2023-03-28: I’m writing a technical note with GitHub Copilot enabled for the first time and it’ll …
2023-03-05: Thank goodness for Fernando Alonso who might just distract the Formula 1 2023 season from the …
2023-03-01: GitHub is killing it with the new new code view and search. The confluence of GitHub and VS Code is …
2023-01-23: I finally used Python’s Walrus := operator to clean up a hacky situation. Maybe I could be more …
2023-01-06: Last eggnog of the season 😢
2023-01-06: Finished reading: Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik 📚It’s kind of an old-school adventure novel. But …
2023-01-06: We finished watching Orphan Black 📺 last week and I just gotta proclaim: wow. Tatiana Maslany played …
2022-12-20: Apparently storm chips are a Newfie thing but they work great for Ontario snow storms too.
2022-12-20: Here’s a maple plywood feature wall I made for my workshop. 🪚 This will be the future home of …
2022-12-15: I created a widget with Up Ahead for the latest Rubin Observatory milestones. It’s happening folks!
2022-12-13: I just got into the beta for Reader by the Readwise folks and just a few minutes in I’m …
2022-12-08: The timeline isn’t settled. The @-mention isn’t settled. Nothing is settled. It’s 2003 again! Robin …
2022-12-08: Inspired by @rosemaryorchard and @heyscottyj on Unnested Folders #90, I figured out how to create a …
2022-12-07: I’m kind of surprised about Amazon Prime’s redesign with black on blue. I’m sure they ran a contrast …
2022-12-05: Finished reading: The Golden Enclaves: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 3) by Naomi Novik 📚 We really …
2022-12-01: Via Mac Power Users #668 I found out you can follow YouTube channels in most RSS services. I’ve …
2022-12-01: November 2022 in review I missed the review for October, but I’m getting back on track. I’m finding these …
2022-11-30: So why do my colleagues often pray whenever I answer their question on Slack? 🙏
2022-11-27: People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use — Andy …
2022-11-26: On the PKM beat, it seems like Apple Books in iOS 16 doesn’t permit exporting a book’s notes and …
2022-11-25: This new Interactive guide to flexbox by Josh Comeau is so good. Hopefully it’ll click in my …
2022-11-24: Currently reading: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚 I’ve slowly been adopting DEVONthink for …
2022-11-09: It’s really cool to see how GitHub Codespaces and science platforms like Rubin’s are all …
2022-11-07: One of the surprising things I’ve learned after moving back to Canada is brokerage fees when …
2022-11-04: Another new-ish gem in the Sphinx ecosystem, sphinxcontrib-mermaid makes it easy to drop Mermaid …
2022-11-04: The Sphinx documentation ecosystem is getting better and better. Latest example: autodoc_pydantic …
2022-10-27: Can I admit something? I haven’t yet given Taylor Swift Midnights a proper spin yet. The whole week …
2022-10-05: September 2022 in review Doing the work September was all about shipping the new system for Rubin Observatory user guides in …
2022-09-30: Embracing the last bits of summer up here.
2022-09-28: I’ve been working on my tool chest this week and installed these two tier tray runners in white oak.
2022-09-02: In retrospect I should have paid more attention to knots when I was roughing out the feet for these …
2022-09-01: I’ve started to use the pydata-sphinx-theme for our next generation of Rubin Observatory …
2022-09-01: August 2022 in review August is an odd month. It’s both the height of summer while also feeling like the end of …
2022-08-26: Seven bees in this one sneeze weed. Our rewilding is working!
2022-08-23: Finished reading: The Book Of M by Peng Shepherd 📚 It felt coincidental to read this right after The …
2022-08-16: A sunrise from a couple weeks ago that I got around to HDR stacking.
2022-08-15: I’m kicking the tires on VS Code for web dev (vim+tmux user since… gosh, when did …
2022-08-14: Penetanguishene
2022-08-11: I nailed together the sides of my tool chest. Used 6d (2 inch) cut nails with 2 mm pilot holes. Lots …
2022-08-09: Finished reading: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall 📚 I sped-read this over the weekend on …
2022-08-06: Amanda’s purple coneflowers are a hit with the bees.
2022-08-05: Shopping in the lettuce aisle.
2022-08-05: Finished reading: The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Penguin International …
2022-08-01: July 2022 in review This is the first edition of what I intend to be a monthly round-up of the month. I’m doing …
2022-07-29: Strimzi Registry Operator 0.5.0 released for Kafka We just released version 0.5.0 of the Strimzi Registry Operator (see release notes). Strimzi …
2022-07-27: A little father-daughter woodworking moment. 🐱🪚 Emma likes shavings… especially the long …
2022-07-26: TIL you can create Note and warning admonitions in GitHub Flavored Markdown …
2022-07-25: httpie and GitHub Actions I love httpie as an alternative to curl. It feels fresher, and is built for working with …
2022-07-19: The fact is that one of America’s two major political parties appears to be viscerally opposed to …
2022-07-18: Embracing the pyproject.toml future of packaging Python projects with setuptools Last week I worked on a new template for PyPI python projects for SQuaRE, my team at Rubin …
2022-07-18: The Penetanguishene outer harbour last night, dressed up in the setting light.
2022-07-14: Onboarding into a public cloud project: enter your email and credit card info (or have your team …
2022-07-13: Finished reading: The Cartographers: A Novel by Peng Shepherd 📚 I loved this book so much, and am …
2022-07-05: Jira can be rough compared to GitHub issues; but it’s the backbone of Rubin work tracking. I’ve …
2021-08-02: I’ve been reading Architecture Patterns with Python. Every chapter they introduce a new issue, and …
2021-07-22: I’ve been using Pydantic and FastAPI a lot lately and I’m struck at their lack of API …
2021-07-20: Rethinking the social web in 2021 Facebook was fantastic as a college kid: it was just an exclusive club for your an your dorm mates. …