Updated June 30, 2025

FrontierNav ----------- WebsiteAn interactive video game wiki. Combines features from wikis, databases, interactive maps, community forums and more into a single unified platform. * FrontierNav Update: 30 June 2025 * FrontierNav Update: 24 March 2025 * FrontierNav Update: 21 February 2025 WebVerify --------- GitHubAn approach to verify authorship of webpages using PGP with a proof-of-concept Web Extension. * Domain Ownership, Web Authorship and WebVerify maptiles -------- GitHubA map tile generator. Converts an image into map tiles using ImageMagick. Map tiles can be used in Google Maps, Leaflet, and other map rendering software. * Self-contained Bash scripts. * im-map-tiles v1.0.0 * Parsing Optional Arguments in Bash @jahed/terraform ---------------- GitHubA Terraform wrapper for NodeJS. Automates and manages your Terraform setup like all of your other npm dependencies. * Terraform NodeJS Wrapper Improvements * Trigger GitHub Actions from commits by other actions. * Long-Term Open Source Maintainance @jahed/firebase-rules --------------------- GitHubA type-safe Firebase Real-time Database Security Rules builder. Compose and re-use common rules. Reference constants used throughout the project. Catch any errors and typos. Auto-completion. * Open Source for Closed Software * Weekly Report: 11th November 2019 * Weekly Report: 1st July 2019 @jahed/firebase-rest -------------------- GitHubFirebase JS SDK API using Firebase REST API under the hood instead of WebSockets. @jahed/bem ---------- GitHubA library of functions for using BEM naming conventions in CSS and CSS Modules and applying them seamlessly in JavaScript. * @jahed/bem, A Brief History * Using CSS Modules with BEM @jahed/promises --------------- GitHubA library of functions for promises. Use promises as control flow and worry less about what's asynchronous and what isn't. Night Patrol ------------ GitHubAn interactive test runner for Nightwatch. Run individual tests, re-run failures, switch environments, autocompletion, and more. * Migrating Nightwatch Tests to Cypress * FrontierNav Report: February 2019 * Introducing Night Patrol Agility ------- WebsiteA mob programming timer. It can also be used for pair programming and meetings. * Migrating Nightwatch Tests to Cypress * FrontierNav Report: February 2019 * Introducing Night Patrol Some Recent Posts ----------------- Subscribe to my RSS feed to receive new posts straight to your inbox. * Setting up an LG OLED TV as a PC monitor * Run MEGAcmd CLI in a Docker container * Games on Surface Pro * Install Microsoft Windows. * Run Linux on an ancient netbook. * WiFi 6E USB adapters on Linux * USB Audio/Video Capture on Linux. * Fix air flow in a solid front panel computer case. * Create hidden series in Grafana

Updated June 30, 2025

FrontierNav ----------- WebsiteAn interactive video game wiki. Combines features from wikis, databases, interactive maps, community forums and more into a single unified platform. * FrontierNav Update: 30 June 2025 * FrontierNav Update: 24 March 2025 * FrontierNav Update: 21 February 2025 WebVerify --------- GitHubAn approach to verify authorship of webpages using PGP with a proof-of-concept Web Extension. * Domain Ownership, Web Authorship and WebVerify maptiles -------- GitHubA map tile generator. Converts an image into map tiles using ImageMagick. Map tiles can be used in Google Maps, Leaflet, and other map rendering software. * Self-contained Bash scripts. * im-map-tiles v1.0.0 * Parsing Optional Arguments in Bash @jahed/terraform ---------------- GitHubA Terraform wrapper for NodeJS. Automates and manages your Terraform setup like all of your other npm dependencies. * Terraform NodeJS Wrapper Improvements * Trigger GitHub Actions from commits by other actions. * Long-Term Open Source Maintainance @jahed/firebase-rules --------------------- GitHubA type-safe Firebase Real-time Database Security Rules builder. Compose and re-use common rules. Reference constants used throughout the project. Catch any errors and typos. Auto-completion. * Open Source for Closed Software * Weekly Report: 11th November 2019 * Weekly Report: 1st July 2019 @jahed/firebase-rest -------------------- GitHubFirebase JS SDK API using Firebase REST API under the hood instead of WebSockets. @jahed/bem ---------- GitHubA library of functions for using BEM naming conventions in CSS and CSS Modules and applying them seamlessly in JavaScript. * @jahed/bem, A Brief History * Using CSS Modules with BEM @jahed/promises --------------- GitHubA library of functions for promises. Use promises as control flow and worry less about what's asynchronous and what isn't. Night Patrol ------------ GitHubAn interactive test runner for Nightwatch. Run individual tests, re-run failures, switch environments, autocompletion, and more. * Migrating Nightwatch Tests to Cypress * FrontierNav Report: February 2019 * Introducing Night Patrol Agility ------- WebsiteA mob programming timer. It can also be used for pair programming and meetings. * Migrating Nightwatch Tests to Cypress * FrontierNav Report: February 2019 * Introducing Night Patrol Some Recent Posts ----------------- Subscribe to my RSS feed to receive new posts straight to your inbox. * Setting up an LG OLED TV as a PC monitor * Run MEGAcmd CLI in a Docker container * Games on Surface Pro * Install Microsoft Windows. * Run Linux on an ancient netbook. * WiFi 6E USB adapters on Linux * USB Audio/Video Capture on Linux. * Fix air flow in a solid front panel computer case. * Create hidden series in Grafana

