David E. Weekly — Blog

A phishing email landed on a mailing list I'm on.

Cyrinx is now open source and live at cyrinx.org.

A new Vendor Spending page, under Budget, indexes a decade-plus of district checks: search any vendor, see year-by-year totals, browse by category.

The board's 619 policies now have searchable Spanish titles.

There's a search box now.

I want to chat with my family finances without handing the data to anyone, and without abandoning a decade of Quicken history.

We just shipped the first fully symmetrical, closed-loop 2x2 MIMO acoustic transport protocol.

Three RCSD-authorized charters were a 404 on the site for months because a branch never merged.

A while back my home network started acting strange.

I was pulling apart a Netgear Orbi WiFi 7 mesh system for Network Weatherhttps://networkweather.com and found an undocumented 31-byte Qualcomm vendor IE in the 5 GHz beacons from each mesh node.

We analyzed 1,586 rental rates from flight schools across America to map the true cost of renting the world's most popular training aircraft.

What changed between launch day and the first public announcement of rcsd.info.

Why I built rcsd.info, an open data portal for the Redwood City School District, and how you can adapt it for your own district.

I connected with a friend yesterday about his job search.

PSA: consider pulling in charitable contributions to the next few weeks that you were considering making next year....

A great leader inspires a team with possibility, vision, agency, and genuine caring for their people at every level.

The new iPhone is here!

I re-coded a Rust library in Swift 6 this week and was surprised to see it was a third the size.

Folks; thanks for all the kind comments on my transition last week.

Today is my last day at Capital One....

After seven+ months of work, studying my ass off for my written, and a retest after I went long on my first power-off 180, I've finally achieved a life long goal of becoming a Commercially-rated airplane pilot....

Trust is an interesting thing.

About a year ago, I started thinking seriously about running for the school board.

Folks; Hacker Dojo is looking for an Executive Director....

Human adaptability is one of the most remarkable and fascinating attributes of our species.

The main goals of a technical interview are to assess what the candidate knows, how they explain what they know, and how they reason: how they handle being pushed beyond their limit of firm knowledge and have to rationally speculate.

I suspect that one of the most powerful points of leverage for any tech company - in a downturn or no - is excellent developer experience....

Amazing: Didn’t see the Watch Ultra coming - amazing battery life and durability, astonished that they’ve obsoleted dive computers.

I sued a spammer!...

The Metaverse is not a bad idea not because it can’t be built.

I’m one of the tiny team that built Howdy, a new voice-first chat application that sends speech & an auto-punctuated transcript to close friends and family.

I had the pleasure of working at Facebook many years ago.

> BLRB is shutting down.

Today Sonic.net installed a 10 gigabit synchronous, unmetered XGS-PON fiber optic link to my home in Redwood City California.

The Meta announcement is interesting and unexpected....

The 20th century model of life can be roughly encapsulated as being in three acts: in the first act, one is educated up to the limit of one’s mental capacity.

I know the schtick is to “start with the small stuff and then build” but the purple iPhone and reskinning of the Podcast app were pretty underwhelming.

Blessing...

This morning I was reflecting on the fact that it has been some 20 years since my primary job was computer programming.

This morning I was reflecting on the fact that it has been some 20 years since my primary job was computer programming.

How can you make it less likely you’ll be hacked?

One of the common online retail experiences is to show a product or service rating with one to five stars.

This is an idea for a startup that should probably exist and then get acquired by AirBNB or the like.

Just as an FYI since I wasn’t able to find this information elsewhere…...

So Apple came out with their new M1 based laptops and Mac Mini.

On Wednesday evenings for the past few months I have been part of a new class run by the Aspen Institute where a small cohort of experienced tech leaders have been learning about public policy and how to drive change in the federal government.

My name is David Weekly.

Mostly, it's a bunch of iterative improvements and polish.

In other contexts this is known as "kinesthetic learning" aka "learning by doing".

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