Aaron Gunderson

2022-11-20: Weekend project update: one of my projects, a button pad for Ranger, is now wired and boxed. …

2022-11-18: I’m on Mastodon @agundy@urbansolarpunk.social I couldn’t find a home so I made my own, …

2022-11-14: Final fall harvest, got a ton of Swiss chard, celery, green onions, leeks, one beet and five …

2022-11-10: Completely impractical but I love the whimsy of the Framework laptop’s customizable orange bezel.

2022-11-10: I wonder if we can tie back what feels like a crypto contagion collapse to laid off big tech workers …

2022-11-06: Late fall New Hampshire hike at Pawtuckaway state park. It was a balmy >70 degrees and a slippery …

2022-11-02: My coworker is working hard.

2022-10-22: Interesting old Strange Loop talk I found while catching up on some of the latest talks from this …

2022-09-25: Restoring from a backup over local Ethernet and getting 34-50 MiB/s with spikes up to 64 MiB/s feels …

2022-09-25: Sunday snoozing

2022-09-18: Looking for an extra weekend day.

2022-09-07: Hot tea season is back, heck yeah.

2022-08-13: Slowly rebuilding my running fitness and drive.

2022-08-13: This boy.

2022-08-11: This is so cool: mechanics, control systems, computer vision, and more! youtu.be/Gu_1S77Xk…

2022-08-06: This planned talk from @errebino sounds really cool :D sycl.it/agenda/da…

2022-08-06: Started playing with Zig but maybe I should just learn Rust?

2022-07-17: Garden fresh peas nom nom

2022-07-09: Ban lawns and especially lawn mowers at 7 am on Saturdays.

2022-06-18: Solar powered Rad bike charging. I want to find a 12v bike charger to try. I think it might be more …

2022-06-17: Friday night bike to the lake to run together.

2022-06-13: Current status: work from backyard.

2022-05-24: Hakeuri harvest 😋

2022-05-08: Curbside furniture pickup by bike

2022-05-07: Monkeying around 🐒

2022-04-29: Friday ball time comes earlier right? 🎾

2022-03-24: I’m taking a week off between jobs and what do I do with my first day off? Brain wakes me up at 5 am …

2022-03-19: It’s an infrastructure failure that Boston to Philadelphia costs more money to take the train that …

2022-03-17: What are we using on macOS these days? Homebrew, Mac ports, nix, something else?

2022-03-14: I upgraded to a nice standing desk 2 months ago and I’m not sure how I survived this long without it …

2022-03-12: Making a first attempt at a Cassoulet. This is so meat heavy peasant food.

2022-03-12: Early spring seedling’s experiment is going pretty well! Tomatoes, some herbs, peppers, kale, leeks …

2022-03-10: Is Amazon desperate for engineers? it seems like their recruiters don’t coordinate either because I …

2022-03-07: Car brain rots us. Why are we listening to people who drive over 50 miles a day complain? Why do we …

2022-02-27: Seed starting for the spring. The vegetables are definitely not cheaper than the farmers market at …

2022-02-27: Now those are some bubbles. Homemade apple, pomegranate and cinnamon kombucha.

2022-02-23: Excited to see my first Elixir lang contribution make it’s way to my dev env. A minor quality …

2022-02-21: Warm weather bike ride with Ranger.

2022-02-20: I made my first Clojurescript app :D agundy.gitlab.io/gas-viz/

2022-02-19: What’s that state of clojure and clojurescript these days? I haven’t heard or seen much but might …

2022-02-19: How much bandwidth on the internet is developers and CI redownloading the same docker images, apt …

2022-02-19: People are talking about lifting the gas tax. We shouldn’t be making it cheaper to have car …

2022-02-18: The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry | Climate Town (feat. Not Just Bikes) …

2022-02-13: Cheddar jalapeño and bacon bread in the works. Here’s a photo of the dough.

2022-02-13: Shortbread cookies. Nom nom.

2022-02-02: Okay this was share worthy. Wordle 228 2/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

2022-01-29: Got in some snow MTB fun before it got too deep.

2022-01-14: Today I learned that cron silently ignores any scripts that contain a ., i.e. …

2022-01-14: Friday vibes

2022-01-13: The Wordle tempts me. Sucker for word games.

