I had the pleasure of going for an overnight tramp on 23 April to Lake Man Biv in Lewis Pass via the Doubtful Tops.
Combining my love of running with my love of data, I spent an hour today putting together a command line tool – based on my last six months of running data, it will predict how long a run will take, given the distance and elevation gain.
Our society has so many tropes about getting older: on the one hand, the gradual degradation of the body or mind, loss of vitality, loneliness; on the other hand, the utter lack of interest in what other people think of you, the joy of connecting with younger generations, and wisdom.
I started back at work from the Christmas holidays two weeks ago. These two weeks have been absolutely chock-a-block full of life.
In the past few weeks, I have done two very long runs: the Kepler Challenge race on December 5 and the Milford Track as a self-supported run with two friends on December 14.
Claire and I were reflecting this month that we are very lucky and grateful to have moved to New Zealand when we did (early 2019), as we skipped a lot of trauma in the USA relating to coronavirus and the presidential election.
I have recently started on a new project at my day job - working in a new environment/area of my company’s infrastructure - and have been dwelling upon the complexity of the software involved.
I was looking at my previous blog post on Beekeeping in NZ1 and realised that the government’s response to covid turned out to be very similar to its response to AFB in beekeeping.
Beekeeping update: I passed the AFB recognition test. Lost my first hive to varroa in the autumn. Have gotten another hive this spring - hopefully it fares better. ↩
Yesterday marked the culmination of a multi-year baking project: I made every pie in the cookbook First Prize Pies!
One of my hobbies is beekeeping. It’s a simple pleasure for me. I get to contribute to the cycle of life of my neighbourhood ecosystem. I get the small satisfaction of practising a tiny bit of suburban agriculture. I get to watch tiny civilisations rise and fall. If the bees do well, I can usually get a bit of honey out of it, too.
A week has passed since that most American of holidays: the Fourth of July, sometimes known as Independence Day. We might as well take a leaf from Canada’s book and just call it what it is: America Day.
I am an experienced backend engineer, but an utter noob when it comes to web development. My nascent frontend skills may be obvious from the utter simplicity of this website, but there has also been an invisible learning curve for website features like DNS, SSL/TLS, and CDN.