2016–2026
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2026 31
October 2026
August 2026
June 2026
- Maui Adventure - Day 6: A Pretty Gecko, an Unwelcome Mongoose, and the Mighty Sea
- Maui Adventure - Day 6: The Garden With No Flowers
- Maui Adventure - Day 5: Fantastic Pho, Found Under Fluorescent Lights
- Maui Adventure - Day 5: Chasing a Brown Sign Hat Trick
- Maui Adventure - Day 5: Wait for It, Snorkel Edition
- Maui Adventure - Day 5: Big Whale and Little Beach
- Maui Adventure - Day 4: The Aquarium I Almost Skipped
- 50 for 50: pocketmap — A Printable Reference for a Long Day of Walking
May 2026
April 2026
March 2026
- Claude Code - Programmer's Partner and Torah Scholar?
- Review: People of the Book
- Maui Adventure - Day 4 - Hula and Stilts
February 2026
- Maui Adventure - Day 4 - Kapalua Tidepools
- Maui Adventure - Day 3 - Other Notable Creatures
- Maui Adventure - Day 3 - Hosmer Grove
- Maui Adventure - Day 3 - Sliding Sands Hike - Breathtaking In Every Way
- Review: The Line Becomes a River
- Maui Adventure - Day 3 - Here Comes the Sun
January 2026
- Maui Adventure - Day 2 - Kahakapao Loop Trail - So Many Aliens
- Maui Adventure - Day 2 - Speed Bumps and All
- Maui Adventure - Day 1 - Getting There
- Like X-Ray Vision For YouTube Content
- In Praise Of msmtp - Painless Email Setup For Your AWS Linux Box
- A Texas Sized Mystery: Solved
- Building A Better Digital Bat Signal - Part 3 - The Phone
- Building A Better Digital Bat Signal - Part 2 - The Server
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December 2025
- Building A Better Digital Bat Signal - Part 1 - The Plan
- hbo-blogger.el: Still Editing Blogger Posts in Emacs, Still Loving It
- Sun Pillar!
- US open 2025 - Homeward Bound and Closing Thoughts
November 2025
- US Open - Day 3 - Tennis with Heart, Tennis with Drama
- US Open - Day 2 - Tennis Time (Finally!)
- US Open Day 1 - Chilling in NY
October 2025
- US Open 2025 - Day 1 - Getting To NY
- ESOXOFFORE Kids Camera - Command Line Tool Automation
- ESOXOFFORE Kids Camera - Review
September 2025
- Lightweight Google Photos API Command Line Access
- Easy Command Line SD Card Access
- Label 228's - Let's Make Some Street Art!
- Review: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
August 2025
- US Open 2024 - Day 4
- US Open 2024 - Day 3
- US Open 2024 - Day 2
- US Open 2024 - Day 1
- Google Meet Meets the Command Line
- The Three C's of a Pocket Tenach
- The Sound of the Omer
- Noshing on the Go - Part 3: Ben Bites to the Rescue
July 2025
- Noshing on the Go - Part 2: Nutrition or Convenience, Pick One.
- Noshing on the Go - Part 1: Experimenting with Macros
June 2025
May 2025
- That's My Nephew! Ethan Orates, Graduates and Celebrates
- A Triple Crown Attempt and the YouTube API - Making Great Content Easier to Watch
- G's Baltimore Adventure - Choo Choo! - Visiting the B & O Railroad Museum
April 2025
- G's Baltimore Adventure - The USS Constellation
- Inspiration and Innovation for Peace - A Lesson from B'nei Brak
March 2025
February 2025
January 2025
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December 2024
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 5
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 4
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 3
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 2
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 1
August 2024
- gptel: Mindblowing integration between Emacs and ChatGPT
- Review: The Lost Apothecary
- Buzzard Hill, Appalachian Trail Hike - Close to DC, Far from Easy
- Review: The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
July 2024
- Citi Open 2024 - 3 Hour Edition
- Death Valley - Day 5 - The Last Day and Last Word on Borax
- Death Valley Day 4 - Mosaic Canyon, Mesquite Flat Dunes and Luxurious Las Vegas
- Death Valley - Day 4 - Harmony Borax Works - A Lesson in Entrepreneurial Chutzpah
- Blessings from a Memory | A Weekend of Family, Friends and Food
June 2024
- Death Valley Adventure - Day 4 - Golden Canyon
- Death Valley Adventure - Day 3 - Desolation Canyon, Bantha and a Thanksgiving Feast
- Death Valley Adventure - Day 3 - Zabriskie Point, Tatooine, and Dante's View
May 2024
- Death Valley Adventure - Day 2 - Devils Golf Course and Artists Pallet
- Death Valley Adventure - Day 2 - Sidewinder Canyon
- Death Valley Adventure - Day 2 - Badwater Basin
- Death Valley Adventure - Day 1 - Arriving
- The All You Can Eat Buffet Ends Today
- Eat the Yard: Harvesting, Cooking and Eating Burdock
- Passover 2024: Really Digging This Year's Seder
April 2024
- A Cruft Free, Super Simple, WordPress Link Rendering Plugin
- Living History, IRL: Fort CF Smith
- Visting St Louis: From Jail to the Arch
- A Flyby of the Key Bridge Collapse
March 2024
- The Sad Trees of Columbia Pike
- out-of-band is officially out-of-bounds | Reviving emacs oauth2 with Google APIs
- The ABC's of Easy to Forget Hiking Essentials
- A Little Los Angeles
- Thought for Food: Three Tiers of Food Preparedness
February 2024
- Man-Bag Dump, 2024 Edition
- Man-Bag Dump, 2024 Edition: Let's Talk Philosophy
- A Bit of Burlington
- Review: Cryptonomicon
- Tasker: Saving Spouses one Profile at a Time.
- Wanted Lofty AI Automation; Got Epic AI Distraction
January 2024
2023 100
December 2023
- Review: How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
- US Open 2023 - Day 1 - 9/11 Memorial Museum and The Dinner That Almost Didn't Happen
- US Open 2023 - Day 1 - Visiting with Winnie-the-Pooh and His Remarkable Roommates
- US Open 2023 - The Flight and The Committee
- Review: Skybase 50-1000x Wi-Fi Microscope | Low Cost, Solid Performance
- All Aboard! The Perfect DC Train Adventure
November 2023
- Hot Dog Cooking Challenge: Tea Light Edition
- In Support of Local Public Art Projects
- Three Magical Days at Bradley Beach
- Cramming for an Astrophotography Opportunity
- Citi Open 2023 | Murray, Tiafoe and glimpse of Gauff
- Make It Obvious | Graphically Annotating Images with Metadata for Easy Analysis
- Finding a Photo's Who and When | Extracting and Scrubbing Exif Data
October 2023
- DSLR vs Cell Phone Camera: To Schlep or Not to Schlep
- On the Difference Between Answers and Understanding
- The $1.50, Ultra Compact, Field Expedient Rangefinder
- In Search of a Low Cost and Compact Field Expedient Distance Calculator
- Review: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
- Taming YouTube, Part 5: Command Line Searching
- Taming YouTube, Part 4: Playlist Aging and Rotating
- Taming YouTube, Part 3: Declaring YouTube Playlist Bankruptcy
September 2023
- Taming YouTube, Part 2: Replacing OOB OAuth on the Command Line
- Taming YouTube, Part 1: Why?
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 5 - The Last Day
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 4 - The Return
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 4 - The Lakes
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 4 - (Very) Early Morning
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 3
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 2 - Afternoon
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 2 - Morning
August 2023
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 1
- Review: A Psalm for the Wild Built
- Let There Be Light: More Experiments in Upcycled Light
- Review: Manual of Field Sketching and Reconnaissance
- The US Navy Band I Didn't Expect To Hear
- Travel Games: Kid Tested, Uncle Approved
- Tucson Adventure - Day 9
- Tucson Adventure - Day 8
- Tucson Adventure - Day 7
- Tucson Adventure - Day 6
- Tucson Adventure - Day 5 - Afternoon
July 2023
- Tucson Adventure - Day 5 - Morning
- Tucson Adventure - Day 4
- Tucson Adventure - Day 3
- Tucson Adventure - Day 2
- Tucson Adventure - Day 1
- Scenes from a Fourth
- Our grandparents were right: Why horseradish belongs on the seder plate
- Peggy Raskind Blumenthal, Zichrona Livracha
June 2023
- The Start of a Most Difficult Journey
- Caption Me: Tidal Basin Edition
- Building your own Noah's Ark. But smaller and for knowledge.
