Clear Lake, where the McKenzie River originates. (Photo by LaurelHamers)| Eric Holscher
We use docker pretty heavily at work, and a pattern I’ve often run into is that I want to play around in a docker image to get something working, and then be able to “save” it back into the original image. This is generally a Python dependency or something similar that we’ve put into our requirements, but rebuilding all our dependencies takes a good bit of bandwidth and time.| Eric Holscher
I decided to try and write a blog post each day in January, and have now been successful! I have been inspired by folks like Simon Willison, John Gruber, and Andy Baio. They are able to keep up a rate of sharing over time, at different levels of depth.| Eric Holscher
I’ve always enjoyed this deck about the state of global decarbonization. It has lots of great high-level graphs and takeaways around the state of climate change.| Eric Holscher
Today there was some sad news, which is that the STC is shutting down. They posted a note on their website and other social media channels:| Eric Holscher
I’ve been listening to Adam Jacobs on Twitter for many years wax poetic about open source business. He finally put all his thoughts together in this video, which is a great overview of free software, open source, fair source, and how to build sustainable business.| Eric Holscher
The day has been busy with folks talking about Deepseek and it’s R1 model. I found a couple posts really useful to understand and contexutalize it:| Eric Holscher
When we traveled previously in 2018-2019, we spent summer in Europe both times. In general you are allowed to spend 90 of any 180 days in the Schengen visa area. This is a huge part of Europe, and was always a rush against the clock because we’d love to spend more time in Europe.| Eric Holscher
For some reason AWS makes browsing their instance types surprisingly hard. I’ve found Vantage’s instance viewer the best way to figure out the best option.| Eric Holscher
You walk into the room and you’re wearing the wrong thing. Everyone else is dressed casually, but you are not. You feel silly and find the quickest excuse to leave the situation. This is an example...| Eric Holscher
I’ve been going to professional events for a number of years, and one of the trickiest dynamics I have seen is that most events develop an “insiders” group who has been going for a long time. These...| Eric Holscher
I firmly believe that conferences can provide a lot of value for people in an industry. Conferences allow people to create a network, which helps them feel integrated in a community and profession....| Eric Holscher