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

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 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.

Updated January 2, 2025

What I’m doing now ------------------ * Raising the 3 best kids. I’m so tired. * I’m working on my goal to read 15 books in 2025. I read 23 in 2024. * Working as a principal software engineer for Atlassian. Opinions on this site are my own. I’ll update this page periodically with whatever I’m up to at the moment. Inspired by NowNowNow. _Last update: January 2, 2025_

Updated January 1, 2025

My name is Ognjen, but you can call me Oggy. I make things that run on the web (mostly). I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Doctolib. We're hiring in Paris, Berlin & Milan. I am/was the technical co-founder of Supplybunny. I wrote a guidebook about building a marketplace based on my experience working on Supplybunny. Before that I worked at a consultancy and freelanced building MVPs for startups (a couple of which raised funding). I prefer using Rails with Vue, but have used (or am using) lots of other tech. I try to make tech (both software and the industry) more human-friendly. To that end, I write about product development, ethics, privacy, etc. I also write about interesting technical issues (and solutions) or product ideas I've had. Get in touch at \[email protected\] or on LinkedIn if you're keen to talk shop.

Updated January 1, 2025

I’m a **software engineer** working at **Rent** from Sarasota, Florida. I’m passionate about building **reliable systems with Erlang and Elixir**, but I often use Bash, Ruby, and Lua to get things done. I’m a maintainer of asdf and the creator of eFlambé. All my open-source software is available on GitHub. I have been working as a software developer since 2010. I got started doing web development in PHP and JavaScript. I began using Erlang and Elixir in 2013. You can read more about my work experience here. **I am currently not available for work.** But I can put you in touch with other developers in the US who may be available. I also occasionally speak on subjects such as software design and development. If you would like to have me speak at your event please contact me.

Updated January 1, 2025

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Updated January 1, 2025

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Updated January 1, 2025

Sup! My name is Stetson Blake – I've worked in tech for 10 years as a Network Engineer, DevOps Engineer and Software Developer. I'm trying to build stuff on the internet and tell people about it. This is an IT Support Group – a community and newsletter for IT professionals. I scaled it to 150k members and sold sponsorships and advertisements to brands in the IT and MSP space. It's the most success I've had in "internet money" land. InstantRickRoll.com - I don't operate this any more, but I made it in a few weeks, without AI and then sold the app. DitherHacker.com - a fun photo editing app. I made it in a weekend with Cursor and AI tools. It helps you make fun little dithered photos, like this image of Saturn. Click on it to make it look better. IDK why the blog did that.

Updated January 1, 2025

### Chris who? My background is in neuroscience, child development, and project management. I’ve managed a neuroscience lab at Penn State, I’ve built and led the operations for a software company, I’ve consulted for ed-tech companies, and I’ve built the operating procedures for nationally-touring LEGO® and Minecraft® events for kids. For the last few years, I’ve been working with educators and students around the US to help teach emotional intelligence and life skills. See my career more in depth on **LinkedIn**. ### What is Chris up to right now? I am currently train **educators** at **early learning centers**, **preschools**, and **community centers** in **modern** **neuroscience** and **emotional intelligence skills**. I use high-energy roll-up-your-sleeves-and-do-it workshops to make learning stick. See my **work** to see this training in action.

Updated January 1, 2025

I’m Chris Peoples, but hopefully you knew that already. I like to build web-based tools and applications that help make peoples lives easier. My primary weapons are .NET, C#, SQL Server, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Take a gander at my scant few public projects. When I’m not working, I’m a parent, former podcaster, poker player, and alliteration afficianado. I also enjoy reading, playing Rocket League, cheering for the Sparks and Lakers, and occasionally lacing them up myself. * GitHub (chrisofspades) * Stack Overflow (chrisofspades) * LinkedIn * Goodreads (chrisofspades)

Updated January 1, 2025

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Updated January 1, 2025

This is my Now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. January 2025 * ☕ I've officially launched my Minneapolis coffee locator app, MPLS Coffee in the iOS and Android stores. I'm continuing to work on it as I get time, but that has not happened as much as I've wanted this month. The main goal was to do a release every month, it's more like every other month right now. The next update will extend the range of coffee shops to include the entire state of Minnesota instead of just the Twin Cities metro area. That's probably going to require a name change sometime down the road. * 🖥️ This website is now running .Net 8! I migrated the blog posts to markdown format and updated the CSS to use Bootstrap 5. It's a pretty bland and boring design but I'd rather focus on creating software than updating my website design. * 🤒 There is something fierce going around Minneapolis these days. Everyone in my house has gotten ill in one way or another this month. We're on the tail end, I hope but everyone I talk to is going through the same thing. * 🏂 For the first time in 15 odd years I own a snowboard again. Now that Theo is learning to shred, I went out and bought my own board from Cal Surf in Uptown. Cal Surf is a Minneapolis institution for boards of snow and the street. They also have Nike Dunks, before buying my snowboard there I have not been there since the early 2000s. Now that I know they are a dunk shop, I'm going to shop there more often. * 📸 Updated to a new pocket sized camera, the Ricoh GR IIIx. I haven't been out taking as many photos lately, but I already love this camera. I can't wait to really start using it and posting pictures. * * * October 2024 * Building MPLS Coffee – I’m working on a coffee shop locator app for Minneapolis and St. Paul, designed for people who love a well-crafted cup of coffee. It’s called mplscoffee.com, and it’s all about highlighting spots that offer great roasts, quality pour-overs, and places worth visiting for their craft. * Reading About Strangers – Since the pandemic and a lot of time spent working from home, I've been reflecting on connection. I’m reading books focused on strangers and human connection, looking for ways to better connect with people who aren’t like me. Working from CoCo has helped, but I’m interested in more conversations that push my perspective. * Wrapping Up a Project for the State – I'm putting the final touches on a significant project with the State of Minnesota. It’s close to going live, and I’m excited to see it out in the world soon. * Meditating Daily – I’m making it a priority to meditate for 10 minutes each day. The goal is to be more mindful and reduce distraction, helping me be more present with people and projects. * Helping Theo Adjust – My son Theo just started a new school. We’re working together to help him feel comfortable, make new friends, and settle into the new schedule. Watching him step out of his comfort zone has been a reminder of the value of persistence. * Going to Tech Meetups – I’m attending more meetups around the Twin Cities, connecting with the local tech community. It’s been a good way to meet others and stay involved in what’s going on. * Updating My Personal Site – I'm in the process of updating this site, transitioning from Ghost to .NET 8 MVC for more flexibility and customization.

Updated January 1, 2025

About the Sabbatical -------------------- In late 2016 I found myself feeling de-energized in my CTO job and decided I needed a change. The result is what I called my _solopreneur sabbatical_—a six month exploration into the world of solo-entrepreneurship as I attempted to launch a product and earn money from it. I made a site that makes it super easy to make printable place cards for a wedding, and even made a few bucks from it. The site pretty much runs itself now and generates a small amount of steady income for me. During the sabbatical I wrote regularly about my progress, something that I attempt to keep up despite having returned to more steady work. I hope that other aspiring solopreneurs or burnt-out developers can get inspiration or advice from my story and do something exciting and different in their lives! Also I love hearing from people, so get in touch if you want to chat! About This Site --------------- This site is made with Jekyll using a theme I built myself using Tailwind CSS. In an apropos attempt to generate tiny amounts of passive income, this site is also a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Get in Touch ------------ Interested in working together? Or just have something you want to share? Either way I'd love to hear from you. Drop me a line and I promise I'll read and respond to every email. If you're interested in getting updated when I post new content you can subscribe for updates below!