Log

13 December — Cool demo, not convinced AR is the right direction here. Framing objects with your phone’s camera while trying to interact with the screen is pretty awkward but I really like the idea of tying together disparate I/O. 23 November — Listening to Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s The Grand Design: Economics is also an effective theory, based on the notion of free will plus the assumption that people evaluate their possible alternative courses of action and choose the best.

23 December — Quote from Aeon Ant societies, organized by distributed algorithms rather than division of labour, have thrived for more than 130 million years. 9 December — Quote from Arthur Koestler “Humor is the only domain of creative activity where a stimulus on a high level of complexity produces a massive and sharply defined response on the level of physiological reflexes.” November 30 — Heavy rotation in no particular order before going all in on Christmas:

Sunday, December 31, 2017 ☕️ Andytown with Jess ☕️ Algorithm Coffee in Berkeley Playing with “flash messages” which was something the Django Admin had as a feedback mechanism. Building something similar for iOS. Friday, December 29, 2017 ☕️ Espresso at home 🏃 Park four 🥪 Clubber from Blue Barn ☕️ Hacking from Equator in Fort Mason 🌅 Wandered around Fort Mason Made a menu bar app to report deploy statuses so I don’t have to keep Slack open all the time.

Saturday, March 31, 2018 Weekend alone begins at Flywheel. Ran into Justin Stahl whom I hadn’t seen in years ☕️💻 Playing around with data portability. I’ve given up trying to use iCloud Drive, it works but introduces a host of concerns I don’t want to deal with for these little tools. Instead I’m making it easy to import / export data. Fun side effect is it makes peer-to-peer sharing really easy.

Thursday, December 31, 2020 ☕️ Highwire on Solano 🍕 Cheeseboard run for tonight ☕️ Wrecking Ball on Shattuck Easy day in Berkeley. Got a bunch of food for tonight and hung some posters for our missing runner friend, Lucas. Researched some zero degree bags for some potential winter adventures. 🏃‍♂️ Campus out-and-back six Wednesday, December 30, 2020 ☕️ Temple at home ☕️ Andytown on Tarval 🚶‍♂️ Long Outer Sunset walk Drove to San Francisco to get a COVID test so we can spend some time with Nate’s mom over New Years.

Saturday, June 5, 2021 ☕️ Highwire at home 📖 Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself 🏃‍♂️ 9 to Putah Creek and back 🥙 Three Ladies Cafe ☕️ Pachamama Thursday, May 13, 2021 ☕️ Higher Land at home 📖 Think Again 🎧 2016 Interview between Kara Swisher and Antonio García-Martinez Missing the days when expressing some opinions didn’t feel worrisome — expressing opinions as a means to learn or grow in the absence of judgement.