Updated January 14, 2025

> **I'm currently available for game dev work and/or commissions. See my resume.** January 2025 ------------ Projects and goals I’m currently working on: * **I’m currently seeking new employment, contracts, and/or commissions** (email me!) * Working through The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron * Re-establishing healthy daily routines for a consistent creative practice * Participating in the Yearlong in Speculative Fiction workshop at Hugo House * Three short stories in cosmic horror and dark fantasy (see Works in Progress)

Updated January 13, 2025

Hello! I'm Marc Littlemore. 👋 I'm an Engineering Manager at n8n. I love building diverse and inclusive software engineering team and love lifting my team up. I really enjoy helping people like you learn to be a better intentional technical leader. I've been around ---------------- I'm a veteran (old!) software engineer and started my love for computers when our family got a Commodore Vic-20 back in the early 80s. I spent my teenage years programming BASIC on various home computers and ended up at Manchester University from 1990 to 1993 studying Computer Science. I spent a year writing gas chromatography software to move robot arms but my passion at the time was video games. For 19 years I ended up making many video games on PC, PlayStation 2 and 3, and XBox 360. I worked for lots of famous games companies from the 90s and 2000s such as Ocean, Infogrames, Acclaim, Sony, and EA. In 2013, I decided to leave the world of video games and find a better work/life balance. I became a Principal Software Engineer at the BBC and helped to build their gaming APIs. I quickly learnt a lot about web technologies and cloud infrastructure. In 2015, my team became responsible for building BBC Account - the authentication and authorisation services for every audience member who uses the BBC's services. We enabled personalisation on a huge scale! While building BBC Account I learnt a lot about microservice architecture, Node.js and the npm ecosystem, the React JavaScript library, JavaScript testing, AWS infrastructure, and building scalable, resilient services. There's a quick learning curve when your services have to handle the spike of traffic that the Strictly Come Dancing vote brings you! Although I managed teams back at Sony in the mid-2000s, I properly transitioned from a Principal Engineer role into a Software Engineering Team Lead management role at the BBC. This really changed my thinking about how to build effective software engineering teams. It allowed me to ensure we had a culture of inclusion and psychological safety. There's no such thing as a silly question in my team. Moving to team leadership made me think more about diversity and inclusing and how I can help to enable any software engineer to thrive. I've continued my journey into technical leadership after leaving the BBC with a number of Engineering Manager roles at different companies. I'm now settled as an Engineering Manager at n8n. I almost died ------------- Life also throws you curveballs sometimes. In June 2014, I contracted a streptococcal infection which caused sepsis. My body shut down and I suffered multiple organ failure. I almost died. I spent 45 days in intensive care, learning how to breathe, and eat again. I spent another 45 days on a hospital ward learning how to move my arms and walk again. It was tough going. Thankfully, I managed to survive but it's changed the way I look at life. My wife Clare also wrote about the experience for her and our children in more details. You should read her Out Of The Woods Blog where she gives an honest view of the challenges she had. I ❤️ music ---------- I've always loved music and in the early-80s hip-hop arrived in the UK. My brother and I loved to listen to the Streetsounds Electro compilations. Back in 1988 I realised I was never going to be a rapper so I convinced my parents to help me to buy a set of Technics 1210s and a Radio Shack Realistic DJ mixer. This helped me to learn how to mix 2 records together and how to cut and scratch. Although I continue to love hip-hop, the late 80s acid house movement gained pace and I went with it. I moved to Manchester in 1990 and spent my weekends clubbing at places like The Haçienda, The Boardwalk, The Academy, and The Millionaire's Club listening to the best house DJs of the time. I because a DJ regular on the Manchester house music circuit and DJed at lots of clubs in the city. I was a resident DJ at DNA and 2Kinky for many years. Through my good friend Mark Wyss, I started DJing in Germany under my pseudonym DJ Cruze. I continued to DJ in Germany from 1993 until around 2012 and played at many of Germany's finest club nights. Good times! Although rarely commercially released, I've been making dance music since the late 90s. You can find some of my tunes on my Soundcloud. IRL --- Outside of work you'll find me helping my beautiful wife Clare Littlemore to persue her writing career. She writes Young Adult dystopian fiction which you can find on her Amazon author page. I help her with anything digital so she can concentrate on writing. I also love playing with my two teenage children and helping them to grow up to be wonderful human beings.

