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Hello there,

This is my third attempt at trying to get a blog going. You know what they say, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Well, this is me trying again. Let's hope "the third time…

Spotify created a new feature called daily mix. It's like discover weekly, but it's created every single day. The feature has…

A build guide for Dactyl Manuform 5 x 6

The dactyl manuform is an open source ergonomic split keyboard. This board is a mixture of two other open source split ergonomic keyboards: namely the [dact…

Favorite hot sauces:

Heartbeat hot sauce: red habanero

You can put this stuff on anything: sandwiches, soup, empandas, you name it. It's sweet, has just enough of a kick.

Torchbearer sauces…

I've come to develop a tradition for myself over the last few years. Normally I wouldn't consider myself a traditional person. I hate doing things for the sake of doing them. Yet, I've found that ther…

In a previous post, I discussed a tradition that I've formed over the last few years. Here are my answers for this year.

What's your favori…

Allyanna and I went out to scout a few locations for her next photography session. The fog was thick, it osculated the cityscape while the air bit our cheeks. She was unwaveringly optimistic that we w…

I've been trying to spend more time doing activities with Allyanna. Right now we're on a two weekend streak of going out to take photos. Allyanna is the photography expert, and I'm just the one who to…

Lately I've been going to Morris hill park with Velo. To keep him happy I've been riding around the park in circles. It's great exercise for both him and I. He gets to keep his paws soft on the lush g…

I've been trying out hot waxing my bike chain and I can't recommend it enough. My wax of choice has been [SILCA Secret Chain HOT MELT Wax in Convenient Stove top Boiler Bag](https://www.amazon.com/SIL…

This week, I'm changing the format. I've decided to follow Nicholas Zakas's monthly newsletter formula for my own weekly updates. I'll be adding a new "What I'm thinking …

There was a challenge in the book "Toilet Tag'. It's a cute product that you place on the toilet. Each page is filled with a question or challenge that is to be answered while on the toilet. That play…

Allyanna, Zac and I finished Valheim together on 2021-05-09 at 00:04:06. It was one of the first more challenging games Ally had finished and was a great time with Zac. :)

Journaling

I've been meaning to journal more and with my Remarkable 2, I have no excuses to not make it a daily habit. I also can't count the number of times that I've had to go dig up [this great…

What I'm thinking about

How avoidance impacts my life

I had a recent conversation with my sister Jessica and she mentioned some psychology concepts that made me start doing some reflection. I…

The other day I was riding from the Idaho Youth ranch after making a donation. I ended up stumbling upon a new food truck.

The eatery goes by Antojitos El Cabezazo! It's located at 340 N Orchard St B…

Photos

Allyanna Wintermote took these photos while we were riding on the Hiawatha Trail in northern Idaho.

Parts

An intro to prompt-fi

Recently I've been blown away by the OpenAI model GPT-3. If you haven't heard of it, it's a

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3; stylized GPT·3) is an autoregressi…

Today's my 31st birthday. My dingus co-workers surprised me with some birthday gifs. I don't want them to disappear into the aether so here they are. 😂

They were also kind enough to ge…

What I'm thinking about

Family

Jessica

My older sister Jessica spent her time in Idaho from 2022/01/20 until 2022/01/30 visiting. She stayed with Allyanna and I for the most part with s…

What I'm thinking about

Suboptimal defaults

I've been thinking about default configurations that don't make sense. Things like desk layout, editor orientation and gaming keyboard mappings are…

What I'm grateful for

My partner Allyanna

Allyanna and I celebrated our 11.5 year anniversary with a date at the first restaurant we went to together: Papa Joe's.

Before that we went to Hyde…

Yesterday Velo had some sort of episode. He was laying in bed next to Allyanna and was moving his eyes left and right quickly, almost like he had just gotten off a fast spinning merry-go-round. Both o…

Today finally brought showers to Boise. It was more lighting and thunder than we've seen in as far back as I can remember for this area. Allyanna and I were finishing up the season finale of Barry whe…

Calligraphy is one of my forms of meditation. For me the art is mostly a means to avert my eyes from the ubiquitous screens while tapping in to the sensation of scratchy nib on supple paper. Is it goo…

Allyanna and I were invited to Oahu to attend her friend's wedding from 2023-06-18 to 2023-06-25. As far as planning goes it was on the lower effort side as we ended up going with a Costco travel pack…