07

📸: We take our hot sauce seriously.

Nov 06

📸: She knows how to make me feel loved and appreciated.

Nov 01

📸: The colors this morning.

October

Oct 17

📸: Coming Soon

Oct 10

In Response to The Why of Newsletters

Oct 04

Some time in Vail

Oct 01

📸: Sometimes it’s a real sacrifice to travel for work.

September

Sep 26

Sunday morning walk outside

Sep 25

Sep 20

📸: New Jamaican spot in Baltimore— we will return.

Sep 20

📸: Weekend flowers

Sep 18

📸: These may just look like oysters shared with a friend, but actually they represent a small restoration of myself.

Sep 18

📸: Busy morning

Sep 13

Select Moments from Our Weekend in New York City

Sep 03

📸: Took advantage of the gorgeous weather yesterday with a short mid-day walk to what is possibly my favorite pandemic discovery in Baltimore, Druid Hill Park’s Zen Garden.

August

Aug 31

The Goal is to Build Community

Aug 29

Aug 27

Make Government Work

Aug 24

📸: What kind of dog lays here like this?

Aug 24

📸: Really hard to capture how cool this shattered glass looks.

Aug 23

📸: Still thinking about that “salad” I had for lunch today.

Aug 22

📸: Season. Your. Salad.

Aug 16

Sequels: a quick review of The Hidden Palace

Aug 15

📸: I have not yet taught her she will be ignored while I meditate. A few moments later, she had her head on my stomach. She stayed there while I was breathing for almost ten mins.

Aug 15

Not Quite a Bookclub 📚

Aug 14

📸: She’s in position again.

Aug 13

Thunder Buddies

Aug 12

📸: Local shop officially knows my order when I come in. Achievement unlocked.

Aug 11

📸: Visited one of the spiritual homes of The Incomparable and can heartily recommend Stone The Dark Oats for your choice of beverage.

Aug 10

📸: Ok, I didn’t sleep because of it, but I have to admit the churro ice cream sandwich was probably worth it.

Aug 07

📸: Pretty cool to see when I’m lifting versus resting and that I can clearly identify what I was doing based on heart rate alone.

Aug 02

📸: Hello darkness my old friend. I see it’s a new month of workouts again.

Aug 01

Sometimes we reject authority based on unreasonable expectations

July

Jul 31

Changing Careers and Leaving a City Behind is Hard

Jul 31

Jul 31

Jul 30

📸: I cannot go back to losing third spaces.

Jul 28

Today in, ”Your taste can exceed your talent.”

Jul 26

The Axis of Temperament

Jul 24

📸: Just spent a paycheck on this haul from @atomicbooks.

Jul 19

📸: Three hour flight delay is a real waste of a good hair day.

Jul 18

Current State of the Office

Jul 18

📸: New cookbook day

Jul 18

Jul 17

📸: So I think I’m going to move this light bar to the other corner and get some kind of light fixture on my new (to the office, this was the cookbook holder) office bookshelf. Any recommendations?

Jul 17

New bar in the dining room

Jul 17

📸: Why is no sound coming out of my amp? Uh oh, why is my rectifier tube with bent pins sitting at the bottom of my combo…

Jul 16

It's a mitzvah to exercise being a friend

Jul 15

Real Names and Online Abuse

Jul 14

Conflicting feelings about vaccine boosters

Jul 11

Jul 06

📸: This was supposedly for two. Not shown: about four cups of rice. We did not finish.

Jul 05

Omakase at Kokoro

Jul 03

📸: Well-earned tacos al pastor (ok and dos de pollo y uno gringo al pastor), with my happy face.

Jul 03

Personal Physical Progress Test

Jul 02

Jul 02

Lunch with a view

Jul 01

📸: Good thing we’re not really beach people. But 80s, cloudy, and a nice breeze is how I like to drink by the sand.

June

Jun 30

📸: A more low key day today, what with the ceaseless Caribbean rain, but had some aguachile, yucca fries, and tacos al pastor today.

Jun 30

Jun 29

📸: The sea bass was fine.

Jun 29

📸: These rice noodle wrapped shrimp were amazing.

Jun 29

Burrata Stuffed Heirloom

Jun 26

Jun 26

📸: I know it’s going to be a bad day at the gym when they only put one weight in my box.

Jun 23

rJava on arm64 for R 4.1

Jun 22

📸: Good dinner.

Jun 20

📸: This was a lot of chilaquiles. Only ate about half.

Jun 20

A Short Review of 18 Months Sleep Tracking

Jun 18

📸: Dinner. A lot of food for just under 700 calories (not shown, the rest of that pita in my hand that I ate already).

Jun 18

Jun 18

The Resource Gap is (much) of the Outcomes Gap

Jun 13

📸: So dramatic.

Jun 07

📸: All three fields at Roosevelt Park have Little League games going right now. Baltimore is healing.

Jun 06

📸: Her Majesty

Jun 06

📸: She’s not sad. This is just her face.

Jun 05

📸: May have gone overboard cooking for one. I also made a salad. 🙊

Jun 04

The Folly of Design-Build in Infrastructure and Software

Jun 03

Personal Email is Magic🔮

May

May 31

Revisiting old code-- the power of across and tidyselect

May 30

May 25

📸: Taiwan is my favorite country that I’ve visited.

May 17

📸: Walkies!!!

May 16

📸: When I try to cook this many things at once, something always gets messed up. This time it was slightly over cooking the pork chop. But overall, a successful, healthy Sunday dinner. The mushrooms were the best part.

May 11

Sadly, I will probably never return to Israel

May 11

📸: Got @bogart’s book. It’s gorgeous, and settling in its new place of honor.

May 09

📸: Somehow forgot to oil the grates so this should be a fun one. Here’s to hoping for release when cooked.

May 07

May 02

📸: Farm season 2021 commenced.

April

Apr 30

📸: Down the hill, over the river, around the bend, into the forest, up the trail, and to the clearing where a zen garden sits. At the center of a winding path, a bell and a gnome.

Apr 27

Managing my Power

Apr 27

More Basecamp thoughts

Apr 26

On Politics at Work

Apr 25

📸: When the farm share gives you too many carrots and lots of peppers you make giardiniera, apparently.

Apr 23

📸: When dinner has that perfect crispy skin.

Apr 21

📸: Hot take: this is very bad. Source: Bloomberg

Apr 20

Design Review Boards are Fucked Up

Apr 17

📸: Doesn’t look like much, but probably the best thing I cooked in 2021.

Apr 17

Back at the Gym

Apr 11

📸: Storm is coming.

Apr 11

The Power of Another’s Faith

Apr 10

📸: Replanting

Apr 04

📸: Drawing to scale. How’s your Sunday going?

Apr 03

It's Just Like the Flu

Apr 01

🔗 How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism

March

Mar 27

📸: COVID Seder

Mar 25

📸: I cannot tell you how excited I am that Francine has gone from dropping leaves to this.

Mar 24

Mar 21

📸: Sunday dinner.

Mar 21

📸: Getting some Passover inspiration.

Mar 20

🍿 Prospect (2018) ★★★★

Mar 19

🍿 Call Me By Your Name (2017) ★★★

Mar 18

Testing, ESSER Funding, and Liars

Mar 16

📸: I think I nailed breakfast.