- Garmin and Tasker: Sending an I'm Here message when an activity is complete
- Tampa Adventure: Day 4
- Tampa Adventure: Day 3
- Tampa Adventure: Day 2
May 2023
- Tampa Adventure: Day 1
- Overnight Steel Cut Oats: Quick Prep, Easy Cleanup, Tasty Results
- Getting YouTube, WordPress and Mailchimp to All Play Nice Together
- 10 Things I Learned from A Reunion, Fam Time and 18 Hours of Driving
- This Sucker Is Huge | Touring the Battleship Wisconsin
- Nachas in Norfolk
- Healthy, Easy and Very Very Dry - The Lazy Man's Salmon Jerky
- Streamlining the Google Takeout Process
April 2023
- Review: Stormjammers: The Extraordinary Story of Electronic Warfare Operations in the Gulf War
- From Three Answers to Four Sons
- Encountering NY's Finest
- Hiking Nyack Beach to Hook Mountain and Back
- How Not To Start A Family Tradition
March 2023
- Passover Prep 2023 | New Questions, New Resources
- This Bud's For You
- Attempt #1: How Not To Measure an Audio Amplifier's Gain
- But Does It Amplify Audio?
- Lessons from the Electronics Bench: Trust Nothing.
- Who Needs Cherry Blossoms? Some Love for Flowering Magnolias
- An Axestastic Good Time
- I'm Glad I Soldered This Backwards. Really.
- Warming Up My Soldering Skills: Building Hue
- Finding a Needle in a Map Stack | Using a Field Expedient Local Map Repository
February 2023
- Finally: USB Thumbdrive Access from within Termux
- Termux::API Commands From a Prooted Ubuntu Instance
- Review: Here Goes Nothing
- I've Got The Whole Commonwealth In My Hand | Crafting and Visualizing an Offline Map Repository
- Review: The Cartographers
- Trains, Bikes and Automobiles: Easy Smithsonian Fun
- Same Map, Less Megs: Optimizing USGS Map File Size, Part 2
- Same Map, Less Megs: Optimizing USGS Map File Size, Part 1
- Organize it or trash it? Taming My Download Directory Mess
- OCGs meet CLI | GeoPDF Layer Management from the Command Line
January 2023
- Map Skills in the Hood
- The Goldilocks Problem, Backup Phone Edition
- Phone Plan Perfection: Picking a Backup Phone Service Provider
- 5 Reasons I Carry a Backup Phone
- Review: A Woman of No Importance
- USGS Topo Maps from the Command Line
- Digital Redneck Engineering: a Trip Timer for the Mazda CX-5
- Accessing an SD Card on Windows from WSL2
- Caption Me: Hang In There Edition
- Starting 2023 Off Right: Exploring Huntley Meadows
- Review: The Gift of Fear
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December 2022
- Local Paper Maps: Printing Them
- Local Paper Maps: Preparing Them
- Local Paper Maps: Finding Them
- Finding, Printing and Using Paper Local Maps
- Review: Outlander
- Let There Be Upcycled Light
- Laptop Trackpads Are Awful. AutoHotKey Makes Them Better.
- Taming The Moby Wrap
November 2022
- Abingdon Adventure - Day 3
- Abingdon Adventure - Day 2
- Abingdon Adventure - Day 1
- Tasker: Auto Downloading a Random Pic From A Google Photos Album
- Wordsmithing with Emacs
- Me. 30% Smarter. Looking.
- Tasker Powered: Like Samsung's Focus Mode, But Much Uglier
October 2022
September 2022
- Meet Gourdy: The Garden Experiment 10,000 Years in the Making
- US Open 2022 - Day 3 - (So Much) More Tennis
- US Open 2022 - Day 2 - Tennis Time!
- US Open 2022 - Day 1 - Exploring NY
- A Surprising Source of Programmer's Inspiration: A Weekend with Pablo Picasso
July 2022
- A Perfect Yes Day at Burke Lake
- Your Code is Safely Stored In The Cloud. Right?
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 3 - Adventure and Homecoming
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 2 - Night
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 2 - Noon
- Rocky Mountain National Park - Day 2 - Morning
- Rocky Mountain National Park Adventure - Day 1 - Disaster
- From Seed to Bottle: A Tale of Low Effort Lemon Basil Liqueur
- Emacs for Project Notes: Quick Capture, Automatic Organization
- New York City Adventure - Day 8 - Homeward Bound
- New York City Adventure - Day 7
- New York City Adventure - Day 6
- New York City Adventure, Day 5 - Fighters and Fire
- Fixing an Android Gotcha: Snoozing WiFi
- New York City Adventure - Day 4 - Hike Time!
- New York City Adventure - Day 3
- New York City Adventure - Day 2
- New York City Adventure - Day 1 - It Begins
- They're Coming And They're Oh So Hungry
- Baltimore Adventure Day 4 - Saying Goodbye
- Baltimore Adventure Day 3 - Art, Ice Cream and The Deep
- Baltimore Adventure Day 2 - Hiking, A Cool Waterfall and All The Berries You Can Eat
June 2022
- Baltimore Adventure Day 1 - Arriving and Eating
- Photo Shootout: Bulky Phone vs Bulky Camera
- Samsung S22 Ultra: Camera Hype vs. Reality
- Defeating Blogger's Preview Click Trap
- Story Time: The Pumpkin
- The Cure for Card (and Dice) Game Amnesia
- Review: A Long Walk to Water
- 49 Days in One - In Praise of Programmatic PDF Generation
May 2022
- In Search of a Reliable Gmail Permalink
- Duct Tape Engineering
- Gotcha: Emacs on Mac OS: Too Many Files Open
- Faith, Patience and Careful Observation - Lessons From A Plant Scavenger Hunt
- The Set to Watch from Ultra Miami Musical Festival
- Special Delivery: From A Random Linux Box to My Wrist
- Boat Tree
- Bat Mitzvah Awesomeness!
April 2022
- George's Beacon of Blue and White
- That Time American Jews Thought Wine Was Chametz
- L'Chaim! Fore!
- Web SDR: Free Access to the Diverse (and a bit crazy) World of Radio
- Twins Bnai Mitzvah: Partying and Kvelling
- Twins Bnai Mitzvah: Family Pics and Rehearsal
March 2022
- Twins Bnai Mitzvah: Braids and Trains
- Streamlining Trello Task Management from the Command Line
- Beats By Ben | Building and Using a Digital Stethoscope
- But are you really?
- Downgrading to php7.3 on Amazon Linux 2
- Battling Android's Crazy Bright Lock Screen
- Colvin Run Mill: Pretty Flowers and Visions of Hand Crafted Maple Syrup
- Obysuf: A Lazy Programmer's First Attempt at a Roblox Game
February 2022
- Review: Grandpa's Underwood No. 5 Typewriter
- Florida in a Hurry
- The American Drawing Book: Learning to Draw Like an 1840's Amateur
- Gotcha: When Windows and WSL2 Stop Talking To Each Other
- The Valentine's Gift a Year In The Making
- DC, Chaperone Edition
January 2022
- The $12 Kids Toy That's Also A Tech Game Changer
- Fighting Finicky Frames; Perfectly Printing Pics Programmatically
- Hidden in Plain Sight: The Butt Millet Memorial Fountain
- DC's National WW I Memorial, Incomplete and Worth A Visit
- Making a Good Thing Better: A Forth Unit Testing Framework
- Free and Fast, A Programmer Friendly Source for Historic News Data
- SaSaS #1
- Surprisingly Elegant: Implementing Modules in Forth
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December 2021
- Appreciating The Okefenokee
- Move over Marie Callender: Shira's Hot Dog Pot Pie
- A Vivoactive 4 Annoyance and A Low Tech Fix
- Tampa and Fort Myers Adventure, Day 6
- Tampa and Fort Myers Adventure, Day 5
- Tampa and Fort Myers Adventure, Day 4
- Pretty In Pink
- Tampa and Fort Myers Adventure, Day 3
- Tampa and Fort Myers Adventure, Day 2
- Tampa and Fort Myers Adventure, Day 1
- Tasker To Power A New Habit
November 2021
- There's Something Fishy About This Menorah
- Touring Antietam National Battlefield
- No, They Don't Give Out Samples | Visiting The DEA Museum
- US Open 2021 Final, In Pursuit of History
- Review: The Attachment Effect
- On The Timelessness of Coding
- In Praise of Samsung's Night Mode
- A DC United Game In Two Pics
- US Open 2021, Day 2
- Batman Returns. For More Candy.
