Notes From the Field

  • Manual Spam Filter

    I block every unwanted email I receive to keep my email inbox as signalful as possible (“block” is Gmail speak for “create a filter for this one email address and always send it to spam”).

  • AI Search Optimization

    With the growing popularity of tools like Perplexity, OpenAI, Search GPT, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and a healthy dose of skepticism in artificial intelligence (e.

  • Personal Log

    I often find myself wondering what I did yesterday. I want to be able to reflect on the day before as I get ready in the morning for the day to come.

  • FEMA Waffle House Index

    The impact of storms can be measured by the status Waffle House in 1,600 locations from the mid-Atlantic to Florida and across the Gulf Coast.

  • Mañana

    “Mañana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

  • Dokku on Aws

    I’m setting up dokku as a personal infrastructure PaaS for running services like the personal indexing service.

  • Limitations of IOS Shortcuts

    Shortcuts add a scripting layer on top of iOS (and macOS but I don’t use that) that can be executed across any app or screen.

  • The Minority Rule

    Soft drinks in the US are all kosher. It’s not because the US population keeps kosher but because the majority don’t have a strong preference and a minority are absolutely adherent.

  • Coming Back to Rust After 4 Years

    I recently picked up rust for a personal infrastructure project and was amazed at the amount of progress on the language and tooling over the years.

  • Personal Indexing Service

    As much as I love my emacs setup, I can’t take my laptop with me everywhere and that is my biggest compliant.