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Cycling Vermont
In October I rode the Green Mountain Gravel Growler route in Vermont with a few close friends. It’s a route curated by bikepacking.com that consists of back roads, dirt roads, and single track trails. It wasn’t as blissfully car-free as the C&O Canal or the loop around Lake…
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Recently
September was another big month for my life, mostly for me offline. Another good month for bicycle riding, seeing more of the trails on Randalls and Wards Islands . The New York area has taught me a few things about islands and one of them is that they’re very fungible. On a…
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Recently
I skipped August’s Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics. For a friend’s birthday, we rode the rickety Coney Island Cyclone , which was…
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Placemark is now fully open source
Context: Placemark is a tool that lets you view, create, and edit geospatial (map) data. I ran it as a company for a while and open sourced it when I shut down that company. Yesterday Placemark got a pretty big PR from Birk Skyum , replacing its dependency on Mapbox GL JS with…
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Technology optimism hour
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour , highlighting the things I thought were cool about the state of technology. Time flies. Let’s do it again. It’s still easy to be pessimistic, but it’s nice to mine your feelings for the positive ones. The elephant in the room…
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Printing tiny photos for paper journals
I’m still writing my journals on paper . Makes it about a decade of notebooks, most of them Field Notes , kept in the archival wooden boxes [1] . Writing by hand helps me remember and process life. Finishing notebooks give me the feeling of closing a chapter on those problems,…
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Recently
June was a big month: I went to Porto & Lisbon, and had a lot of life stuff happen. I’ll get into the trip once I get my rolls of film developed. Three rolls at a new photo developing place: fingers crossed! Reading I finished reading Intermezzo ( of the bag ) and it was…
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Recently
A section of trail in Switzerland May was a big month! The highlight was a cycling trip around Lake Konstanz, passing through Konstanz, Bregenz Austria, Stein am Rhein in Switzerland, and Meersburg. A farm in Bodenseeufer, Germany We passed a lot of operating agriculture,…
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Intermezzo bag
I’ve been reading the new Sally Rooney novel, Intermezzo . It’s really beautiful. The perfect kind of novel to read slowly. She manages to write prose that’s engaging at the micro and macro levels - beautiful sentences, as well as lovely long narrative arcs. I’ve been trying to…
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Recently
I spent a lot of time outside in April. The first two weekends I did long bike rides: from Brooklyn to Tarrytown along the Old Croton Aqueduct trail , and out to Rockaway Beach via the Marine Parkway Bridge & Cross Bay Memorial Bridge. Then, I ran the Brooklyn Experience Half…