2023-08-31
Five years ago, Libby and I got hitched in the Activities Building in Riverview Park. We rented it through the City of Pittsburgh Facilities…
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2023-07-17
A few years ago, I set out to build my own keyboard. It was a project that taught me a lot about myself - my focus, my tenacity, my…
2023-06-30
One piece of advice I dole out regularly: "Trojan horse the thing you want to learn into whatever it is you've been asked to do…
2023-05-30
Kei trucks are a special designation of Japanese car that have very small engines (660cc) and dimensions (~10m^3). Tell 'em, Wikipedia…
2023-04-30
The Dirty Dozen is a Pittsburgh tradition stretching back forty years. In 1983, local legend (and 2x RAAM winner) Danny Chew set out with…
2023-03-10
Dr. Tom Murphy VII is a tediumcore performance artist based in Pittburgh with a YouTube channel. His formula is as elegant as it is…
2023-02-28
Over the course of my career, I've found one tool in my toolkit more useful than any other. It's a service called Google Apps Script, a…
2023-01-31
This year, Strava has paywalled the yearly recap "Year in Sport" recap they send their users. This is a real bummer because Last years recap…
2022-02-20
In the never-ending quest for perfect ergonomics, I hacked together wrist rests to attach to my computer chair and set my keyboard on. The…
2021-04-03
Disclaimer: I'm not a financial professional. If you've been given advice contrary to mine, take it. My advice might be bad for you. We're…
2021-04-02
I get asked about biking in Pittsburgh a lot, so I wrote this post to point folks to who are looking to get started. Getting a Bike I…
2021-03-27
The wheel shrieked and I bucked over the handlebars, elbows-first into the concrete. With a groan, I peeled myself off the road, blossoming…
2020-02-22
Data URLs are cool - embed things directly, cut out a round-trip for images etc, all very nice things. You've probably seen them tucked in a…
2019-10-28
I made the first version of this site sometime in 2013; since then its lived a few short lives, first as a sort of portfolio, then a…
2015-11-02
NOTE: I get emails about this once in awhile; the whole dataset appears to be available here and this code is unmaintained and YMMV…