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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

PlanetNix and 490

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I've spent the last few months getting more familiar with Nix. Although "Nix" is an informal verb meaning to cancel, reject, o...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

34 Years in the Panopticon: Specifications, Formal Methods, and the AI Inflection Point

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Monday 2/24/2026 marks 34 years since I started working full-time post-undergrad (2/24/1992). Another lap around the sun in what I've co...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Full circle

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It looks like the bricks-and-mortar Microsoft library in Redmond is closing  https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-campus-library-closes-i...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

early career aspirations

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  I visited my parents in Houston this summer. As always they had a pile of my possessions which they exhorted me bring back to the Pacific ...
Monday, June 30, 2025

big money, open source, papers

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It was interesting reading the recent article  https://techcrunch.com/2025/ 06/17/sam-altman-says-meta- tried-and-failed-to-poach- openais-t...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

April showers....

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This month has been interesting. The beginning of the month saw Microsoft celebrate its 50th anniversary https://news.microsoft.com/microsof...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

33 years in the Panopticon, Books, et al

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This is the inaugural blog entry of 2025. I used to try to have at least one posting per month, but the last couple of years have demonstrat...
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I'm an engineer working on firmware in the Pacific Northwest. Any of the opinions or views expressed in this blog are mine alone and not those of my employer, past or present or future.
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