Rockbridge County is quietly exceptional for cycling. You get real climbs, real valleys, and roads that still feel agricultural rather than optimized for speed. Over time, a handful of routes have become my go-tos—not because they’re the hardest or longest, but because each one has…
I spent nine days building ourss, an opinionated RSS reader that leans into the weird web. It runs in human-scale instances, lets friends trade links inside their node, and generates a daily digest that summarizes what you actually read while recommending what to read next….
I’ve been using OmniFocus for my personal task management for almost a decade now, and one of its most useful features are the integrations into my email, web browsing, etc. So when the Chrome plugin went belly up a while back I was kind of…
Emerging signal: I’m seeing more and more hands-on pros—engineers, surgeons in the OR, mechanics—push back on the notion that AI is about to swallow the physical world whole. After almost two decades working in hardware, I get it. Bits travel at the speed of a…
In the realm of entrepreneurship (eship) education, where ideas are the currency and innovation is the goal, having a versatile tool that can shepherd an idea from its nascent stages to a tangible prototype is invaluable. Enter Figma—a design tool that has become a cornerstone…
My talk from Crowd Supply’s Teardown 2024: what game design taught me about designing physical hardware, and how affordances — the cues an object gives you about how to use it — carry over from screens to circuit boards. Full talk below.
This should be the last of my cycling videos for a while. This one is of an old favorite — Old Plank Trail in Illinois.
A list of videos I recorded on my bike’s GoPro during RAGBRAI 2024. I missed a few days (forgot the camera, forgot to turn the camera on).
Back in Illinois and riding around town before RAGBRAI begins! Testing out my new GoPro camera.
At our house in Lexington, Virginia, I recently tested a Meshtastic repeater installed at my home, achieving a good signal range of approximately half a mile without a clear line of sight. I plan to elevate the antenna to enhance reach and responsiveness. But, hey!…