October 2021
- US Open 2021, Day 1
- US Open 2021, Day 0
- DSLR Backup 3.0: A Little Hardware Goes A Long Way
- A Personal Logo
- Great Waves with a Great Nephew
- Western and Southern Open, Day 4
- Western and Southern Open, Day 3
- Western and Southern Open, Day 2
- Caption Me: Epic Sunrise Edition
- Picture Perfect Pumpkin Patch Picking
- Blockhouse Point Loop: Hunting for Pawpaws, Where The Water Ends and Other Sunday Morning Discoveries
September 2021
- Western and Southern Open, Day 1
- Scenes from an Evening Walk
- 5 Kids and (maybe) 5 Days of Rain | Entertainment Ideas that Worked and Didn't
- 9/11 Remembered
- A Silent Phone and A Buzzing Watch; My Latest Notification Strategy
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 8, The Last Day
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 7
August 2021
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 6
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 5
- Caption Me: Introspective Bug Edition
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 4
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 3
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 2
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 1
- Tybee Island Adventure, Day 0
- Review: KÜHL Resistor Lite Chinos
July 2021
- Review: KÜHL Renegade Cargo Convertible Pants
- Florida Adventure, Day 3
- Florida Adventure, Day 2
- Florida Adventure, Day 0
- Florida Adventure, Day 1
- Road Running Kit v3.0
- Bull Run Campground: 24 hours of Outdoor Fun
- Review: The Wisdom of the Talmud
June 2021
- 23 Years of The Tully's Effect
- More Miles, More Awesome | Hiking Jones Mountain in Shenandoah National Park
- Gotcha of the Day: Fixing AWS Linux setlocal warnings
- It's a Bird! It's a Snake! It's Chimney Bluffs State Park!
- Sharpening My Gray Time Skills | Six Card Golf
- My Spidey Senses are Tingling
- From China to the Pike: The Unlikely Journey of the Leatherleaf mahonia
- Building Subversion from Source on WSL 2
- Coding Your Way to Sleep: Sleep Stories + Tasker
- Pics from a Run | Sinking, Snacking and Steeping
- Safety Pin Goodness | Easiest. Gear. Mod. Ever.
- Review: (Real) Tailwind Endurance Fuel
May 2021
- Street Art for All, without Asking
- They're Here....
- Tzitzit Inspiration, Modern and Historic
- ShulCloud on the command line: Now with form support
- 3 Plant Mysteries, 1 Simple Tricks for Solving Them
- Caption Me: Better Run Faster Edition
- A Long Walk to Image-Based-Map Story Telling
- Hiking (nearly all) The Bull Run Occoquan Trail
April 2021
- Failing (An Insignificant) Stress Test
- Decoding a Slap Happy Street Artist's Work
- This Sucks | Field Testing Vacuum Sealed Kit Packaging
- Hiking Frederick Municipal Forest: Three Saws Trail to Catoctin to Rocky Stream Trail
- The Roar of the Engines and Other Little Pleasures
- Caption Me: Covid-19 Vaccine Edition
- Discovering and Critiquing the Shed Kit
- The Lazy Gabbai: Shell Scripting ShulCloud
- Cheap, Loved and Sharp(er) | Putting an Edge on a $1.00 Hatchet
- Four Photos, Four Truths
- Review: A Minute to Midnight
- Two Tuna Based Observations
- Build Your Own LG V60 Floating Bar
- Insights from Passover, 2021 Edition
March 2021
- Art on the Run
- Caption Me: Divorced Birds Edition
- Who's reading what? Tracking User Interaction in WordPress's Arconix FAQ Plugin
- On This Day, Blogger Edition
- You've got Questions. I've got Answers. Finally.
- You Need This Information | What to do in a Power Line Emergency
- On This Day, Google Photos Edition
- Review: The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- Yum! Greens n Teff, Vegan Ethiopian Goodness
- Using 1password To Seamlessly Manage Subversion Credentials
- Preparing for the Unthinkable, Part 2 - Trauma Kits
February 2021
- Preparing for the Unthinkable, Part 1- Until Help Arrives Training
- Review: Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy and Network Effect
- A Tasker based OPM Status Monitor
- Dialing Up The Romance on My iPad Love Note Delivery System
- Just A Bit Overengineered: A JavaScript Based, MQTT Powered, iPad Love Note System
- PimgStack Part 3 - A Tasker Based Phone UI
- PimgStack Part 2 (again) - The Joy of MQTT
- Staying Close To Home: Using AutoHotKey to Jump Between Screens
- PimgStack Part 2 - An AWS Dead End
January 2021
- A Stack Based Digital Photo Frame - Part 1
- Review: Annihilation - Book 1
- Hiking the Columbia Air Center Loop
- Tasker and Google Sheets: Back On Speaking Terms
- PowerShell For the Win: Short and Sweet Edition
- Review: Artificial Condition: Murderbot Diaries
- A Windows Friendly Solution to the Video Packaging Problem
- Seeing All The Pretty Colors: optimizing emacs + screen + Secure Shell Chrome App
- hbo-blogger.el: A Simple Strategy for Editing Blogger posts in emacs
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December 2020
- Making emacs happier on a Chromebook: An ssh and console friendly browse-url-browser-function
- Using Tasker's Bluetooth Connection Event to Tackle Android Annoyances
- Review: All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries
- Screw It: The Search for the Perfect EDC Screwdriver Kit
- Review: The Barren Grounds: The Misewa Saga
- Auto Packaging of Videos | ffmpeg To The Rescue
November 2020
- Mason Neck State Park - Enjoying Kid Friendly Hiking with Fun Kids
- Countering News Bias - A Simple Solution
- Killer Artwork
- Building a Garmin Watch Widget | Part 3: The UI
- Blue Ridge Mountains Adventure - Day 4
- Blue Ridge Mountains Adventure - Day 3
- Blue Ridge Mountains Adventure - Day 2
- Blue Ridge Mountains Adventure - Day 1
- Building a Garmin Watch Widget | Part 2: Holy Smokes! It Works!
October 2020
- Building a Garmin Watch Widget | Part 1: Getting Started
- My Take on Homemade Tailwind
- Table Top Testing Astrolabe 2.0
- A Camellia with a Secret and Woolly Mammoth Ghosts | Story Hunting at the National Arboretum
- Lessons From the Lulav and Etrog Bundle: Be Like the Willow
- Review: What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- The Case For Narcan | Part 2: The How
September 2020
- The Case For Narcan | Part 1: The Why
- A New Year's Wish | Animated Gif Edition
- Review: A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent
- Hiking, History and a Heck of a good Time | Adventures in Hemlock Overlook Regional Park
- Lions and Tigers and People, Oh My!
- Gotcha of the Day: Fixing My S10+'s Horrendous Call Quality
August 2020
- Making History | Building a 2000 Year Old Computer
- Review: The Map of Salt and Stars
- The 3P's of Gear Selection
- Baby's First Backpacking Trip
- Review: Middle Passage
July 2020
- Perspective on Covid-19 from an Unexpected Source
- Gonna Be a Hot One
- Review: In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
- Review: Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
- That's So Covid
- A Local Guide to the Hazards of Covid-19
June 2020
- A Programmer's Understanding Of e
- But the Car Can't Do That | Lessons From a Mercedes A220 UI Glitch
- An Ultra-Lightweight PHP Unit Test Framework
- The Magic of Plant Snap and The Taste of Honeysuckle Tea
- A Most Unusual Bedtime Playlist
- From Ferocious Meat-Eater to Handsome Acrobat
May 2020
- Skills Inspiration from a Real Life Worst Case Survival Guide
- Hiker in Training: Ellanor C Lawrence Park
- Hiker in Training: Gulf Branch Trail
- Hiker in Training: Pre Hikes
- Giving Ionic's Capacitor a Dev Friendly Boost
- Review: The Trumpet of the Swan
April 2020
- Cause My Arms Are Tired | A Field Expedient Baby Carrier
- 3am Audio Hack - Playing Lullabies and Netflix at the Same Time
- Passover Thoughts, Covid-19 Edition
- A First Hike in Gunpowder Falls State Park
March 2020
- From Office Supplies To Ninja Armaments
- Make With Care: Protein Packed Hot Chocolate
- This Buds For You | Savoring Signs of Spring
- Musings From Within a Pandemic
- Crafting Music | Building and Playing the Canjo
- Wrestling with a Google Play Services Error
- One Plaque. So many questions.
- Review: The Disappearing Spoon
February 2020
- Catching Some Air at iFly
- Tracking all those Bottles, Diapers and Formula
- Bottles, Diapers and Formula, Oh My!
