My Favorite Software in 2024

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...

Have you considered explicitly writing out the mission, principles, and values for your family? About a year ago, my wife and I had some big changes in life: a young child, living in a new state, setting some roots. It seemed like an apropos time to make a declaration of sorts of our family mission, principles, and values so that we could point...

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...