Looks like the Iron Canyon Fish Passage project is in full swing.

Currently reading: A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl) by Matt Dinniman 📚

Sunday hike, very windy

Currently reading: A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman 📚

BEAT UP CHANEL$ is an absolute banger. "Sex, money, drugs, chains on my chest, vintage Celine Diamond grills, champagne bottles I get for free"

Finished reading: The Faith of Beasts Book Two of The Captive’s War by James S. A. Corey 📚

Currently reading: The Faith of Beasts Book Two of The Captive’s War by James S. A. Corey 📚

Don’t be a Dodger.

Finished reading: Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots 📚

Currently reading: Crisis Engineering Time-Tested Tools for Turning Chaos Into Clarity by Marina Nitze 📚

DJ practice session

Goodbye Scottsdale, see you next year.

More like welcome to HEAT STROKE

The KEXP app is free.

Pray for cell service

Chapters 1-9 now available at learning.oreilly.com/library/view... 🎉

Sunday hike, Sutter Buttes in the distance (looking south from Upper Bidwell Park)

Finished reading: Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman 📚

Saturday long run

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Shocking

Bonus Wednesday hike

13 years later and the story of Aaron Swartz still fills me with anger and sadness

Where are the “credit where credit is due” post for Hegseth not leaking everything on his chat apps?

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

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.