I’m not that worried about Trump. Along some dimensions, American Presidents don’t have that much power. Momentum matters a lot in American government, and, despite campaign promises to the contrary, it’s very difficult for sitting presidents to reverse the policies of…

I really love editing code with Atom. Until I started using Atom, I thought Sublime was pretty good, but Atom is so much better. And yes, I do prefer Javascript to Python, but I also just think Atom lets me work faster.

I saw the movie Everest last night. It was well made, and the reviews were favorable. But, I didn’t really care for the movie that much.

The movie begins with exposition, and teases us with the possibility of the characters dying in gruesome ways as they start to…

David Bowie has been on my mind a lot lately, and I came across a video of Tony Visconti going in to detail about how the song Heroes came together in the studio.

It’s Good Friday today, and schools are closed in Austin, so I found myself enjoying my morning commute. As I was driving at highway speeds on Mopac at 8:00am on this Friday morning, I was lulled into a moment of luxury, and I had a stupid thought: “Light traffic during rush hour is…