Single-track conferences with a formalized hallway track
I’ve helped organize around 50 conferences over the years, mostly Write the Docs and PyCascades events, and attended around 50 more.
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I’ve helped organize around 50 conferences over the years, mostly Write the Docs and PyCascades events, and attended around 50 more.
My wife Meredith and I, along with two friends, just finished doing the Camino de Costa Rica.
I’ve always had a love for the massive spring-fed rivers in Oregon. I actually got married along the Metolius River, and have done many hikes along the Fall River and Mckenzie River.
We use docker pretty heavily at work, and a pattern I’ve often run into is that I want to play around in a docker image to get something working, and then be able to “save” it back into the original image.
I decided to try and write a blog post each day in January, and have now been successful! I have been inspired by folks like Simon Willison, John Gruber, and Andy Baio.
I’ve always enjoyed this deck about the state of global decarbonization. It has lots of great high-level graphs and takeaways around the state of climate change.
Today there was some sad news, which is that the STC is shutting down. They posted a note on their website and other social media channels:
I’ve been listening to Adam Jacobs on Twitter for many years wax poetic about open source business.
The day has been busy with folks talking about Deepseek and it’s R1 model. I found a couple posts really useful to understand and contexutalize it:
When we traveled previously in 2018-2019, we spent summer in Europe both times. In general you are allowed to spend 90 of any 180 days in the Schengen visa area.
For some reason AWS makes browsing their instance types surprisingly hard. I’ve found Vantage’s instance viewer the best way to figure out the best option.
Our not-so-little local mountain got a write up in the NY Times, which is always fun to see. It’s about a local effort to try and buy the mountain (~$200M, so some very rich locals..).
In general, the misinformation, finger-pointing, and political opportunism flew fast and furious.
We watched the Silo series on Apple TV, and it was pretty solid. I’ve gotten into the habit of trying to read books after they make shows about them, and the books tend to be better than the shows :) In this case, I…
The volume of questions asked on StackOverflow started to fall quickly after ChatGPT was released in November 2022, and the drop continues into 2025 at alarming speed.
My wife and I took off from Portland in February 2018, and ended up working and traveling for ~2 years after that. Luckily in January 2020, we ended up settling down in Bend, at the planned end of our travels.
I really enjoyed this episode of Foreign Policy Live with Fareed Zakaria where he discusses his book Age of Revolutions.
I ran into this Ask HN post from Dave Snider, which asks about alternative company structures:
I’ve always enjoyed maps, and they still kind of blow my mind when I really think about it.
I’ve been looking into good bags to use for hiking and work travel, as I often want to combine a work trip and a hiking trip. The onebag reddit is kind of overwhelming, but a reasonable place to start research on this.