Updated June 30, 2025

:x ### What I’m doing now go back ↰ # finished brave new world -------------------------- It was disturbing; perfect pacing; surprisingly sex-obsessed. I liked the contrast between the “savage” and the “ordered” cultures, and the author’s ambivalence about which one was truly better. ↸ Back to top # upcoming travel ----------------- * Berkeley (Simons Institute): July 7-18 ↸ Back to top * * * Last updated in June 2025. This page is inspired by Derek Sivers.

Updated June 28, 2025

Monitor Your Company's Stock Price on Grafana --------------------------------------------- Jun 28, 2025 Over the weekend, I built a way to monitor your company’s stock price on Grafana. That way, you can roll back your release if the market thinks your code sucks. read more ⟶ Breaking electron-store's encryption ------------------------------------ Aug 21, 2021 A well-known attack on unauthenticated CBC mode allows attackers to modify encrypted config files without knowing the secret key. read more ⟶ Ten seconds to ponder if a thread is worth it --------------------------------------------- Mar 1, 2021 A userstyle that makes you wait ten seconds before entering a Hacker News thread. read more ⟶ The Chrome T-Rex game, except the dinosaur is you ------------------------------------------------- Dec 28, 2020 This weekend, I modified the Chrome T-Rex game to bring it into the physical world with a projector, webcam, and computer vision magic. read more ⟶ My brother’s hamster -------------------- Nov 24, 2020 My brother got a siberian dwarf hamster in March, right before we started quarantining. He and the hamster live a few states away, and although I’ve never met her in person, tonight I got a chance to see her over Zoom. read more ⟶ Where Did Software Go Wrong? ---------------------------- May 27, 2020 Software is broken, but it’s not because of NPM, startups, AI, or venture capitalists. A deep dive into how we think about and produce code, and how our software systems reflect the manic state of the modern world. read more ⟶ Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories --------------------------------------------------------------------- May 12, 2020 Cache rules everything around me. `pyc` files can contain secrets and should not be checked in to source control. Use the standard Python .gitignore. read more ⟶ Open and Shut ------------- Apr 6, 2020 I’ve been working on a little toy project called Open and Shut, which enables you to type in Morse code by opening and shutting your laptop lid. read more ⟶ Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go ----------------------------------------------------- Jan 4, 2020 What is the complete path between visiting thepiratebay and sublimating an mp3 file from thin air? In this post, we’ll implement enough of the BitTorrent protocol to download Debian. Look at the Source code or skip to the last bit. read more ⟶ You're still not anonymous on Looped ------------------------------------ Nov 25, 2019 Looped fixed the bug from part 1. That’s all they fixed. read more ⟶ You're not anonymous on Looped ------------------------------ Nov 23, 2019 Looped knows who you are, and so does anyone who cares to look. Avoid using it unless you understand the risks to your privacy. Read the conclusions. read more ⟶ Detecting incognito mode in Chrome 76 with a timing attack ---------------------------------------------------------- Aug 4, 2019 FileSystem API writes are measurably faster and less noisy in incognito mode, allowing websites to detect incognito visitors by benchmarking their write speed. Results read more ⟶ Reversing JS Malware From marveloptics.com ------------------------------------------ Jul 18, 2018 The injected script steals checkout form data and sends it to a Chinese-owned domain. But the attackers are really bad at programming. read more ⟶ An Analysis of Cloudflare's Email Address Obfuscation ----------------------------------------------------- May 20, 2018 It’s a hex encoded string where the first byte (the key), is XORed against each subsequent byte to decrypt the email address. This is not a vulnerability. read more ⟶ Hacking Harvard (and nearly every other college) ------------------------------------------------ Apr 16, 2018 Chaining two CSRF attacks and brute forcing the user’s birth date (upper bound = 730 requests) allowed complete account takeover. read more ⟶ Snow Day Calculator XSS ----------------------- Apr 12, 2018 PHP’s type coercion and unescaped use of the page’s `snowdays` parameter allows injecting arbitrary HTML and Javascript via a reflected XSS attack. read more ⟶ Stored XSS in Schoology ----------------------- Mar 28, 2018 Schoology blog posts accept a plain HTML document via a tinymce editor, which may be injected with arbitrary elements, including iframes and event handlers. read more ⟶ Uncovering a Bug in Cloudflare's Minification Service ----------------------------------------------------- Mar 17, 2018 A bug in Cloudflare’s Auto Minify service parsed `//` and `/* ... */` within ES6 `` `template literals` `` as comments, causing it to truncate lines or entire blocks of code, leading to unpredictable behavior or in rare cases, a code injection vulnerability. read more ⟶ Bypassing Cert Pinning in the Steam Mobile App ---------------------------------------------- Jan 14, 2018 Use apktool and jadx to identify and remove cert pinning code so we can MITM the app to watch its network requests. read more ⟶