Mar 14

📸: Going on 30 minutes like this.

Mar 14

📸: Summer continues.

Mar 14

📸: I’ve decided I like my burgers to be 6oz, with two pickles. Add charred onions, cheese, ketchup, and hoagie spread hot peppers.

Mar 14

📸: Two pickle minimum per burger in this house.

Mar 14

Value Hand in a Growth Game

Mar 13

🍿 Cherry (2021) ★★★

Mar 13

📸: I decided it’s summer and rode my bike to the grocery store and made this bounty on the grill.

Mar 13

America's Crumbling Infrastructure

Mar 13

Micro.blog Bigfoot Plug-in Upgrade

Mar 12

📸: It’s finally this time of year again.

Mar 12

🍿 Coming 2 America (2021) ★★★

Mar 07

We’re Never Going to Have...

Mar 07

📸: The last normalish thing I remember doing pre-COVID was going to a Rage Room with Elsa. One year ago, today. Masking was still not a thing, but we heavily used hand sanitizer.

February

Feb 28

Elsa made ramen

Feb 11

A Frustrating Conversation with a Conservative

Feb 10

📸: I’m often tired, I feel unmotivated to accomplish things in my personal life, and things I used to take pleasure in brings me no joy. [butterfly.jpg] is this, depression?

Feb 06

🍿 In and Of Itself (2021) ★★★★★

Feb 06

January

Jan 31

📸: Snowy evening walks in Baltimore.

Jan 30

📸: I love my dogs and my house. But we have no backyard, and I would like to protest walking them on days like today.

Jan 29

📸: I am today years old.

Jan 23

🍿 Chef (2014) ★★★★

Jan 23

School Finance (Un)Fairness

Jan 23

Paving the way for the M1 Mac mini-- I/O edition

Jan 20

Jan 17

📸: Was the skin crispy and the chicken moist? Yes.

Jan 17

📸: This fall, Elsa and I stalked a house for sale that was just unbelievable and not ridiculously out of reach. Made the mistake of walking the trail it overlooks today.

Jan 16

🍿 Locked Down (2021) ★★★

Jan 15

Discrete Internet Time

Jan 10

🍿 The Midnight Sky (2000) ★★★½

Jan 05

Why Romney, Sasse, Alexander, and Collins Fail

Jan 04

🍿The Vast of Night (2019) ★★★½

Jan 03

🍿 Greenland (2020) ★★★★

Jan 03

A healthy posting/writing habit

2020

December

Dec 31

📸: I read 32/30 books this year, in large part due to a truly stellar December of reading.

Dec 27

Dec 27

Dec 23

📸: Holiday views

Dec 11

📸: Just steps outside our AirBnB (pictured third)

Dec 07

Dec 05

Decentralized Culture Does Not Imply Unaccountable, Centralized Technology Stacks

Dec 03

📸: Some things don’t change

November

Nov 29

📸: An easy afternoon walk in the neighborhood.

Nov 26

Nov 26

📸: Thanksgiving Day Hero

Nov 22

Nov 16

The Shape of Student Debt Relief Policy

Nov 15

📸: This computer has been incredibly effective and still rarely gets in my way. But I really, really want a new one.

Nov 15

📸: Finally listened to @jessgartner and got out to Herring Run

Nov 05

📸: Brandy is tired of waiting for the end of this week.

Nov 03

📸: I call this, My Morning Doomscroll

Nov 01

America is an early stage fascist country

October

Oct 31

Some more impressive dynamic range from the new iPhone 12 Pro

Oct 31

📸: Check out this crazy sky I captured (no edits) on my iPhone 12 Pro.

Oct 28

📸: Took a walk while I worked today.

Oct 24

Some Greek Cooking

Oct 18

📸: You can’t tell me this rice doesn’t still look damn good the next day.

Oct 17

📸: Loosely inspired by Sohla El-Waylly’s get-out-of-jail, Off-Script Chicken and Rice

Oct 17

📸: Edging toward fall

Oct 10

📸: This morning I sat a the local coffee shop and ate this expensive toast. It was delicious. But it was also so normal and pleasant.

Oct 10

📸: IKEA pegboard installed. Level and square, which was significantly harder than I thought it’d be. More office shots soon. Hopefully will be fully cozied by end of year.

Oct 07

📸: This dog.

Oct 03

You Can’t Solve It

September

Sep 26

Amy Coney Barrett, Patriotism, and Tone Policing

Sep 26

📸: Breakfast was solid.

Sep 26

📸: When you stop going places…

Sep 20

Sep 16

Why the Left is Toxic to Progressive Goals

Sep 13

Harissa Chicken Pita

Sep 13

Simpler Way to Fill Missing Data?

Sep 12

Taken Over by Blands

Sep 12

📸: Cucumbers— read the room. I’ve already harvested like a dozen. Stop growing so much. (actually this is awesome)

Sep 07

Sep 05

📸: Ruff day.

August

Aug 30

Great Weather, Great Day

Aug 22

📸: This week’s reading haul.

Aug 20

📸: My office is coming together.

Aug 17

📸: A mostly disappointing “hike” on the Gwynns Falls Trail

Aug 15

📸: Turkey legs were on sale, so I made a tiny bit of stock.

Aug 15

📸: Bookshelves are looking good.

Aug 12

📸: New desk day is coming… soon.

Aug 09

Two Hundred Unread

Aug 07

Automattic Releases P2 Theme

Aug 07

Aug 07

Aug 07

Aug 07

NYC Schools Should Reopen

Aug 03

Advice Needed: Desk Conundrums

Aug 02

Aug 01

📸: Dinner’s not too bad either.

Aug 01

📸: Lunch wasn’t bad.

Aug 01

📸: Elsa stepped breakfast way up.

July

Jul 29

Lettuce Grow Update

Jul 29

📸: Winner winner, chicken dinner

Jul 27

Worth It: Ten Quality Links for 2020-07-27

Jul 26

Sunset from Our Back Deck

Jul 25

But aren't blogs dead?

Jul 25

📸: Clouds from Last Night’s Walk

Jul 24

Jul 23

The State Should Not Support Religious Schools

Jul 22

📸: 😮 First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System around a Sun-like Star Captured by ESO Telescope Image Credit: ESO/Bohn et al.

Jul 21

📸: 📚 Very excited to have received Incredible Doom.

Jul 21

The GOP is Building Liberal Leadership

Jul 20

A North Carolina store clerk on urging customers to wear masks amid pandemic

Jul 19

📸: Devastating, at Roosevelt Park.

Jul 18

Policy is Explicit

Jul 18

📸: Elsa’s favorite photo of me came up as featured today, so I may as well share it with the world.

Jul 13

📸: Growing my stable of friends this week.

Jul 12

The American Nightmare

Jul 12

📸: Day 0 of our new urban farming experiment.

Jul 11

📸: While I was upstairs reading, Elsa rearranged our bookshelves. Easier to keep things alphabetical by type with space to add books interspersed throughout.

Jul 11

📸: Lest you think only Brandy is ridiculous, here’s Gracie from this morning.

Jul 11

📸: This dog.

Jul 11

📸: My current iOS 14 Home Screen. Cannot wait for the third party widgets.

Jul 10

Remember That Chaos Is Not Evil

Jul 10

📸: My dogs have a hard life.

