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My friend Bob makes these absolutely brilliant sensors and runs the cloud service behind them. The sensors were originally built to monitor temperature and humidity. Bob came to visit and brought one for me. I put it in my storage room where we also have a fridge that sometimes gets too hot when th...

I have a WhatsApp group for our Holberton grads and one grad was talking about learning Rust. Another grad commented that he's actively looking for jobs and rarely sees Rust as a requirement. It made me think and I wrote up this response which I thought was worth turning into a post.

John Scalzi's Starter Villain is exactly what you'd expect from the author who brought us Old Man's War and The Kaiju Preservation Society — a clever, fast-paced romp that takes familiar tropes and spins them into something fresh and genuinely entertaining.

I have used Vanguard for many years. It's the low cost leader and mainly I'm investing in boring things like VOO, VEU, and BOXX. More on BOXX in another post.

Reflections on Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, watched somewhere between Berlin and Madrid at 35,000 feet

Connection Machine CM-2 on display. Photo by Billie Grace Ward from New York, USA. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

I've been experimenting with p5.js lately - it's a JavaScript library that makes coding visual art surprisingly simple and fun. Here's a quick demo of what you can create with just a few lines of code.

Our 2025 visit to Paris is coming to a close. Here are some restaurants that we tried this time around and liked.

I've been using the Libby app by OverDrive for a many years now, and it's honestly revolutionized how I consume books. If you're not familiar with it, Libby connects you to your local library's digital collection - ebooks, audiobooks, magazines - all free with your library card.

So I was staring at my HTMX blog this morning, trying to figure out something interesting to do with it beyond the basic mobile fixes I'd been working on. That's when inspiration struck: what if readers could transform my posts into different voices?

ImprovMX is a really great service for setting up your email forwarding. I've been using the service for a couple years now.

This is a continuation of my previous post about making my own blog platform.

We travel international a lot and there are a some hacks that maybe people don't know.

I saw some video about using ChatGPT tasks. The guys setup a prompt to get the latest AI news and summarize it into a report that he could send to his users. It made me start thinking about how I could use these _tasks_ in an interesting way.

We're spending some time in Paris and we've been here a lot over the years. Here are some travel tips that come to mind.

I keep coming up with things I want to write up but don't really have a place to put them. I tried using Hugo for a while and did't like it. Back in 2007 I was using Blogger and that just seems way too old.

I'm late to the game on ChatGPT. I heard about it but didn't try it until this week. What a mistake that was.

When we first moved to Puerto Rico and started looking for a place to live we were directed mostly to gated communities like Dorado, Palmas del Mar, Bahía, and Rio Mar. These are all great places to live, but we were used to owning our own home and didn't like the idea of having to deal with an HOA...

Random stuff that excited me this week

I can never remember which fields are important. It's the `master_log_file` and `master_log_pos` but these come from `show slave status`. `Master_log_file` is from `master_log_file` but `master_log_pos` comes from `exec_master_pos`.

Puerto Rico needs a peer-to-peer lending platform, and there could be a great source of investment for such a platform.

I've been traveling around Australia for over a month now. Mainly we've been staying at hotels where we have some sort of status, Hyatt, Hilton, Sheraton, etc., and the WiFi has been free.

I had an incredible diving experience on the Great Barrier Reef today. The most fascinating discovery was the Giant Clam, which apparently has a lifespan similar to humans.

It's on the back, in the upper left hand corner. I found this information on the Global Entry site in this PDF file.

I first encountered virtual assistants (VAs) through Tim Ferriss's book "The Four Hour Work Week". My initial attempt to hire a VA in 2007 was challenging, particularly when trying to find storage for a Tesla Roadster.