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.
2025 Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga
Another Ironman 70.3 race under my belt and my best overall finish to date! It was slightly disappointing that the swim was cancelled due to strong currents, but if its the same for everyone, that works for me 🙂
The race venue, people and weather were perfect. Aside from my very first 70.3 in Augusta, I think this has been my favorite. This was probably influenced by some personal bests on all fronts, however, with not having a swim, I think that could have been expected to a small extent.
The weekend started by taking a beautiful drive up to Chattanooga through the mountains on Thursday, I left early so I could get work in once I arrived and avoid some traffic. The drive alone is worth the trip, along the beautiful Nantahala river through towns like Asheville and Bryson City.
OpenAero – A open source design system for Bike Accessories
After designing, building, rebuilding, and re-printing dozens of accessories for my bikes over the last few years, I wanted to create and share a open source design system for accessories for bikes that allows myself (and a community) to innovate and collaborate on these types of products. Here is a snippet from the readme file:
Our goal is to develop a modular mounting system for bicycle accessories — ranging from water bottle holders and lights to phone and cycling computers. Partially inspired by Gridfinity, this system provides a base platform and is intended to be stackable. The motivation behind the definition and open source nature of this project is to encourage community-driven design and innovation in the triathlon space.
Stop and face the fear ….
You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Travel: Seaside, FL
Wonderful spring break trip to Seaside Beach, Florida. It is a quaint little town which was originally developed in 1981. The first building was the post office (pictured below) and subsequently the property around it was slowly developed. The extended development of Seaside, Watercolor and Santa Rosa beach is further protected from expansion thanks to large state park surrounding it called, Point Washington.
Here is a nice story on how the town developed: https://sowal.com/story/the-story-of-seaside-florida
Your 9-5 isn’t killing your dreams. Wasting your 5-9 is.
Some interesting quotes from Alex Hormozi (Co-founder of acquisition.com)
Your biggest threat isn’t your competition: It’s the mediocre version of you that you’ve accepted as good enough.
Rich people buy time. Poor people buy stuff. Ambitious people buy skills. Lazy people buy distraction.
Your 9-5 isn’t killing your dreams. Wasting your 5-9 is.
You must first become consistent before you can become exceptional.
Alex Hormozi
Travel: Philadelphia, PA
A long weekend trip with Ella to Philly for the North Easy Qualifier Volleyball Tournament. Not much sightseeing due to bad weather, but we made the most of it. Some of the trip highlights included a visit to Love Park, the Liberty Bell, Redding Terminal Market and Geno’s.
Bookmark: Open Source Charting Library
Happy to have stumbled across a new open source charting library for JS from the Apache Foundation. Having used everything from paid version of Highcharts.com, ChartsJS, Plotly to D3.js … it’s always a pleasure to find such a broad, well supported and extensive collection.
Looking forward to trying out this library in a new or existing project.
Apache EChartsApache ECharts, a powerful, interactive charting and visualization library for browserTravel: Atlanta, GA
Big South volleyball with Charlotte and Ella. A hectic weekend with both of them participating. We stayed in the Hilton about 15 minutes walk to the Georgia World Convention Center.
DIY – Canyon Garmin Mount
My second CNC project on the Carvera Air is a Garmin mount for my MTB. I have 3D printed these in the past, but thought it would be a good introduction to CNC. I also made a small water bed to cut the Carbon Fiber in to avoid the nasty dust which is generally made when cutting or sanding it. Fun weekend project!
Things can and did go slight wrong 🙁 This is what happens if the glue does not hold!
Rule of least power – WikipediaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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