Jul 09

📸: No chance I’ll regret this.

Jul 06

Who the Police Protect

Jul 06

📸: This griddle was a great purchase.

Jul 05

Why the Statues Must Come Down

Jul 05

Jul 04

Ban Single-Family Zoning

Jul 03

📸: Huge office improvement.

Jul 01

Remembering Hong Kong

June

Jun 29

📸: Elsa made tofu stir fry and scallion pancakes (from scratch!) for our lunch today.

Jun 26

📸: This is a look.

Jun 25

📸: The rain situation in Baltimore this year has led to insane flowers throughout the neighborhood.

Jun 24

Jun 22

Jun 21

When (Home) Equity Disappears

Jun 21

Actual Confederates Have No Problem Saying It Was About Slavery

Jun 20

📸: Scene from the neighborhood on the evening walk.

Jun 20

📸: Taking up fully 1/3 of the couch, bundled up.

Jun 20

Jun 20

📸: I told everyone this “grass” was going to flower and it finally did!

Jun 20

The Perfect Time for Vacancy Taxes

Jun 17

📸: One day I will look up the history of this building instead of just wondering what it was.

Jun 16

📸: Aww, yeah.

Jun 15

The Answer is Clear

Jun 14

📸: Breakfast was pretty good.

Jun 14

Why the Cops Shouldn't be in the Business of Traffic Enforcement

Jun 11

How White Jews Became Just White

Jun 11

Schools in the current recession

Jun 10

📸: Didn’t even make it to the sun spot.

Jun 09

Anti-Blackness is a feature of US policing, not a bug

Jun 08

📸: Same hex color, three different browsers, looks completely different. From top to bottom: Firefox Chrome Safari WTF

Jun 07

Before and After

Jun 06

Tonight is sopes night.

Jun 06

📸: This week is not going well.

Jun 04

The Joy of Elsa Cooking

Jun 03

Mattis Excoriates Trump

Jun 01

May

May 30

📸: I just spend 2 hrs walking through the woods and now I’m home watching the US return to human space flight. Everything is awful, but I feel a bit better.

May 29

A rough birthday

May 27

May 26

📸: Holy shit, Taharka Bros. I mean come on.

May 25

May 25

May 25

May 22

📸: Back on my bullshit.

May 14

A little relief from good personal health news

May 10

📸: What a pleasure to be able to take a 3 mile stroll in Wyman Park .

May 02

📸: The carnitas I made yesterday at 2pm were so good that Elsa and I didn’t eat again for the rest of the day.

April

Apr 26

Three Tools for Perfect Picture Hanging

Apr 19

📸: My life is so hard. I beg for bacon 20 times a day but successful only twice. Maybe three times if I trick one of the suckers

Apr 15

📸: Grandma! Give us bacon!!!

Apr 12

A little kindness for myself

Apr 11

📸: Good mornings!

Apr 09

📸: Our first picture, from before we were seeing each other.

Apr 09

Apr 03

Play Crack the Sky Cover

Apr 03

📸: I want the world to know that I guessed that Molly would do Back to Back and Claire would do It’s Alive as soon as the Gourmet Makes went up.

March

Mar 31

📸: Surprising even myself, this was my first ‘rona beer. Quite nice. I think I like it better than both the 60 and 90.

Mar 29

📸: Yah think?!

Mar 26

📸: Fizzy water, but with mood lighting.

Mar 24

📸: “Not bed, sun!”

Mar 24

📸: All I keep doing is staring at these top shelves and thinking of all the local bookstores I can support by filling up to the top.

Mar 21

📸: It’s a great time of year.

Mar 21

📸: “Come spend time with us.”

Mar 20

Mar 20

📸: Garlic soup, for some easy eating today.

Mar 17

New COVID Workspace

Mar 16

Mar 07

Mar 06

Sisters snore together

Mar 05

📸: Love having Wyman Park so close by. From today’s “taking it slow being kind of off from work” walk.

Mar 01

📸: Dreaming of spring, even if this has been a rather mild, snowless winter.

February

Feb 29

📸: Spent our extra Leap Day recharging after some travel and cuddling.

Feb 28

📸: Life from just below the clouds.

Feb 27

📸: West Coast means at 7pm I need caffeine together with my alcohol.

Feb 26

📸: It’s a kind of faux monoculture millennial cool, but I can’t help but like the Moxy Hotels. One of the few lobbies I don’t want to escape the moment I enter it.

Feb 25

A little grace for myself in the face of hard problems

Feb 25

📸: Today’s office has not been a hurdle to get work done. Honestly, the iPad Pro has made a difference here. I don’t fit comfortably with a MBP. I have to plan what I’m going to work on, but otherwise smooth flying.

Feb 24

📸: Elsa’s back in Providence tonight, so here’s a double rainbow from our old condo.

Feb 24

📸: Why is it important to measure? Last year I read more than any year before, and it was great! But I also felt like I went through long stretches of not reading. Today, the Kindle app showed me I was wrong.

Feb 23

📸: Can’t complain about the view on the dog walk tonight.

Feb 23

📸: I could eat this every meal, every day.

Feb 22

📸: We moved her bed to be in the sun because she likes to lay out in the warmth. Of course she chooses to lay right next to the bed instead.

Feb 21

📸: A couple of weeks into the New Year. I got my shit together to start trying again and get a bit healthier. Progress has been pretty steady so far.

Feb 21

Two Baltimore Neighborhoods Demonstrate Government Sponsored Wealth Gap

Feb 20

Sunset in Roosevelt Park

Feb 20

📸: I sprained my leg and now I is trauma.

Feb 19

📸: Current state of my space at home.

Feb 18

📸: Immovable object, opposes all motion once business is complete.

Feb 17

📸: Car culture is having an option for number of parking spots in Zillow, but no option to filter for public transit accessibility.

Feb 17

📸: A nice walk on a not-so rare cool, not freezing, day this winter. In the middle of Baltimore City, 10 minutes walk from my house.

Feb 16

Feb 16

📸: Taking a rest in front of stained glass in the National Portrait Gallery.

Feb 15

📸: Balance is having 8 feet of couch and giving your dogs 6 of it.

Feb 14

📸: Warms my soul to end a hard week with BBQ

Feb 14

Feb 13

📸: It’s been a week. Hoping this weekend gives me a chance to recharge, so I can rise up and meet the challenges of next week a little more refreshed.

Feb 12

📸: I have a, perhaps unhealthy, attachment to our books.

Feb 11

📸: It’s just a plain Greek salad, but this guy has really helped me eat better at lunch time.

Feb 11

📸: When I saw a recipe for “schmaltz-y” chicken, I definitely took it as a sign that this Jewish boy needed to get cooking. Didn’t stop me from playing around, including spatchcocking the chicken to save time on this rainy Monday.

Feb 10

📸: Elsa: take out the chicken and pre heat the oven. Me:

Feb 10

Change Your Threat Model

Feb 09

📸: A lull in traffic allowed me to capture this beautiful church as we drove by.

Feb 09

📸: Step 1: Go to panaderia. Step 2: Add your homemade sauce and meatballs. Step 3: Profit

Feb 08

📸: No other iPhone could have taken this picture, but honestly, it’s still not as good as I hoped. The contrast is good, but not great— still some bleeding around the Moon. And of course no detail on the Moon itself.

