Blake Merryman

I’ve been slowly reading through The Trad Climber’s Bible over the last several weeks.

GitHub has a handy issue type field that’s available to organizations.

From a Github Gist by Andrej Karpathy (local copy for posterity): A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs. […] Most people’s experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant…

From the mouth of the late Dean Potter in the trailer for The Dark Wizard (YouTube) (via Climbing Magazine): When I was a little boy, my first memory was this dream of falling. […] My whole life, I’ve been obsessed with the dream.

From a post by ColdPlankton9273 on r/ClaudeAI: Everything I do runs through Claude Code.

From the depths of the Daring Fireball archives: New feature at Daring Fireball: the Linked List, a daily list of interesting links and brief commentary on DF-related topics, updated frequently but not frenetically.

From the blog of Shubham Bose: I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data.

From (the ironically now defunct) Andy’s Blog (via The Internet Archive): Let’s tell the truth, then: Nobody reads your blog. […] At least, not as many as you’d like.

From a post in Coding Horror Discussion: Daniel_Langworthy (April 13, 2025): @codinghorror do you know what happened to WASDKeyboards?

After a decade of building software for other companies, I’m going indie!

The month of March was a busy one for me.

For my book posts, I was looking for an easy way to export my Kindle Highlights.

This morning I completed a Boulder classic: solo climbing Freeway on the Second Flatiron.

My Sun Eater journey continues with Demon in White.

Today, we tried an activity that I’m never experienced before: snow shoeing!

A simple run around the neighborhood to get more miles under my feet.

My recipe for a delicious cup of pour over coffee.

I wasn’t sure where I wanted to run this morning so I picked a route that I was excited to run!

This morning, I made it up to the top of the Dakota Ridge just in time for sunrise for a fantastic view of Boulder and the Front Range.

This one was a wild ride: Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio.

Update 03/14/2024: We made it through 4½ weeks before we got bored with the routine.

I just finished Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio.

After 5½ years working on ❤️ healthy things at Apple in California, I’m starting 2024 with a new gig: working on 🥽 spatial things at Apple in Colorado.

A Brief History The origin of the name “chess pie” is steeped in history and folklore.

I happened upon this benedicto by Edward Abbey while perusing my copy of Campfire Stories: Tales from America’s National Parks.

In June, Kellie and I flew back to Tennessee to celebrate our fathers, visit friends, and spend some time in Chattanooga.

A not so merry post.

On this day, I stopped drinking alcohol.

Over the pandemic, I picked up wood working as a fun hobby.

Living in California during the pandemic definitely has me missing home.

Recently, I wrote a series of Swift tips over at my company’s blog.

I’ve lamented about my love/hate relationship with Evernote but I never followed up about my solution to this problem.

I’ve been a long time Evernote user.

We all knew what was coming and it was still a doozy.

Speaking of Swift, I delivered a presentation on scripting with Swift at Nashville CocoaHeads at the end of January, earlier this year.

I’m really excited about the changes to Swift in the current Xcode 6.3 beta.

Youtube recently ran into issues with it’s view counter for the Gangnum Style video.