It cracks me up that the Tesla Supercharger in Aberdeen, WA is right next to the Sucher & Sons Star Wars Shop. Some Tesla nerd, when looking for a convenient parking lot, definitely picked the funnier of two options.
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ElasticSearch vs …
We use ElasticSearch pretty heavily at work, and while there’s a few scenarios that it’s proven good at, it’s mostly become a swear word around the office.
Reasons ElasticSearch Is Frustrating
1. Writes are really, really slow
Wrting data to elasticsearch is a synchronous operation. So if …
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Free Grill
After cleaning the patio yesterday, we put our old grill out on the curb with a free sign. After an hour it was gone.
Today, the grill mysteriously came back.
I think the only logical explanation is that our grill was involved in a heist, and needed to come out …
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Dogsheep
This is a very similar project to my Swift one. Little farther along, and uses the libraries on a mac.
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French Baguettes
This is the second time I’ve made French bread using a pre-ferment (pâte fermentée) which is similar to a sour dough starter but a little less work. Essentially you make half the dough the night before and leave it in the refrigerator overnight. The next day you mix it …
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Photosafe Git Repo
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Slow Swift Progress
Got some time to work on my iOS app today, and made some decent progress. I’ve currently got a task that will read through the photo library and call an HTTP endpoint with the response. It also has the beginnings of a storage mechanism with sqlite.
I like XCode …
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Books - Nemesis Games
Just finished rereading Nemesis Games by James SA Corey, and it remains a treat.
I think the Expanse series is my favorite series in sci-fi right now, and I’ve been slowly rereading them. Nemesis Games is awesome, and effectively kicks off the back half of the series. Some shit …
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Spring Flowers
One of the nice things about being quarantined in spring is starting to watch the flowers bloom around us. My wife is much more of a flower person than I am, but it’s still been nice to see the trees and flowers start to bloom on our walks. Gives …
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Quarantine Baking - Fried Pickles & Macaroni & Cheese
We’ve continued baking over quarantine, and sort of switched to savory foods. First up was fried pickles, followed closely by macaroni & cheese.
I’ve realized that we hardly ever actually fry anything, and it’s actually a lot of fun. I’ve made a roux for macaroni and cheese …
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Things I’ve Read Recently (And some TV)
Incrypid by Seanan McGuire
These books are a fun take on the “monsters live among us” trope, with secret societies and large extended families helping and hunting them. The world seems pretty big and interesting, and there are plenty of jokes …
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Quarantine Baking - Cinnamon Rolls
I’ve been doing a lot of baking lately, especially over Facetime with my niece.
Most recently we made a set of cinnamon rolls, using the recipe from Disney Food Blog. There’s a lot I don’t know about baking bread, but it’s been a lot of fun …
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Learning Swift, Pt 1
Since we’re stuck in quarantine, I’ve decided to start learning Swift and do an iOS project. I’ve never really done any iOS development, so this is mostly unordered thoughts and musings.
App goal:
- Get iOS photo library and upload it to S3.
Stretch Goals:
- Include EXIF and …
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JoCo Cruise 2020
JoCO 2020 was a blast, but the looming nature of the COVID crisis really made it tough to get a good party on. We went into quarantine as soon as we got back, and were one of the last cruise ships to leave port.
The caves in the Dominican Republic …
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Washington, DC
My wife needed to go to Washington DC for work, and I went with her. Since she was at a conference during the day and I was at a coffee shop having a very busy week at work, we mostly explored the city at night.
Last time I was in …
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Vienna
We didn’t have a lot of time in Vienna - mostly an extended layover - but managed to make the most out of it. Primarily we wanted to see the Belvedere Museum, especially the Klimt exhibit, and it was worth the stop.
The Belvedere palace has some astounding grounds, even in …
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Cyprus
We visited our friends Chris & Jennifer in Cyprus over New Year’s, and got to see quite a lot of the country.
Similar to Turkey, Cyprus is a country that has been a crossroads of the world for a long time. There’s tons of old buildings, churches, archeological sites …
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Munich
We went to Europe over the holidays, and our first stop was Munich for the Christmas markets. We spent about three days there, and it was a fantastic way to start the trip.
Since we mostly wanted to visit the Christmas markets, we got a hotel right nearby and could …
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Office Miniature Golf Course
The Donuts office had a large amount of empty space in the back. So one weekend I convinced my team to sneak in and build a miniature golf course in it.
Obviously this was a success, and actually worked pretty well as a team building exercise. I ended up prepping …
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“There are a million ways to sell yourself out”
I loved Calvin & Hobbes growing up. One of my favorite comics ever.
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I Love PostgreSQL
select 'allballs'::time; time -------- 00:00:00
I giggled way longer than I should’ve for that.
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Adventures in Python String Concatenation & the Magic of O(n^2)
I’ve been redeploying processes into the AWS cloud at work.
After moving one of the backend processes for the dashboard into a micro instance, the CPU usage for the box went through the roof.
This was one of the oldest script in the project, and I’d never really …
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Dancing Links Sudoku
One of the first projects I did when I started learning python was building a solver for sudoku.
Empty board:
Completed board:
This is a pretty well understood space, which made it a nice learning project. The two styles of computer sudoku solvers are depth-first searches or ones that attempt …
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