Updated January 13, 2025

In a recent podcast with Joe Hiltzer of EK on the merger between Ontotext and Semantic Web company – passionate pioneers in the field of knowledge graphs and semantic technologies (https://open.spotify.com/episode/2f4VFlyABDvE3joQqbmeXm ), asked about what’s next in the field of knowledge graphs built with semantic technology and AI, Andreas Blumaer was laconic and determined: “WeContinue Weaving Thinking about the future of text, I often think about communication on the Web. And about the metacommunication that happens in-between its lines of human and machine-readable code. And about the delayed action which any written medium, the Web’s hypertext even more so, breeds. And while thinking about text on the Web I always endContinue Weaving Data Language are amazing! And how could they not be? With people like Silver Oliver – Head of Information Architecture, interconnecting media with graph data since BBC Olympics (see https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/content-graphs-the-box-set-at-kgc-2023/257799124, Paul Wilton – Co-founder and Managing Director at Data Language, among all else -one of the contributors  Storyline Ontology An ontology to represent News StorylinesContinue Weaving Working with content to connect people, and ideas is hard, takes time, resources, perseverance and above all devotion to staying focused on the very essence of connection: authentic experiences. This is what Larry Swanson is after: authentic human-generated content and experiences. Working as a  content architect, a content modeler, a UX architect, or an informationContinue Weaving There are conversations that happen outside what Greeks would call Chronos – the chronological or sequential time, and into what is known as Kairos – the quality, right time, a deep time. My Dialogue with Heinz Wittenbrick happened in Kairos. Heinz Wittenbrick is a blogger, keeping a blog at Lost and Found, a gallery ownerContinue Weaving In 2021, Bill Slawski (may he rest in peace) wrote: SEO has constantly been marketing in the framework of the Web. cit. What Is Semantic SEO? That was not the first time, Bill has been doing deep dives into semantic SEO in his own genius and thorough way by looking at  Google’s patents. A decadeContinue Weaving Innovations do happen at the intersections. One such innovation happened at the intersection between SEO, content writing and the Semantic Web. It is called WordLift . A tool for Semantic Web weavers, as I called it back in 2017 when I first tried it, having followed Andrea Volpini for some time on Google Plus (yesContinue Weaving What makes an orange orange – is it its spherical shape or its orange-ness? What dance is really? Does reality exist independently of or is constructed through language? These are only a small part of the body of questions Maria Keet explores in her new (2023) book The What and How of Modelling Information andContinue Weaving

Updated January 11, 2025

Hi. I'm Carl. This is my blog where I write things.

Updated January 11, 2025

**Last updated: Sat, January 11, 2025**. * I am in Italy for the **holidays** spending some time with my family. * I am back to reading **physical books**, starting with Why Nations Fail, a gift from my gf. Trying to read at least 20 pages per day to keep a good pace and read at least 12 books this year! * * * What's a now page?

Updated January 11, 2025

pathogen evolution, genomics, and biophysics -------------------------------------------- ### HIV evolution * intra-patient evolution * mutation and recombination * fitness landscapes * latent reservoir ### Theory * population genetics * rapid adaptation * phylogenetics * timetree inference We are a research group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland. We are broadly interested in evolution, ecology, and population genetics with a focus on rapidly evolving pathogens such as HIV, influenza virus, or pathogenic bacteria. These organisms have large population sizes, short generation times and are subject to strong selective pressure for example by immune responses or drug treatment. Understanding their evolutionary dynamics and adaptability is important to limit the spread of these pathogens. On the other hand, dense surveillance and the rapid evolution of many pathogens allow us to study fundamental questions in evolutionary biology and ecology. We are always looking for exceptional people who want to join us as students or post-docs. Get in touch with Richard Neher. recent publications all publications ------------------------------------ The mutation rate of SARS-CoV-2 is highly variable between sites and is influenced by sequence context, genomic region, and RNA structure Hugh K. Haddox, Georg Angehrn, Luca Sesta et al. bioRxiv, 10.1101/2025.01.07.631013 bibtex Sat 11 January 2025 Development of avian influenza A(H5) virus datasets for Nextclade enables rapid and accurate clade assignment Jordan T. Ort, Samuel S. Shepard, Sonja A. Zolnoski et al. bioRxiv, 10.1101/2025.01.07.631789 bibtex Sat 11 January 2025 Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of structure and content in closely-related E. coli genomes Marco Molari, Liam P Shaw and Richard A Neher Molecular Biology and Evolution, msae272. 10.1093/molbev/msae272 bibtex Fri 03 January 2025 available thesis projects ------------------------- ### CBB MSc students: please get in touch with Richard Neher for available projects

