Aging makes running harder: recovery slows, endurance wanes, and managing weight is tougher. Stress from increased work responsibilities compounds these challenges. My last job pushed my stress levels high, prompting me to seek relief through distance running—a hardship chosen and controlled, providing a welcome contrast to life’s uncontrollable demands. In that spirit, I did a … Read more
I manage my own webserver via docker and have a wordpress blog for each of my kids (eg lauren.theboohers.org) Yea dad! Well, I noticed that loading my son’s blog (david.theboohers.org) would occasionally redirect. I’m sharing how I dealt with this so you might save some time and pain. What is the problem? Over the past … Read more
My son was jumping around the neighborhood on his 2019 Men’s Stumpjumper ST Comp Alloy 29 and noticed his chain sticking on the back of his bike. He was jumping around and noticed that the rear gears and chain were binding. You can see this below: I took off the derailleur and noticed the notch … Read more
One of the coolest challenges in robotics is to enabling machines to grasp the bigger picture from a small bit of human control. Imagine an operator guiding a single robot in a complex environment—the robot isn’t just executing isolated commands, but is part of a larger, dynamic mission. This is where multi-agent goal inference steps … Read more
You can’t build anything big and important without a solid foundation. In security, hardware acts as that unyielding foundation, the basis for all other defenses. While fancy encryption and zero-trust principles can safeguard data in an environment where software is inherently untrusted, they ultimately rely on hardware’s immutable security properties. Companies are partnering with cloud … Read more
Tracking and categorizing financial transactions can be tedious, especially when it comes to Amazon orders. With Amazon’s new data policies, it’s harder than ever to retrieve detailed purchase information in a usable format. Amazon is so broad that a credit card charge could be for a digital or physical product, a whole foods purchase. The … Read more
I’m a Christian and that defines my worldview and ethics. And I love art. Like Keats, I believe that good art is both beautiful and useful: Beethoven’s symphonies inspire awe; Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov explores themes of suffering, faith, and free will; It’s a Wonderful Life inspires hope and encourages selflessness; Shakespeare’s plays blend humor … Read more
It’s a question that has likely crossed many minds: Won’t heaven be boring? When we read Revelation 4:8 about beings who “day and night never cease to say, ‘Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty,’” it might sound like a monotonous loop of endless repetition. Doesn’t anything done forever sound exhausting? But this modern … Read more
Plato is an unexpected architect of progressive thought, but his name has come up as the bad guy in some conservative circles lately. This is partly because at the heart of Plato’s political philosophy lies the concept of the philosopher-king, a notion that resonates with progressive governance and control. The philosopher-king concept fundamentally assumes that … Read more
Our gate is the most important motor in our home. It’s critical for security, and if it’s open, the dog escapes. As all our kids cars go in and out, it’s always the gate opening and closing. It matters. The problem is that we have to open it and we don’t always have our phones … Read more