Nathan R. Yergler

Republished my thought On Product Engineering to Medium; it’ll be interesting to see how response differs from when I posted to my personal blog.

Just read the news of Dean Allen’s passing.

Picked up John Green’s “Turtles All the Way Down” two days ago; stayed up an extra hour last night reading.

Finished sewing my Merchant & Mills Foreman last night in denim; love the soft boxy shape.

Really interesting to see how people are using #Rust macros for code generation.

Before being felled by the flu shortly after Christmas, I had intended to write this at the end of December.

TIL that if you’re trying to use #rust and #webassembly together, you [seemingly] can’t pass parameters if you don’t build with --release.

Heading to Las Vegas for a long weekend with family.

I’ve long fantasized about an e-Ink tablet: something I could use for writing, sketching, and reading.

I’ve had my reMarkable tablet for about 24 hours now; hardware is great, software is close, best GPL compliance I’ve seen.

Listening to “The Art of Destroying Software”.

Resurrected some Python + Unicode training material I put together 5 years ago.

Anohni’s “Hopelessness” is the album I have on repeat these days.

In 24 hours I’ll be an uncle again.

Really enjoying Procreate 4.

I’ve been writing software and working in teams for well over a decade now.

Saw Patti Cake$ over the weekend.

Released an update to Hieroglyph yesterday, fixing compatibility with Sphinx 1.

Discovered Versioneer yesterday, basically exactly how I always wanted Python version tagging to work.

If wearing sweatpants in public means I’ve given up on life, I should have given up much sooner.

Still questions, over two years later.

I’ve been aware for some time that improving my drawing skills would probably have a big impact on all parts of my artistic practice.

“Do your research online.

In 2012, a “white power” march in Charlotte, N.

I’ve been experimenting with taking notes and explaining things to myself visually using Paper.

“Learning to think first rather than react quick is a life long pursuit.

Facebook does that thing where it reminds you of what you posted on a given day.

Work in progress from the studio this weekend, homage to Matisse’s “Seated Pink Nude”.

As someone who still has 5.

Ulysses is my go-to app for writing.

Observed at hair salon: patron trying to explain bitcoin startups to very bored looking stylist.

I spent yesterday evening doing something I haven’t done in a while: tinkering.

Yes, we no doubt live in a world where a lack of intelligence and a lack of awareness (self or otherwise) fail us at every turn.

Spent yesterday evening exploring TypeScript and WebExtensions.

The last two days of the workshop were work days.

Second print from my time at @constellationstudios this week.

I’m in Nebraska this week participating in the Color Woodcut Printmaking at @constellationstudios today.

Turns out you can get a blister on the back of your first knuckle from carving blocks for printmaking.

Today I finished my first reduction woodcut.

I’m blogging about my experience taking Karen Kunc’s “Color Woodcut Printmaking” class at Constellation Studios.

A friend suggested I take notes and write them up after each day of class to make sure things stick.

Jorge knows reading is fundamental.

First day of color woodcut printmaking class at Constellation Studio; feels like the first day of school.

I printed my last practice print yesterday before heading to Lincoln.

I traveled to Torino in 2007 and 2009 for work.

TFW you’re trying to fix an inconsistency, find & fix a bug, only to realize that if that’s the only bug it would have been broken everywhere.

A week from today I’ll be on my way to Lincoln, Nebraska for a five day printmaking working at Constellation Studios.

Spent the afternoon in the studio yesterday, carving and printing my third Red Rocks print.

At Remind I helped build the announcement and chat message delivery platform.