- Carrying Sunglasses | A Cheap, Simple and Lightweight Approach
- Bushcraft Map Making Meets JavaSript Hacking
January 2020
- What Should a Runner Eat? A Rock Climber's Answer
- Google Photos API Giveth, and Then Promptly Taketh Away
- Man-Bag Dump, January 2020 Edition
- Review: The Garmin Vivoactive 3
- A Google Photos API Command Line Toolkit
- Happy Feet: Profession Based Footwear Optimization
- Marathon Man
- The Dreamer, The Thinker, The Hopeless Romantic
- Meeting Our Newest Newphew
- Auto Ring Tone Generation - Making Some Noise
- Snap Circuits - Adult Level Insights from a Kid's Take on Electronics
- Starting 2020 Off Right
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December 2019
- 25 First Dates
- 'Mercia Sighting
- Finding a Quirky Cell Phone Plan to Match my Quirky Cell Phone Usage
- That DC Glow
- A Protein Packed, Locally Sourced, 100% Organic Treat
- Convenient and Tasty - Neutral Cold Soaking
- Las Vegas Adventure - Day 7 - Coming Home
- Las Vegas Adventure - Day 6
- Las Vegas Adventure - Day 5
- Keeps the Tea Hot and Is Barely Even a Fire Hazard
- Wear Long Pants, Avoid Overhead Bins and other Hard Earned Travel Tips
- Las Vegas Adventure - Day 4
- Las Vegas Adventure - Day 3
- Las Vegas Adventure - Day 2
- Las Vegas Adventure - Day 1
November 2019
- This Onion Gives Me Hope
- WP Plugin Hacking: Adding a [learn-more] tag to Simple Calendar's Event Template Tags
- One Route to a Route Planning Spreadsheet
- Escape! Midway! Oorah!
- Sun Setting; Moon Rising
- Giving Arlington the Run Around
- Take a Hike
- Phillip Phillips and The Myth Making It
- Review: The Incomplete Book of Running
- Why Yes, That is a Load Bearing Cookie
- DC's Latest Memorial Treat
October 2019
- Seeing the Big Picture | Simplifying Route Navigation with the Garmin InReach Mini
- Montreal Day 7 - An Ending and a Beginning
- The World Series. Up Close and Personal.
- Review: Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River
- Montreal Day 6 - A Roller Coaster Day
- Montreal Day 5 - To the Summit!
- Montreal Day 4 - All The Pretty Flowers
- 9 Miles of Hiking in the Patapsco Stream Valley State Park
- Saying Goodby to Plantar Fasciitis. For Real.
- When Life Hands You Gourds | A New Year Wish
September 2019
- Let's Drink | Slow Energy Fast. (And portable, and cheap)
- DC at Dawn
- Review: Underground Airlines
- Shiver Me Timbers | Pirates on the Potomac
- Review: Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields: Discovering America's Hallowed Ground
- 2019 Backpacking Mini Reviews
- Review: To Kill a Mockingbird (the play)
- US Open 2019: French Fries, Pastries and Also Great Tennis
August 2019
- Montreal Day 3 - More Carrots, Please
- Montreal Day 2 - Old Montreal
- Montreal Day 1 - Getting Here
- Letter Locking - The Delightful Skill You Almost Certainly Don't Need
- The Great Smoky Mountains Adventure Day 8 - Heading Home
- The Great Smoky Mountains Adventure Day 7 - Hello Dolly[wood]!
- The Great Smoky Mountains Adventure Day 6 - Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
- The Great Smoky Mountains Adventure Day 5 - Chilling Out and Saving the Galaxy
- The Great Smoky Mountains Adventure Day 4 -- Bears and Butterflies
- Review: Unbroken
- The 1 oz(ish), Waterproof DIY Man Bag
- Cooking with Nick and Francis - Fun times at the Citi Open
July 2019
- Astrophotography for the Unprepared
- Backpacking Allegheny and Seneca Creek Trails
- The Mueller Testimony - Well that didn't go as planned
- A Weekend Backpacking Trip's worth of Food
- Review: How to Stop Time
- The Great Smoky Mountains Adventure Day 3 -- Into the Wild
- Apollo 50 - Go for the Moon
- The Great Smoky Mountains Adventure Day 2 -- The View From The Top
- Heading to the Great Smoky Mountains
- Don't Fear the x, and other lessons from Shamir Secret Sharing
- A Low End Camera Shootout
- One Wicked Bug: Fixing a PHP Upload Error #3
- More Columbia Pike Adjacent Fishing
- A Very DC Ultra Run
June 2019
- Discovering the Goldmine that is the M5Stack Arduino Environment
- Review: Crossed by Ally Condie
- mitmproxy: X-Ray Vision for Web Developers
- Gift-of-a-Playlist, Now Even More Gift'ier
- A Dopp Kit Dump
- More Thought, Less Cost - Gift-of-a-Playlist
- Name that Plant: Two-Toned Purple Leaves Edition
- I've Got a Guy For That: Painless Running Shoe Shopping
- A Review of Biblical Proportions: I Am Mother
- Fishing Holmes Run
- One Click Spreadsheet Archiving | Google App Script For The Win
- Review: Sailing Alone Around The World
May 2019
- My Journey Through Plantar Fasciitis
- From Subject to Photographer
- Boston Yom Orchim Weekend - Slumber Party, Castle Island and Group Hugs
- Boston Yom Orchim Weekend - Getting There
- Rethinking My Midlife Crisis
- Patapsco River Valley State Park: Manventure 2019
- Configuring the M5Stack for Full Geek Mode
- Further Adventures in Cold Soaking
- Fishing Kit v1 - Finally Getting Organized
- Review: Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them
- Visual Cryptography Part 3 - Whoops, Totally Broken on Mobile Devices
- Visual Cryptography Part 2 - Like Magic!
- Visual Cryptography Part 1 - A Source Image Authoring Tool
- The Futuristic, Paleolithic Looking Musical Instrument You Almost Certainly Can't Buy
- Gotcha of the Day: Grabbing Android Dev Screenshots from MacOS
April 2019
- 1Password and Freshbooks Not on Speaking Terms | Tamper Monkey to the Rescue
- Flight of the Bumblebee - In Super Slow Motion
- Fluffy
- Yo Phone, Where You At? | A Simple SMS Based Find-My-Phone Solution
- My Passover 2019 Reading List
- Imaginary News - A Failed Media Experiment
- A Handy Companion for the Classic Red and Gold Haggadah
- The Embarrassingly Simple Source for An Up To Date Windows Version of emacs
- Dusting off my Microsoft Word Programming Skills
- One Big Gun, and Other Surprises Along DC's Waterfront
- Grabbing an Ionic APK for the Truly Lazy
March 2019
- Fun With Lycra
- Stealthy Caloric Motivation
- Improvised Direction Finding Using A Clock, Some Math and A Pocket Friendly Chart
- Etched in Stone
- The River Was Angry That Day My Friends
- Review: Ready Player One
- pick-one: a (very) lightweight image collaboration tool
- Learn the Lessons, Avoid the Pain | The Catalog of Failed Attempts
- Building a Better Barometer
- Review: Phantom Warriors
- Digits, Aspirin and an NFC Powered Cheatsheet
- Weather Prediction Like It's 1850
- Making More Minyans | A Software Solution to Increasing Attendance
- Massive and Invisible | The Oscar Straus Memorial
- Very Tiny and Very Annoying | The War on Biofilm
- Eating on the Run. Literally.
February 2019
- New Life for an Old Laptop | Powered by Neverware's CloudReady
- A Sunset between Two Gems
- Australian Open Adventure - Day 4
- Australian Open Adventure - Day 3
- Australian Open Adventure - Day 2
- Australian Open Adventure - Day 1
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 9 - The Last Day
- 3,000 Words
- Solar Position Functions, Google Sheets Edition
- The Magic of Harry Potter Meets the Magic of Coding
- The Beach, A Reserve and exploring the Suburban Jungle | A Fun Weekend in Florida
- The $4.99 Mobile Phone Photography Game Changer
- A Political Statement 142 Years in the Making
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 8
- This is Us. On TV.
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 7
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 6
January 2019
- Go Towards the Light | Direction and Time from the Sun
- A Landscape Translated into Liquid Glass
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 5
- We Escaped! Fun Times at the Runaway Train Escape Room
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 4
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 3
- The ASUS C302C Chromebook | A Traveler's and Hacker's Deram
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 2
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 1
- New Zealand Adventure - Day 0
- Pack the Umbrella? Adding Weather Data to Google Sheets
- A Hacker Friendly Weather Tool - The Singular Weather Service
- Implementing A Very Simple Weather Service - Part 1
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December 2018
- Lessons from a Fiery YouTube Comment | Thoughts On Using Emergency Gear
- Man vs. Nature -- And Nature Always Wins
- A Quick bash Morse Code Generator
- These Kids Get It -- Talking Web App Development With Fourth Graders
- Tea, Pottery and Black Bears - One Very Adventurous Day in Boston
- The SAR-Tech Sinnet | Easy Paracord Access
- The Algorithm That Saved the Union | Civil War Encryption
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 7 - The Last Day
- Puerto Rico - Day 6 - Secret Beaches and Shira's Retirement Plan
- Reflective Body Armor. For my running fanny pack.