2022-01-13: Self diagnosed myself with ADHD, who has articles or books for me to read on techniques managing …

2022-01-12: ROS takes the have many dependencies idea and says what if we do that but without acess to a modern …

2022-01-10: Cool tool to convert common CLI tool output to machine parsable formats aka JSON …

2022-01-08: Paint isn’t infrastructure @CambMA

2021-12-26: Bike mechanic supervisor 🚲

2021-12-25: Rangers first Christmas with us 🎄🎁

2021-12-24: Union Square donuts 🍩 and ☕️ for Christmas Eve breakfast treat.

2021-12-23: Prioritizing some CI and testing wins to end out the year. Starting the new year with improved build …

2021-12-19: Somerville Holiday lights tour with Ranger 🎄🎁

2021-12-08: Important pupdate: Ranger now has a carhart jacket 🐕

2021-12-05: What are the best smart plugs that aren’t actually annoying? Hoping to not require custom apps …

2021-12-05: Rangers first real hike and Michelle’s first winter hike! Hiked Mount Major yesterday.

2021-12-02: According to Ranger it’s ball o clock.

2021-11-26: Breakfast sausage and potatoes with shiitake mushrooms, feta and mozzarella pizza on my first …

2021-11-23: In case you need a source of imposter syndrome this robotic arm build is wildly impressive …

2021-11-18: just logging a formal complaint against gpg and the user experience signing apt packages.

2021-11-16: I got Michelle the Framework laptop and I’ve been digging the design and the principle. I’ve been …

2021-11-16: Cozy Tuesday mornings.

2021-11-12: Mushrooms?

2021-11-10: Is it just me or are the Ubuntu default wallpaper’s really bad? Why can’t one of the …

2021-11-09: Happy run boy

2021-10-28: Late fall styles 🧣🎃

2021-10-23: Hammock life

2021-10-20: Trail running doggo 🐶

2021-10-14: The view and the ride. Today kicked my butt and Robert had to tap out with a it band injury.

2021-10-14: Pavement ends.

2021-10-13: Starting the Green Mountain Gravel Growler today and so far it’s awesome.

2021-10-08: Pitch: Halloween bike ride, we dress up, decorate our bikes and cruise around town making some new …

2021-10-08: Ranger says Fridays are for no work, just play.

2021-10-03: Happy fall 🎃

2021-10-01: Ranger decided to make himself comfy. We try to only let him on the couch when invited.

2021-09-29: Night cruise with the doggo 🚴 🐕

2021-09-26: Too many hobbies and interests, not enough time.

2021-09-25: Fungi from the ride today.

2021-09-25: What software do people use for cad on Linux?

2021-09-24: Proprietary right now but exciting for me, I hooked up our Elixir ROS library to LiveDashboard …

2021-09-24: 🎵 listening to the new Public Service Broadcasting album: Bright Magic

2021-09-18: 🌱 late summer/early fall harvest. Salvaging what I can of the tomatoes, 3 potatoes 😅, peppers, and a …

2021-09-18: I biked from Portland, Maine to Somerville, MA. Mostly following the East Coast Greenway over two …

2021-09-15: 🚲 🚆

2021-09-15: Excited for my first train ride in a long time.

2021-09-15: Breakfast of champions. Hbd to me.

2021-09-12: Finalizing the bike configuration for my first overnight bike trip coming up this week 🚲

2021-09-11: Good morning 🌞

2021-09-10: Somerville is hardcore.

2021-09-09: 🦃

2021-09-03: Not sure if this abandoned old bike is worth fixing but it might make for a nice around town ride 🚲

2021-09-03: Peppericinis, mint, sage and cherry tomatoes from the garden today 🌱

2021-09-02: Ranger has his own chariot now. 🚲 🐕

2021-09-01: If someone sends you a YouTube link and you click on it to see what it is on mobile, instead of …

2021-09-01: Found me a Bash book from 1996 on the curb.

2021-08-30: You’ve heard of parking minimums, let me introduce you to bike parking minimums. Same thing but for …

2021-08-30: Anyone want to take bets on how long these corner flexposts last?

2021-08-27: Charging up for the weekend. 🐕

2021-08-21: Tomatoes are coming in strong.

