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What's there to be afraid of?

Sometimes scary things involve a lot of thinking

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Thu Oct 17, 2024

Me sitting down and discussing something that terrifies me, in a slow-burn kind of way.

Thoughts on Lonesome Dove

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Wed Aug 21, 2024

I recently finished the book Lonesome Dove, and liked it so much I wanted to write some formal thoughts about it.

Another year

Mon Jun 17, 2024

Some thoughts and reflections on my 26th birthday.

Enough with the "precious hours" metrics

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Tue May 14, 2024

Can we all agree that nobody needs to see the number of seconds they have left alive represented as Reese's Pieces?

The funniest battle in the Peloponnesian War

A bold claim, I know

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Thu Apr 18, 2024

I read Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War a couple years ago, and this scene towards that start always stuck with me. Upon revisiting, there's good reason for this.

The over-examined life

...is not all that great, either

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Tue Jan 2, 2024

Some thoughts on reflection and the new year.

Stratego online

Building a realtime multiplayer version of the board game Stratego

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Thu Dec 14, 2023

Over months of on-and-off work in my free time, I've built a realtime online version of the board game Stratego. I wrote it in Elixir, using Phoenix LiveView, and it's been a joy.

My first prescribed burn(s)

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Wed Nov 29, 2023

This fall, I did training to be able to work on prescribed burn crews as a volunteer. I was lucky enough to get on three burns this fall season. Here are some thoughts on the importance of fire as a land management tool, along with pictures from the burns.

Building a northern lights notifier in Python

Because I'm sick of missing them

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Wed Jun 7, 2023

I created a Northern Lights notification system in Python so I'll get texts when they're visible. Here's the code and how I built it.

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