- Google Sheets SDR Touch Exporter - Version 2.0
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 5
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 4 - Rum for Breakfast and Hot Dogs for Dinner
November 2018
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 3 - 3 Miles of Muddy Slip & Slide
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 2
- Puerto Rico Adventure - Day 1 - It Begins
- The Glass is Way More Than Half Full - A Visit to the Corning Museum of Glass
- The MRE Aficionado - Lessons From a Ration Eating Guru
- Seen and Be Seen - Tools to Make Night Running Safer
- Jedediah Hotchkiss' Sketchbook | From Library of Congress image gallery to mobile friendly PDF
- Same Signal Knob, Different View
- Signal Knob Hike | 10 Miles of views, secluded wilderness and mountain bikers
- Blinking Lights and Duct Tape Make Everything Better
October 2018
- A Lightweight Urban Exploration Adventure - The Historic Capitol Stones
- Just how much is this going to hurt? A Strategy for Interpreting Raw Trail Data
- Some All Ages Halloween Crafting Fun
- Bits of Bivalves, Millions of Years in the Making
- DIY Electrolyte Drink Mix - The Why, How and Is It Worth It?
- Adventures in ratpoison keymaps - Caps Lock, Windows Key and Retraining My Brain
- The Mountains Called. I Answered. A Little.
- Gotcha of the Day: A Quick and Dirty Approach to Comparing Apache Web App Running Times
- Bringing a Bic Lighter Back from the Dead
- Hiking Frankling Mountain State Park - Sunset Loop Trail
- A Travel Photography Checklist
- Courage, Bravery and Life Before GPS
- Wait, That Can't Be Right. Can it?
- A Little Mid Flight Color Hacking
- Dave Chappelle - From Cruel and Insensitive to Brilliant and Thought Provoking
September 2018
- Review: Drawing with Children
- Just Hanging Around
- micro:bit + Espruino + Android = The Cutest REPL You'll Ever Interact With
- Cheering on Yorktown Football
- What to Pack for a Day at the US Open Tennis Tournament
- Anacostia Trail and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens - You can check out anytime you want ...
- The Incredible, Recordable, Blinkable, Micro:Bit
- US Open 2018 - Day 3
- 2018 US Open - Day 2
- Review: When the Sea Turned to Silver
- US Open 2018 - Day 1
- Gotcha of the Day: ssh command causes shell script to mysteriously exit
- Blackwater Falls Adventure - Days 3 and 4
August 2018
- PawPaw Season Has Begun
- Simple but Works | How Not To Forget Your Mouth Guard When Traveling
- Fun with Tyvek | I Made It, but I've Got No Idea What It's Good For
- It Ticks! The Trip Timer Gets Deployed
- Blackwater Falls Adventure - Days 1 and 2
- Costa Rica Adventure - Day 8 and 9 - The Last Days
- Costa Rica Adventure - Day 7
- Food For Thought | A No Cook, Backpacking Friendly, Vegan Approach to Meal Planning
- Costa Rica Adventure - Day 6
- Uncle Ben's Travel Kit - Kid Centric Food, Fun and First Aid
- More Fishing at Gravelly Point and More Celebrating of Little Victories
- Review: The Vor Game
- Costa Rica Adventure - Day 5
- DC United - New Stadium, Dry Seats and A Sweet Finish
- Costa Rica Adventure - Day 4
- Costa Rica Adventure - Day 3
- Costa Rica Adventure - Day 2
- Costa Rica Adventure - Day 1
July 2018
- It Counts! The Trip Timer Lives
- From The Road
- Software Challenges to Match My Hardware Frustrations | Errors Flashing an ESP32 Chip
- More Hardware Frustrations, and a New Favorite Word
- Art with A: Making Wire Bracelets, and Practicing our Change-the-World Skills
- This Photo Sounds Terrible -- Adventures in SSTV
- Just Write | A Web App That's Just About Implemented
- A Shiny, Happy Project | Prototyping a Bag Organizer with Mylar
- Creepy Tendrils and Massive Blossoms - Enjoying Hibiscus
- A Digital Packing Checklist | A Little Digital Prep Goes A Long Way
- Who needs patience when you've got data? A Data Driven DMV Strategy
- Hot and Clumsy - Misadventures in Project Assembly
- The Bad, The Good and The Try Next Time from our Weekend in the Woods
- Backpacking Awesomeness: Trayfoot Mountain / Paine Run Loop
- The Joy of Flex - A Useful Tool for Understanding Flexbox Layouts
- Explosive
- Getting out of the Paper Map Mindset | The Joy of Digital Maps
- Lessons Learned from Celebrating the 20th
June 2018
- The Prepared Woodsman, 1980's Style
- 20 Years of Simon and Simon
- Are we there yet? -- Prototyping a Trip Timer
- Just Write: An Artist's Way Inspired Web App
- Taking the Leap - from Rock Hopping to Rock Climbing
- Winkler Botanical Reserve - A Nature Oasis in a Suburban Desert
- Kilns and Cannons - Exploring DC's Not So Hidden Past
- Review: The Actor's Life - A Survival Guide
- Arlington Monuments and a Doorless Wonder
- The Graduate
- A Brute Force Solution to the Penniless Pilgrim Riddle
- Pupusas on the Pike - Fried Cheese Perfection
- An Ideal Soundtrack My Amtrak Adventure
- Frogs, Family and Fun - Visiting The National Arboretum
- High School Graduation - A Truly Sweet Simcha
- Meet Gesty, The Musical Micro:Bit
- It's All Connected - Adventures in Blockchain Implementation
- Dabbling in Computational Magic: Pearson Hashing
- They're Kosher and Travel Friendly - But How Do They Taste?
May 2018
- Taming the Chaos - A Custom Bag Organizer Solution
- Adventures in Aerial Therapy - Sandy Spring Adventure Park
- The Key-Chain Loop - A DC Route That Never Disappoints
- Homemade Beef Jerky, Without the Excuses
- Take-Your-Medicine-Reminder 3.0: Now there's an App for That
- Rain. Lots and lots of Rain.
- Version 1.0 of the Pocketless Pocket-Protector
- Adventures Table Top Structural Engineering - Lego Style
- A 20th Reunion filled with Friends, Fun and Family
- Life Imitating Art Imitating Life
- Even Better Living Through Chemistry and (Tiny) Computers
- Sewing a Wallet, v1.0 - Ugly, but Functional
- Meeting Paul
- A Standing Desk with a View
- The Micro:bit - An Adorably Functional Mini Computer
- Fashion Meets Hard Encryption - Field Testing EliseFour
- A Fox, Some Hounds and a Camel - A Fun Walk Through Ladew Gardens
April 2018
- Elise Four - Strong, Human Powered, Encryption
- 10 out of 10 - A Perfect DC Weather Day
- Lightweight, R7RS Compliant and in palm of my hand - Compiling chibi-scheme on Android
- A Little Scheme Setup and Development on the Galaxy S9 Plus
- A Better Bixby Button
- Flight Audio from Southwest 1380 - Listen and be in Awe
- The Fun, Yet Impossible, Route at San Lorenzo Canyon
- Review: Eleanor & Park
- The VLA - Very Large and Very Cool
- Gotcha of the day: A recipe to keep cron from crushing my server
- Rethinking My Stance On Writing In Books
- Itzhak Perlman on Easy and Hard
- Why The Haggadah Tells The Story of the Exodus The Way It Does
- A Recipe for Making a Different Night Even More Different
March 2018
- Tiger Hu Fitness Band - Low Cost, Few Features and a Winner
- Hidden in plain sight: Using Unicode Braille Patterns for message obfuscation
- An Incomplete, Yet Super Handy Tree Identification Guide
- Scenes from a Flight
- On a Roll: Cheap, Compact and Versatile Cordage
- Boston Simchas - Two Birthdays and a Siddur Celebration
- An Old Friend Gets A New Look
- An All You Can Eat Buffet
- A Powerful Scene at the US Capital
- So Useful: Yet Another Mail Merge
- Managing Multiple Android Devices for the Lazy and Impatient
- Around Town
- An Accidental Possibles Bag
- Review: To Siri with Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son, and the Kindness of Machines
- Hiking Maryland Heights: The Overdue Sequel
- Android Enterprise Device Management for the tiny, broke and geeky enterprise
February 2018
- Just Try It! Adventures in Bushcrafting very close to home
- Fun with Fire: a Bic powered hot knife
- Dragiano v1.0 - Click your way to music creation
- 7 Sounds - They're not music, but they're all mine
- The Fannypackinator v1.0 - A Useful Failure
- Your Next Must Have Office Accessory: A Tool Belt
- Loudly Organized | A DIY Tool Roll
- A Kosher Conundrum
- Pick Me! Adventures in improvised lock picking.
