Craig Weber

It's Friday afternoon and someone asks what I accomplished this week.

Dining table made from air-dried black walnut.

I used Claude Code to analyze my git repo contributions from 2025.

Desk-side cabinet made from Baltic birch and hard maple, with cane front and rear exhaust fan for cooling.

Desktop pen tray made from air-dried walnut and finished with clear gloss Osmo Polyx.

Stand for cat food bowls.

Floating kitchen shelves made from 8/4 solid white oak.

Bathroom vanity cabinet made from Baltic Birch plywood and quartersawn white oak.

Small entryway bench made from air-dried black walnut.

Sofa table made from air-dried black walnut.

Walnut and Maple coasters.

Floating TV console made of quartersawn white oak.

Is a photocopier alive?

Two-story cat litter cabinet featuring external stairs for accessing the upper level.

Raised vegetable garden beds made from SPF framing lumber.

Escher-style cutting board made from trapezoids of Peruvian walnut, hard maple, and red oak.

Countertop-height patio table designed as a food-prep workspace adjacent to a grill.

Built-in set of cabinets for the sunroom.

10 years and a few months ago I started a new job working on a website with an extremely normalized MySQL database.

Home office bookshelf made from ½" birch plywood and ¾" poplar.

Home office cabinets with red oak top as auxiliary desk space.

Mid-century modern writing desk made from birch veneer core plywood with maple face frame and legs.

Nerds love discussing their backup strategies, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Principals I try to follow whilst leading my team of software developers: Sometimes overtime is unavoidable.

Here is a list of open-source projects I own or actively contribute to, as of February 2017.

For the first time, SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket last night.

It was a chilly morning in November when Olivia walked into her favorite coffee shop in Brooklyn and ordered a triple-shot of espresso.

Perfectly crispy on the outside, the paper thin crust on my La Bagel Delight bagel wraps the incredibly chewy dense inside.

This past March, two of my long-time friends and co-workers married to each other.

For the past few months, my team along with a few of the other development and dev/ops teams in our organization have been meeting once a month for about an hour of lightning talks.

For a while, I've been interested in videography and editing as a hobby.

Dynamically typed, interpreted programming languages are great.

This week Marissa Mayer unveiled Yahoo's new logo design, ending the 18 year reign of their former logo.

Last summer the power supply on my old, first generation LCD TV started buzzing.

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I don't have enough time.

When you sit back and look at it web application development is a total disaster.

This couch doesn't have drop shadows and an unnecessary 'loading' animation, metaphorically speaking.

I really hate that people think writing online needs to be significantly dumbed down and shorter than writing in print.

If you're using Node.js, you're doing life wrong This morning, on a conference mailing list, I made some disparaging remarks about Node.js (the title of this post, in fact).

No matter how hard some people try and find it, there is no secret to being a great programmer.

Until recently, when I moved to Brooklyn, I lived in a small town on the outskirts of the Rust Belt region of the US.

A supersaturated solution is one in which the saturation point, at which no more material will dissolve, has been exceeded.

If you follow me on Twitter, you might have noticed that I've been fairly quiet about what I've been working on for the past several months.

{<1>} Anyone familiar with Java, C, C++, or another similar language would easily recognize this code: switch (n) { case 0: puts("You typed zero."); break; case 9: puts("You typed nine."); break; d…

I’ve always had a feeling that Marie Antoinette’s famous words, “Let them eat cake,” didn’t mean what everyone else thought.

I just finished watching the documentary Objectified for the second time.

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