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Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Some rando sent me an email at work today.

Guess my friends call me “Ham”, but for my really good friends I go by 429: Too Many Requests.

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Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:54:00 GMT

But seriously, the new 0.12 neovim release is terrific. Well done, folks!

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Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:52:00 GMT

You don’t need fancy AI tools to become a 10x developer. You can simply spend days painstakingly tweaking your dotfiles and agonizing over your neovim config to become so much more productive.

Hit me up for more career advice!

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Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

My wife went to a pottery painting class and made me this adorable duck mug.

A drake with dramatic lashes!

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Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Almost forgot to post my annual meat pic.

Cured and dried beef made using a local recipe (folks ‘round here call it Nagelholz).

Conditions weren’t too good, leading to an uneven drying process, but results are still decent.

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Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Happy launch day!

Today I soft-launched my latest pet project.

And then I launched these three freaking cherry laurel root balls out of the ground.

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Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT

It’s ham season!

About three weeks until this bad boi is cured and dried.

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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Swoly canoli!

After running a program focused mostly on static strength for the last 20+ weeks, I’ve decided to switch things up towards the end of the year. To get through the festive season somewhat gracefully I’m running Brian Alsruhe’s “Reps per Minute” program once more.

Gotta give it to Brian’s programs: The relentless timing and combination of lifts make you feel something. Often it’s your sore back, flared tendons, or exhaustion — but quite often it’s also excitement, pride and outright fun. I sure had a constant smile on my phase during day one of my training.

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Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I thought coming up with a treesitter-based syntax coloring theme was hard. Turns out creating textmate-based themes is even more finicky.

In other news: Root Loops now supports Visual Studio code theming (UI and syntax). Give it a shot!

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Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I love the concept of tiling window managers but they often encourage a weird obsession to fine-tune and customize every last aspect of the experience. I gave PaperWM a shot this week and it seems to hit a sweet spot: It’s a simple Gnome plugin and integrates well with my regular desktop experience while giving me a convenient way to manage my windows and workflows with the keyboard wherever I go. If you use Gnome but miss the i3/sway experience, give it a try!

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Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

What’s that “Expert Mode” toggle doing there?!

Only one way to find out: Head over to rootloops.sh!

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Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Long time no bake! Sporting some of my home-smoked ham 😊

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Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Made delicious pan pizza tonight.

24 hours cold ferment. Provolone cheese for a rich smokey flavor and french salami for salty goodness.

Soul food after an exhausting week.

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Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Remember, folks 🤓

Cloud infrastructure inevitably evolves through the following stages:

Terraforming
Terrastorming
Terranorming
Terraperforming

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Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

“Ortskontrollfahrt” was briefly interrupted after my chain came off. Lots of small shenanigans, but I really love this moped.

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Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Looks like the folks at syntax.fm discovered Root Loops. Exciting 😊

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Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT

This gorgeous whirlwind turns 5 today 🥳

Happy birthday, buddy! Here’s to many more years of companionship ❤️

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Sat, 18 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Made some pizza with home-made pistachio cream.

Excellent stuff! 🤌

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Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Working out with my coach 💪

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Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Feelin’ alive this morning 😇

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Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Pizza time.

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Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Got a new domain.

Got no clue what to do with it.

Why do I keep doing this?

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Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Every single time I consider using #nixos to set up a dev environment for one of my side projects, I give up after about one hour of getting more and more confused.

I really, really want to like nix. I would love to understand and use it for reproducible dev environments. I just haven’t found a way to get started without spending days to understand the fundamentals. In the meantime, an “apt install ” takes a few minutes tops and solves my immediate problem. Bummer.

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Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

I got Lenny a new bed so he can hang out in my office in style. Looks like he’s happy with it 🥰

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Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Today my coworkers learned one of my favorite German words:

Schnapsidee.

Despite the foreign language, it seems to be a universally understood concept.

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Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:48:00 GMT

Continuous Integration

[kuhn-tin-yoo-uhs] [in-ti-grey-shuhn]

Noun.

1999: Every developer on the team merges their changes into a shared mainline several times a day.

2024: There’s a YML file somewhere that declares how to build and unit test your stuff, no matter which branch you’re on.

Testing your changes in isolation from everybody else’s changes is not quite what they meant with “integration”, folks 😬

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Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:00:00 GMT

The web can be an overwhelmingly toxic and frustrating place.

And then there are moments like this morning where a random email hits my inbox, coming from a stranger who read something on my website, found it interesting, and decided to take the time to say “hi” and “thanks” ❤️

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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Roaming the woods with my bud 🌲

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Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Lukewarm take:

If your generic type declaration ends with something that looks like a git conflict marker, you might have missed the opportunity to find a reasonable abstraction 🙃

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Sat, 23 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Nothing better than a Sunday afternoon nap.

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Sat, 27 May 2023 20:00:00 GMT

6 hours later…

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Sat, 27 May 2023 11:00:00 GMT

Smoking ribs for the lads. Its a sunny day, I’ve got nothing to do, my best buddy is with me, let’s go!

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Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

What a shit week. Let’s kick off the weekend with some home-made pizza 🍕

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Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Lenny’s not too happy about taking a bath today. Tough life.

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Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Took a 3 week break in December. I’ve been doing that for the past few years and it’s been incredibly refreshing.

This year I took the opportunity to make my first home-made ham (Ham’s hams!). 4 weeks of curing, drying, smoking, and resting.

Really proud of the outcome for a first attempt.

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Sat, 17 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Love this cozy little dude 🤎

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Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Trying to stay away from computers after work if I can. I’ve been restoring an old moped I found in my dad’s basement.

It’s a NSU Quickly N from 1956 with a two-stroke engine that makes you feel like you’re riding a chainsaw.

I was absolutely clueless when I started out, but over the last two years I’ve touched pretty much every part except for hte engine.

Lots of fun, frustration, and admiration for simple mechanics.