• Book: Winners Take All

    The rich “think” they’re the ones who can save the rest of us. As such, they’re the majority of who you see on the boards of philanthropic and social groups. Why would the rich want to help the poor? They only get rich off the backs of the poor in a closed system that is a society, and you can bet they don’t want…

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  • XCUITest Parallelization and Optimization

    Background I inherited a test framework containing ~50 tests. It was broken after having received no attention for a year. I spent my first couple of months getting my feet wet, getting it running (even when the suite was running, most of the tests didn’t work), and adding tests. By December, we had 78 “tests” (this was a false number because many tests were…

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  • Mia, Month 8

    There be teeth! Two sharp little (well, not so little) ones on the bottom. No sign of any others. We spent a nice bit of this month at a friend’s place (they were out of town) in Bend for the holidays. Lots of good hikes, a beautiful house, seeing some friends we hadn’t seen all year, Mia met her first family members (Rebecca’s cousins…

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  • 2020 Year in Review

      Yeah, I’m going there. It wasn’t all bad. Life Had Mia, became a dad, pretty awesome, pretty hard, mostly amazing. Started a new job. Began and got halfway through an online course for full-stack web development for fun. Got halfway through a 30-day wheelie class. Will resume again in spring. Sold my condo. Got my commercial drone pilots license. Losses Given what this year…

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  • Mia, Month 7

    The past week or two has brought eating every type of food, the ability to pull herself across a room, a couple of teeth, sitting 95% well, and sleeping through the night. It’s been an amazing stretch of days. The first half of the month was a new hiking backpack and sitting forward in the front carrier – also pretty sweet. She’s rapidly become besties…

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  • Mia, Month 6

    This little lady developed like crazy in the past month, which is why there are an overwhelming number of pics below. She began “sitting” and eating real foods, she can hold her own bottle and “stand,” she became insanely vocal at the end of the month after going mute for two or so weeks, had her first kiss, sat in a driver’s seat, went…

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