Updated January 11, 2025

Last night, Christina and I finished watching Numb3rs which ran from 2005 to 2010 over six seasons. As succinctly explained on IMDB, “working for the FBI, a mathematician uses equations to help solve various crimes.” The young mathematician is Charlie Eppes (played by David Krumholtz) and he works with his brother, Don Eppes (played by Rob Morrow), an FBI team leader, and his team of FBI agents. Other interesting characters are Judd Hirsch as Alan Eppes (Charlie’s and Don’s dad), Navi Rawat as Amita Ramanujan (a computer scientist who is also Charlie’s girlfriend) and Peter MacNicol as Larry Fleinhardt (a physicist / philosopher / best friend of Charlie) who, during a few seasons, falls in love with Diane Farr as Megan Reeves (Don’s No 2 in the FBI). This love story between Larry and Megan is probably the cutest thing in the whole show. Larry as the awkward geek and Megan as the one being agreeably amazed by Larry’s behaviour is very nice. Megan left after a few seasons to pursue her career. Other characters are Alimi Ballard as David Sinclair, Dylan Bruno as Colby Granger, Sophina Brown as Nikki Betancourt and Aya Sumika as Liz Warner (all FBI agents in Don’s team with the latter the “rebound” girlfriend of Don during a few episodes). Nikki and Liz are cool badass FBI agents. They are strong, decisive and have powerful personalities, unlike their male colleagues (David, Colby and, even, Don) who are more passive. Makes for lot of interesting situations where the girls take power (or lead the conversation). Lou Diamond Phillips as Agent Ian Edgerton is also another badass. He is a sniper and catches bad guys who flee (including abroad). He appears in 8 episodes only but, as he has an imposing personality, he is quite memorable. Finally, I need to mention Michelle Nolden as Robin Brooks (an Assistant US Attorneys who is Don’s real girlfriend). She is not as memorable as Ian but she plays an important role in, at the end of the show, anchoring Don to what is important in life: living. I liked Numb3rs. The maths is interesting (mostly) but the characters, being mostly nice and genuine, make the show. In fact, it’s not a show about the FBI but about developing friendship and love. Today, Christina and I are absolutely delighted to have been certified as PADI Open Water Scuba Divers. This is our gift to ourselves for our 25th wedding anniversary! To be certified, we had to complete four training dives in the sea, a number of training dives in a pool as well as a very long and quite complex theoretical course which was followed by an online exam. We opted to do our training with Scuba World Ltd, based at Le Preskil Hotel in the beautiful bay of Mahébourg. I already knew the owners, Daveena and Christophe, who I had met during my UNDP days. They assigned Visham to us as our dive instructor and he was great. He shared his experience with us and, little by little, we understood what was needed to become a good diver. On our third dive, we descended to 17.5m. Now that we are certified, we can dive in open water all over the world as buddies (or with an instructor) up to a depth of 18m. We managed to do everything over a period of a little less than one month. Our first dive was on 16 December 2024, the second on 4 January, the third on 7 January and the fourth and last one, today, 10 January 2025. Of course, we celebrated this fantastic milestone with a good beer on the beach. A big thank you again to the Scuba World Ltd team. Thanks to you, we are divers! Today, 8 January 2025, Christina and I are proud and delighted to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. Our love for each other remains as strong and vibrant as it was when we first met. We love spending time together, seeking new adventures (like the PADI Open Water Diver Scuba Divers certification we’re doing now) and having fun everyday. Our journey began with a memorable wedding on 8 January 2000, a beautiful blend of oriental and occidental styles that reflected the diversity of our multicultural family and friends. A few years later, Anya and Kyan were born and raising them into the amazing young adults they are today is our proudest accomplishment as parents. Today, both of them are studying in France with us looking from a distance and they are doing well. What more can one ask for? Over the past 25 years, Christina and I have grown both personally and professionally. We are happy to be independent, balanced and honest people, cultivating meaningful relationships with family and friends. As we are now half a century old, we have accumulated some wisdom on what is really important in life. Hint: it’s not money. A big thank-you to everyone who have been and continue to be part of our journey. Your love and support have made these years truly special. To celebrate, we had lunch at Le Skipper, a small and very good restaurant in a boutique hotel at Pointe aux Biches. Later, we met some family members at Flying Dodo for drinks and dinner. Here are some photos.

