The Cat's Whisker

Introduction A friend asked me if I knew of any chess puzzle apps that had a timer to prevent him from trying to move so quickly.

For my 40th birthday I decided to run just over a mile (1.66km) every hour for 24 hours for a total of 40km (almost 25 miles) from midnight to midnight.

I have continued to knit in 2023, and I also reminded myself how to crochet.

I had the opportunity to play in the Denver Open 2023 chess tournament (along with almost 200 other players!)

I’m currently bringing in the new year while knitting a mitten.

Background I played my very first over-the-board tournament at the 2019 Denver Open.

Race Information The Imogene Pass Run is a 17.1 mile mountain race between the Colorado towns of Ouray and Telluride by way of a 13,134 foot pass (climbing over 5,000 feet in the first ten miles).

The CoRecursive podcast has a great recent interview with Andrew Kelley, the creator of the Zig programming language, where he talks about quitting his job and working on open source full time (Episode #67): Adam: Once you did quit, was it everything that…

Sometimes I think I hate Magento for being so overly complex, slow, resource-intensive, and feature-poor yet bloat-rich that only Adobe could be interested in it.

Secret Santa Secret Santa is a traditional Christmas gift exchanging scheme in which each member of a group is randomly and anonymously assigned another member to give a Christmas gift to (usually by drawing names from a container).