The year is almost over and it’s a good time to be reflective of what has happened this year, where I went, and just how I feel about it. First of all, I got married in 2018!! 👫 Trips I recently came back from Portland and I decided to jot
For years, I’ve told myself I’m going to learn iOS. I have had an iPhone since 2011 and I use tons of apps on my phone every day. Since the introduction of Swift, iOS has become even more appealing. So about 2 weeks ago, I started working on
I want to talk about how Conspicuous Consumption has led me to write this post, in a hypocritical state of mind if nothing else. As I posted late last night or early this morning, I am in Portland and it’s been a fun few days. I contacted a few
I’m in Portland right now. I’m here for a few days and I wanted to write that down so I can remember on my blog. I’ll be making a post for the whole of 2018 while I’m here but I’m just feeling like I should
I was reading yet another article about how Facebook has been abusing user trust by dealing with their data among third-party companies (BBC). This is just one example of a couple of other recent “trip-ups” Facebook has had in the public: * Sri Lanka accuses Facebook over hate speech after deadly
Wow, this been a whole month since I published any updates. I’ve been pretty busy at work, I’ve been wasting my time at home with Battlefield 1 on the PS4 and I have been steadily riding my bike. Besides that, I took a trip to New York City
dreams
I’m writing this right after waking up from a nightmare so it’s fresh and as accurate as I can remember it. I am on a call with my wife and she’s talking about cheap tickets to somewhere like Cuba or Puerto Rico. We haven’t really talked
So I’ve been pretty quiet on my blog recently. I also deleted social media apps except Reddit off my phone. At the beginning of September, I was mostly not on the computer after work. I was in a weird phase where I wasn’t interested in anything after work.
Spoilers and plot reveals ahead. This past weekend, I finished watching the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale. If you don’t know anything about the show, I highly recommend watching the first episode at least. Before I started watching the show, I really thought it was similar to
chill music
I wanted to share a playlist I’m putting together, a bunch of random songs grouped together from my Sunday morning.
In May, Kristen bought her new bike and we made a bet to get to 1,000 miles by the end of 2018. I’ve never ridden (rode?) this many miles before so this is a big undertaking. I’m currently at ~ 318 miles while Kristen is at ~ 375 miles.
bookends
It’s been a few weeks since I wrote the the initial Bookends post. I’ve been taking a couple of hours every week to work on the setting up Bookends and today, I sat down and got the search working using OpenLibrary’s API. The search works by doing