- A Desktop in the Cloud - Experimenting with Amazon WorkSpaces
- A Cloud Settles over DC and a Mysterious Orange Goo
- Needs More Grommets | Adventures in sewing a prototype
- Changing the World, One Minecraft Server at a time
- Let's Make Music, Version 2
- Still Mostly Noise - Improvements in my music generation toolset
- Flower Power! An unplanned first solo sewing project
January 2018
- These Moon Pictures are a Lie
- A Little Language for Music Composition | A Programmer's Approach to Song Construction
- Pocket and Man-Bag Dump, January 2018 Edition
- A Great API for the Good Book
- More Creations, More Lessons Learned, More Joy of Poetic Computation
- De Leon Springs State Park - A deliciously unique experience
- The Joy of Poetic Computation
- Warm weather skating, and playing art detective
- DSLRs on a Plane - A new strategy for getting my camera to its final destination
- Universal Studios - How much fun can you squeeze into one day?
- Field Testing makePad v1.0
- Good to the Bone: Orlando's Museum of Osteology
- Monitoring the Monitors: Removing NaNs from rtl_power data and signal spike dection (Part 2 ½)
- makePad v1.0 - A content-creation only device
- Monitoring the Monitors: Setting up a Raspberry Pi, and Tripping over rtl_power data (Part 2)
- Weekly Discoveries - Closing Out 2017 Edition
- From Snapshot to Blog Idea in 1 Press
- Monitoring the Monitors: Using SDR to snoop on my wireless alarm system (Part 1)
- When Software Does Good
- Well that worked: adventures in unscrewing stubborn valve caps
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December 2017
- Four Days of Fun with Four Amazing Kids from Boston
- The Four Things Keeping Us Busy This Week
- Weekly Discoveries of Biblical Proportions
- Three Tasty Treats - A Honey and Two Teas
- Helping bash and tinyscheme get along | Friendlier command line execution of scheme code
- Behold! The Custom Made Tactical Yoga Mat Carrier
- Insulin Calculations for the Lazy and Math phobic
- Overrun Inbox? Not today. Bulk Gmail Management from the Command Line
- Good Friends, Good Hiking and an Epic Simcha
- Weekly Discoveries x3
- Caribbean Cruise Adventure - Day 7 and 8 (The End)
- Caribbean Cruise Adventure - Day 6
- Caribbean Cruise Adventure - Day 5
- Caribbean Cruise Adventure - Day 4
- Caribbean Cruise Adventure - Day 3
November 2017
- Object in Sky is Larger and Faster than it Appears
- Caribbean Cruise Adventure - Days 1 and 2
- Traveling Picture Backup Solution 2.0 - Overcoming Android's Permission Annoyances
- The adventure begins, yum!
- Weekly Discoveries: Dance Teams, Panda Suits and the Christ Stapleton Reactions
- Cold Day, Warm(er) Water and Dad make for Fishing Awesomeness
- Hop to it - Counting Jumps using a cell phone accelerometer
- Calculating Distance from a Cell Phone's Accelerometer - A failed, but fun attempt
- Action, In-Action and Why I'm always yelling at my TV
- RipstopByTheRoll's Belt Kit - A Mostly Great First Sewing Adventure
- youtube_tools v2.0: Now with Playlist Management Support
- The War on Writer's Block | Yet Another Approach to Tracking Blog Topics
October 2017
- Fixing and Photographing an LG G6 Cracked Camera Cover
- American Pharmaceutical Association Headquarters - An Unassuming Name for an Impressive Building
- Weekly Discoveries
- Digital Backcountry Maps - The Easy Way
- Using USGS Historic Maps To (Partially) Unravel A Trail Mystery
- Being There: DC United's last Match in RFK Stadium
- Yet Another Etrog Use - Infused Honey
- Digital Backcountry Maps - The Hard (but educational!) Way
- Awesome Armchair Adventure: 'Hike' the PCT with Dixie
- Forget Remembering | Setting up a Quick Access Skills Library
- Weekly Discoveries - Poetry Meets Music, Sweet Covers and Righteous Dance Moves
- The free, fold flat, 18 gram camping cup
- Pick 3 - Android Tasker Based Meal Inspiration
- One Less Reason to Curse YouTube -- Managing Subscriptions from the Command Line
- Making the Martian Notifier Watch More Useful - Implementing Step and Time Based Alerts
- Review: Eachway Tactical Pen
September 2017
- The 10 Minute Cordage Organizer - Because a knotted ball of rope is the worst.
- A Month of Weekly Discoveries
- Review: Small as an Elephant
- Hunting for Pawpaws - The Perfect Rosh Hashanah Addition
- Review: Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout
- The Keep me Organized/Motiviated/Working Portable Office Sidekick
- Apple Picking Done Right - Mackintosh Fruit Farm
- Trolled by BJ's Wholesale
- But will it cold soak?!
- Review: Martian Notifier - Just How Valuable Is Great Wearable Battery Life?
- 3 Wins, and 3 Fails from My Latest Backpacking Trip
- Backpacking with David: His Sweet Pics
- Backpacking with David: Bearfence Mountain, Conway River Loop
- The US Open Through The Wrong Lens
- US Open Must Bring List
- US Open 2017 - Great Tennis, So Much Sitting
August 2017
- Big Web, Tiny Spider, So Many Questions
- (A Very) Modest Model 100 Music Masterpiece
- Exploring Kingman Island
- A Little Backyard Ninja Training
- Something from Nothing - Paracord Edition
- Using Google Sheets to Manage SDR Touch Presets
- Weekly Discoveries
- Road Tripping, Car Camping Gear That Worked
- Boston Summer 2017 - Positively Portland
- Boston Summer 2017 - Adventures in Acadia
- Boston Summer 2017 - Playing in Plymouth
- The 30 Second, Improvised Running Gear Belt
- Slogging Through the Sods - A Backpacking Adventure
- Backpacking on a Budget - Field Testing a Few Amazon Finds
- My TRS-80 Model 100 Meets My LG G6 - Can They Be Friends?
- Weekly Discoveries
- Citi Open 2017 - Up Close and Sopping Wet
- Review: Pax
July 2017
- Rocking out to Journey
- Accidental Amaranth
- Weekly Discoveries: Iranian Tunes, Music Powered by Home Depot and a Close-to-Home Fishing Challenge
- Come on Baby Light My Fire - Using an empty Bic
- Me Without Pants, and Other Sights from a Trip Down Memory Lane
- Sun, Sand and Horses - Ocean City and the Eastern Shore
- A Sailboat in our Microwave - Adventures in Sneaky Art
- Indoor Ballistics: The catapult you need to build today
- Weekly Discoveries - On Location Guitar Awesomess, Create your Own 8-bit Music and a 9 Minute Rock Fest
- TRS-80 Model 100 Hacking - Getting Connected
- Review: Flying Lessons and Other Stories
- A Digital Walk Down Memory Lane: Hacking the TRS 80 Model 100
- All-Business - An info first watch face (including my wife's current mood)
June 2017
- Weekly Discoveries - Electro Swing, Amazing Dance Moves and Kosher Spam
- Making Toasted Corn Sludge - A Superfood Of Its Day
- Surprisingly Simple: From Cassette Tape to mp3
- On The Potomac Heritage Trail: A Giant Leopard Moth and Other Trail Oddities
- A Habit and a Hack: Adding a Heads Up Display to my Offline TODO List
- Android Wear's WatchMaker: A Hacker's Delight
- Eating Hardtack / Ships Biscuit - An Experiment A Year In The Making
- Gotcha of the Day: Deploying a git non-master branch to WP Engine
- Weekly Discoveries
- Weekly Discoveries
- Putting the Murse on a Diet - Applying Ultralight Principles to an Every Day Carry Bag
- WP All Import and Google Sheets - Best Buddies, and Worth Mastering
- Lost in Google Space; Untangling the Mystery that is Google Drive and Google Photos Integration.
- Football and chasing puppies, the perfect recipe for fun and feeling old
- A Better Blurl: list posts by label, patch posts and other command line blogging goodness
- A Couple of Random Pics
- Review: ASUS ZenWatch 3 - Top quality reviews, but a wait-and-see experience
- Weekly Discoveries
- Location Based Notifications; Or Letting the wife know you're going to be late in the coolest possible way
- Review: Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel
- Weekly Discoveries
May 2017
- Name that Plant: Yummy Berries with a 5 Point Crown
- Thoughts on the LG G6 Camera - Love Manual Mode, Hate The Startup Lag
- Weekly Discoveries
- The surprisingly simple path to a foot powered emacs
- Capturing the Light-Show Next Door
- A Whirlwind Mohonk Adventure
- You got scratches on your car? I got a guy for that.