Updated June 28, 2025

About me -------- **I write speculative fiction that explores the space between horror and hope.** I’m fascinated by the beliefs and superstitions that emerge from our oldest collective memories, rooted in a time when the world was vast and unknowable. Humanity is all about how we face that unknown, explore its darkest corners, and learn to thrive alongside it, or in spite of it. I grew up wanting to be a professional author. I wrote indiscriminately as a kid: novels, short stories, zines, comics. I read voraciously: lots of fantasy and sci-fi, some horror, plenty of thrillers and mysteries. I worked on my high school’s newspaper staff, and aimed for a creative writing degree. I also grew up playing video games, and in high school, I started learning how to make them. I got involved in the modding scene, made a bunch of maps and mods, and realized I could do interactive storytelling as an actual job. I did that job for 20 years, contributing to titles like Warhawk, Starhawk, and Destiny 2, learning a lot about tech, media, and business, and meeting loads of great people. That ended up being a pretty good decision financially, as writers’ salaries cratered while tech salaries skyrocketed. Over time, however, the games industry became obsessed with “games as a service”: evergreen, systems-driven experiences that eschew most narrative in favor of repeatable mechanics and patterns. This approach turns out to be _wildly_ more profitable than traditional, story-driven, completable experiences, but it’s also significantly less satisfying to work on when your whole _raison d’être_ is to tell stories. In 2024 I took a sabbatical and started pivoting my life back toward writing. I took a year-long speculative fiction course at Hugo House, taught by the inimitable Nisi Shawl, which was rocket fuel for realigning my creative priorities. I learned how a healthy critique group works, and having one of those has been life-changing. And I had opportunities to write to deadlines, which helped me develop a sense for the actual day-to-day _work_ of writing, not just the craft. I undertook a comprehensive study of the modern business of writing and publishing genre fiction and learned how to build a self-publishing pipeline. I’m figuring out how to build an author platform that feels authentic and natural, where I _look forward_ to posting and interacting, instead of it feeling forced. I haven’t yet gotten into the bookish convention scene, but that’s changing soon. I used to coordinate similar events in the game development space, so I’m really excited to get back into the convention hall and experience it through this new lens. And of course, I’m writing. You can read my stories here. Copyright © 2025 Josh Sutphin. All rights reserved.

Updated June 27, 2025

Hi, I’m Utku — welcome to my blog 👋 I’m a father of two and a software engineer based in Türkiye, working remotely at GitBook. This blog is where I think out loud. I write primarily for myself — to clarify my thoughts, challenge assumptions, and make sense of whatever’s on my mind. If it sparks something in you too, all the better. I’d love to hear your thoughts in return — feel free to reach out: If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for email updates whenever I post something new.