2021-08-14: Fun garden insect the tomato hornworm

2021-08-13: Grafana is just needlessly confusing some times.. the UX for saving dashboards, setting the default …

2021-08-12: 🌱 🌶 🍅 🍆

2021-08-11: Cucumber oopsy

2021-08-06: Albino cucumber

2021-07-31: Newly discovered bike frame bag use.

2021-07-29: POV your man just picked up a box of fresh CSA veggies and is on his way to you.

2021-07-25: Garden appreciation post 🌱

2021-07-25: Got honked at for giving a thumbs down and pointing to the no turn on red sign as I walked through …

2021-07-25: 🦋 🌱

2021-07-25: Pro tip: biking helps you avoid being aggravated by traffic cones.

2021-07-23: A vegetable farmer was in debt and came up with a fake death scam. They told their partner it would …

2021-07-23: Mini harvest 🌱

2021-07-15: How small do you make your incremental changes when requesting review? How do you balance atomic …

2021-07-12: 🍄

2021-07-12: Fun curbside garden

2021-07-11: Am I the only one that hates Google Map’s ads with a passion?

2021-07-11: Cars are asocial and a cancer on societies social fabric, changing how we see others from humans …

2021-07-10: Yard fungi 🍄

2021-07-10: Had to make sure this load was extra secure 🚲🍩

2021-07-09: Booked tickets to Austin, Texas. Anything I need to see or do? Probably going to rent a gravel bike …

2021-07-08: Intriguing alternative to completely open source software. Lots of difficulties and ambiguities but …

2021-07-08: Peas from the garden 🌱

2021-07-07: What’s left of the dead peach tree. Looks like it was eaten?

2021-07-06: Owowcow Ice cream

2021-06-29: Hot and humid but I went out in it.

2021-06-27: Foraged some mulberries today and whipped up a batch of mulberry kombucha.

2021-06-27: Hard cider success.

2021-06-27: A quick snapshot of the garden’s progress. 🌱

2021-06-26: Ebike powered gardening.

2021-06-24: Old house.

2021-06-21: I’m ready for some bike touring or bikepacking. Let’s go! New bags that I’m excited about.

2021-06-20: Saturday bike ride outtakes. Getting stronger and more confident. 🚵‍♂️

2021-06-18: Boston from Deer Island.

2021-06-17: Oops

2021-06-09: New place is rocking. We got strawberries.

2021-06-08: New typo dropped: $ git stash lit

2021-06-08: Yesterday

2021-06-06: I forgot how much fun mountain biking is.

2021-06-05: Backyard rest and relaxation with a rough attempt of a mint julep.

2021-05-31: Post rain ride 49 mile ride!

2021-05-20: Beautiful 67 degree day, nice time to 🚲

2021-05-15: I’ve been playing Stardew Valley a bunch lately and now I’m inspired to be growing and making a ton …

2021-05-11: Pfizer vaccine explanation for the software people. berthub.eu/articles/…

2021-05-04: Update on the fiddlehead ferns: turned out yummy! Boiled and then sautéed with butter, evoo, garlic, …

2021-05-04: I’ve acquired fiddlehead ferns, first time preparing or trying these. How should we eat them?

2021-05-01: Made a batch of kombucha with Lapsang souchong, a smoky black tea and it’s a bit too smokey.. …

2021-05-01: Solar power is live

2021-04-30: Snagged this cool @thec4labs raspberry pi zero case with a breadboard attached. Excited to use it …

2021-04-29: In ten years it will be easier to watch media and play games from pre 2010 than it will from …

2021-04-29: Womp womp womp @somerbikesafety

2021-04-29: Did the final clean and move out of my old place and made a jank bike trailer load. Kinda proud of …

2021-04-27: The Basecamp blog boat has been contentious. One specific aspect that’s related but they seemed to …

2021-04-27: When will electric cargo vans hit the market? I think a Nissan Leaf -> compact cargo van is a …

2021-04-25: At the stage of organizing where everything is worse than it started.

2021-04-23: Anyone have leads on where to get nice looking mini drawers for holding components and cables and …

2021-04-23: Building a project table, more organizing of the apartment and office, and some planting …

2021-04-21: Are the M1 Macs ready for developers yet? We use a mixture of Docker and Nix for most of our …

2021-04-17: Kombucha morning after a moving hiatus and this boy is quite acidic. Gonna keep it for cooking.

