I'm a programmer interested in urbanism 🏙️, sailing ⛵, traveling 🚄, and creating a more sustainable economy 🍃. This website is an always-in-progress repository for documenting my latest ideas and projects.

Blog

I generally like writing about cities, technology, digital privacy, and any interesting links I find around the web. If you like what you see here, consider subscribing to my RSS feed or by following me on Mastodon (see link at the top).

Posts marked with a ★ are my more notable entries, 🔗 are external links, and 🪧 are more longform posts.

2023-02-14:🪧 Monitoring an HTTP service with Clojure and Babashka
2023-02-03:🪧 Rebuilding my website with Clojure
2022-11-25:🪧 My initial go at running a Mastodon instance
2022-07-17:🪧 Documenting my tech stack
2022-06-14:🪧 Tactical urbanism in Barcelona
2022-02-21:🪧 Illegibility in our digital lives
2021-11-28:🪧 Visualizing the topography of Citibike
2021-10-31:★ The Data Behind New York's Increasingly Dirty Electricity Peaks
2021-10-03:★ NYC Open Restaurants, By The Numbers
2021-09-28:🪧 Wicked Problems in Tech
2020-12-30:🔗 New Photos: Pandemia NYC
2020-12-17:🪧 The Death and Life of Utica, NY
2020-12-01:★ A self-hosted RSS setup
2020-10-09:🔗 A Message from Your Friendly Local Mail Carrier
2020-09-02:🔗 New photo album: South America (Feb '20)
2020-08-11:🔗 The glaring flaws of Uber's "benefits fund" proposal
2020-07-31:🔗 Google Earth Timelapses
2020-07-24:🔗 Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods
2020-07-20:🪧 Getting off of social media
2020-07-09:🔗 I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It's Amazing
2020-07-08:🔗 Hannibal Buress – Miami Nights
2020-06-22:🔗 A Letter from Nicole Krauss to Van Gogh
2020-06-22:🪧 DarkSky makes it to Apple's native weather apps
2020-06-21:🪧 Redesigned blog
2020-06-15:🔗 Better Google Cloud Build notifications in Slack
2019-08-25:★ Translating GPS coordinates to timezones with PostGIS
2019-07-06:🔗 The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live
2019-05-29:★ Creating your own reverse geocoder with OSM and PostGIS
2019-03-21:🔗 Issuing and Verifying EIP-712 Challenges with Go
2018-12-13:🔗 TCR Party: A Token Curated Registry for Humans
2018-06-29:🔗 Harvest for Touchbar
2018-03-24:🪧 A short summary of Plasma
2018-03-01:🪧 The case for self-publishing content
2018-01-15:🪧 Bitcoin emissions per transaction
2017-11-06:🔗 The sound of the dialup, picture
2017-10-16:🔗 I Quit Facebook and You Should Too
2017-10-12:🔗 TerrariaClone
2017-10-09:🔗 Librem 5 - A Security and Privacy Focused Phone
2017-10-08:🔗 'Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia
2017-10-06:🔗 iOS 11's Misleading “Off-ish” Setting for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is Bad for User Security
2017-06-13:🔗 The Future of Education is Plain Text
2017-04-22:🔗 Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future
2017-02-07:🔗 Privacy is Power
2017-02-06:🔗 What Vizio was doing behind the TV screen
2017-02-05:🔗 Magic Wormhole
2017-01-11:🔗 Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing
2016-05-05:🪧 Dumping thoughts with TiddlyWiki
2016-01-14:🔗 From OSX to Ubuntu
2014-03-09:🪧 The Hardware Revolution
2013-11-30:★ A society of phone zombies