- The Graduate, and Infinite Shrimp
- Weekly Discoveries - Epic Beards, Distopian Tunes and a Week in the Sonoran Desert
- Creepy, Crawly and a Welcome Distraction
- Review: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- Review: LG Style Watch
- Life at the Sea
- Weekly Discoveries
- What a View - From Snow Capped Moutains to Shining Sea
- One Week of Standing - Life with a Standing Desk
- A Few Binder Clips, A Little Less Clutter
- Weekly Discoveries
- 3Shrinking Files on Android: From Photo to 3 Digit Code in 2 Clicks
- Strolling Along Holmes Run
April 2017
- Using art to change the world, one discarded wrapper at a time
- No URL? No Problem. Adding local file support to 3shrink.com
- Grow
- Weekly Discoveries - Political Rap, Hiking in 3D and Star Wars Awesomeness
- The $2.00 Cell Phone Projector
- Gotcha of the Day: Using Tasker's HTTP POST Action and PHP to upload a file
- Weekly Discoveries and the Role of 'Likes' in Art Appreciation
- Weekly Discoveries x2
- The Long Reach of Passover
- Sketchbook #2 - Be Positive and Other Lessons Learned
- Info When You Need It - Durable, Waterproof and Quick Access
- Our new (not so little) bundle of joy
- High or Low? Building a super simple tidal API
- A Week with an LG G6
March 2017
- Sheaffer Calligraphy Fountain Pens - Cheap, Functional and Just Plain Fun
- DC, Cherry Blossoms and the Trail to Nowhere
- Weekly Discoveries
- On A Run - Trust Me, Edition
- A No-Excuses Quickie Sketchbook - Hand Sewn Edition
- A Week of Art Before Breakfast
- LCD Hacking - Part 2 - Some Assembly Required
- Weekly Discoveries
- Try this: Making Wire Wrapped Jewelry
- Simple but Magical: Veggie Stock from Scratch
- Laptop LCD Hacking - Part 1 - The Joy of Laptop Dissection
- Weekly Discoveries
- A No-Excuses Quickie Sketchbook
- Adventures in Furniture Restoration
- Weekly Discoveries - Savor the Blues, Chill Out and Make It So
- World Class and Free: The National Museum of the Marine Corps
- Gotcha of the day: Google Keep for Pebble Should Exist, But Doesn't
- The 10 Minute JIRA Command Line Client
February 2017
- Way Overdue Review: A Fanless Windows Mini-PC
- Fun in the Sun: A Weekend Bahamas Cruise
- Spring, 22 days Early
- Weekly Discoveries: An Epic Breakup Song, A Never Give Up Anthem and a Mighty Fine Waltz
- Chess in a Hurry | Cheat Sheets for Playing Chess Now
- 30 Seconds to More Identifiable Luggage
- Weekly Discoveries: Some Sad Songs, Some Rocking Songs and One Classic Piece of Poetry
- Tiny but Surprisingly Hot - A Tea Light Powered Stove
- Junk In My Trunk: The Car Kit v1.0
- The Surprisingly Simple Way To Control Your Home From an Acura ILX
- Weekly Discoveries: Tin Whistles, Hang Drums and a Home Made Cup-of-Soup Ramen
- The Signal Beacon In Your Pocket
- The Very Chatty Gas Meter
- Weekly Discoveries: Chillstep, Reason #1 To Avoid Prison and a Monster 200 Mile Race
- 3shrink'ing on a Mobile Device
- Foot Powered macOS Monitor Hopping
January 2017
- Adventures in hardware hacking: adding foot pedal support to emacs
- Appioo African Bar and Grill
- Weekly Discoveries: Bipolar Sunshine, Houndmouth and a Medicine Chant
- Packt Publishing's Free Book Of Day, Command Line Edition
- A Most Satisfying Treat
- Review: Show Your Work
- A Hacker's Guide To The Dip
- Weekly Discoveries: The Giving Tree, a bit of jazz and a most remarkable violinist
- Web Based Protocol Handlers: The fastest user experience in the shortest amount of dev time
- Adventures in Landscaping
- Gotcha of the Day: iOS Cordova App running in iSimulator Hangs on Splashscreen
- Weekly Discoveries: Israeli Rap, WOGN, Van Hacking and a Sweet Alchol Stove Design
- 3shrink: adventures in one click shrinking
- 3shrink.com: In Pursuit of Paper Friendly URLs
- My BestBuy Criticism Explained
- Weekly Music Discoveries - New Year's Edition
- Review: The Time Traveler's Wife
- Gotcha of the Day: Generating and Using Custom Firefox Profile Icons on OS X
- Gotcha of the Day: inserting the current timestamp on OS X
- Greenhouse Photos From a Kid Perspective
- Boston 2016, A Chanukah, Birthday and New Year Celebration
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December 2016
- Review: Manchester by the Sea
- A Winning View
- Eating, Drinking and Being Merry
- Week one of being an Apple Fanboy | Choosing a Mac as a Primary Work Computer
- From Etrog Seed to Seedling
- The Fuzzy Snail and a DC Mystery Solved
- The Joy of In-Flight Hacking
- A Little Love for iBagBar
- A Worthy Notebook Upgrade: The Muji A7
- Colombia Adventure - Day 9
- Colombia Adventure - Day 8
- Using Tasker to Streamline Google Translate
- Show Me The Money And The Hiking
- Colombia Adventure - Day 7
- Colombia Adventure - Day 6
- Colombia Adventure - Day 5
- Cheap and Effective: Backing up DSLR and Phone Photos On The Go
- Colombia Adventure - Day 4
- Colombia Adventure - Day 3
November 2016
- Colombia Adventure - Day 2
- Colombia Adventure - Day 1
- Colombia Adventure - A Very Small Preview
- Gotcha of the Day: Elegantly Casting YouTube to Chromecast Audio
- Less Talk, More Doing - Videos where skills tell the story
- A Better Eyes Free Time Telling App
- Gotcha of the Day: More WordPress 4.6 Segfault Challenges
- Pop Quiz
- How, What and Why
- The Etrog 2016 Seeds Get Planted
- Taking our Kitchen Radio to the Next Level - On the Cheap
- Kitchen Renovation 2016 | And We're Done
- Meeting Garrett
- A USB Tripwire for your Android Phone
- The Rivalry. The Pride. The Win.
- Gotcha of the Day: Getting subversion to show log entries from a merged in branch
- 4000+ Words
- Hiking Most of Buzzard Rock, Enjoying the Whole Trail
October 2016
- On Pain
- The M5 Cell Phone: Compact, Cheap, Dumb and Awesome
- The Undisputed Fishing Champion - Dad!
- Worth the Wait - What happens when you plant a 2000 year old seed
- Dawn and Grant Get Hitched
- Wedding Survival Kit 2.0, Powering the more prepared bride and groom
- Turtles at Sunset
- Outdoorsy Hack: Measure distance using your thumb
- Hiking Billy Goat Trail with Actual Billy Goats
- Gotcha of the Day: Generating formatted output from a Berkeley DB file
- Improvised Fisherman's Eggs
- Exploring Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve
- A Talmudic Take on Hello My Name Is Frank
September 2016
- A Couple of Micro Fishing Adventures
- Feeling Sluggish
- Easy Listening meets the Friendly Skies | Adventures in Linux Software Defined Radio
- Paisley, Conway and Good Friends on a Boat
- Well that was fun: take a virtual bike ride through Oklahoma
- Kitchen Renovation 2016 | Past the point of no return
- Rear View
- Just Hanging Out | The 3 Minute, $10, Improvised Hammock
- More Ratpoison Tweaking: Quick Access to any Program
- Name that Bug: Pretty, Harmless and Deadly
- A Perfect DC Evening
- A Patriotic Mystery
- How Not To Make Pokeweed Ink
- NFC + Legos = ?, Adventures in Gamification of Legos
- Pastebin and the Command Line - Clipboard Access Anywhere
- How I Get Stuff Done
- Pastebin and Tasker - An Automatic Clipboard Archiving Solution
- A Digital Tribute to a Sweet WII Hack
- A Bit of Brooklyn
- US Open 2016 - More Tennis Than You Can Shake a Racket At
August 2016
- How to be a Foodie on $4.00 a Day
- CDT Summer 2016 Recap
- Lake Anna State Park - Kid Friendly Hiking, Fishing and Swimming
- An Emacs Friendly Caps Lock Configuration on Windows
- BYOWB - The Joy of the Portable Whiteboard
- Turtles at Sunrise
- The Making of a Good Fish Tale
- Breezy Point All The Beach Fun, A Lot Less Of The Beach Drive
- Well Duh: a more intelligent emacs file opening strategy
- Oy Vey, What's a Nice Jewish Boy Doing With a Yarmulke That Says That?!
- Gotcha of the Day: WordPress 4.6 Crashes with a Segfault when Serving HTTPs Content
- Emacs + PHP - A Modern and (Far More Complete) Recipe
- The Nike Approach to Learning about eCommerce
- Tasker + NFC providing 1½ Factor Authentication
- Asked and Answered: Displaying A Random Answer From A Google Spreadsheet Based Survey
- Type II Fun Explained
- Your Location Automatically Pushed to a Map, Now Robustified
- Tweaking Ratpoison: Less Mouse, Less Keystrokes, More Productivity
- Camping at Westmoreland State Park, Next Door and A World Away
- A Recklessly Good Time
- Tasker Hacking: Automatically Publish Your Location To A Google Map
- See the ROTUS in Action, Grow as a Person
- Hershey Adventure: Wave Pools, Butterflies and Lasers!
