~eryn

Happy new year from Bulbasaur.

Natalie turned a Lego Game Boy into a real working Game Boy.

Monday October 6 was the full moon.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning by Elizabeth Spiers in the The Nation is a eulogy for a vile man who did despicable things to advance a hateful far-right cause.

A couple neat websites I learned about from Miriam: Learn Pottery offers online pottery lessons.

I’m pretty behind on weeknotes again.

Eric Meyer’s website has a hand-drawn ink motif that I really dig.

I was standing on a neighborhood street corner recently and spotted this sign hiding behind a parked car across the street.

The Bow River runs down from the Rockies, feeding Banff, Canmore, and Calgary.

My textbooks I’ve been fortunate to take two trips to Japan over the last couple years.

A fierce argument against AI by Anthony Moser.

Rings is a beautiful love letter to their partner as he navigates a gender transition.

Spotted in a small café at the top of Sulphur Mountain in Banff, Alberta: a delightful bilingual pun.

From Garrett Graff at Doomsday Scenario: Just months short of the nation’s 250th birthday, Donald Trump is close to batting a thousand at speed-running the very abuses of power that led to the Founders to write the Declaration of Independence in the first…

What’s this!

Tess and I went to see the Mercury play the Valkyries at Chase Center in San Francisco tonight.

I’ve had this MatrixPortal M4 from AdaFruit for a little while now.

It has been a while since I wrote any weeknotes.

Loved this mural someone commissioned for their house.

It has been a massive struggle the last few weeks to keep up with the news in the US.

A fascinating blog post by Norbert Landsteiner about how the old DEC terminals (VT100, etc) rendered text.

My birthday was this week.

Today is my birthday!

Throwback to 2019.

Two years ago, I took a trip to Japan with Tess.

The first week of 2025 and I am still thoroughly in vacation mode.

Caves of Qud is an expansive roguelike game with a 2D top-down perspective, and tons of procedurally generated content.

I enjoy reading quite a bit.

We’ve made it to the last week of 2024.

Here’s a fun fixed-width pixel font I came across the other day: Departure Mono.

This year, Tess, Erin, and I traveled to Massachusetts to spend Christmas with Tess’ family.

I’m woefully behind on 2024 posts.

This post from Bartosz Ciechanowski all about the Moon is as delightful as it is educational.

I did a little digging into some advanced parts of make(1).

I recently found myself hacking on a Makefile (the GNU kind, not the BSD kind) that made heavy use of pattern rules and grouped rules.

I made Japanese Milk Bread Rolls from King Arthur Baking for Thanksgiving.

Julia Evans wrote on her blog about a new /til section she added to her website.

This week was Thanksgiving.

On Saturday we watched the Orlando Pride play the Washington Spirit in the final.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a.k.a.

It was honestly a hell of week, with the combination of news, weather, and work.

One of my favorite memories from my time as a student at Oberlin was going to the Cat in the Cream.

I was home sick from work for part of this week.

Here’s a silly thing I made while I was home sick today.

Niagara Falls is actually two waterfalls.

Maid of the Mist is a tour company that runs a few boats to the base of both falls at Niagara.

One of the wonderful things about these falls is they stir up a lot of fine water droplets that produce rainbows when you and the sun are in just the right places.

Earlier this year, Tess and I went on a short hike in the Devil’s Slide area, along Highway 1.

Earlier this year, Tess and I went on a short hike in the Devil’s Slide area, along Highway 1.

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