Updated June 27, 2025

Home | Feed (RSS) | Feed (Atom) | Feed (JSON) | About Me * * * Welcome to my blog ------------------ Years ago, in a software development conference, someone said that every keypress that you make contributes to entropy, so if others don't benefit from them, they're essentially wasted. Therefore, you need to expose the fruits of your labor to others, the more people, the better. This is my attempt at doing so. Here you will find some opinion pieces, commentary on technology and some of the stuff that's happening in the world, as well as some tutorials. Furthermore, I might document some software breaking in all sorts of curious ways, because there's a lot of that in my life. If you want to know more about me, you can visit My Homepage. * * * Title Published **Stop killing games and the industry response** 2025-06-06 **AI, artisans and brainrot** 2025-06-27 **More PC shenanigans: my setup until 2030** 2025-06-13 **It works on my Docker** 2025-05-16 **Windows bootloader: it just works** 2025-05-11 **What is ruining dual GPU setups** 2025-05-09 **Software licenses and hyperscalers** 2025-05-03 **Less free will is good, actually** 2025-04-12 **Two Intel Arc GPUs in one PC: worse than expected** 2025-04-10 **They took Skype from us, Teams sucks** 2025-04-07 **The SSH tunnel is dead, long live Tailscale** 2025-03-03 **Zombie software and haunted tunnels** 2025-03-02 **America In 2030: The Hateful Ones** 2025-02-25 **You might not need font subsetting** 2025-02-19 **Gitea isn't immune to issues either** 2025-02-18 **Docker error messages are pretty cryptic sometimes** 2025-02-17 **My blog doesn't need quality, it needs to look like it's from the 90s** 2025-02-16 **Was UserBenchmark right?** 2024-11-19 **The AI art discourse and programming** 2024-11-08 **Throw your message into the void** 2024-10-26

Updated June 27, 2025

Everything below is a high-level snapshot of what I’m working on, as of June 27, 2025. * Enjoying family time with my wife and two sons (age 8 and 5). * Reorganizing my digital notes into Obsidian. * Recently migrated my blog from Middleman to Astro for better performance and modern tooling. * Playing a lot with LLMs and AI tools. * Continuing to tweak and explore self-hosting tools/services for my homelab. For more details on this concept I recommend looking over nownownow.com by Derek Sivers. Ask Me Anything --------------- Have questions about my work, projects, or anything else? Check out my Ask Me Anything (AMA) on GitHub. I regularly answer questions about software development, productivity, tools, and more.

Updated June 26, 2025

### Christopher Sherrod The Art of Living a Fulfilling Life * Newsletter * RSS * BlueSky Updated on Tuesday June 26th, 2025. Currently Doing --------------- * I’m currently writing a book about my electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Current Projects ---------------- * Writing helpful essays here on what has worked for me in life. See recently published below. * I operate a web agency (closed to new clients) since 1999. * I’m an artist known as Chr1stopher * Created some markdown projects for certain tracking I do in markdown text: One Big Text File Markdown Journal, Home Manual Markdown, Customer Relationship Management Markdown, and Gardening Project Managment Markdown. Previous Projects ----------------- See Projects for a list of projects. Popular Essays -------------- * How Smart Notes Transformed My Productivity and Well-being * Completing the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Challenge: A Musical Journey * Boost Your Content Production Game: Essential Apps and Tools for 2025! - I update yearly with my essential apps * Are High School Dropouts More Successful? Recently Published ------------------ * Review of an old client’s book Corp-bonics * Wrote my Tribute to Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery, Heart Surgeon Who Healed With Plants and Purpose * Wrote a review of Email Storyselling Playbook * Wrote my tribute to Vangelis The Soundtrack That Changed My Life: What Vangelis Taught Me About Legacy * Wrote an essay The Hidden Cost of Cutting Corners: Why Quality Hosting Matters More Than You Think * Reviewed a good book The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux – A Fascinating Journey Through the South Pacific * Wrote an essay Finding Balance: Why Extreme Mindsets Don’t Lead to Entrepreneurial Success * Wrote an essay Quit Worshipping Billionaires, Influencers and Egomaniacs—They Don’t Care About You * Wrote a tribute The Digital Canary: Arthur Firstenberg’s Legacy of Electromagnetic Awareness * Wrote an essay Success is Built in Baby Steps: Why Overnight Success is a Myth * Wrote an essay The Power of Letting Go: Why Not Caring What Others Think is One of Life’s Greatest Lessons * Updated my robots.txt file to disallow bad bots and AI crawlers and turned on AI bot blocker in Cloudflare as well. See my past essays Reading ------- * Grow A New Brain I review some books and all my past books I’ve read are listed on my GoodReads profile. Listening --------- * Enjoying the new album “Equilibrium” by sing-songwriter Waves Rush In coming out in April. * Enjoying the new album “Blackbird and the Sun of October” by Federico Albanese. * Love the new Buddha Bar album. I recommend the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die challenge. You can see my rated albums. I enjoyed it so much I wrote an entire essay about it. And check out my profile on Apple Music where I listen to music. Watched ------- * I’m really liked Andor * Good biopic on Douglas Adams * Liked Paddington In Peru My past movie ratings on IMDb.

