Luminescent Dreams

Weekly Roundup

January 01, 0001
Arches, 2019-09

While normally I post these on Friday, this last week was quite busy and left me no time to write.

And, in fact, I have very little to write about. I had a trip with my partner to New Hope, Pennsylvania. It was, as always, quite lovely, but there is very little to do in New Hope.

I returned to start a job with a new client company, in the company’s office for the first time since starting at Cloud City, and meet for the first time a co-worker with whom I’ve paired for literally hundreds of hours of work.

First day had a rocky start, with me first forgetting my bike lock after getting to Assembly Station, and then watching as one train after another pulls into the station, completely full. Like, people trying to press in so they can clear the doors full. Moral of the story: don’t take the orange line during rush hour. Or, during rush hour there is no reason for people to get off the train at Assembly, and the addition of a parking garage there means that the train just keeps on acquiring passengers until downtown.

This week will again be busy, primarily spending all of the week in the client office, but also with a vet appointment and other random things.

So, yeah, this is a boring update. Hopefully I’ll have more next week, but until then, have fun and do something interesting!

Wiki

January 01, 0001

Wiki

Projects

Palimpsest

Cloister

Fitnesstrax

This is a workout and fitness tracking application written in Haskell with a GTK user interface. This project has served as a playground for trying out ideas.
  • Data persistence using an event log instead of a traditional database
  • Handling GTK widgets
  • Clean separation of the application GUI from the widgets
  • User experience concerns

Articles

Interesting Technologies

Solar X-Rays: x-ray status
Geomagnetic Field: x-ray status
From n3kl.org

Winters End, 2019

January 01, 0001

As the last festiges of winter come to an end, here is a batch of photos that I took a month ago. This was in Middlesex Fells in Boston, a short distance from where I live, right after a snowstorm that drop a foot or so of snow for seventeen hours.

I had been starting to lose my mind from the cold and being trapped inside. Finally, at my partner’s advice, I got completely bundled up to take camera and tripod out for pictures. The results here are pretty fantastic, and my mental health improved immediately.