Worked

I’m currently splitting my time between Remote Ham Radio and TRMNL.

At RHR, we focused on shoring up the Icom radio transition - fixing bugs, improving speed and reliability, and so on. We have 15 radios live in the field now.

At TRMNL, I have transitioned my work to primarily on firmware. My main goal right now is to improve our firmware release cadence by adopting new branching and release strategies, being proactive about triaging new issues and PRs, and just trying to stay unblocked in general. Some days of wrangling branches feel like a huge time sink with not a lot accomplished, but the effort is paying off, and things are continuing to improve. Soon, we wil be able to focus more on refactoring to take better advantage of OOP principles and reduce merge conflicts.

Kitties!

So, it turns out that we actually have two sisters: River and Lily (née Simon)! They brought home ringworm from the shelter, which we have been successfully battling for the past few weeks. The end is in sight.

Mac Floppies

I took on a job to restore four 3.5" Macintosh floppy drives for a previous customer. Three of them cleaned up nicely, but one was in pretty rough shape and is still on the bench. Long story short: it would read 400K and 800K disks, but refused to recognize 1.44 MB disks because the high-density detection circuit voltage was wrong. Then, while troubleshooting, the drive completely died. To be continued.

Spoon Concert

I went to see Spoon in Providence with some friends. Good times were had. They played a bunch of hits, deep cuts, and a couple new songs off the next album. It was the most punctual concert I’ve ever been to - they started precisely on-time, which I appreciated for a weeknight show.

I even had my first hot weiner from New York System. It was okay.

NYC Trip

I spent a couple nights in New York City with a friend. The primary purpose of the trip was to see Cory Doctorow launch his new book, The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Live After AI - an event at Strand Books, moderated by none other than Jonathan Coulton. I really enjoyed the discussion that ended up at the intersection of technology, AI, art, copyright, politics, and economics.

We spent an additional day exploring the city - eating bagels, $1.50 slices, and ramen, going to the MoMA, seeing Aladdin on Broadway (we won lottery seats!), and walking tens of thousands of steps up and down central Manhattan in the beautiful June weather.