Back to our regular Sunday hike.

Finished reading: Memory’s Legion by James S. A. Corey 📚

Currently reading: Outlive by Peter Attia, MD 📚

Finished reading: The Good Fight by Liane Davey 📚

@brianmc.bsky.social I think the CMS ate the links for the show today 😬 www.ridehome.info/show/techmem...

Big Chico Creek is now chocolate milk.

If you use Strava and are frustrated with the limited UI to query your data, and you're comfortable running python, check out github.com/pberry/strav...

A little context... blog.patandkat.com/2026/01/welc...

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.

Literally sprinting to the finish on this, but I've put the final polish on my Ride Home link archive. Love @brianmc.bsky.social for all the work he does on this! All "Wrapped" files now have "AI-powered" categories and you can see all the links in each one. Whew... pberry.github.io/ridehome/

This is a *free* 150 page chapbook that explores systems, system design and software architecture. And it’s … actually *good*??? Well, at least all the parts where I weave in this systems and design community’s insights are good. 😊

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Welcome to my post mid-life crisis.

blog.patandkat.com/2025/12/nine... Yeah, missed a year...

"rich asshole says something" just shouldn't be news.

Make it fucking stop is my motto for fucking everything www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Premium: How The AI Bubble bursts in 2026 - The largest funder of AI data centers is pulling out, OpenAI and Anthropic need more money than ever during a massive VC liquidity crisis - and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is quietly shrinking. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...

@brianmc.bsky.social did some more cleanup, you have Wrapped all the way back to 2018 now :) pberry.github.io/ridehome/ Would you find it valuable to have an "Ask RideHome" site where you can answer questions like "I'm sure we've talked about this before..."?

@brianmc.bsky.social worked up a 2025 Wrapped for RideHome pberry.github.io/ridehome/202...

Currently reading: Empire of AI by Karen Hao 📚

Sunday hike in the clouds.

Day 4 of Advent(ure) in System Seeing. I did a little research on where my water comes from and Chico doesn’t use hardly any surface water (reservoirs) and rely almost totally on underground aquifers. We have close to 80 pumps,... https://pberry.micro.blog/2025/12/04/day-of-adventure-in-system.html

Advent(ure) in System Seeing Day 3. I’ve got a head cold so thinking and focusing are not really at full strength today. But this is what I could do with the brain power that I have today.

It’s Day 2! It’s hard not to try and zoom out to infinity when thinking about the context that surrounds something as “simple” as a bicycle. There are some many bubbles that have to exist more than once. Retail stores so much context ... https://pberry.micro.blog/2025/12/02/its-day-its-hard-not.html

Advent(yet) in System Seeing: Day 1

Foggy morning run

Foggy morning

Soggy Sunday hike

Currently reading: Joy of Agility by Joshua Kerievsky 📚

Finished reading: Essex Dogs by Dan Jones 📚

Back to Sunday hikes.

Good morning, Honolulu

Hello, Maui

Hello, Hilo

BC Place in Vancouver is a wild looking stadium from the outside.

Do you miss Men in Blazers Early Kickoff? That team is now making a new podcast, First Up Football. Find it on Spotify and Overcast.

Currently reading: Count Zero by William Gibson 📚

Finished reading: The Shattering Peace by John Scalzi 📚

Oh hai!