I recently got my anonymous peer feedback at work. None of the negatives were surprising, though the positives were pretty uplifting. Shortly after I got that feedback, I read a blog post on things a person wished she knew earlier in her career. "Reliable is better than brilliant... After observing ... more…

I find myself in a state where I have many projects that people ping me about regularly. I am very into all of them and would love if I could dedicate to each of them time that they deserve. This posting is mostly an enumeration of those projects and what ... more…

I've spent the last week hanging out in Silicon Valley for PyCon as well as to hang out with my co-workers. This year's experience was very different from the previous years, which I can probably attribute to a couple things. First, I drove down with my friend and ... more…

So this last weekend I wrote a tool named pytmux. It is a basic session builder/wrapper around tmux so you can get going faster when you start up your system. It uses a JSON based config files, is pretty minimal right now, but I hope to make it better ... more…

About a year ago, some friend and I were talking about each getting servers then going to a local data center and getting a third of a rack. There was lots of excitement but unfortunately most of us weren't in a position to purchase the needed hardware at the ... more…

Just like in StarCraft 2 and in writing software, fundamentals are important for life. I was thinking about how I'll plan out my time to in enough cycling time, StarCraft 2 time, and work/side project time when I realized in or to get this stuff done, I'm ... more…

Spent a bit of time tonight playing the new Player vs AI. It is pretty fun. It makes you play through the difficulties until you hit the Elite level at which point it maxes out. Now I am not a great player but I am evidently good enough to be ... more…

Flow state is an important aspect of my life. I remember slipping into flow while building things with LEGO as a kid. Then later when executing my best runs while skateboarding at the skate park. When I was a bit older it was during tests in school and while writing ... more…

I have really inconsistent productivity. Some days I am on fire and really hammering out code. Other days I get to the end and have nothing to show for it and really have a hard time remembering what I was doing. To this end my boss and I have decided ... more…

I've off and on used a system called TheStaircase. So much so that I am even working on thestaircase.org. It has a really intuitive style for learning SC2 and getting better. It was actually a lot of my motivation behind making SpendingQ. I'm doing this part time ... more…