https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/ Recent content on Kestrel's Nest Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 02 Dec 2022 02:39:39 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-12-01-tis-the-season-for-bloody-jesus/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 02:39:39 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-12-01-tis-the-season-for-bloody-jesus/ Tonight was the annual Athens Christmas parade, also known as (by a friend of mine, anyway) “Athens Annual Let’s Do Weird Shit Day”. I’ve been regaled for years with tales of the strangeness at this parade, ranging from “Rotisserie Jesus” (a bloody live human Jesus on a spinning cross) to last year’s hippy who thought it would be a good idea to use a roadkill great horned owl as a hand puppet and thrust it in the faces of kids lined up along the route. https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-30-solving-puzzles-with-code/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 03:10:01 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-30-solving-puzzles-with-code/ The Advent of Code is upon us once again. Every year Eric Wastl weaves together a daily series of clever challenges into a delightful story. They can be solved in any language and method you want, including brute force, and I look forward to it every December. Which is an odd thing to say maybe considering I’ve never made it further than a dozen days in. It just seems like every year the work project I’m on catches fire and needs my full attention and my drive to work on coding challenges for fun just fizzles out. https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-29-day-full-of-good-things/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 03:15:51 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-29-day-full-of-good-things/ It was a day full of good things. Here they are, in chronological order: read two chapters of Dan Moren’s book “The Bayern Agenda” while drinking coffee in the hot tub before work the things that didn’t work in my new project yesterday started working attended my first standup with my new teammates ate a delicious chicken pot pie for lunch returned a library book that was six years overdue and wasn’t charged a fine voted in the senate runoff election got a delicious dirty spiced chai installed gitea at git. https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-28-first-day-on-the-job/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:12:28 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-28-first-day-on-the-job/ As a software developer that gets loaned out to other companies, I tend to have quite a few “first day on the job” days. Today was one of them, joining a team working hard to get a new bio-lab robot on the market. As is typical with joining a new project, I spent the entire first day trying to figure out why nearly nothing in the README actually worked. Computers are the worst. https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-27-like-the-legend-of-the-phoenix/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 03:47:22 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-27-like-the-legend-of-the-phoenix/ I used to be a prolific blogger, back in the very early days of the form. Had a few things “go viral” before that was a thing, meaning they were seen and talked about by dozens of people, but I was comfortably C-list in that small world. As my online time got eaten up by other things, like farming and starting a family, my posts became shorter and less frequent and eventually just … stopped. https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-27-migration-complete/ Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:31:47 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-27-migration-complete/ I’ve come out the other side. Amazingly enough, I only had to reinstall two applications: my virus scanner and web browser. All my email survived. And, my first impressions are great. I like Windows 2000. I am using Stardock’s wonderful Object Desktop, so my GUI doesn’t even look like Windows to begin with, and changing to W2000 didn’t affect me there at all. If you picked up my laptop right now, you would think I was using Apple’s OS X. https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-27-os-migration/ Sun, 11 Feb 2001 10:05:11 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/2022-11-27-os-migration/ Today I migrate my laptop from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 Professional. I’m scared. https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/now/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.kestrelsnest.social/now/ This page is all about what I am doing now. It was last updated on November 28, 2022, and will be edited as things change. Where I am now Living in Athens, GA in a home I had already been renting for five years before my partner and I bought it several months into the pandemic. Who I am around now Our house has three people and three cats. The people include me, my partner, and my youngest daughter who spends every other week with us.