2021-04-13: Yeah sometimes I take drugs 💉

2021-04-10: Spring ride!

2021-04-08: Oh no follow up kale post. The big ones we left outside have been eaten 😭

2021-04-08: Bike kale cup

2021-04-03: Forgot to take action shots but super excited for the results of a recent Craigslist foray, a road …

2021-04-01: Bike zooms with the @BurleyDesign trailer. Been doing a few moving loads via bike.

2021-03-31: Sending love and support on Trans Day of Visibility! #TDOV

2021-03-28: Bike trailer planting haul 🌱

2021-03-26: First plant in the new place.

2021-03-25: Spring seedling update from earlier this week. 🌱

2021-03-25: Been able to take a step back from feature releases and make incremental improvements and unblock …

2021-03-20: Weather hit 60 degrees so Michelle and I went for a nice 13 mile bike ride.

2021-03-20: Spinach seedlings 🌱 need more space.

2021-03-19: Our robot friend has moved. We have an elf on the shelf style game going on at work with this fun …

2021-03-18: Little purple air plant flowering.

2021-03-17: 1lb mushroom harvest this morning 🧑‍🍳

2021-03-16: Nothing to be proud of but I’m playing with building a Gemini client in Elixir here: …

2021-03-16: Shipped a few minor improvements to www.agundy.com mostly for a better mobile experience without nav …

2021-03-15: How are you staying connected to your team? Remote work bonding has been low lately.

2021-03-12: We need more VPS offerings that support ARM, I’m sad that AWS is the only real one right now. …

2021-03-12: Officially moving to a new place. Super excited for more space and in house washing and drying! Now …

2021-03-11: News of a data center burning down is a nice reminder to check your backups.

2021-03-10: Setting up an Elixir project with Gitlab CI #myElixirStatus www.agundy.com/2021/03/1…

2021-03-07: Pickled radish!

2021-03-07: Get you a beauty like these.

2021-02-28: Added two new books to the bookshelf today.

2021-02-21: Playing with some Rust package that require compilation on underpowered hardware and I all I can say …

2021-02-21: Final product.

2021-02-21: One of today’s projects

2021-02-21: Yesterday I biked to the trailhead for a winter snowy run, would recommend.

2021-02-21: Some of the original spinach seedlings seemed to have found their moment.

2021-02-20: Brunch

2021-02-18: I thought the UI visualization for the lander flow today was really cool.

2021-02-18: Congrats to all in the Perserverence landing! Today my brother called asking about why a key on his …

2021-02-18: Getting the Whereby ready for a Skylla rover landing watch party.

2021-02-17: I’ve been running and exercising harder again and I’m hitting the point where it feels …

2021-02-17: Community resiliency relies on competent leadership and devoted resources. America’s rugged …

2021-02-08: Do people still run Arch, why? I’ve got the Pinebook Pro’s stock Manjaro and I …

2021-02-07: Desk incremental upgrades, replaced the wobbly ikea legs with a set of drawers and sturdier legs and …

2021-02-07: Snowy romp from Kendall through Harvard and back home via Union Square. 6 miles and enjoyed it.

2021-02-07: Beet, carrot, red cabbage sauerkraut!

2021-01-31: Yesterday i picked up Union Square donuts and met the cutest pup named Toast.

2021-01-29: Cold day for bike food pantry delivery but we still made it! Cambridge has some kick ass citizens. …

2021-01-27: Power is back after 4 and a half hours. Woot not too bad.

2021-01-27: Power outage means no more work for the day right?

2021-01-26: Fun item from the root CSA: Chioggia beets!

2021-01-26: So cool! Modern Retro Computer Terminals: uri.cat/projects/…

2021-01-23: Best homemade hard cider flavor and carbonation yet.

2021-01-21: Anyone I know looking for a job working with Elixir and JavaScript building the application lay for …

2021-01-19: Do laptop stickers get oriented so that they are in the correct viewing position when lid closed on …

2021-01-19: The Netflix movie Outside the Wire 🎬 took on the ethics of drone warfare and robotic soldiers and …

2021-01-17: Thinking about our engineered car dependencies. At least there is a sidewalk. But we engineer these …

2021-01-12: Mushroom update.

2021-01-02: Tiny digital sketch of the mini garden.

2021-01-02: Photos from my dusk run tonight.

