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I write software for a living, but mostly wish I was running in the woods. My last name rhymes with “car”.

San Rafael, CA
Joined March 2007
Somebody should pitch @iRunFar with an article titled “how to match your trail running gear to your facial hair” – at San Rafael, CA
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Why would you spend a second thinking about the Roman Empire when you could think about the rise and fall of Lisp machines in the 80s – at San Rafael, CA
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New James Blake reminds me that I am “just play your old stuff” years old – at San Rafael, CA
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His self-titled record is one of those albums where the louder you play it, the more subtleties you notice in the production. A classic – at San Rafael, CA
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The new record’s growing on me. His Blackbird Spyplane interview makes him seem cool again – at San Francisco, CA
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Same, at Twitter, in 2011 – at San Rafael, CA
I helped SoundCloud move the vast majority of our backend to the JVM also due to maintainability and scaling issues Rails never went away, but that was not by choice but rather a compromise Rails is great for many things but requires employing a lot of dedicated people to scale
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For some reason, local NIMBYs seem to want this site to remain a depressing sprawl of mostly-vacant mall buildings. Very happy to see a pro-housing and pro-family plan move forward in Marin!
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Has anyone under the age of 30 even heard of the 37signals guys? Why is every smug opinion of theirs still newsworthy?
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How many other American trail running fans this week are wondering what the hell Dacia is?
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Pretty telling that I check Twitter and its wall to wall stuff about whatever GOP event happened tonight. When Twitter was good, this would be “below the fold on the explore page” type shit – at San Rafael, CA
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If non-alcoholic beer is the official drink of trail running these days, how is one supposed to get tipsy and sign up for races they’re not qualified for? – at San Rafael, CA
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Increasingly convinced that the point of the Foundation show is to troll people who’ve actually read the books – at San Rafael, CA
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Did a PM at Asana write this
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It is very personally weird for Twitter (a place I used to work) to be adopting the cryptic, unintuitive name of @Theteamatx (another place I used to work). “I work at X” is a statement that never stops feeling awkward and invariably requires further explanation.
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Nothing says parenting like a mug of coffee that’s been microwaved back to drinking temperature three times – at San Rafael, CA
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@lexr tells me that this is the oldest parenting joke on the internet. If zoomers can reboot pop punk, then I can reboot this joke
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The new Indiana Jones movie sure came and went without anyone on earth talking about it. I don’t even know the title. – at San Rafael, CA
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Is it just me or is absolutely no one talking about the new Wes Anderson movie? Are we *finally* over being infatuated with his stuff? – at San Rafael, CA
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