Updated January 10, 2025

The idea to make novelWriter came about because most good software i could find for fiction writing seemed to focus its development on Windows and MacOS. Even those that had once supported Linux, had decided to drop the support. As a Linux user for many years, this was very disappointing to me, so I started making my own editor, the way I imagined I wanted it. At that time I had mostly fallen back on writing my novel projects in LibreOffice Writer. While it is an excellent word processor that I still use often, it lacked many features I was looking for. I wanted an editor where I could split everything up into chapters or scenes, and move them about as I wanted. I also wanted to have all my notes in the same place, and be able to cross-reference them in my text. Thus the idea for novelWriter was born. It took me three attempts between 2016 and 2018 to get something I felt was heading in the right direction. At the time, I was a PhD student at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. My first two attempts at making an editor for fiction writing failed, so in 2018 when I started my post-doc at CERN, I ran into a PhD student who also liked to write fiction in his spare time. He got interested in my little project, so we spent many coffee and lunch breaks to sketch out the features we’d like to see in a novel editor. The programming was more my area, so I did that, while my colleague did a lot of testing and gave me feedback on what did and didn’t work. After a while, more people got interested in my project and started providing feedback on my GitHub repository. The rest is, as they say, history. More users brought more feedback, more ideas, more releases, and an increasingly better text editor. While the project is somewhat limited by early design choices in terms of framework and programming language, it has been possible to grow and expand it. The scope of the editor has been deliberately keep narrow over the years. It is after all an editor designed specifically for writing novels and short fiction, and not anything else. This has made it possible to avoid feature bloat and keep improving on what it is designed to do. novelWriter is still under active development, and I personally use it for all my writing projects. This is not likely to change any time soon. I hope you too find it useful, and my wish is that it will help writers focus on writing in the future. – Veronica

Updated January 10, 2025

Updated 10.01.2025 Location: Kathmandu, Nepal. _We were born with no purpose at all. You shouldn't die the same._ My current goal is ------------------ to create a secondary source of income that doesn't require me to be consistently present all the time. Bank interest and stock-markets don't cut it because I want to get more involved but not as much as my day job. Professional title? ------------------- Software Engineer at Houzz, Inc. What do I do? ------------- I create software tools to solve your needs. Learning: --------- * Swimming: I'm a self-taught beginner. I practice at National Sports Center, Chysal regularly in the morning. * Biking: Learning to ride my petrol-scooter(_I know, I should have gone with the electric one_). I know the basics and have ridden about 1400km of distance but that doesn't make me comfortable for highly dangerous scenarious and emergency braking. I want to be a pro at it. Would love some pointers or trainers. Personal Development: --------------------- * Focusing: I'm trying to focus on doing one thing at a time. One tab, one doc, one ticket. No more jumping between tiktok, ticket and a bug 😳. It's a real \*\*struggle\*\*. Work: ----- * Dayjob: Building websites and services for interior designers and home-owners at Houzz Inc. Currenlty, I'm having existential crisis on my future. I'm not able to decide what to do. I want to make impact on the society. I don't want to be someone who is not remembered after they have died. But, I don't have any clue how I can achieve that. Currenlty, I'm mulling over Do Something About It Club and Activism to identify ways I can get started. Check out my reading list as well. This is now page and you too should have one.

Updated January 7, 2025

Mitt namn är Vincent Lejtzén — jag arbetar som frontend-utvecklare på GoBrave i Växjö. När jag inte är på GoBrave driver jag en liten webbyrå där jag har mina egna webbprojekt samt hjälper företag att se bra ut i webbläsaren. Besök gärna mina senaste projekt om röda dagar 2025, fälgar och däck och om att försäkra bil.

Updated January 7, 2025

* * * Stuff to Learn -------------- * Beej's Guides * My tech blog * * * Places to Visit --------------- * The Bend Hackers Guild * The Pirate Image Archive * Graffiti Central Archive * Internet Pizza Server * Lincoln Highway stuff * Moria * Dual-sport Motorcycle Maps * Smokey Joe's Cafe—a memorial * My Old Homepage * * * Books ----- _One of my hobbies is digitizing and preserving public-domain books._ * Across America on a Motor Bicycle—George Wyman's account of being the first person to take a motor vehicle across the US (EPUB) * Propaganda—a still relevant book by Edward Bernays (EPUB) * The Palminomicon—collected Palm Pilot programming lore (PDF) * * * Utilities --------- * Unicode Pixel Art Tool * Rot13 encryption * Gunfight Unlock—For the ancient PalmOS Gunfight game * * * About ----- * Bio * My CV, Resume * beej@beej.us * * * _Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall, 2025-01-07_