Feb 07

📸: Love the golden hour lighting @AllovueBalance GHQ

Feb 07

As above, so below

Feb 06

📸: Here’s to Frank, our Fiddle Leaf Fig. The ideal living room plant.

Feb 05

📸: Brandy likes to hide away her face when she’s feeling snuggly.

Feb 05

📸: Spotted: a not so Baby Yoda (but also not quite Yoda Yoda either?)

Feb 04

New business card, who dis?

Feb 03

📸: Just one month short of six years ago I came to Austin, TX for the first time, unsure about where I wanted my career to go. I like getting back here and having some time to reflect on my journey at Allovue, and what else is still to come.

Feb 02

📸: For all the sights there are to see in Austin, who knew I’d feel the need to capture this feature in my hotel elevator.

Feb 01

📸: Remembering that time in New Orleans when heading to the bathroom revealed the courtyard open to the night sky behind the jazz club.

January

Jan 29

📸: Throw back to bath time

Jan 16

A neighbor worth visiting

Jan 08

📸: In today’s “I work with brilliant, funny people @allovuebalance”

Jan 07

Child poverty is our nation's shame

Jan 05

📚Read: Interference by Sue Burke

Jan 04

An Inconsistent Year of Reading

Jan 01

2019

December

Dec 31

A Gallery View of New Orleans Museum of Art Sculpture Garden

Dec 30

Using GLightbox with custom Hugo shortcodes on Micro.blog

Dec 25

📸: Hi Internet. We got engaged.

Dec 08

Grandma woke up to this stare...

Dec 03

📸: That’s my spot. No, it’s my spot. #ourspot

November

Nov 30

Night Time Naps

Nov 30

📸: It’s been a long day.

Nov 30

📸: I don’t like road trips

Nov 29

📸: I haven’t watched Chapter 4 yet, but boy I love that The Mandelorian is making episodes as long as they need to be.

Nov 29

📸: ‪When I was sick, my heart rate was more than 20 bpm faster while sleeping than when I recovered. I find that remarkable.‬

Nov 19

RI Funding Formula Time Again— Some Things I Would Do

Nov 02

Hard to be an alebrije

October

Oct 23

Oct 21

📸: My fingers feel so good after a weekend away typing on my Ergodox.

Oct 20

📸: …wherever I want

Oct 19

📸: Giving momma love

Oct 19

Oct 19

📸: Night naps

Oct 19

Oct 17

📸: New Harness 2.5 stars (note, user error not accounted for)

Oct 06

📸: A small urban farm found in an alleyway.

Oct 04

📸: Martinez after a long week.

September

Sep 30

📸: My life is good

Sep 29

📸: L’shana tova

Sep 28

📸: I’m waiting for you.

Sep 26

📸: Surest sign that autumn is here.

Sep 25

📸: These Peloton workouts are no joke.

Sep 23

📸: This is a choice, Baltimore.

Sep 21

📸: Baltimore is filled with beautiful streets that struggle because of intentional, racist policy and the failed American model of city planning.

Sep 21

📸: I wish Baltimore looked like the Charm City Night Market every night. #baltimore

Sep 20

📸: First wide angle shot on new iPhone 11 Pro.

Sep 20

📸: Thank you for working from home with us, papa.

Sep 20

📸: Fall doing its best to be Spring.

Sep 16

Sep 08

Some of Portland

Sep 07

📸: Why yes, that’s an Imperial Stout with Coconut! It’s quite delicious, even if 10% ABV is a lot for lunch time.

Sep 07

📸: It’s been weeks, and I’m still thinking about this dog poking out of a second floor window and barking at me and my dogs while we walked past.

Sep 06

📸: #xoxofest

Sep 06

📸: This pop up art at #xoxofest was very moving. Beautiful origami cranes floating lightly on the wind attached to white piping. It’s so peaceful, and yet, the artist was inspired by the literal cages built by Trump, which each crane representing children separated from their …

Sep 06

Can we make the web a good social space again?

Sep 02

📸: We’re off to Grandma and Grandpa’s for a couple of weeks!

Sep 01

📸: Just our regularly scheduled hangout.

August

Aug 27

📸: Incredible golden hour light right now.

Aug 26

📸: We ❤️ Dad!

Aug 24

📸: Quiet Saturday after a… rough week of sleeping right here.

Aug 13

📸: When @westminsterfox makes pizza.

Aug 13

📸: Elsa made pizza.

Aug 10

📸: Yasssssss Baltimore @tireshop.popups

Aug 05

📸: Will look sad for treats

July

Jul 27

📸: Now that’s what a steak should look like.

Jul 23

📸: And this is a look at just the flights since July 2014.

Jul 23

📸: I’ve been using TripIt for almost exactly 5 years. This is what my travel has looked like since July 2014. I’m not even sure this is everything (I have done some long driving trips, for example).

Jul 21

Remembering our old home today

Jul 19

📸: Quite the view from yesterday evening’s ride home.

Jul 19

Friday Good Tunes: Dabu - ÄTSCH

Jul 17

📸: Mostly not pictured: that crab pasta course went fast.

Jul 17

📸: Ah, that classic Providence dying mall, Statehouse, and gambling software view.

Jul 17

📸: Engineering might have been more interesting if the building looked like this (gasp) 14 years ago.

Jul 10

MiTo MT3 Godspeed

Jul 07

📸: Today I got shaved because I can’t walk in the heat. From curlies to Dobby, and now I snore on my papa.

Jul 06

📸: I think there’s a storm coming.

Jul 06

📸: Colors of summer. Not pictured: many tacos and tortas were had.

June

Jun 29

Great Video on The Death of Malls

Jun 24

📸: I was fortunate to live and work here at the start of my adult life.

Jun 24

📸: The Guggenheim in Bilbao did not require a $50M parking garage like we would have built in the US. In fact, there was no visible infrastructure for visitors arriving by passenger car.

Jun 23

The Problem with Prequels

Jun 22

📸: City living can definitely come with a good view.

Jun 22

Three Vertigo Comics Worth Reading

Jun 21

Speed is the key to low infrastructure costs

Jun 21

Jun 21

📸: This is going to be a lot of dinner.

Jun 15

Social Media is Neoliberalism’s Biggest Failure

Jun 10

Bilbao is also pretty great

Jun 10

📸: A few more from San Sebastián.

Jun 10

San Sebastián is Gorgeous

Jun 09

📸: A triptych of seafood referencing famous works in San Sebastián

Jun 09

📸: In one picture, the beauty of great parenting in a world with sane transit architecture and a sign that even in a world with sane transit, people are jerks.

Jun 09

Jun 06

Jun 06

Select shots from San Sabastian

Jun 06

Select Street Art from Bilbao

Jun 06

A true international treasure

Jun 06

Who makes a coffee shop like this?

Jun 06

📸: Mercado de la Ribera is gorgeous public art masquerading as a market.

Jun 04

📸: Michelin Star pintxos for like $30.

Jun 03

Jun 03

📸: Been using a “real” camera most of this trip without an SD card reader or laptop handy so it feels like the “old” days where I don’t actually know if these will come out well. Here’s one shot on my iPhone.

Jun 02

Jun 02

Jun 02

📸: Steps from our hotel for the next couple of days.

