Thirty years ago, I started sharing what I was learning outside of work when blogs were just starting. (I wrote my first blog in Perl before php and WordPress existed.) My initial goal was to capture what I was learning and hopefully be a bit of help to others.
Now, with close to 250 posts and after a career in government and several companies in industry, I’m focused on sharing the cool stuff I learn or build. From work with DARPA, the National Academies, the Air Force Reserves and my job in the defense industry, I have an incredible front-row seat to observe the intersection of tech and the most challenging application areas. I use that insight to experiment and build things. I use this site a chance to share and introduce others to coolest stuff I’m finding. It’s been a virtuous cycle of insight as folks reach out and return the favor. If we are working on something similar, please reach out through post comments or email me at blog@theboohers.org.
Recent Articles
In October 2024, the FlyWire consortium published the complete connectome of an adult Drosophila melanogaster brain: 139,255 neurons, 54.5 million synapses, 8,453 cell types, mapped at 8-nanometer resolution. This is only the third complete animal connectome ever produced, following C. elegans (302 neurons, 1986) and Drosophila larva (3,016 neurons, 2023). The 38-year gap between the […] read more