The Regex King

Feeling good I got this silly beer at a large tent blasting entry-level reggae.

I love this interview with Nick Straker, on this lovely non-database/non-https Discog website.

Running a small weather station presents many opportunities to indulge in a particular fantasy of how software and data should work: for the small cost of a few sensors and a rented server, I can record weather data that has a very specific terroir…it com…

I was listening to an archival radio broadcast from the late Phil Schaap about the swing jazz band man Tiny Bradshaw.

I like a live event where the format is people riffing, and try to attend these when I can.

Great interview with the maintainer of a region-specific OpenStreetMap style called “OpenArdenneMap”, that’s been optimized for hiking in a specific region in the world (the Ardennes) while still being usable and forkable for use elsewhere.

I’ve been working on a project that was riffed into existence by friends John, Olov, and Nora at Grand Morelos: it’s called Labor Leverage.

In 2016 I was inspired to run a series of DIY workshops on the command line and the Unix philosophy generally.

In 2011, which in retrospect was a gentler computer era, I made a piece of software called Volume Pops Pro which installed custom sounds over the system default “pop” sound you get when you increase or decrease the volume on a Mac computer.

ZeroConf is a protocol that lets computers find each other automatically on a local network.

The Big Boy Weather station records data forever: observations for temperature, humidity, rainfall, and wind speed, are all recorded with the original time of observation.

I’ve been avoiding learning deeply about large language models.

My friend Josh and I were riffing earlier this year about what it’s like to “watch TV” now.

An experience I’m guaranteed to have on any given summer: it’s 90°F indoors and probably some nasty level of humidity, and I’m stewing in the living room wondering how many other people are in the exact same situation right now.

I’m convinced that there is a perfect bike route between any two points in New York City.

I was inspired by Laurel’s phones post, and want to describe my flip phone rig.

About a year ago, while looking up directions, I noticed that a prominent new place name had been added to the map in western Queens: I’d never heard of “Haberman” before.

I wanted to rig up some way to automatically take a photo of every sunrise and sunset.

Somewhere in the dead zone after the 2016 election, adrift in a season of wanting to pour some energy into something hopeful, I read Mike Migurski’s two blog posts 1 2 about legislative redistricting and gerrymandering.

After leaving a job where it felt like I’d orphaned a rich history of chats with friends that were completely unrelated to that job, marooned somewhere in Slack’s data centers, I wanted to recalibrate how & where I spent time chatting on the internet.

I’ve had the itch to read an Elvis book for a while.

One thing I wish the weather station could be tracking, but currently isn’t, is whether or not it’s snowing.

This post consecrates this “log”, where I’m trying to record everything relevant to the humble weather station I run.

One of my favorite Twitter bots, from Casey Kolderup, is called Sailor Clones.

An excerpt from Valis by Philip K.

I’m struck by this piece of advice offered by GNUPG, a piece of software used in cryptography: We need to generate a lot of random bytes.

I’ve written a small program.

I used the yes command (Linux/Unix/Mac OS X) for the first time the other day.

From 20 public-spirited lawyers could change the world: …law enables individuals and institutions to send laser beams (of varying quality, depending on cost) from one point in time and space to another, saying “this is what will take place; this is what we

As “username and password required” has become a de facto internet standard, a number of odd patterns have emerged.

Allen inadvertently participated in a panel on International Art English, the Triple Canopy analysis of the English language as represented in art press releases.

The Game Genie is a “plugin” that sits between a video game cartridge and the video game’s player.

In the distant past, my friend Josh described a category of speech which performs an action in the process of being spoken.

Knowing how to wield regular expressions unleashes processing powers you might not even know were available.