2021-01-01: Thinking about bike shares and what a community cooperative of bike shares and storage might look …

2020-12-29: Picked up some Ortlieb Panniers off of Craiglist today. Super excited for the large volume for …

2020-12-28: I bought a manual drill

2020-12-25: Christmas breakfast!

2020-12-24: What kind of down time projects are people up to? I’ve got until January and am planning on doing …

2020-12-21: Decriminalizing jaywalking www.virginiamercury.com/2020/12/2…

2020-12-20: Photos from today’s bike ride.

2020-12-18: Normalize biking in the snow

2020-12-17: ❄️

2020-12-12: Anyone else struggle using Plasma window manager? The key bindings and window controls just always …

2020-12-01: Strava is my favorite social media, just a bunch of dorks saying nice work over and over again. Very …

2020-12-01: Advent of Code time of year again. Last year was learning elixir. This year I’m doing elixir again …

2020-11-28: Popovers!

2020-11-26: Thanksgiving Kombucha! Cranberry-apple with cloves, cinnamon and ginger.

2020-11-25: Twitter is arguing over a FedEx in a bike lane. Personal I’m pro biking for transport. If you want …

2020-11-25: Finally wrote up some impressions on the reMarkable 2 tablet. Summary love the hardware but the …

2020-11-24: What git release/branch management style do people like? Especially for handling long lived stable …

2020-11-19: Latest kombucha experiment was a success. Cranberry apple kombucha ✅

2020-11-16: Sneaky sneaky. What kind of slimy deal is this @verizon. That sweet deal of paying $20 to get a $30 …

2020-11-01: Some light pre-election reading.

2020-11-01: Happy to have deleted my facebook many years ago now but the rot is real. How do we rescue the …

2020-10-31: Stress baking and making apple ginger kombucha.

2020-10-13: One factor convincing me to get the reMarkable was their reputation of developer access to the host. …

2020-10-13: It finally came.

2020-10-11: Exciting mobile power updates. I can drive my energy sucking Thinkpad P1 on the go.

2020-10-06: Cambridge is setting itself up for a great future! Bike infrastructure is important for urban living …

2020-09-15: Quick camping and biking trip in New Hampshire. Pushed the capabilities of commuter tires on loose …

2020-09-09: Spot me in the news deliverying food for local residents in Cambridge! …

2020-09-09: Interesting post on paid apps: ia.net/topics/su… I really believe in paying for software and …

2020-08-31: Vote by bike 🗳

2020-08-25: Post work bike ride to Deer Island. Got me beat.

2020-08-24: Re-learning how to type on this and it’s stressful.

2020-08-17: Anyone I know use the Gopher protocol? It appeals to me as a more structured, less cluttered and …

2020-08-13: Largest harvest yet!

2020-08-13: Finding myself increasingly jaded. There are a million problems we need to tackle and corporations …

2020-08-11: Let the record show I really dislike Jira.

2020-08-08: I’m bad to my white shoes.

2020-08-07: Trail run last night, sore today.

2020-08-01: Saturday adventures testing out the new bike trailer at Trader Joe’s

2020-07-25: More photos from the ride!

2020-07-25: Black Lives Matter bike ride in Boston. #blacklivesmatter

2020-07-12: Taking advantage of Cambridge taking some streets back from cars. Pedestrians and bikes rule.

2020-07-07: Check out what’s being proposed and let Cambridge government know that this will be …

2020-05-29: Now is the time to for affirm #BlackLivesMatter and force the police to be held accountable for …

2020-05-26: Thought provoking read on private land and neighobrly connections. …

2020-05-26: Three day weekend means three day’s of local adventures. Biked and hiked our way through the weekend …

2020-05-22: Cloud native is such a meaningless descriptor. Can serverless and cloud native terms can be retired …

2020-05-15: Anyone have remote pair programming recommendations? I’ve used Floobits back in the day but …

2020-04-25: Weekend project: convert to Nix for package management and then upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 on the work …

2020-04-11: Nice long (for me) bike ride today. Lucky to be healthy and employed. I’m raising money for the …

2020-04-06: My coworker keeps licking my chin.

