One week ago today was my last day as a Craigslist employee. After a 15+ year adventure involving Perl, MySQL, Linux, MongoDB, Sphinx / Manticore, and various other homegrown and open source techno…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
A collection of stuff that has caught my attention recently: Eating Less Meat won’t save the planet. Here’s why. (YouTube)Blue Ridge Parkway – I had no idea this existed and would…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
Some stuff I’ve come across recently and found interesting some way or another: How Initialized Investor Garry Tan Turned A $300,000 Bet On Coinbase Into A $680 Million ‘Golden Ticket’ (Forbe…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
Here’s a short collection of interesting things that have crossed my radar: Finding From Particle Research Could Break Known Laws of Physics (NYT)1 in 3 Covid survivors suffers neurological o…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
Stuff I’ve found and read or watched recently: Ham and Split Pea Soup Recipe – A Great Soup (AllRecipes) we made this the other night and it came out great. Why use old computers and op…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
The new house we’re nearly done building has a shallow pitch standing steam metal roof upon which I needed to mount Dishy for my Starlink backup Internet service. TLDR: I ended up with someth…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
It’s been a long time since I used by blog. It’s time to stop being lazy and get back on the wagon. To start, here’s a recurring I might do–post a list of Interesting Things…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
A weird thing happened recently in my flying: I got comfortable flying left-handed. I started flying gliders as a teenager back in Michigan and have always had the stick in my right hand and used m…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
For a while I’ve been using AdBlock Plus and Ghostery in both Chrome and Firefox to reduce the amount of shitty ads I see and also reduce the number of “trackers” that I’m e…| Jeremy Zawodny's blog
A couple weeks ago I decided to order some new tools for current and upcoming yard work. I decided that a set of devices that all use the same 40V rechargeable batteries was the way to go and, for …| Jeremy Zawodny's blog