Jun 01

📸: I would like to have more botanical-ruin porn in my parks.

Jun 01

📸: After a few days of mostly pork, seafood, and salt, @westminsterfox was ready for comfort food. Elsa’s happy place — caldo de pollo at a Mexican restaurant with some good (re crazy spicy) salsa.

May

May 30

📸: Slow mo fire.

May 23

Showing off tonight, Baltimore

May 21

Social Media is Bad. Google Reader was Good. And I Give Up on the Mainstream.

April

Apr 27

I Am Not Staying at an AirBnB While in Barcelona

Apr 27

Update on Subscription Reviews

Apr 27

📸: It took some time (ok, like 18 months), but we finally got some plants for the outside of our house.

March

Mar 28

Mar 23

Things I’d like to see at WWDC this year

Mar 09

📸: New bookshelves ❤️. @westminsterfox and I have always thought built-ins belonged on this wall and now we have them. Our books are out of boxes for the first time in years and it’s clear we need to buy more. New project— buy nicely printed editions of everything I’ve read that’s 4 …

Mar 03

📸: Last morning here. Can’t wait to come back with @westminsterfox once Southwest announces flights.

Mar 03

Sunset in Waikiki

Mar 02

Took a walk today in Hawaii

Mar 02

Hiking Diamond Head

Mar 02

Trees of Hawaii

Mar 01

Mar 01

February

Feb 18

📸: Write blogs, not text as images on someone else’s platform.

Feb 18

📸: Back home after a weekend run up to NYC. I’m always sad when I take Amtrak along the Northeast Corridor. The whole experience is a reminder of how awful transit is in the US. As poorly done just about every part of CAHSR seemed to be, its recent collapse into a railway to nowhere …

Feb 09

📸: I loved the alleyways of Taiwan. Like grass pushing through the cracks of sidewalks, activated alleyways were this organic, human-scaled resistance to frigid modernity. Baltimore is also a city of alleys, but most are narrow forgotten footpaths of refuse. Our alleyways are hidden …

Feb 04

January

Jan 20

Better Worlds, The Verge at their best

Jan 18

📸: I’ve always like Conduit as a street name.

Jan 04

Worth It: Week 1 2019

Jan 01

Reading Women the Last Three Years

2018

December

Dec 29

2018 Review of Subscriptions

Dec 29

📸: Salads, noodles, trees, Elsa, street market food… Seems like a pretty on brand Top 9.

Dec 28

2018 Review of Subscriptions

Dec 26

📸: 2005 was a very weird time in my computing life.

Dec 23

📸: How do you not love a local comic book store/bar that has this in the window display?

Dec 18

📸: You’re my best friend.

Dec 18

Worth It: December 19

Dec 15

Dec 07

📸: Afternoon stroll through the Warehouse District.

November

Nov 30

Nov 28

Nov 26

📸: Gracie chewing herself.

Nov 25

📸: A little Sunday #treatyoself

Nov 19

📸: Apparently when Comcast sees a closet like this, it is the equivalent of saying “shibboleet”. Got his direct number and his supervisors.

Nov 14

The Lady Astronaut Series

Nov 07

📸: Solid view of Nashville from this hotel.

October

Oct 13

📸: My god a good salad makes me happy.

September

Sep 28

📸: Traitor. Sleeps with grandma now because she doesn’t love us anymore. Sneaks in early in the morning and isn’t even sorry about it

Sep 26

📸: Good mornings!

Sep 17

Sep 16

Sep 13

📸: Mom, are you ever going to put away the pull-out bed?

Sep 09

Found a bed bug

August

Aug 26

📸: I just wanna be close to my Grandma

Aug 12

Continuing to read my interest graph

Aug 06

How Infowars Reinforces My Support for the Web

July

Jul 29

📸: Evening walks with the pups.

Jul 27

Summer of Storms

Jul 22

📸: This is good weather and a good joke. It’s silly how much I love my weather app.

Jul 19

📸: Gave up on the walk. Just went “nope, I lay here”

Jul 16

📸: A break in the clouds #nofilter

June

Jun 29

📸: New keyboard day, ask me anything.

Jun 11

📸: Cannot handle the drugs. Mom is convinced I play it up so I can get extra lovings from everyone at the vet.

Jun 09

📸: That morning scratches high

May

May 30

May 30

📸: We may have kept papas up since 545am but he still loves us.

May 27

May 13

📸: Cuddle pups taking an evening nap.

May 13

May 06

📸: An afternoon walk in the park.

May 03

📸: Hampden has nice trees too. Feels good to be home.

May 03

📸: Hampden has nice trees too. Feels good to be home.

April

Apr 29

Apr 29

Apr 29

Tsz Shan Monastery part I

Apr 29

Apr 29

Apr 26

📸: Southside of Hong Kong Island is a nice change of pace.

Apr 26

Apr 26

Apr 26

Apr 26

Sometimes You Skip The Paste And Head For The Chili

Apr 25

Another Walk Up A Mountain. Once Again, Worth It

Apr 25

Apr 25

📸: Night lights

Apr 25

📸: He looks so greedy.

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

Apr 25

A Tail of Two Breakfasts

Apr 24

A Rainy Morning in Hong Kong

Apr 23

Apr 23

Apr 22

📸: The final noodles in Taipei.

Apr 22

📸: Last noodles in Taipei

Apr 22

Select Sights From A Free Walking Tour

Apr 22

Apr 22

Apr 22

Apr 22

A stroll through National Taiwan University

Apr 21

📸: Favorite trees, you shall not pass edition.

Apr 21

📸: Just love that there’s this beautiful public space in the MRT station abutting a park with families and friends hanging out. No cops, no complaints about loitering. Just people enjoying public space.

Apr 21

Hazy Day From Taipei 101

Apr 21

Apr 21

Hiking The Elephant Trail

Apr 21

Apr 21

Apr 21

Apr 21

Apr 20

First Day in Taipei

Apr 20

📸: So much Studio Ghibli

Apr 20

Apr 20

Apr 20

📸: Beef noodles and dumplings. @westminsterfox and I had this for lunch. Basically $11.55 with tip for both of us. Delicious.

Apr 20

Apr 18

📸: Papas @jsonbecker! Mamas @westminsterfox! Don’t leave!

Apr 16

📸: Our day of sleeping was long and hard.

Apr 14

Apr 14

📸: Baltimore is starting to spring.

Apr 07

Apr 06

📸: This is totally the content I want as a @theincomparable member.

March

Mar 19

📸: Thinking a lot about how advertising targeting men is different than advertising targeting women.

Mar 17

We lack complex female stories, and we lack real relationships between the sexes

Mar 14

Does Weighted-Student Funding Imply Autonomy? Sorta.

Mar 10

📸: Grandpa open the door!

Mar 08

Mar 06

📸: At Grandpa and Grandma’s house for March.

February

Feb 25

Missing the vulnerability of a smaller, pseudonymous internet

Feb 24

How I start my work in R

Feb 19

📸: We’re so tired after a visiting from grandpa, grandma, and aunt.

Feb 19

📸: Two pups and an aunt.

Feb 17

📸: It’s been 9 long years that I haven’t had my amp and pedal board in my home. Here’s hoping I play more this next 9 years. (And get my other guitars here!)

