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• Keuka 2025

  Posted on September 4, 2025

  We spent the last week in Western New York on Keuka Lake, my favorite place in the world.It was Rory’s 2nd visit, but he was mostly a potato last year so this time was his first true lake experience. [Read More]

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  • travel
  • keuka

• Weekend in Bend

  Posted on August 9, 2025

  We drove up to Bend last weekend to visit with some good friends from college. It’s a long drive from Napa, but splitting it up into two parts each way and spending a night in Shasta made it much more palatable for both us and Rory. Add in a few... [Read More]

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  • travel

• Thoughts on teaching developers to embrace AI

  Posted on April 27, 2025

  I’m thinking a lot about AI-assisted software development at work. I believe that it will (already is?) transform how software engineers build systems - I don’t think we’ll be out of a job, but I do think it’ll be a shift on the order of the transition from assembly code... [Read More]

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  • AI
  • software-development

• My favorite videogames of 2024

  Posted on January 5, 2025

  Honorable mention: Starcraft 2 I have a long history with RTS games (I played Warcraft 2 before I could read!) and I picked up Starcraft 2 again this summer while on leave. It’s still incredible, and I don’t know how any RTS game will top it. Shoutout to PiG bronze... [Read More]

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  • videogames

• You should play Metaphor ReFantazio

  Posted on December 15, 2024

  I rolled credits on Metaphor ReFantazio this week, wrapping up my 65 hour run with this impressive RPG. I’m well-versed in Western RPGs, from the original Baldur’s Gate and Icewind Dale games to Divinity and Dragon’s Dogma, but I have never put a substantial amount of time into a turn-based... [Read More]

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  • review
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