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February Feb was a fun month. This month I had my first official IDPA match where I ran the classifier at Sharpshooter ranking. We had our first bit of snow on the 18th with a day long blizzard. Projects Notebooks First, I’m going through revision 7 of my notebook. After many samples and prototypes made by SendCutSend and assembled in my garage, I’m finally satisfied with the quality and features of the notebook that I’ve designed. It lays flat open like a book and folded back on itself, has an internally protected spine, made of high quality materials, and built in the USA. I’m gathering the final pieces of machinery to assemble them rapidly and finish the metals to a high quality. Then comes the marketing and building of the brand. ...

2025 was the year of agents and I can’t help but think that for the millions of agents out there, most of them are solutions seeking for a problem. Say what you will about coding agents since they’re here to stay, but for the lay-person, how are they using AI? From what I gather with my non technical co-workers, outside of vibe coding they use AI to answer questions like google normally would, or to help them brainstorm something or review something before they send it out to their boss or co-workers. I think this brainstorming is a really powerful use case, but unfortunately the ChatGPT or Claude web/desktop apps as well as Notion are really ill suited for this sort of usage. ...

The arbiters of complexity hate this one trick!

A curious case of independent discovery

After reading the book, Chill: The Cold Water Swim Cure I was pretty convinced of the efficacy of cold water therapy. To be frank, I don’t actually recommend buying the book or even reading it if you read this blog post. The author of the book is MD. PhD. Mark Harper who is an anesthesiologist. Dr. Harper presents his research findings surrounding cold water therapy and surgery recovery alongside different less relevant (and less interesting) anecdotal stories promoting cold water therapy. ...

This post contains content that could be viewed as sacrilegious. It is not a criticism of any particular beliefs or denomination. This project is available here provided it hasn’t crashed or something… Religion Is Weird… Broadly speaking, religions/religious beliefs have some interesting emergent qualities. One of the common ones I’ve identified is theophanies, or visions of heavenly beings. This most commonly happens with Christian flavors of belief. Some exemplary examples are the LDS church, Seventh Day Adventist, and other churches formed during the “Great Awakening”. Given how prevalent visions are in Christian religion, I wanted to see how similar these different theophanies are to each other using sentence embeddings. ...

Intro You’ve probably seen someone online or around you evangelizing Rust. To my observation, these voices are seeming to get louder and more prominent. You’re beginning to wonder what all the hype is about. You’re at the end of the diving board, but you just can seem to jump in. This is the one big problem with Rust. Rust is one of those things that are simultaneously alluring and off-putting. ...

i’ve always been scared of the dark No matter who you are, you were probably scared of the dark at some point in your life. Even now, I feel scared out in the wilderness looking out into a dark forest. On camping trips, I always make sure to have a flashlight or two in case one dies. You can never be too sure what’s lurking out there. turn the night to day ...

our zoo It’s been a year now since my wife and I moved into our current neighborhood. Our initial impressions of the neighborhood was that it was a bit messy with trash and lacking greenery, but we thought it would be an adequate first place. Sadly our landlord doesn’t allow pets in our 4-plex, but we like to think that we’ve had a number of pets while living here. We’ve had wild nesting birds, bats, cats, slugs, and our personal favorite, bunnies. ...

my introduction to the thumby A few weeks ago, my friends and I were at a concert waiting for the main act to go on when a buddy whipped out a Thumby on his keychain. I’ve never seen anything like it before and honestly thought it was just a cute little keychain accessory. I was absolutely floored when it actually turned on and started playing pong. After the concert I immediately bought a Thumby for everyone in my family with decent eyesight. ...