Updated June 26, 2025

What I'm doing now... --------------------- If I've said NO to you recently it is because I'm focused on the things below. Nothing personal, I just want to continue to get stuff done. Live like no other, so you can someday live like no other. **Family** * Evenings/weekends are for spending time with my wife and four girls... if I don't seem available assume I'm busy doing something fun with them! **Health** * Current Weight | 242lbs Working to be an active dad for my gaggle of girls. Functional strength training, walking, cycling is on the Final Surge calendar. Goal for November, 2025 is 215lbs, because #dadbod. * Apps | Health & Wellness Fitbod, Nike Training App, Final Surge, and Headspace app -- for strength workouts, HITT/Yoga workouts, training plan, and meditation, respectively. * Begin Strength | Functional Strength Training At 46, it has become super important to maintain my functional strength. As a former Division I collegiate athlete, I've found my joints hurt when I'm inactive and feel their best when I'm in a committed strength training program. I've invested in a full Nike Strength gym set-up and hope to someday make this available for others to join as a gym membership -- stay tuned. **Work - Read Bio** * Begin the work, LLC | Principal Consultant Helping you begin and finish what you've begun so you can begin, again. Looking for high impact opportunities as a Fractional Head of Product, focusing on digital transformation, Product Management, and AI Strategy. * Wylder App | Fractional Head of Product In January, I joined two of my former co-founders of La Barba Coffee in SLC, as their fractional Head of Product for Wylder an app for runners, run groups, run clubs, brands, and influenceers. Wylder is NOW AVAILABLE for download for iOS and Android. Wylder: Run, Compete, Belong. **Personal Projects** * GutenStack.com | Your virtual bookshelf. I'm a reader. I highlight, underline, and scribble in the margins. I buy physical books and read them. I like the feel of paper and the progress indicator of a bookmark marking my journey. I've been slowly building a reading app, and you can now join our beta. * StoryBuild Publishing | Products for the digitally distracted. I've put all my publishing projects in one place -- Story.Build. StoryBuild Product Journals are available for sale, as well as our Draw Your Own Adventure comic books for kids ages 5-12. Published works now available -- https://books.story.build * I Build for Real People | By Sam DuRegger My first book, I Build for Real People, Not Just Metrics: A Product Manifesto is now available. This is not a framework, not another product playbook, or 7-step process to maximize output. This is about why I build, and who I want to build with and for. After 18 years of leading digital products, from quick service restaurants to fintech, fitness to AI, I kept circling the same questions. What does it mean to build something real? What happens when we design for trust, not just transactions? What kind of culture produces meaningful products? And why does belonging matter more than engagement? This manifesto is part biography, part strategy, part call to action. It’s for founders who care about how things feel, for product leaders who want to ask better questions, and for teams trying to build with intention, not just revenue forecasts. Also available on Substack: Product Manifesto. I ❤️ Coffee & Tea ----------------- * Woodshed Tea | Curated Loose Leaf Tea, Responsibly Sourced. Since 2015, we've offered a curated selection of loose leaf teas for online purchase, shipping all over the country. We now offer subscriptions of our Matcha as well as other curated 3-month tea journey's. Available Now at woodshedtea.com! * tmrw.coffee | Get Tomorrow's Coffee Today. After closing our North OKC location in October of 2024, we've been hard at work getting our Bellwether Roaster online and a new cold brew manufacturing space set up. For now you can order our blends and single origin coffees via tmrw.coffee. * Barista Bot | Text your ☕️ order like you text your friends. Barista Bot, is an alumni of i2E's E3 and Bridge2 pre-accelerator. We've finished our one store pilot for conversational text ordering at tmrw.coffee and are now applying our learning into a SaaS product for coffee shops on the Square Point-of-Sale system. * CØF-E | COFFEE OPEN FILE EXCHANGE CØF-E is an AI-powered coffee exploration project, blending curated knowledge and personal preferences into a unique digital coffee experience. COMING SOON.