Updated January 7, 2025

* Me, Thomas * Contact info * Cavelab? * Blogroll * This website * Running cost * License * Privacy policy * Using AI Me, Thomas ---------- I’m a father of three sons, the oldest two being twins. I live with my kids and wife in Norway. I’m in my early 40s and find computers with Linux, electronics and home automation things pretty fascinating. I’m also a big fan of red wine, Whisky, pipes and cigars, and cooking. Between work and family, there isn’t a lot of time left. I use it mostly in my home office/man-cave. A 10 m² (108 ft²) room in the basement, where I tinker with my homelab and electronics projects. I try to write about it. If you’d like to get to know me even better: * here is my story * what I am up to now * gear and software I use * books I’ve read If you enjoy my writings — there is a **feed** you can subscribe to. ### Contact info I’m not accepting guest posts, sponsorships, or any other form of advertising. You can reach me on Bluesky, Mastodon — or email: printf "%s@%s.%s\n" blog.contact cavelab dev I may publish the content of your email or chat, along with your name — if I think it could be useful to others. I’m also on Github, Reddit, and YouTube. ### Cavelab? Well… My home office, man cave, server room, and electronics lab is a 10 m² (108 ft²) room in the basement — with thick concrete walls, and no windows. Kinda like a cave. ### Blogroll Here are some blogs that I have looked to for inspiration; * apalrd’s adventures * blog.kroy.io * BrianLi * Ctrl blog * Intermittent Technology * Jeff Geerling’s Blog * Michael Stapelberg * Rubenerd This website ------------ * code is hosted on my local Gitea instance * statically generated by Hugo; using a modified Hello Friend theme * built with Make * hosted by Hetzner Cloud and AWS CloudFront * DNS by AWS Route53 * search by Pagefind * videos delivered with Bunny Stream * written in Vim with the help of snippets I aim to keep it simple, clean, and uncluttered. ### Running cost So what does it cost **per month** to keep a website like this going? Service What Cost Hugo Site generator $3 ❤️ AWS DNS, CDN $3 Plausible Privacy-focused web analytics $8 Domeneshop Domain name $2.5 Bunny Stream Video delivery $1 Hetzner Cloud Hosting $5 💰 **Grand total** $22.5 ❤️ I’m sponsoring bep on GitHub (not required) ### License Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. All product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. All company, product and service names used in this website are for identification purposes only. Use of these names, logos, and brands does not imply endorsement. Cover images are created with graphics from Vecta and SVG Repo. ### Privacy policy This website doesn’t store your data; track you; use cookies, advertisements, or affiliate links. I am using Plausible analytics to collect aggregated visitor stats. No identifiable information is collected, I’m just curious how many visitors I have and what posts they read. ### Using AI I sometimes use an AI assistant to aid in analyzing, troubleshooting and documenting while working with projects. I see it as a research tool, not as a creative help. This blog will not have blog posts written by AI, or images generated by AI — not now, and not in the future. Any quotes by an AI will be clearly marked.

Updated January 7, 2025

This is what’s going on in my professional and personal life right now. ### Work **User Kind, Inc.** User Kind is a boutique user interface design and development agency located in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. At User Kind we design and code exceptional user experiences for clients such as Hawaiian Airlines, Google, HP, and others. **GrowFlow** I’m currently working as CTO of GrowFlow, a leading SaaS provider of cannabis compliance software. I co-founded the point of sale software company (LeafOps), which was acquired by GrowFlow in 2017. We continue to scale the software for enterprise clients and are working on new products and services to help the cannabis industry thrive. ### Live I am currently living in beautiful Boulder CO. ### Play I enjoy spending time with my wife and two daughters (11 and 15), playing sand volleyball, hiking/trail running, playing guitar, and picking up the piano.

