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After listening to my gripes with the anticlimax of Hyperion, I heard from a few people that The Fall of Hyperion should really be considered part of the same volume.

I’ve been reading the Hebrew Bible in between novels over the past year.

Hyperion took its time pulling me in.

The Captive’s War is no Expanse, but I’m enjoying this new series by James S.A.

I first read The Caves of Steel over ten years ago.

A history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country plots the arc of the organization from the tsarist Pale of Settlement, to interwar Poland, into war-torn Warsaw and somehow, barely, out again.

The Manager’s Path walks the reader through the different phases of leadership software engineers encounter in their career, from intern mentor and tech lead to VP and CTO.

I’m not sure where I first read about How To Do Things or why I decided to buy it, but I saw it sitting in my “Downloads” folder when I was on a plane without WiFi and opened it up.

The Great Alone was an emotional rollercoaster.

Software development is changing.

I read Project Hail Mary for the first time soon after it came out and devoured it in a single sitting — ruining my night’s sleep in the process.

Who’s at fault in a fatal accident involving a self-driving car?

After last year I wanted to give Sanderson another shot.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a quintessential coming of age story.

This is a tough sequel to review without any spoilers for The Will of the Many, so I’m not going to attempt it.

After reading Developing our position on AI from the Recurse Center, the corresponding entry in my newsletter grew long enough I’ve decided to break it out into a full blog post.

The Will of the Many started off feeling like a cross between the political setting of Red Rising and the magic system of The Fifth Season.

Back to science fiction with another installment in the Hainish Cycle!

Compared to the first two books in Earthsea I was not as excited about The Farthest Shore.

The second installment of the Earthsea series, I enjoyed this book about as much as A Wizard of Earthsea.

Until now I’ve only read Le Guin’s science fiction work, and have wanted to give her fantasy series Earthsea a try for a while.

A retelling of the initial encounter in Tenoxtitlan between the Aztecs and the Spanish.

I read many of Le Guin’s more classic entries in her Hainish Cycle back in college and since then have been fascinated with the world she built for novels like The Disposessed and The Left Hand of Darkness.

Part fantasy, part pirate novel, part fairy tale, this was the first Brandon Sanderson book I’ve read, and I’m not sure it was the best one to start on.

I really enjoyed this book — its final lines even surpassed The Great Gatsby as my favorite closing lines of a novel.

I listen to both Ezra’s and Derek’s podcasts regularly and was pretty familiar with the outline of “Abundance” the concept from Klein mulling over his thoughts over the past four years on the Ezra Klein Show.

I found Golden Son to be even more of a page-turner than Red Rising.

A fun sci-fi novel that brought together a lot of parts of other series and franchises into an interesting world: a solar-system spanning oligarchy with a caste system backed by geenric engineering whose ruling class reveres the ancient Romans more than a…

I wrote most of this post during the week between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day when enough people in New York have left the city that it makes it quite difficult not to turn introspective.

A book about life, love, and video games.

This was one of the most creative and enjoyable sci-fi books I’d read in a while.

I just realized today that I haven’t updated VSCode on my Mac in almost a year.

Welcome back to the Nix on Mac series!

Dune: Part Two hit theaters recently, which got me thinking about my own experience reading Dune in the past, what I enjoyed about it, and my own personal headcannon that made this novel more enjoyable for me.

In part one of this series we installed Nix, set up our system configuration with nix-darwin, and installed some packages at the system level.

I think Nix is really cool.

I got a new computer recently and decided to take the plunge setting it up with Nix1.

I built my development flake for this website with the FlakeHub CLI.

I recently got a new computer and am spending some time actually digging into Nix for managing dependencies.

Pablo Picasso was one of the most famous modern artists of the 20th century.

Every once in a while, a development server on my laptop gets stuck open when the terminal that spawned it has already closed.

Some JavaScript types like dates are not representable directly with JSON and require extra care to parse back out to a JavaScript object after they’re serialized.

type FirstType = {}; type SecondType = {}; const typesEqual = <A, B extends A, C extends B>() => {}; // This will fail to compile if FirstType and SecondType are not equivalent. typesEqual<FirstType, SecondType, FirstType>(); Found in this StackOverflow…

This is my generative AI take.

I often want to include related nested objects in my Django REST Framework ModelViewSets for CRUD operations, but don’t want those related objects cluttering up the list view.

Astro added content collections in v2.0, and while it’s overall a big improvement for pages like blog posts where there’s a uniform schema, it makes generating links to your content just a bit harder than file-based routing.

The Django documentation describes how to bind uploaded files when using function-based views.

One of my first posts on this blog in 2020 was about my experience switching from VSCode to Emacs for all of my text/code editing work.

I’ve been working on a plugin for Obsidian called Obsidian Full Calendar on-and-off for the past 10 months or so.

One of my pet peeves about my natural writing style is how I lean into complex sentences divided by commas.