Updated June 26, 2025

### Essentials Start here to learn more about nuclear power's capabilities and limitations. You'll learn about different types of nuclear reactors, reprocessing, thorium, fission vs. fusion, and nuclear waste. Start with the Essentials ### Deep Dives Get nuanced by reading about nuclear power economics, thorium, the Rickover memo, and beyond Dive deeper ### History Learn about the amazing things done in the first nuclear era, and how they can help us proceed today. Take me back ### Reference We also feature large amounts of useful reference information and calculators. Bask in info ### Consulting Hire us for nuclear consulting work. We can help execute your reactor strategy, perform expert technical reviews, do due diligence, and more. Hire us Latest Updates -------------- ##### About the Neutronics Scoping Tool A description of the capabilities and math behind the neutronics scoping tool. ##### Rickover's Memo as a Dunning-Kruger Curve The Rickover memo can be depicted as a Dunning-Kruger effect ##### Regulatory Reforms the Nuclear Industry wants I surveyed lots of people in the nuclear industry and made a list of reforms that most people agreed on ##### The story of the TOPAZ-II space reactors In the early 90s, the US bought 6 exotic TOPAZ-II space reactors from the USSR. Many interesting things happened next. ##### The Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project films We found 27 films about the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant Project and started digitizing them. ##### The Aircraft Reactor Experiment positive temperature coefficient of reactivity An interesting reactor physics and history lesson explaining the origin of molten salt fluid fuel nuclear reactors See all news * * *

Updated June 25, 2025

Lisa and I bought the first Macintosh \[128K RAM, 400K floppy disk\] at release in… Note: I’ve had three other letters to the editor published by the Wall Street Journal.… I met USC Chemistry Professor Anna Krylov in May 2023 during my journey of understanding… I am an independent voter with no enthusiasm for either political party. A friend of… In The Free Press recently, Peggy Noonan recommended the 2019 book On Democracy by e.b. white… I was working for John Ludwig and finishing up my “Diamond” project (See \*.CAB files)… The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, by Coleman Hughes, was released… On January 17, 2024, newly-elected President of Argentina Javier Milei lectured “the elites” at the… One year ago, I attended a pre-football game tailgate party on the Saturday of my… I started work at amazon.com on September 7, 1999, reporting to Chief Information Officer Rick…

Updated June 25, 2025

_What I’m up to now-ish_ * In Pittsburgh, PA. Shoot me a message with any recommendations! * Training in Head and Neck/Endocrine Pathology at UPMC.

Updated June 25, 2025

ner3y's Blog ------------ 🧑 About ✒️ Blog 🌎 Blogroll 📖 Guestbook ➡️ Slash _Last update: 25.06.2025_ 🎮 Gaming --------- * Old Skies on Nintendo Switch * The Precinct on Xbox Series S 🍿 Watching ----------- * Long Way Home on Apple TV+ * Stick on Apple TV+ * The Last Of Us Season 2 on WOW 🎓 Learning ----------- * Italian via Duolingo * Playing the guitar * Juggling 📖 Reading ---------- * tbh... nothing atm 😵‍💫 MORE!!! ------------- * Lose weight * Doing sports (running, push ups...) * Birthday preparations for my two daughters Also very cool: My monthly review - here for April

Updated June 23, 2025

Hi! My name is **Sorin** Patilinet. I am a super curious engineer who wanted to be a marketer. And did so! My life journey started in Bucharest, Romania, mastering in **Telecommunication Engineering** and then immediately jumping into my true calling **Marketing.** I live now in **Brussels, Belgium**, with my lovely wife **Felicia** and our two fantastic kids, **Emma and Sebastian**. Professionally, I inspire change in **Marketing Effectiveness** & **Measurement at PepsiCo**. I create tomorrow's marketing capabilities at the intersection of human sciences, data & tech, and consumer and category insights. I advise global and local marketing teams on **media**, **advertising strategies**, and **in-store executions** that lead to brand and category growth. I speak often at industry events and consider myself very active in sharing ideas on LinkedIn. I am passionate about discovering new business models, simplifying complex theories, and **understanding why people think and act as they do**. I love emotional **advertising**, chocolate **brands**, indie-rock **music**, stoic **values**, miniature **trains**, and real **airplanes**.

Updated June 23, 2025

**Last updated:** 23 Jun, 2025 This is a /now page, listing out the stuff that's going on with me at the moment. If you have your own site, you should make one too. What I’m listening to: ---------------------- I've been on a real **Avalanches** kick this week. There's an excellent three episode podcast series about their incredible debut _Since I Left You_ which has prompted me to listen to that and to revisit _Wildflower_ (still not my favourite) and _We Will Always Love You_ (one of the best albums of the past ten years. ...also for some reason I've been listening to **Kid Creole and The Coconuts'** _Stool Pigeon_ a _lot_. What I’m reading: ----------------- I maintain an archive of the books I read over on The Storygraph. Here's my current selection: * **Strong Motion** by Jonathan Franzen * **Private Eye** What I’m watching: ------------------ * **Andor** * **The Studio** * **Poker Face** * **Taskmaster** * **Long Way Home** * **Bob's Burgers** Other things I’m enjoying: -------------------------- * The nice weather. * Getting ready for holiday. It's almost time... Current status: ---------------