2020-03-22: Tiny weekend project Gitlab Status Bar

2020-03-18: The Groceries That No One Wants to Panic-Buy

2020-03-17: Watched The Biggest Little Farm yesterday and really enjoyed it. It’s a documentary about …

2020-03-05: Linux AppImage format is annoying. No I don’t want to run a chmod command and no I don’t …

2020-02-13: Epic Cell Phone justine-haupt.com/rotarycel…

2020-01-12: The Bike Buddy Program by @cambbikesafety is such a cool idea. …

2019-12-08: Saw the newest release of Elementary OS and it makes me want to try it. Looks slick. Not enough …

2019-12-07: Great engineering perspective from working at Dropbox. Really liked this line: > this is where …

2019-12-02: I’ve completed “1202 Program Alarm” - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2019 …

2019-12-01: Spent grain bread experiment. Hope it tastes good 😋

2019-12-01: Is 2019 the year I finish Advent of Code? Probably not, but I’ll see how far we get. Breaking …

2019-11-26: Will Apple bring back a solid keyboard to the 13in MacBook Pro? 16 inches is too big for what I want …

2019-11-12: When you search tech terms but get other results.

2019-11-06: Required Reading for Technologists

2019-11-06: ‪Thinkpad P1 power cycling daily is killing my productivity this week. Really hating computers.‬

2019-11-05: I voted for Cambridge local elections!

2019-11-03: Easy day hike today! Felt good to get out for a hike. Haven’t been doing it enough lately.

2019-11-02: Pro tip when applying for jobs. Export to PDF. It makes it much easier for people to read on the …

2019-11-02: Farmers market this morning ended with “harvest soup” tonight. Apples, celeriac, sweet potatoes, …

2019-10-31: Fought my thinkpad too much the last few days. Can’t get Ubuntu to run stable on it right now. …

2019-10-30: Great tribute to Guido. Python was one of my first serious languages and I always enjoyed it. Back …

2019-10-29: Started Peaky Blinders tonight and digging it. Intrigue and drama.

2019-10-28: Good friends challenge you to be better. Find good friends and keep in touch. Life is better with …

2019-10-27: Fun night eating too much with friends and playing board games! Played splendor and Coup a bunch. I …

2019-10-26: Not every day needs to have a big event or involve burning through a to do list. Sometimes …

2019-10-25: Consume Less, produce more. Consume less, produce more. Modern culture is driven a lot by consumption. One push I’ve tried to do …

2019-10-24: I listened to the How I Built This podcast today about Milk Bar and the founder sounds really cool …

2019-10-23: Pair programming, configuring or writing takes a lot of energy for me but it can be super helpful. …

2019-10-22: Writing down your steps as you make changes and tweak a procedure is super valuable. Turning steps …

2019-10-21: On a small team with lots of active projects it’s really easy to get spread thin and have too much …

2019-10-20: Wellfleet OysterFest!

2019-10-19: Offseason Travel This weekend we are headed to the Cape and it’s so much better than in season. I’m not a huge beach …

2019-10-18: Exercising, stretching, eating well, putting in focused work can all be painful but in the end are …

2019-10-17: Apple TV now has an official Spotify app. Was waiting so long for this!

2019-10-16: When debugging a problem make sure you test your assumptions, especially when stuck. I just spent a …

2019-10-15: Some tips for code reviews! www.agundy.com/2019/10/1…

2019-10-15: Come work with me at Skylla Technologies www.linkedin.com/jobs/view…

2019-10-14: Using RSS to Keep Up www.agundy.com/2019/10/1…

2019-10-13: I got tired of reading lists of tech needed to become a developer and wrote up some thoughts on …

2019-10-12: Building a Personal Knowledge Base I have been sold on developing a personal knowledge base for a long time. If you don’t know …

2019-10-12: Rainy Saturday guest looking for belly rubs.

2019-10-11: Building Maintainable Software Maintenance is a super interesting topic and I’ve been following @The_Maintainers with great …

2019-10-10: Day 9/100: keep the streak! Whoa I did not break the streak in the first week! Still going strong publishing something every day …

2019-10-09: Removing Social Media to be Social I am not sure the day I removed Facebook but I deleted it at one point about a year ago and have not …

2019-10-08: How do you read your books? I read physical books for tech and science books. Audiobooks for …

2019-10-07: Gitlab Review: Code + CI 👍 Issue Lists and Milestones 👎 Gitlab has been growing on me over the past 8 months. Work had previously been using Github but we …

