Welcome to my personal homepage, as the header suggests, this is really just a culmination of various aspects of my life, some things I am proud of, others not as much. It’s a blog, WIP, and an uncultivated digital garden of snippets, interesting links, pictures, things that have inspired me, hobbies, projects, key moments, travel, work, and nostalgic lists of material, and immaterial things that have made me who I am.
Nature is no dummy …
Nature is pleased with simplicity, and nature is no dummy
Sir Isaac Newtown
PUBG PC Stats
I haven’t played PBG PC in a while, but some fun stats from when I did 🙂


Knowing yourself …
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom – Aristotle
Necessity is the mother of invention …
Necessity is the mother of invention
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Open Source Project: Reach UI
After building the open Source Reach SDK project, I realized it would be great to have an accompanying UI /Dashboard/Work bench where I would be able to test various notification methods and configurations before including them in my projects. Due to this, I build Reach UI, under the hood it is a simple static site with a Node.JS backend, using the Reach SDK. I think it does an ice job at showing how simple it can be to implement the SDK in your code base, and even includes some example code to make it even easier.
Check it out on Github below:

2024 Year in Sport #Strava
Another fun year chasing some kudos and KOM’s on #Strava!






2024 – Ironman 70.3 – World Championships in Taupo, NZ










Travel: New Zealand
The flight from CLT to Auckland was pretty long, but no delays made it reasonable to survive 🙂



After landing, picking up a rental car and driving 4 hours, I managed to squeeze in a short ride, run and attend the Welcome banquet. Friday and Saturday I spent checking out the race course, getting in a practice swim and cheering on the women’s race.










Sunday was race day for me. Overall, things went pretty much according to plan.



Monday and Tuesday I spent driving from Taupo to Rotorua and then Auckland to fly out Wednesday.





















The UX of Lego Interface Panels …
After posting about the $100 million checkbox … I have been wondering about other really bad interface choices which have made it out into the world (and subsequently were the culprits of disaster). This is a nice article from the Interaction Magic team show casing the UX design of Lego Interface Panels, and some examples of (real world) bad patterns.

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