Writing

I am spending the day today at a mediation regarding the accident two years ago where my wife’s parents were hit by a truck while crossing the street. The past two years have been both difficult and wonderful.  Wonderful in [...]  Read more

Sunday night over dinner, my son, parents and I were discussing the saving / investing system we set up for our kids in the spring. The idea was/is: set a monthly budget for purchases (in their case, mostly online movies, [...]  Read more

Dani and I have been spending a bunch of time recently thinking about the relationship between applications and infrastructure.  It’s a little bit of a chicken and egg situation.  You need infrastructure to build apps, but often times you don’t [...]  Read more

One of the greatest things Frannie and I have in common is that we get the chills from music — typically at the exact same time, triggered by the same musical… something. For me it starts  at the back of [...]  Read more

Over the past few weeks, I have varied up my computing habits a bit.  For a laptop, I have been using a Pixelbook , and I have also been spending more timing using an iPad Pro for work. What I [...]  Read more

Back in May, I had what ended up being a major hand surgery — repairing a torn tendon and in the process reconstructing the end of my pinkie by grafting tendons borrowed from my ring finger.  As a result, I [...]  Read more

A central concept on the internet is Layering .  Each of the protocols in the internet stack talks to the layer directly above and below it — new protocols can be added as long as they speak the language of [...]  Read more