Updated June 23, 2025

Hey, my name is Josh -------------------- I'm a Principal Engineer at Journey. You'll find me leading engineering teams and helping to deliver customer value. Engineering Toil - Seeing the Unseen Work June 23, 2025 Choose Boring Tech June 19, 2025 From Scepticism to Collaboration with LLMs June 17, 2025 Don't Improve Coordination, Eliminate It June 11, 2025 Optimising teams through the Theory of Constraints June 9, 2025 Improve LLM prompts using LLMs June 2, 2025 Doing Leveraged Work May 31, 2025 Finding Your Place: Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners February 12, 2025 Stuff I learned at cinch February 19, 2024 Notes on An Elegant Puzzle January 24, 2021 Notes on A Manager's Path January 10, 2021 Managing Software Projects December 1, 2020 Using Terraform to build Twilio TaskRouter Infrastructure May 3, 2020 Global query parameters with Ember June 10, 2017 Using the JSON API spec in a Laravel API March 1, 2016 Immutable and namespaced CSS made easy February 2, 2016 React Native & continuous deployment November 3, 2015 Lessons learned from building an app with React.js October 12, 2015

Updated June 22, 2025

I’ve worked in design, web development and information management for over 30 years. Many years ago featured in the seminal **Zen of CSS Design** book, I also wrote a little book of my own on Sketchnoting This is a place to post thoughts and play around in the grand tradition of the early days of the web. I occasionally **blog**. I especially like to draw **sketchnotes**, and you can find lots of those on this site. I had fun collecting and reviewing UK university logos, which you can find in the imaginatively titled **unilogos** section. I try to log what films and books I’ve consumed, so I know where all the time goes. My Weeknotes are sporadic - but aren’t everyone’s? Find me on Bluesky where I usually repost very occasional things from nice people. Letterboxd, where I log films and have fun making peculiar little lists. Instagram for the occasional drawing and to follow friends, and finally LinkedIn - the frankly strange but sort of necessary place. We don’t talk about the other place any more.

Updated June 22, 2025

Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy Dear Members of Senate Finance Committee...

Updated June 22, 2025

* Working on making **Typefully** multi platform * Vibe Coding with **Claude Code** * Heading to the company offsite in Berlin! * * * **Last updated: Sun, June 22, 2025**