Feb 17

📸: My typical Saturday position. Just missing the Kindle.

Feb 17

📸: Reunited.

Feb 17

📸: We love Grandpa!!

Feb 16

📸: Get you a weather app that understands your feels.

Feb 14

📸: I own your lap.

Feb 07

📸: Solid work view for this Baltimore resident.

Feb 03

A new, smaller home

January

Jan 24

Jan 21

📸: It has come to this.

Jan 13

📸: Sisters ❤️

Jan 13

📸: I still love these humans, even though they torture me. #postshowerthoughts #quetrauma

Jan 13

📸: I am traumatized by my lack of smelling horrible.

Jan 02

Naming Manual Colors with ggplot2

Jan 02

📸: Leftovers

Jan 01

📸: New year, new us.

2017

December

Dec 30

This Year in My R Code

Dec 16

📸: #domesticgoddess

November

Nov 23

📸: Upgraded to first class for the last leg of the drive

Nov 22

📸: Looks comfy

Nov 20

📸: My superpower? Screeching like a banshee, pretending my parents are pulling me apart limb by limb. For attention and love. That I only get constantly. But it’s not enough.

Nov 18

📸: Where is bean-bean?

Nov 16

📸: She’s my co-worker. Or more like lunch buddy. She sleeps through the workday. But food perks her right up

Nov 13

📸: Hard to complain about the traveling I do when I get to see this outside of the window. Off to Miami.

Nov 11

Nov 11

📸: This dog does sad 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

Nov 07

📸: They waxed the stairs so keeps slipping. Now she refuses to go up or down the stairs. I don’t blame her.

Nov 03

📸: New favorite tree candidate?

October

Oct 27

📸: 4 pm is begging hour #howtodrivemomNUTS #starestarestare

Oct 26

📸: “I got in trouble for laying down on poppas nice clothes. It looked liked the best spot in the entire bed ¯_(ツ)_/¯.”

Oct 24

📸: Looks all cute and sleepy. Actually farting on me. But doesn’t care. Nope. Not one bit.

Oct 22

📸: Napping on my mom is my favorite thing ever. Second favorite? Napping.

Oct 18

📸: Such attitude

Oct 15

📸: Sunday naps

Oct 10

📸: I love my bed!

Oct 04

📸: Food comma. After eating her food AND half her sister’s (before she was caught)

Oct 01

📸: The cutest cutie that ever cuted.

Oct 01

📸: Feels like fall, but it looks like summer.

September

Sep 30

📸: Favorite pastime: sleeping ON my mom2

Sep 30

📸: Furry mole rat emerges

Sep 29

📸: Someone needs a haircut #scruffy

Sep 28

📸: I was on the big couch but decided I wanted a whole couch to myself

Sep 27

📸: Family portrait (minus 2)

Sep 27

Sep 27

📸: The original baby

Sep 27

📸: The baby of the family

Sep 26

Sep 25

Synchronized Sleeping

Sep 24

📸: Pay. Attention. To. Me.

Sep 20

📸: There’s a dog between me and my to-do list.

Sep 20

📸: Paw over face = 10 cute points

Sep 20

📸: Ever vigilant

Sep 20

📸: It’s hard for my little legs to keep up with my sister on the walks. So this happens…

Sep 19

📸: QUEEN of sad puppy eyes. #dogsofremington

Sep 19

📸: “Mooom what did you do to my grandma?!? I came to say good mornings and she’s not here!”

Sep 17

📸: When mom literally moves from under you…

Sep 16

📸: The one eye squint when I get the good scratches

Sep 12

📸: Killer title at front desk of a new @allovuebalance district

Sep 11

📸: The poppas is hoome!!

Sep 11

📸: Mom, mom, mom… pay attention to meeee

Sep 11

Sep 10

Sep 09

📸: Pork tenderloin is inexpensive, low fat, high protein. Great for watching weight. The lack of fat can make them tricky to cook, but sous vide at 130 makes it easy to make amazing, tender, and juicy pork a week’s worth at a time.

Sep 08

📸: I like to sit at the table with my poppas.

Sep 07

📸: Don’t let this cuteness fool you. Farting up a storm

Sep 07

Sep 04

📸: Bed sharing strategy: take up as much room as physically possible

Sep 02

📸: “This is my good side” - Gracie

August

Aug 26

📸: “Mom, I don’t like the sad dog parts” me neither buttchops, me neither 😭😭😭 #watchingadogspurpose

Aug 26

📸: Chilling and watching A Dog’s Purpose to celebrate #nationaldogsday #dogsofinstagram

Aug 20

📸: Update: 10mg of codeine, a greenie, and all the love in the world and it’s like nothing ever happened …

Aug 20

📸: Guys, I hurt my wittle paw and now I’m the saddest puppy that ever was. My mom can’t see or feel anything wrong but I’m getting extra lovings for hamming it up

Aug 19

📸: That looks says “send help”…

Aug 19

📸: Love this girl. #gracie #dogsofinstagram

Aug 17

Tyra Approved Makeover

Aug 16

📸: Good? Morning #gracie #buttchops #dogsofinstagram

Aug 15

📸: #sisters #dogsofinstgram

Aug 13

📸: Despite what the eyes suggest, the Bean is sleeping …

Aug 09

📸: Lazy afternoons and weird poses #thebean #brandy #dogsofinstagram

Aug 05

📸: Tonight I’m sleeping nakeds. 🙈 #itscauseishowered #thatscauseirolledinpoop

Aug 05

📸: Tonight I was subject to water torture. I was collateral damage to my sister’s goose poop indiscretions. #notfair #thebean #humanscallthemshowers

Aug 04

📸: “Baltimore is hot poppas. So when we get inside the air conditioned lobby I immediately have to sprawl out so my tummy touches all the cold concrete floor. Every. Single. Time.” #dogsofinstagram

Aug 04

📸: #tgif #hardweek

Aug 04

📸: “Oh I’m sorry, did you expect to sleep in your bed tonight?” #cuddlebuddies

Aug 04

📸: “This my good side” #gracie #dogsofinstgram

Aug 04

📸: “Sweater Weather is the WORST” #brandy #thebean #dogsofinstagram

Aug 04

📸: The human was holding my ball hostage. #dogsofinstagram 📷: @matthewclowney

Aug 04

📸: Sleeping is an art, and I’ve mastered it #thebean #brandy #sleepypuppy

Aug 04

Aug 04

📸: My dogs have an Instagram now. #furbaby @gracie.and.brandy

July

Jul 20

R, Docker, Circle, and Environments

June

Jun 11

May

May 31

Announcing jsonfeedr, a new R package

May 31

📸: Still my favorite spot, especially when I’m feeling down and out.

May 28

Functions as Arguments in R

May 24

📸: Finishes for the new house. Colors are a bit off in photos. In my defense, this is after like 6hrs in the home gallery.

May 17

Making Sense of dplyr 0.6

May 06

April

Apr 28

📸: I think this is my new favorite tree.

Apr 23

📸: We’re not even done brushing her. @westminsterfox

Apr 11

📸: Maxwell House purchased literally three decades of advertising with these free Haggadahs.

Apr 09

📸: maiz y cacao. @westminsterfox is like one of three POC sitting here. #stilldelicious

Apr 05

Apr 03

📸: Now it’s spring.