Updated January 7, 2025

Scavengers Reign: Building an Alien Ecosystem --------------------------------------------- The Embodiment of Precision, Talent, and Taste: Kazuya Morisaki --------------------------------------------------------------- The sabukaru Guide to Seoul's PC Room Culture --------------------------------------------- FUMITO GANRYU - Protect the Past. Discover the Future ----------------------------------------------------- Creating Beauty in FUNCTIONALITY - An Interview With Emilie Arnault ------------------------------------------------------------------- Behind the Legitimate Cause: Introducing Bawo --------------------------------------------- WHERE THE VIRTUAL MEETS REALITY: VTUBER HOSHIMACHI SUISEI X PARCO SPECIAL IN YOU -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Running Toward Oakley and Satisfy's Newest Collaboration : “Equipment for Our World” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From the Near East to the Far East: Celebrating 100 Years of Turkish-Japanese Friendship with Les Benjamins ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gentle Monster: A Visionary In Video Games ------------------------------------------ Culture, Clothing, Manga/Anime Natsuki Ludwig September 15, 2024 adidas, taekwondo, ballet core, ballet, corp, corp core, office siren, bayonetta, perfect blue, devil wears prada When Modern Aesthetics Meet Not-so-Modern Anime, Manga, Video Games: Balletcore and Corpcore -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Culture, Clothing, Manga/Anime Natsuki Ludwig September 15, 2024 adidas, taekwondo, ballet core, ballet, corp, corp core, office siren, bayonetta, perfect blue, devil wears prada Coffee and Cabinets: London’s Hidden Arcade Scene ------------------------------------------------- Uniforms and Street Style - Fitting in With the Masses or Standing Out in a Crowd --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introducing 4 Tibetan Designers for the Conscientious Consumer -------------------------------------------------------------- Metal Gear Solid 2: A Prophetic Warning of The Digital Age ---------------------------------------------------------- The Evolution of Final Girl Fashion: From Horror Films to Japanese Video Games ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Capturing the Essence of China's Rust Belt: A Photographer's Journey Home ------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Skateboarding! – Nobuo Iseki Documents Tokyo’s Skate Community On Polaroid Film ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Izumi Suzuki, This Bad Girl: The World of a Countercultural Icon ---------------------------------------------------------------- Culture Ora Margolis July 04, 2024 sabukaru guide, hair, tokyo hair, hair cut, hair dye, curl, cut, barbershop, womens hair, mens hair, tokyo hairdresser, perm, curlstraighten, hotpepper, promille salon, chinese subculture, hair subculture, subcultural hair, spiky, choppy, decora, shige, tota nakagawa The sabukaru Guide To Tokyo Hair -------------------------------- Culture Ora Margolis July 04, 2024 sabukaru guide, hair, tokyo hair, hair cut, hair dye, curl, cut, barbershop, womens hair, mens hair, tokyo hairdresser, perm, curlstraighten, hotpepper, promille salon, chinese subculture, hair subculture, subcultural hair, spiky, choppy, decora, shige, tota nakagawa How to Build An Empire - sabukaru in conversation with NO/FAITH Studios ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Meet Yaku: the Emerging British Designer Blending Reality with Science Fiction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VANS Goes Wafu: sabukaru for VANS --------------------------------- VANS Japan releases their new Japan Exclusive Tee series How to Build a Sneaker Legacy in Bangkok – A Talk with CARNIVAL ---------------------------------------------------------------

Updated January 6, 2025

Hi, I’m Michael Coorlim, and this is the latest iteration of my personal website. In its current incarnation it’s mostly a blog, with outgoing links to whatever else I happen to be working on. Here’s my written bio: > MICHAEL COORLIM is a science fiction author, podcast producer, and game developer. He’s written quite a few novels, including the Galvanic Century steampunk series and the Shadow Decade cyberpunk books, makes videos about video game history and narrative analysis, and is a solo game developer and narrative designer. Pretty cool, right?

Updated January 5, 2025

Born again. Recovering indie game developer. See Helvetica Scenario for my games.

Updated January 5, 2025

Now page is a place to tell you about the things I focus on _right now_, in no particular order. I’ll try to keep this up to date best I can. Inspired by the Derek Sivers’ now page project. * **Working** at Dude as a founder and CTO with customers first approach. My daily tasks consist of looking after our amazing people in the web development team. In that area my main focus is WordPress, front end (advanced SCSS/CSS mostly), accessibility testing, UI testing, servers and sysop stuff (we host everything ourselves). On top of that there’s the regular entrepreneurial shit I do with passion. We aim at natural growth so I’m also doing sales and marketing. * I’m **passionate about** accessibility, inclusivity, open source, mental health, CSS, SCSS, typography, command line, servers and other geeky stuff. * **Openso(u)rcerer**, founder-developer of the popular Air-light WordPress theme. Check out the company GitHub and my personal GitHub profile, they are always up to date. * **Writing** daily, journal in Finnish, see my Logbook. * **Born and raised** in Jyväskylä, Finland. Read about me in Finnish here. Currently living in Jyväskylä downtown with my son, daughter and wife. It’s nice here in the Finnish lakeland district, see for yourself. * **Programming and using command line interface** on daily basis. Sometimes I experiment with new JavaScript frameworks and Python and whatever I get excited about. I have 700+ repositories on GitHub, if you count the private ones. I have published about 300 public open source repositories. * **I like running** and walking. 👟 Started a habit of working out 4-6 times or 30 km per week on June 26th, 2021. See more on my Strava Athlete profile. * **I love movies**. Redesigned my movie blog on September 2021. Over 3000 movies reviewed and counting. I also rate on IMDb and Trakt. * **Socially active** on IRC and Mastodon. Using Mastodon as my main social media service. Hosting my own Mastodon server, too. Occasionally instagramming. I don’t use Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp. I rarely use other social medias, sometimes LinkedIn if I’m forced to. I have a hunch 50% of my posts are in Finnish and the rest in English. It varies. On Mastodon it’s been like 80% English and 20% Finnish (2023). * **Playing** Overwatch as Qllervo. I try to play almost every day to get my mind off of the things that easily stress me out. * **Reading** daily, from 20 to 100 books per year. Currently reading mostly non-fiction. Occasional progress updates at Goodreads. Using Bookshelf nowadays. * **Producing** dreamy synthwave music. It’s on-off depending how much free time I have but definitely not a dead project. Check out Streetgazer at SoundCloud or Spotify. * **Contributing** in WordPress community somehow on weekly basis, check out my WordPress.org profile. I used to organize WordPress Jyväskylä Meetups as one of the co-founders. COVID-19 killed those meetings and the final nail to the coffin was really the lack of energy and time to commit. I also suffer from social anxiety, so there’s that as well. * I want to **write a book**. I have couple of non-fiction book ideas, one draft has 300 pages. No time and no publisher so this project is in ice for now. * Updated 5. Jan, 2025

