July 21, 2024 On Attention

Recently, a friend asked me for more details about what sort of project I was up to with my move to Arizona. My last post was admittedly a tad

June 18, 2024 New Experiment in Living: Tempe, Arizona 2025

Tl;dr - I’m tentatively planning on moving to Tempe, Arizona, next year probably in the spring. On my way home from D.C. in July, I made a little

Essays
November 20, 2020 Towards a cybernetic phenomenology: how robotic tortoises uncover a better approach to science

Robot tortises, phenomenology, and cybernetics.

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May 30, 2020 Cybernetics: A Mexican Genesis? A Literature Review

A literature review of various sources identifying a uniquely Mexican genesis of cybernetics.

Essays
May 6, 2020 Reflections on Spring 2020

Some brief self-reflections.

Quick Tips
October 30, 2019 Using VS Code Remote Development with EC2 Instance Connect

VS Code’s SSH Remote Development extension is great. It lets you SSH into any remote server and visually see, edit, and transfer file. It’s a

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August 21, 2019 Installing K6/Grafana/Influx DB on Ubuntu

K6 is a great load-testing tool that can spit reports out to Grafana via InfluxDB. To install the full stack on a full-stack Ubuntu instance, run

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August 16, 2019 Using custom data sources in node-convict via the convict.load() function to simplify application configuration

node-convict is a wonderful NPM module that lets you declaratively define configuration settings via JSON (or Javascript objects) and where the

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August 15, 2019 Running Commands In the Root of a Git Directory

I work in monorepos a lot, and often finding myself needing to run commands at the root of a git repoistory from inside a package folder inside the

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August 15, 2019 Invoke Automator Workflows From Terminal/Shell on OSX

Working on more automation around this blog, I learned last night that it’s possible to run Automater workflows from the shell: This can also be

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August 15, 2019 Getting and Parsing the Repository Root Using Git

Will print the full, absolute path for a git repo. This can be passed into sed for further processing. For instance: And, of course: This is useful

Lab Notes
August 14, 2019 Record PXL Footage with an Android Smartphone

The PXL 2000 is a toy video camera that I’ve used to record some dope footage. A friend who runs the PXL film festival, PXL THIS, asked me to write

March 18, 2019 Videotex

Category: Research Shorts Date: 2019/03/18 Tags: #art #hacks — From Wikipedia: Videotex is interesting to me, not just because of its aesthetic

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March 18, 2019 Running Background Shell Scripts Using Automater

As part of some recent housekeeping, I recently swapped the backend of this blog (powered by the wonderful Blot.io from Dropbox to Git — the reason

Essays
December 1, 2016 America just attempted suicide. Now what?

Musings on liberalism, Sartre, and Trump.

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November 26, 2016 The Communitarian Politics of WALL·E

A review of the movie WALL·E through a communitarian lens.