Writing a Mission, Principles, and Values for Your Family

As an engineer, you’re always refining which tools are in your toolbox. Here’s a big list of software I enjoy using in 2024. There are big overlaps with my list in 2023. One change I’ve made this year: I’m dropping all mentions of anything I don’t touch in a month. So, please refer to 2023 for some honorable, but less regular, mentions.

In the past few months, I’ve come across two interesting and impressive projects. First, Omakub, an omakase developer setup for Ubuntu 24.04+ by DHH, whom I greatly respect. Second, Project Bluefin, an opinionated Linux workstation built on atomic Fedora images (Fedora Silverblue, specifically). I couldn’t help but see this as an opportunity to...

In the past few months, I’ve come across two interesting and impressive projects. First, Omakub, an omakase developer setup for Ubuntu 24.04+ by DHH, whom I greatly respect. Second, Project Bluefin, an opinionated Linux workstation built on atomic Fedora images (Fedora Silverblue, specifically). I couldn’t help but see this as an opportunity to...

How is your knowledge of knots? Despite being an Eagle Scout, I would have to answer: very poor. While I’m confident that just about everyone knows the Overhand knot, the Reef knot (or Square knot), a shoelace knot (or more), and a Slip knot. As a Boy Scout, throw a Bowline into that mix. And yet, if I was tasked to tie a knot outside the context...

Introduction Back in 2013, Marc Scott wrote a great blog post: Kids can’t use computers…and this is why it should worry you. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend it! In my opinion, Scott’s take was true in 2013, and even more true now, over a decade later. An arguably-too-brief summary of the post is: despite the...