Updated January 4, 2025

Stargirl Flowers thea.codes · theacodes · theavalkyrie Atlanta, Georgia © 2018 — 2025 All text is available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license All code is available under the Apache 2.0 license

Updated January 4, 2025

This is a now page Looking ahead ------------- After a year where I finally felt like I brought some semblance of stability to my life, for the first time in a very long time I feel like I can take stock and start looking ahead at where I’m going.

Updated January 3, 2025

What is this page? ------------------ It is a now page, an idea by Derek Sivers. As Derek describes it: > Besides answering the common question, “What are you up to these days?”, those who have a now page say it’s a good reminder of their priorities. \[…\] For me; the latter point he is making is the most important. It’s good to spend some time reflecting on what is important — for me — _now_. Life ---- Winter is here again, it’s that time of year to do indoor projects, read books, light the fireplace, and curl up under a blanket. I’ve managed to hurt my shoulder on a work trip, and this is limiting what I can do — but we’re getting by 🙂 Projects -------- Okay; so I’ve managed to get my writing mojo going again. I now have a huge backlog of things I meant to write about — but we’ll see how it goes. The last few days I have experimented a lot with using Kagi Assistant as a troubleshooting “partner”, and I am surprised how helpful that has been. Keeping a written track of the progress, and analyzing test results. I am see myself keep doing that 🙂 Still working on my DIY security system. I’m still improving the code quality and syntax. Water, power, and battery have been my main focus. But I’m also starting to think about using professional smoke detectors in the attic, basement, and garage. My homelab has undergone some big changes lately, with new serves coming in and things being reorganized. I’m also thinking long and hard about 25 Gbit/s, why? Because why not! There will be more blog posts coming… For more details, check out my projects page.

Updated January 3, 2025

Here’s what I’m working on at the moment\* Inspired by NowNowNow.com and AboutIdeasNow. Creative stuff -------------- * Promoting a book about websites * Adding final chapters to a book about criticism * Getting beta reader feedback on a book about finding clients as a freelancer Human stuff ----------- * Mulching, tending to chickens * Brewing mead and kombucha Work stuff ---------- * Helping authors with beta reading and self publication Reading ------- * _Notes from the Underground_ by Fyodor Dostoevsky _\*Last updated 1/3/2025_