Apr 02

Foreign Keys and assertr

March

Mar 29

Mar 29

📸: One of my favorite things to eat in Baltimore.

Mar 23

📸: Feels like coming home.

Mar 12

Mar 02

Labeling Data with purrr

Mar 02

📸: “I’ve been waiting for you.”

Mar 01

Contributing to vegalite

February

Feb 28

📸: Just a night on the town in Portland.

Feb 28

📸: I was not!

Feb 27

📸: This is a part of the march of progress that seemed certain to triumph a few months ago.

Feb 27

My confrontation with the mainstream

Feb 26

📸: Has a bookstore ever known it’s sci-fi/fantasy audience this well?

Feb 26

📸: Chilaquiles, always, everywhere.

Feb 25

Feb 24

📸: Grilling in the dark because our courtyard lights are broken.

Feb 19

📸: 70 degrees? We’re grilling.

Feb 19

Feb 19

Feb 04

📸: Star Wars was on when we got to grandma and grandpa’s!

Feb 04

📸: Going to grandma and grandpa’s house for rehab.

Feb 01

📸: Stoned post-surgery

January

Jan 30

📸: Last couple of days she’ll have both ears.

Jan 17

📸: Best friends.

Jan 13

Siri Won't Catch Alexa

2016

December

Dec 28

A Gateway Drug to purrr

Dec 27

Introducing json.blog

Dec 09

📸: Men’s room finally caught up @crystalcoache

November

Nov 17

📸: My new daily view walking around the neighborhood.

October

Oct 18

Oct 13

📸: The view from my desk is pretty solid.

September

Sep 18

📸: Gracie on the road to return home to Providence.

Sep 04

📸: westminsterfox and my grandparents.

Sep 04

📸: Officiating complete. Wedding well underway. My job is over.

Sep 02

📸: Such a hard day

August

Aug 28

📸: Diet food

Aug 26

Aug 21

📸: Ben and Hillary’s wedding. Just one more this season!

Aug 15

📸: Indoor grilling

Aug 07

📸: I never tire of the view from my couch.

Aug 06

📸: My papa says my mama is coming home tonight.

Aug 06

📸: Two sets of weather.

July

Jul 30

📸: Across my lap to lay her head down. Definitely one of her favorite spots.

Jul 08

Songs in the Key of Allovue

May

May 21

📸: Elsa’s dad is the best.

May 19

May 19

May 14

May 05

📸: Finally made it to Camden Yards to see the Yankees with my dad. cc: @themikeadams

April

Apr 26

📸: Passover, by Elsa.

Apr 23

A note on sequels

Apr 20

📸: She won’t let me into bed. Color brought to you buy Hue, on late night mode

Apr 17

📸: Last night I made bolognese from scratch. Tonight @westminsterfox made pappardelle from scratch to go with. Yum.

Apr 13

📸: Favorite time of year.

March

Mar 26

📸: Happy Saturday!

Mar 11

January

Jan 23

📸: Gracie can be a bit of a layabout when I go on the couch she normally sleeps on.

Jan 14

Jan 13

📸: This is where my head goes. Until Gracie pushes me off my own pillow to wake me up. This, after she already got me at 530am for a walk.

Jan 09

📸: Right between us in bed.

2015

December

Dec 28

📸: She accepted her new bed in no time at all.

Dec 24

📸: Perfect beach hair attained.

Dec 24

📸: Not a bad view for fish tacos.

Dec 23

📸: This big Shepard ran back and forth after his yellow toy in the water the whole time we were at the beach.

Dec 23

Dec 23

Dec 22

Dec 22

📸: Nothing sketchy at all about this. Move along now…

Dec 06

📸: Caught her sleeping like this.

November

Nov 08

Nov 07

October

Oct 18

📸: It may be cold outside but the view from in here is great.

Oct 01

📸: This is what happens my first day back at work (at home) after coming back from the @allovuebalance quarterly.

September

Sep 30

Sep 26

Sep 26

📸: Nice day.

Sep 12

Sep 10

📸: Baltimore

Sep 07

📸: Still sick. Won’t even have an ice chip. Poor thing I hope she turns this around tonight.

Sep 05

📸: Gracie and her grandpa after a long walk.

August

Aug 30

📸: Great-grandma’s

Aug 30

📸: On the way and at grandma and grandpa’s house.

July

Jul 18

📸: Working hard in Chicago.

Jul 06

📸: Approximately exactly where my body belongs.

Jul 05

Returning to Tumblr

Jul 05

📸: Been working hard to keep these guys alive and improve the view this summer.

Jul 04

News on Assertions in R

Jul 03

Jul 02

Jul 01

📸: Wednesday

June

Jun 30

Jun 29

Jun 14

Rhode Island Disease

May

May 15

May 08

April

Apr 17

📸: “Don’t go poppas. Hit snooze. 10 more minutes. Pleeeeease?!?”

Apr 16

Acceptable Terms

March

Mar 16

📸: I’m so happy.

February

Feb 27

📸: Oh right. I’m supposed to take pictures of my food in restaurants before I eat it. It was good.

Feb 18

Feb 17

📸: Not an action shot. She was sleeping.

Feb 17

Feb 13

📸: My morning view. Yes that’s my stomach she’s on.

Feb 08

January

Jan 29

📸: Made to the end of the week but Gracie captures my feels.

Jan 27

📸: Korean beef and bok choy from Elsa. This is how you #snowghazi

Jan 27

📸: “Everything the light touches is my kingdom.”

Jan 27

📸: Snow drifts say: YOU SHALL NOT PASS

Jan 27

📸: Snowghazi supplies.

Jan 25

📸: In position for blizzard. “Papas, I don’t care if it doesn’t start for another day.”

Jan 22

A PostgreSQL Cheat Sheet for OSX and R

Jan 20

📸: How I’m given samples at home.

Jan 20

📸: Just another day at the office.

Jan 18

Jan 10

2014

November

Nov 27

Amazon Creating A Services Marketplace Online

Nov 27

The Power Of Sound

Nov 20

Nov 19

📸: Apparently I can’t be trusted.

Nov 18

School Funding Reform, Hard Work and Fraught with Potential

Nov 18

📸: Some of that home made ravioli from the other night.

Nov 16

📸: More adventures in our completed kitchen.

Nov 15

📸: Note: This is what every meal in my house is like when @edure is around and we have a functioning kitchen.

Nov 14

📸: That’s @edure nailing it again.

Nov 12

How do we attract the best teachers to struggling schools?

Nov 12

📸: That’s @edure killing it with #blueapron

Nov 06

📸: Just some of the @allovuebalance extended family tonight at #1106party

Nov 01

October

Oct 05

Growing Up in the Internet Hate Machine

August

Aug 14

📸: Me and Martina, ca 1992. #tbt

July

Jul 26

📸: Got these in gold. Wearing non-stop. First pair of sunglasses since I was 9 and went prescription only.

Jul 26

📸: Don’t wake up early in the morning to pee unless you’re ok with losing your spot.

June

Jun 12

When We Legislate and Ajudicate Our World View

May

May 26

📸: Sleepy Monday.

May 26

📸: This is what happens when you attend a graduation and forget sunblock.

May 21

📸: Goodnight, Providence.

May 19

They really don't make them like they used to...