2019-10-06: Wishing for a Mac I have been back on Linux full time for almost a year now and there are a few things I miss. Paid …

2019-10-05: RE: Avoid Working Alone An addendum to: letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/06/2… If you join a team who has you working …

2019-10-04: Today was a busy day at work, but it didn’t have to be. I fooled myself by doing work but not the …

2019-10-03: Travel, Consumption and Happiness Consumption and happiness is a huge discussion that I can’t breakdown completely in a short post, …

2019-10-02: Now Update A lot of people with personal websites like to keep a “now” page, listing what they are …

2019-10-01: Day One: Intentions Ever searching for the best note taking application on Ubuntu I stumbled upon Standard Notes today …

2019-09-29: Spent the day in Newport, Rhode Island with Michelle and my mom.

2019-09-15: Not sure how they get away with this. Shame on Verizon Wireless

2019-09-05: anyone else use the Spotify app on Ubuntu and have to relogin after every boot? Not sure if I …

2019-08-08: A nice read that mirrors my experience with and relationship with my Facebook cut back. The Death of …

2019-08-02: Morning office. Nice day to be outside, just a little bright.

2019-07-28: Cutie Newfoundland puppy.

2019-07-15: Cats everywhere.

2019-07-14: Hanging time

2019-07-13: Unemployed Fishing

2019-07-07: While waiting for Avengers: Endgame to leave the box office so I can watch it what other Marvel …

2019-06-19: Good Old RPI desecrating churches.. America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches - The Atlantic - Pocket …

2019-06-14: I’m ready for the bus ride!

2019-06-12: Who are all the people walking on bike paths with noise canceling headphones? Can you hear bikers …

2019-06-08: Getting this bad boy ready to list on craigslist. He’s been a workhorse the 5 years I’ve had him.

2019-06-08: Homemade beignets!

2019-05-28: Got out on my new (to me) bike yesterday!

2019-05-28: An Ode to Running in the City - Outside - Pocket getpocket.com/explore/i…

2019-05-08: Stem Cider - Denver Colorado

2019-05-04: My little brother is a college graduate. Congrats 🎊

2019-05-03: Close Loops & Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small …

2019-04-24: Italian lunch in Nara with local Nara vegetables. Yes I know I shouldn’t be getting pizza but oh …

2019-04-24: Best coffee I’ve had in Japan so far.

2019-04-24: It’s not the greatest, it’s the …

2019-04-24: The locals are friendly here.

2019-04-24: Why did the deer cross the road?

2019-04-21: Nara park

2019-04-20: Not pictured, me really wishing I could just sleep.

2019-04-20: Sustenance superior to airplane food: Teppanyaki grilled pork and rice.

2019-04-20: The start of the golden hour.

2019-04-20: Sugar time. My body is crashing and we have 5 more hours of traveling and waiting before the hotel.

2019-04-20: Tokyo

2019-04-19: Classic Canadian lunch? Not today.

2019-04-19: hums bohemian rhapsody Is this first class or is this just emergency (row)?

2019-04-19: Boarding time eh?

2019-04-19: What shoes do people bring for business trips? I have two, a pair of no frills looking trail runners …

2019-04-19: The trip begins.

2019-04-17: A friends sweet new ride. Very fun.

2019-04-11: Whoa nice job Cambridge! Excited to see the effects of this. Lanes have slowly been added over the …

2019-04-10: ROS dependency management and package versioning is a mess.

2019-04-04: Good post: Learning to build distributed systems. A nice overview and a reminder that like all …

2019-04-02: Current status: spring cleaning, software gardener edition weeding code, planting CI seeds, …

2019-03-30: Spring bike tune up and ride day.