Updated January 3, 2025

Hello! I'm Micah. This is my blog, where I publish my writing (mostly focused on Computer Science research). I am an engineer interested in maps, space, and futuristic ideas. I currently work on the SRE team at Google. Previously, I helped build the Geospatial datasets powering Mapbox. Before that, I was an early employee at Strava, where I worked on the infrastructure team. ### Recent writing * Resiliency at Scale: Managing Google’s TPUv4 Machine Learning Supercomputer - January 03, 2025 * ServiceRouter: Hyperscale and Minimal Cost Service Mesh at Meta - March 28, 2024 * A Cloud-Scale Characterization of Remote Procedure Calls - March 03, 2024 * Gemini: Fast Failure Recovery in Distributed Training with In-Memory Checkpoints - January 30, 2024 * XFaaS: Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions at Meta - January 23, 2024 * Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention - January 11, 2024 * Blueprint: A Toolchain for Highly-Reconfigurable Microservice Applications - January 02, 2024 * 2023 and looking forward to 2024 - December 27, 2023 * Defcon: Preventing Overload with Graceful Feature Degradation - July 23, 2023 * Towards an Adaptable Systems Architecture for Memory Tiering at Warehouse-Scale - June 29, 2023 * TelaMalloc: Efficient On-Chip Memory Allocation for Production Machine Learning Accelerators - June 06, 2023 * Perseus: A Fail-Slow Detection Framework for Cloud Storage Systems - April 16, 2023 * Ambry: LinkedIn’s Scalable Geo-Distributed Object Store - March 28, 2023 * Meta’s Next-generation Realtime Monitoring and Analytics Platform - February 27, 2023 * Elastic Cloud Services: Scaling Snowflake’s Control Plane - January 19, 2023 * CS Conferences in 2023 - January 16, 2023 * Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google’s Datacenter Network - December 13, 2022 * Design and Evaluation of IPFS: A Storage Layer for the Decentralized Web - October 31, 2022 * SDN in the Stratosphere: Loon’s Aerospace Mesh Network - October 08, 2022 * Seven years in the life of Hypergiants' off-nets - September 03, 2022 * Automatic Reliability Testing For Cluster Management Controllers - July 24, 2022 * Metastable Failures in the Wild - July 11, 2022 * Sundial: Fault-tolerant Clock Synchronization for Datacenters - July 03, 2022 * Data-Parallel Actors: A Programming Model for Scalable Query Serving Systems - June 04, 2022 * Druid: A Real-time Analytical Data Store - May 15, 2022 * Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database - April 24, 2022 * The Ties that un-Bind: Decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale - January 13, 2022 * Shard Manager: A Generic Shard Management Framework for Geo-distributed Applications - January 08, 2022 * CS Conferences in 2022 - December 30, 2021 * ghOSt: Fast & Flexible User-Space Delegation of Linux Scheduling - December 28, 2021 * Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash - December 11, 2021 * Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources - November 30, 2021 * Choosing papers to read and write about - November 28, 2021 * Log-structured Protocols in Delos - November 23, 2021 * The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems - November 09, 2021 * Rudra: Finding Memory Safety Bugs in Rust at the Ecosystem Scale - October 31, 2021 * RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook’s Online TAO Data Store - October 23, 2021 * TAO: Facebook’s Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph - October 13, 2021 * Scaling Large Production Clusters with Partitioned Synchronization - October 10, 2021 * A Linux Kernel Implementation of the Homa Transport Protocol, Part II - August 29, 2021 * Homa: A Receiver-Driven Low-Latency Transport Protocol Using Network Priorities, Part I - August 15, 2021 * Systems Conferences 2021 - August 14, 2021 * POSH: A Data-Aware Shell - August 07, 2021 * PaSh: Light-touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing - July 31, 2021 * From Laptop to Lambda: Outsourcing Everyday Jobs to Thousands of Transient Functional Containers - July 24, 2021 * Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years (The Future of the Shell, Part I) - July 14, 2021 * Breakfast of Champions: Towards Zero-Copy Serialization with NIC Scatter-Gather - July 07, 2021 * Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications - June 27, 2021 * Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications - June 17, 2021 * FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store - June 12, 2021 * Scaling Memcache at Facebook - May 31, 2021 * Reflecting on 2020 - May 23, 2021 * Noria: dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-performance web applications - March 28, 2021 * Understanding Raft - Part 2 (Raft leaders, logs, and safety) - May 09, 2020 * Understanding Raft Consensus - Part 1 - May 08, 2020 * Understanding Google’s File System - March 22, 2020 * 2019 year in review & looking ahead in 2020 - March 01, 2020 * A new year of learning and writing - January 12, 2019 ### Recent fragments * Drovorub and Fancy Bear - August 21, 2020 * Thoughts on reviewing books - June 13, 2020 * Getting started in Bug Bounty Hunting - December 17, 2019 * Diving into Reverse Engineering - July 22, 2019 * The Cybersecurity Rabbithole - June 02, 2019

Updated January 2, 2025

### Oct 3, 2024 Monthly Update: October 2024 This last month was a lot less eventful than some of the previous ones. A lot of business as usual, though even business as usual always has some interesting wrinkles. ### Jul 11, 2024 Monthly Update: July 2024 A while back I read a post that described monthly updates as “a version of social media that respects attention and focus”, and that struck a chord with me. So I’m starting a monthly update series, let’s see how it goes. ### Jan 6, 2024 Zigging through Advent of Code Advent of Code is the highlight of December for me and, as I do every year, I completed it in a language I had never used before. This year’s selection was Zig, which describes itself as “a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software”. (Previous languages I’ve used include Crystal and Common Lisp.) ### Mar 2, 2023 How Do Humans Think? My various feeds have been filled with a lot of discussions of ChatGPT, its value, its use cases, whether it’s good or bad, how it works, and all sorts of other stuff. Some of it is interesting or useful, some of it is just noise, but mostly I don’t want to talk about any of it.