May 14

May 12

Pindown: Failed Dreams

April

Apr 27

📸: Lazy Sunday

Apr 12

📸: Sleepies in Bellmore.

Apr 01

Symlinking Your Data

March

Mar 10

📸: Waking up next to Gracie.

Mar 09

Mar 09

Expressiveness Counts

February

Feb 26

Latinos in Rhode Island Face Housing Burden

Feb 17

Appreciating the Beauty of dplyr

Feb 09

Freedom Should Be Reserved for the Wealthy

Feb 05

January

Jan 06

Garrahy Complex: Rules for Public Investment in Parking

2013

December

Dec 09

Did public schools build economies, or did economies build public schools?

Dec 03

Calculating Age with Precision in R

Dec 02

A Different Angle on PISA

November

Nov 28

📸: Trying to drive home for Thanksgiving but this.

Nov 22

A Good Long Read on Assessment and Accountability

Nov 20

Bilingual Education at Providence Public Schools

Nov 19

DeBlasio: Weak on Implementation

Nov 18

More evidence for ”mere facts”

Nov 18

The four ways to really fix education

Nov 17

It's Poverty Stupid... or is it?

Nov 12

📸: Oops. I should probably tell Elsa.

Nov 10

📸: It’s always clear when bed time is.

Nov 03

📸: #everymorning

Nov 03

📸: #everyevening

October

Oct 28

Oct 28

📸: Waking up to the sun over desert mountains is my favorite. iPhone 5s just can’t capture this right.

Oct 27

Oct 27

Oct 27

Oct 27

📸: Elsa and I

Oct 27

Oct 27

📸: Brothers of the groom

Oct 27

Oct 27

📸: My favorite.

Oct 27

📸: Elsa looking lovely

Oct 27

📸: Bride and groom

Oct 27

📸: Super groom and groomsmen.

Oct 27

📸: Also the ring-bearer.

Oct 27

Oct 27

📸: Tonight’s secret identity for the wedding.

Oct 27

📸: Erik’s final night as a single man.

Oct 20

📸: Amazing colors.

Oct 20

📸: No thanks

Oct 20

Oct 07

Incomplete Evidence

September

Sep 22

Using R to Calculate Student Moblity

Sep 22

📸: Cocktails. Soon.

Sep 16

A New Calculation for Student Mobility

Sep 12

Documentation of Business Rules and Analysis

August

Aug 21

Some Changes for Rhode Island State Aid to Education

Aug 14

What can be done for Rhode Island Pensioners?

July

Jul 28

Thoughts on Teach for America

Jul 22

Smarter Balance Released Items Scare Me

Jul 22

June

Jun 19

Economic Policy Institute is Wrong

Jun 11

Calculating Age in R

Jun 09

Jun 04

Stubborn Problem with MOOCs

Jun 01

Linear Thinking

May

May 29

Cleaning URLs with TextExpander

January

Jan 27

📸: The name is Victor Lamarr. Art Critic and sommelier.

Jan 27

📸: 1940s. All’s Fair in Art and Money.

Jan 27

📸: Murder mystery weekend are fun. I was not the killer, but I did have quiet the violent past.

2012

December

Dec 19

The Slow Trek to Pelican

Dec 08

📸: First Night. Elsa lit candles.

Dec 08

📸: This is how you streetcar #sanjosé

Dec 08

📸: San José rocking public toilets.

November

Nov 22

📸: Trypto-toast.

Nov 22

📸: 82nd and 65th birthdays.

Nov 19

A little knowledge is a wonderful (dangerous) thing

Nov 07

📸: Snow time. Also means I’m outta here. #officeview

Nov 03

Nov 01

Paul Cuffee Middle School, Addressing Emotional Needs

October

Oct 08

Oct 07

📸: I drive for 10+ hrs over 48, go to a wedding, and get a 630 fire alarm wake up and GRACIE is sleepy?

September

Sep 30

Thoughts on Grit

Sep 30

What Can Management Do? iOS6 Maps Monday-Morning Quarterbacking

Sep 25

📸: Me and my family dog, Martina, ca 1992/1993

Sep 20

📸: Image created with #Snapseed

Sep 18

Thoughts on Grading

Sep 02

August

Aug 21

There must be an easier way... survey questions in R

Aug 19

📸: Every morning she pounces on me to wake me up only to go back asleep on top of me instead of at my feet.

Aug 17

📸: Thanks, Elsa

Aug 05

Pay For Quality: Join App.net

July

Jul 21

📸: Last day of vacation. One hour until airport.

Jul 16

📸: The 80s wants its cruise ship back.

Jul 11

Follow up to Nesi's Notes Guest Post: Woonsocket School Funding

Jul 11

Legal Context: Can Woonsocket Successfully Sue the State for Additional Aid?

Jul 11

Limitations of the Nesi's Notes Analysis and Some Additional Questions

Jul 11

Using the Common Core Data on NCES

Jul 09

Ranked Likert-Scale Visualization

Jul 09

Update on Social Promotion

Jul 08

Work Place Liberty in the Context of Education

June

Jun 15

Jun 12

Algorithms Design and Analysis Part I

Jun 06

Fixing Dyer Street

May

May 29

📸: Sleepy poppa. I so sleepy.

May 26

📸: #providence #waterfire

April

Apr 24

Downtown Improvement District

Apr 21

📸: Elsa’s first lobstah

Apr 21

Apr 08

📸: First time at Oki’s.

Apr 04

📸: If I were still in college, I would buy this for “RELEASE” when real drunk.

Apr 03

The End of Every Night

Apr 03

Trees are Early on Westminster

Apr 03

📸: I’m on Instagram now. I guess this makes me hipster enough to be cool again.

March

Mar 19

Providence needs a little innovation

February

Feb 14

Social Promotion, Tutoring, and Funding

Feb 08

Worth It Five Stories from the Last Week

January

Jan 30

Bank of America will leave 111 Westminster

Jan 24

Providence Pensions-- Let's Call a Spade a Spade (or the COLA a Raise)

Jan 22

Providence Real Estate Sales in R

Jan 17

What if the technology revolution in schools is really about the simple stuff?

Jan 12

Value-Added on Core Knowledge Blog-- some thoughts on Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff

Jan 06

Associated Press: Israeli schools not looking so good against OECD peers.

2011

December

Dec 18

GrapheR is an awesome GUI for R beginners

Dec 13

House wants unemployed to earn GEDs against all economic sense

Dec 11

Diane Ravitch, rebuttals.

Dec 10

How to use Picasa with iOS5

Dec 07

How Social Reading Should Work

November

Nov 28

Contracting Technology in Education

Nov 27

Is Diane Ravitch a reliable historian?

Nov 05

Why isn't the Core Connector using Westminster with full RoW?

October

Oct 15

GoLocalProv -- Bad at Math

Oct 14

TEA Party and Occupy Wall Street

Oct 05

School facilities-- anachronistic, expensive, isolating, and all around bad public spaces?

September

Sep 25

Downcity Residents Should Support the Core Connector and the Tax Makes Sense

Sep 15

Justin Baeder Asks the Wrong Question on Teacher Evaluation

Sep 14

Libertarians and Charity

Sep 13

Apple Migration Assistant

Sep 07

Community Voice at the Knowledge District Development Framework Meeting