Sunday, June 14, 2026

Wind Energy and the Long Arc: Cornell Engineer, December 1990

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December 1990. I was a senior at Cornell (well, really a junior), and the Cornell Engineer magazine published a piece on wind energy that I ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

IPv6 Crosses 50% — Technology Diffusion Takes Longer Than You Think

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I noticed the 50% figure on Google's IPv6 stats page https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html  on 4/16/2026, flagged on Hacke...
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...