Book Reviews
Smart Home Babel
When we were preparing to move into our current home, I took advantage of the renovations we were undertaking to lean into the smart home revolution, to build out a network of interconnected components that can be centrally controlled and…
Checking in on Minority Report
Minority Report was a 2002 film, based on a Philip K. Dick novella of the same name, about what happens when a couple of oracles who can see possible futures are used by the police as a mechanism for predicting…
Thoughts on the Vision Pro
The reality of Apple hardware launches is that there's no shortage of previews, reviews, first impressions, hot takes, and thought pieces about what it all means —leading up to, during, and after the launch event itself. It'…
Batched Reading Efficiencies
I'm trying a new read-it-later app, Omnivore. Alright, so trying out a new app isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. It's a good excuse, though, to…
The Stasis of E-Ink
I'm fond of e-ink displays and devices catering to the display type. My kitchen calendar display project was one of my favorite projects of the year: it became a combination of playing with a RaspberryPi, and learning…
When to Value Non-Technical Work
This presentation resonates: Being Glue It's a pretty long read, but the high-level gist is that software engineers are, more often than not, evaluated primarily on hard technical chops. You know: the typical stuff that you find…