Updated June 21, 2025

Patri Hernandez is a certified professional with 10+ years of experience. She strives to provide the best possible health coaching for her clients, always helping them to understand and integrate into their lives natural ingredients as a main source of health and wellbeing. LINKEDIN, PINTEREST, TIK TOK,  YOUTUBE,  FACEBOOK,  TWITTER,  INSTAGRAM Co-Founder My Klarity Health ---------------------------- My.klarity.health is a health platform that provides free educational resources to help people improve their health and well-being. The platform offers a health library with articles on how to prevent chronic health conditions through lifestyle changes, as well as information on various health conditions and their management. Additionally, the platform educates on topics such as sexual health, skincare, healthy eating, sleep, and mental health. Member of the International Association for Health Coaches ---------------------------------------------------------- Health Coach – Institute for Integrative Nutrition -------------------------------------------------- Patri is a certified Health Coach by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. This health coach course has helped her to reframe what she knows about health and wellness to live a fulfilling life in this comprehensive, integrated and dynamic programme that includes content and activities related to holistic nutrition and lifestyle. Certificate in Natural Perfumery – The Herbal Academy ----------------------------------------------------- The Certificate in Natural Perfumery offered by The Herbal Academy provides students with an in-depth understanding of the art and science of natural perfumery. The course covers various topics such as the history of perfumery, fragrance families, blending techniques, and essential oil safety. Through this course, students learn how to create unique and personalised natural perfumes using a range of botanical ingredients, including essential oils, absolutes, and natural isolates. The course also includes practical exercises and assignments that allow students to apply their knowledge and skills in real-life scenarios. Certificate in Organic Anti-Ageing Skincare – Formula Botanica -------------------------------------------------------------- Certificate in Organic Anti-Ageing Skincare covering the science of dermal ageing and the the world of cosmeceuticals and nutriceuticals for the skin. Pharmacy of Flowers (Essential Oils) – Floracopeia -------------------------------------------------- Patri Hernandez has completed the Pharmacy of Flowers course offered by Floracopeia. The course covers the therapeutic properties of essential oils and how they can have a direct impact on both the body and the psyche. Through this course, Patri has gained a comprehensive understanding of the different types of essential oils, their benefits, and how they can be used to support emotional and physical well-being. This knowledge can be applied to create effective natural remedies and formulations for various health conditions. Cosmetic Product Making Course – Naturally Thinking --------------------------------------------------- Theory – E, S & P- SLS Free Shower Gel/Shampoo- Moisture Cream- Cleansing lotion- Conditioner- Exfoliating Lotion/Wash- Skin gel- Carrier oil/Essential Oil basics theory- Moisture Cream 2- Body Butter- Make Your Own Balm Formulating with AHAs and BHAs – School of Natural Skincare ----------------------------------------------------------- Formulating with AHAs and BHAs. The Carrier Oil Course – By Susan M. Parker ------------------------------------------- Website. About carrier oils, true oils, carrier oils suitability, fixed oils vs essential oils– About fatty acids, about oxygen, reading fatty acid profiles, carbon chains- Unsaponifiables (healing fraction), about refining, about the skin, oil sources- Monounsaturated oils, linoleic acid oils, LNA & GLA oils, about botanical families- About stability, balanced oils, special considerations, stability. Aromatherapy for Beginners – Neal’s Yard Remedies ------------------------------------------------- Award-winning health and beauty company Neal’s Yard Remedies has become my obsession. I love their products and courses. Aromatherapy for beginners is their first online course and I’m proud to be currently studying it. The history of aromatherapy- An understanding of aromatherapy and essential oils- Different application methods- Safe blending- Different base/carrier oils- Introduction to 12 popular essential oils and their properties- Create therapeutic and aromatic blends- Different methods of using essential oils- How to give a lovely relaxing hand and arm massage Introduction to Herbal Remedies – Neal’s Yard Remedies ------------------------------------------------------ Website. An introduction to the history and folklore of herbal remedies – An introduction to our most popular herbs – Plant identification – Which parts of the plant to use – How to use common herbs safely and effectively to soothe everyday ailments – How to transform herbs into useful remedies in your kitchen – Practical and hands-on teaching techniques: herbal tea tasting, making salves, and tinctures. The Art of Traditional Herbalism – ATENAI ----------------------------------------- Healing as an art- ‘Hot’ and ‘cold’ plants- Different parts of healing plants- Medicinal plants and habitual ailments- Macerated oils, tinctures, microdosis- Lunar cycles- Plant identification and harvesting- Aromatic plants in the kitchen- Compatible and incompatible plants- Poultices, syrups, gargles, steams and other methods- Clay therapy and applications- Balms and salves- Mexican Temazcal- First Aid kit. VortexHealing® Foundational Training ------------------------------------ Website * The energy system as a whole, or specific parts of it, can be deeply energized (or grounded, or nurtured, or transformed, etc.). * The meridian system can be cleared and harmonized. * ‘Karma knots’ (which are a core support for karmic & emotional issues, held in the karmic body) can be cleared. * Deep clearings can be done through the subtle energetic bodies, chakras and physical tissues * Both emotional and physical issues can be deeply impacted by this work. * This  healing can be done on yourself or others, in person or at a distance. **In addition, there are other transformative processes that are taught in class:** * You learn how to get information from Divine Presence. * You learn meditations for connecting more deeply with Divine Presence and for opening the spiritual heart. * You recreate your Grounding Cord, which grounds you to the core of the earth and strengthens you. (Everyone is born with a grounding cord, but in the West, almost everyone loses it by the time they are 4 years old.) * You learn how to bring focus to the 3rd eye. * You receive a lot of detailed information about our energy system and about how our issues become embedded in it. * Your receive a very detailed map for the spiritual awakening that is generated by the Divine through the process and classes of VortexHealing. European Institute of Dermo-Cosmetics ------------------------------------- –Website. Theoretical basis behind cosmetic formulas – Nature of the ingredients, texture, scent, physiochemical properties, cosmetic properties – Technique and materials for the preparation of each cosmetic – Preparation of individual cosmetic products – Quality control, texture, stability, aroma – Monitoring cosmetic effects and product stability. Herbal Academy Intensive: Emulsifiers and Preservatives in Botanical Skin Care Products --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herbal Academy The Emulsifiers and Preservatives in Botanical Skin Care Products intensive with expert Rachael Pontillo, M.Msc, FDN-P, CIHC, LE is designed to take our homemade creams, lotions, and other skin care products to the next level with some additional ingredients that are not commonly found in DIY herbal skin care formulas in order to create effective, shelf-stable products with a longer shelf life.

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