AI Parallels
May 12, 2026A comparison of different parallels drawn about AI to help understand how to think about it
SaltyTron
Long-form thoughts from Jeremiah
Concerns, Continued
March 23, 2025A little over a month ago, I wrote about some of the concerning developments from the new administration leading the U.S. Even just since then, a lot has been happening. This is an update on some things that have been happening in the areas of concern that I mentioned before.
Concerns and Distractions
February 21, 2025A lot has been happening in the US recently since Trump took office. A lot of it is deeply concerning, and as expected, a lot of it is noise. This is my take on how I parse recent developments in our politics and government.
Steinbeck: The Only Story
December 06, 2024As the narrator of his book East of Eden, John Steinbeck gives a monologue that feels relevant to recent events.
In the US, not all voters are equal due to the electoral college system and the "winner take all" method of awarding electoral votes. I created a visualization to illustrate the relative impact of a single vote in each state.
Tech's Vision of the Future
October 21, 2024Silicon Valley billionaires are trying to sell us their vision of the future. Is it working?
New Blog Generator
October 05, 2024I migrated my blog to use Hugo. Despite some confusing and opaque behaviors, it's nice to spend less time on thinking about the blog platform, and more time writing. This is a good example of the trade-offs of the 'build it yourself' mentality.
Cobble Build Automation
September 16, 2024Cobble is a fast, flexible, monorepo-aware build automation tool built with Rust and Lua. In this post, I'll discuss why I built a new tool as opposed to using an existing one, and the philosophy behind Cobble's approach to build automation.
Biking Monterey Bay
September 07, 2023I tried a bike road trip for the first time over Labor Day weekend.
Book Club: The Armada
September 10, 2022Thoughts on The Armada by Garrett Mattingly, and some striking parallels between 16th century Europe and today
Financial App Progress
March 13, 2022Some progress on the Rust financial app project
Crystal Springs
July 25, 2021Digital painting of crystal springs reservoir
First Post on Rust
January 17, 2021Rust is a programming language that has been growing in popularity, and that I started playing around with earlier this year. It has become a favorite language, and I'd like to share a little about why I think it's great.
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A Career Transition
October 17, 2020After almost seven years at Tableau/Salesforce, I've decided to move on to something new. Here are some thoughts about my career up to this point and what I'll be doing next.
Inktober 2020
October 01, 2020I'm going to be creating an ink drawing per day for inktober. I'll update this post with a new drawing each day.
Blog Update: Comments
August 18, 2020I added support for comments on my statically-generated blog using Discourse.
Some Project Updates
August 09, 2020Some updates on projects that I have been working on during the pandemic, including digital painting, and a finance app
What this Blog is Made of
May 24, 2020In this post I'll describe a little bit about what this blog is built on, and how I ended up doing it that way.
This is my Blog
May 22, 2020My new blog is here. This is the intro.