- What's in his bag: A 6 Year Old's Hiking Kit
July 2016
- Review: Divergent by Veronica Roth
- Harpers Ferry Rafting, v2.0
- Don't Buy: Coghlan's Battery Powered Air Pump. But if you do, this may be helpful.
- Paracord Awesomeness: The Quick Release Lanyard and The Bucket Carrier
- Plagiarize This
- Photos On The Run
- From Laundry Disaster to Preparedness Hack
- Review: The Forest Unseen by David George Haskell
- Unexpected Hero of the Seas: Sauerkraut
- Gotcha of the day: Re-launching the Runkeeper Pebble App on Demand
- Shenandoah Backpacking Lessons Learned
- Bear Watch 2016 - Backpacking in Shenandoah: Brown Moutain Trail, Rockytop Trail and the AT
- Let's Eat: Food for a 3 day backpacking adventure
- Bike Challenge: Hauling Unplanned Cargo
- Being More Prepared, The Kid Friendly Way
- Why Yes, We Can All Get Along
- Lions, Pandas and Sea Monsters - A Weekend of fun with Gavriella
- Well that's handy: 10 fun sidewalk chalk activities
June 2016
- Cooking like it's 1799
- My almost half-a-pound, almost $100, travel computer setup
- Bike Friendly Park Improvements
- Adventures In Non-Roughing-It Bike Touring | Exploring Maryland's Eastern Shore
- Cutting the electronic cord: Setting up a fully paper TODO list tracking strategy
- Lessons from a very tiny Ring Pop
- Shut up Lewis, it's a free house
- The Guerrilla Garden Next Door
- It's a Plane! It's a Bird! It's a Helicopter! It's more Planes!
- Got Data? Adventures in Virtual Crystal Ball Creation
- Review: Shooters by Erik Trautmann, Jerwa Brandon and Steven Lieber
- Happy Birthday to This Guy
- On the frustration of trying to learn a new skill
- A Black-Crowned Night-Heron and his fishing buddy
- Well that's handy: Drinking Straws as Tiny Containers
- DC Quiz: Out of Breath Edition
- CSI: My Front Yard
- From those who know: Insights on Dealing with High Stress Scenarios
- Why did the Turtle Cross the Road? and Other Country Mysteries Explored
- Five
- The Great Canon T6s and Canon T3i Shoot Out
- Nats vs. Cards and My New Favorite Term
- Go North Young Man! More Explorations From Riverbend Park
May 2016
- C & O Canal: A Super Accessible Fishing Spot
- Ibagbar Small Messenger Bag - Review and Dump
- Exploring the Chopawamsic Backcountry Area
- The Improvised Sit Room
- Problem Solving at 13,500 Feet Per Second
- Oozing Nature's Duct Tape
- Piet Hein - Poet, Freedom Fighter, Smart Watch Content Provider
- Ants
- The KenKen Solutiont that Can't
- Name those Plants: Pretty Flowers and Gigantic Leaves Edition
- The Eagle Has Landed
- Memorial Bridge's Uplifting Surprise
- Functional Origami: Making a Box
- Not as a crazy as it sounds: Getting Rid of Art Education
- Name that Plant: Pink and White Edition
- Try Carrying This: Hand Sanitizer with a Kick
- Mom, Aunt Gina and Uncle Ron Come To Visit
- A Poem on your Wrist. Sort Of.
- In Memory
- You're Pretty and All, But how do you Taste? Eating Rose Petals
- Pocket Dump: The I'm Officially Old Edition
- Review: Blah Blah Blah: What do when words don't work
April 2016
- Stumbling on Freedom's Memorial
- You've Been Over the American Legion Bridge. But have you been under it?
- From Trolly Line to Running Trail. Maybe.
- Passover Seders 2016 - After Action Report
- Crafting Aliens
- A Tree fit for a Princess
- Never Underestimate the Value of a Simple Plastic Bag
- Sunshine
- The American Goldfinch, Exotic, yet Common
- Garden 2016: Discoveries and Progress
- Point and Nod: The Universal Language Communicator That Won't Work
- The Tasty Wild Edible Next Door. And Everywhere else in DC.
- What a Mouthful
- Review: Cen-Tac Slim Line Pen
- Just a couple of Brahs
- Cold, Wet and Totally Worth It
- Name that Plant: Surprisingly Well Named Edition
- The Smell of Rochester
- From Boy to Eagle
- The 5 Minute, Ultralight, Haversack
- Spike, Pam and Jeff - The friends you didn't know you could draw (but trust me, you can)
- Giving the Pi a little Dirt Time: A Raspberry Pi Powered Garden Cam
- Quick and Hacky: Creating an Apache Slow Requests Log
March 2016
- Let's Nosh
- Gotcha of the day: AWS EC2 Instance Periodically Gets Database Connection Timeout Errors
- This May Sting a Bit: Embracing Your Life Calendar
- Garden Prep, 2016 - The Adventure Begins
- More Cherry Blossoms, More Tulips and More Good Times
- Mom and Me
- Camels: Who knew they could teach you so much?
- Fishing at Gravelly Point: It's all about how you define success
- Useful Woods Hack: Making Wooden Rings
- Caption Me: Trail Running Gawker Edition
- Birthdays, Bricks and Bouncing in Boston
- Painless Linux Cloud Backups From The Command Line
- Let's Bloom
- Defying Gravity and Other Sights from Last Night's Game
- The Lazy Upcycler: Quick and Easy Mesh Bags
- The technology that powered geeks from Newton to Aldrin
- Totally Tubular
- Fore! Golfing with The Parents, A Surprisingly Successful Adventure
- Up Close and Personal: Building and Using A $3.00 Digital Microscope
- Gotcha of the Day: Google's Mobile Friendly Tool Ignores Responsive Design CSS
- The Problem With, and Solution To, Calculators
- A Little Love for Snapchat
- Sure, you're innocent, but do you know why?
- Proof Arlingtonians Just Don't Get Trump
- Why Arlington Needs a Gun Store
- Indian Head Rail Trail - 26 miles of prime bike riding terrain
February 2016
- Roller Skating: Good Times, Good Therapy
- The Friendly Skies
- Us
- Almaden Quicksilver County Park: The Perfect Sunny Day Destination
- A Room With a View and Capturing Said View
- New Rule: The Little Boy and The Zen Master; We'll See
- Review: The Martian
- African Scarification Meets Arlington Art
- Florida fun: Shuttles and Bricks
- John Glenn on Fear
- From Above
- The Unexpected Road Trip
- The Other Kind of Fox News
- Occupy Wall Street's Clever Communication Hack
- From Fiction to Fact to Hate, A Remarkably Short Path
- The $0.72, Indestructible Compass
- Huntley Meadows and Lake Accotink, Two Fantastic Hikes Just Outside the Beltway
- If You Have Your Parents Pass Through DC
- LED Blinker, Simple Circuit Style
- Practical and Pretty: Chopstick Wrapper Origami
- New House, Some Assembly Required
- For Your Inner Secret Agent: Covert Message Passing in Plain Sight, on the Cheap
- A Little DIY For a Little Hat Problem
- No Doubt, a Waze Recommended Route
January 2016
- Possible New Look
- Command Line Hardware Hacking 101 - Raspberry Pi controls an LED
- The Adventure Continues on My Android Phone
- The Simons Get a Gaming Console!
- The Feel Good Story about Newspapers that Wasn't
- Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Other Make-Winter-Great-Again Mysteries
- Recovering from MakeWinterGreatAgain
- How to Prepare for a DC Snow Event
- Gotcha of the Day: Finding the source of SPAM from a WordPress install
- All of 2015's Weather in under 2 minutes
- Compass Kudos
- Welcome to Manhood
- Please Auntie Sheri, may I have some more?
- He's Da Man
- Finally a dose of Winter Weather
- The Children's Book You Thought You Knew
- The $3.00, 11 gram Water Filter You Probably Shouldn't Use
- Mystery Solved: One Approach to Spot-It Game Card Generation
- The Most Precious Letter Never Mailed
- Talking College to Middle Schoolers
- Runway
- 101 Paracord Projects
- Whoa, you put a magnet where?
- Review: Spy the Lie
- Windows 10: Keyboard Shortcuts Worth Knowing
- Mobius ActionCam: the Swiss Army Knife of Digital Cameras
- A Moment to Kvell: Meet Ann, New Yorker of the Year
- A Sign My Pockets May be Too Full