2025/06/01
Hilton Head Rugby recently closed out our men’s XV 2024/2025 season. We had some wins, had some losses, had to deal with both hurricanes and ice storm related weather issues during it, ending the season with a playoff berth in our union. Along the way we’ve got the foundations of a great women’s XV team coming together, had a very successful first season of youth flag rugby program in partnership with our local recreation center, and provided quite a few volunteer hours for various local causes.
2023/07/08
This weekend I spent a few moments playing with some of the new generative ai engines that have recently been in the news so much lately. It’s interesting, and of course there is a ton of power there, much of it yet to be unlocked. For someone like me who’s been a big fan of procedurally generated content, from nethack to some approaches I’ve taken in testing and “dummy” data creation, its neat to see new developments in these (related) spaces.
2022/08/31
Almost a year ago since I wrote about my DNS filtering setup. I’ve enjoyed using that setup, but the interface into Cloudflare for teams wasn’t that friendly, and was clearly geared much more towards enterprise managemnt than end use. So over the last few weeks I decided to do a little redesign of my dns filtering system.
I’ve heard great things about NextDNS, and so far it has lived up to expectations. The interface is simple, responsive, and it gives much faster ways to manage the allowlist and denylist. In addition to nicities like parental controls and basic security filtering, it also has Ad and Tracking Blockers built in, which means I don’t have to manage it and keep pihole updated myself.
2022/08/28
Seasonal change has a way of making me feel reflective, and the transition from Summer to Autumn usually does it more than the others. This year it’s only amplified as I approach my forth decade.
While I didn’t grow up on a farm, we were surrounded by fields. Whether it was the appearance of hay bales, the smell of peanuts being turned over to dry or the blizzards of cotton coming into bloom, there were visceral reminders. And in the South, that also meant football. And while I have what I would currently describe as a “complicated” relationship with the wider sport, I can’t deny that countless Friday nights and Saturdays have been filled with it.
2021/12/08
These days I don’t get much time to write code. In a lot of ways Outlook and Zoom have become my most used Integrated development Environments, and my emacs sessions are much more likely to involve markdown for a slidedeck than code for a module. But, like I’ve talked about here before I still look at both my practical coding skills and theoretical computational science knowledge as indespencable. And I expect the same the managers and directors on my engineering teams.