2019-03-29: This looks like cool hardware but I don’t have any project ideas for it yet. Any ideas? …

2019-03-26: The worst part of the web, now in your emai. techcrunch.com/2019/03/2…

2019-03-14: I’ve been using Gitlab a little more recently and digging it. It’s not perfect and …

2019-03-09: I hate when developers try to be smart with password validations and fail. Your regex isn’t …

2019-03-07: I donated to @mozilla today because I #lovetheweb. Join me and help build + protect the Web forever …

2019-02-25: Which one to do 🤔 www.thenorthface.com/get-outdo…

2019-02-21: Very cool interactive art: vvvv.org/blog/eq-t…

2019-02-12: Trying a barrel aged porter with cocoa husks, coffee and Madagascar vanilla

2019-02-12: Very nice. Private life only private between you, tech co and anyone paying. …

2019-02-10: Interesting thoughts on compounding knowledge: fs.blog/2019/02/c…

2019-02-07: Things Bostonians think coming back from Japan. How can we make the MBTA as good as the trains …

2019-02-06: Some food from my japan trip

2019-01-20: Did a fun 6 mile run in the snow and ice strava.app.link/xF9klfSbE…

2019-01-20: Shout to my girlfriend for making yummy hoddeok, a Korean doughy pancake stuffed with pecans and …

2019-01-19: Saturday morning vibes

2019-01-16: Very interesting security read from Hacker news blog.haschek.at/2018/the-…

2019-01-14: New Run Route Alt title: Aaron discovers trails, tries to keep pace with cars on interstate, then …

2019-01-14: Dang, that’s a pretty desktop case. system76.com/desktops

2019-01-14: 2019 Linux: Plugs in monitor and menu scale is 200% but screen scale is normal, DAC is plugged in …

2019-01-12: Has anyone else’s Spotify gotten terribly slow? It’s unusable at times for me on iPhone 7. Search …

2019-01-09: Todays end of day developer status: 30 terminals open. Need to practice the reduce, reuse, and …

2019-01-09: I need to explore running options around my new work. I’ve effectively done two routes so far every …

2019-01-08: Posted my 2018 review blog post finally: 2018 In Review

2019-01-08: What will the next generation of social media-savvy politicians look like?

2019-01-07: And with the new pricing model: New Year, New Github the easiest way to get rid of it might be …

2019-01-07: The new @Github Pro label also doesn’t look good on the profile page and I can’t find a …

2019-01-07: I really don’t like this new gaudy Pro label on @Github

2019-01-04: Canceled my amazon prime account and it feels good. Saving $120 and Also reduce the temptations to …

2018-12-30: My weekend project. A home server. 🤓

2018-12-30: Nice work @CambMa www.eff.org/deeplinks…

2018-12-29: 📚 Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile summary: There are not just two states fragile and robust, there is a third one, …

2018-12-28: A cold and rainy afternoon run …

2018-12-28: Confused why my rospy sleep is just hanging

2018-12-21: I’m in the top 5% of readers on @Pocket for 2018! Here’s how much I read this year: …

2018-12-20: Nice. threatpost.com/amazon-17…

2018-12-14: I recently got a @lenovo Thinkpad P1 and it’s awesome except it came with a broken delete key. …

2018-12-11: Read this article from The New York Times: Your Apps Know Where You’ve Been, and Can’t Keep a Secret …

2018-12-09: Woot! Ran another race Yulefest 5k. This year was 32 and sunny. Last year was snow and slush. This …

2018-12-06: Your time and attention are your most valuable possessions. Be mindful of where you place it. Others …

2018-12-06: It was a pretty morning over Boston

2018-12-03: Fail by @Evernote. Chrome and Safari are not the web.

2018-12-03: I just completed “No Matter How You Slice It” - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2018 …

2018-12-02: A little late on the share but I completed day 2 of #AdventofCode you should check it out. …

2018-12-02: Listening to Antifragile and enjoying it. This is a great summary/review I found of it …

2018-12-01: I just completed “Chronal Calibration” - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2018 …

2018-11-29: Switching back to Python from Ruby and it’s taking a little. I keep forgeting that I need an …

2018-11-28: Got in a good morning run. Gotta get back into it.

2018-11-23: Black Friday on Mount Major #optoutside

2018-11-21: I’m on a Thinkpad P1 and it’s a little too new to have everything sorted with Linux. …

2018-11-21: I thought I would miss MacOS but after 2 days back on Ubuntu full time I’m happy and back in …

2018-11-06: I voted. Now what do I do with the sticker?

2018-11-03: Reading The Left Hand of Darkness and Flow right now. Enjoying both. 📚

2018-11-03: Book store runs always mean more books that I want to read but I can’t keep up with the …

2018-10-31: Missed the memo that today was Halloween until a coworker explained that’s why they where wearing a …

2018-10-26: Gave a talk on technical debt and refactoring @rcosrpi It’s great to be back for the day!