Effective Resolutions

Much has been written about creating effective and achievable New Year's resolutions, and still people fail. They set goals that are reasonable, measurable, and create a support system around them to help achieve their dreams, yet people consistently fail to accomplish the goals they set for themselves in…

Season of Giving

It's been a rough couple of years. The economy has sort-of kind-of rebounded as we've learned to deal with the coronavirus, but many businesses went out of business and many people lost their jobs. The unemployment rate has mostly rebounded, but that doesn't mean…

A Review of the Audio Technica ATH-A990Z

I'd like to make this review purely about the headphones in question. Most explanations of jargon will largely be skipped here in an effort to keep the review shorter. I'm also going to approach this review a bit differently from other reviews of headphones I see…

The Kitchen is No Place for Perfection

I love cooking. My younger self would never understand that sentiment, but in recent years I've really taken to my kitchen. I blame YouTube for constantly recommending Gordon Ramsey videos to me late at night when I was in college, but I find something very romantic about working…

A Review of the Kinesis Advantage 2

The Kinesis Advantage 2 helped me type again. That's the greatest endorsement I could give to any keyboard. It's the most comfortable keyboard I've ever typed on, but may be too noisy for some.…

Balancing Personal Projects and Work

Go to any tech blog or forum and you'll see them sprinkled around everywhere. "My little side project", "been working on something like X for a bit", "this reminds me of a small tool I built for myself once". These might be…

Migrating a Repository to Bazel

This will be a bit of a difficult post for me to make, because the work I've been doing has all been in a private repository at work and I can't share any of the direct code snippets here. But I think the work to migrate…