In northern Spain, still awestruck after last weeks' total Eclipse. Reading Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities . Enjoying the little things: dog walks, bike rides up the hills,…

Explaining a problem to your manager is only half a solution. How to complete the circle, identify solutions, and show cost, benefits and delivery timelines.

Musing about one last big trip with a parent, and the crossroads I face afterward.

Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator On October 23rd, 2025, the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York indicted five people as part of a sports gambling conspiracy. From the…

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Three things I read this past week or so that I wanted to share. There’s a theme in here, I suppose. But that’s where we’re at right now. PS these are all by people I know, but…

How Faith Shapes Consistent Christian Leadership in Everyday Life The Most Powerful Leaders Are Often the Ones Nobody Talks About When people think about leadership, they usually think about…

I did not interact with those inside the shop and do not believe I was perceived.

One of the most interesting facts about my life is that people ask me for advice. Internally, it's one of the most perplexing phenomena I encounter. I barely clear my own hurdles on a day-to-day…

“What’s the Spanish word for ‘contact’?” “Contacto.” “What about ‘product’?” “Producto.” “And ‘exit’?” “Exito!” As my husband (then-boyfriend) and I were laughing so hard on my silly Spanish mistake,…

How we turn survival instincts into success instincts, and how conscious choice prevents those instincts from running the show.

A roof, a haircut, and a birthday. - The last few days were quite busy for me. I finished the roof of our small garden house which my wife and I built for the kids. They are 4 and 8 years old and…

A personal update on day 230 of the year.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (center, at podium) points to a poster highlighting the two alleged main suppliers for a cocaine-trafficking ring at Penn State’s University Park campus.…

Seen a few posts about this recently. One reason people fail to get or stay connected is because they conflate these two: I want a person who is/has…(whatever your list is). Reducing people to data…

This Is Our “17 Seconds” Newsletter #147: 17 Seconds = Useful Info Quickly. Our general advice for trademarks is that you should use what you register and register what you use; that you…

This past weekend, World Freestyle held their yearly big contest in Kassel, Germany. I haven’t skated in a freestyle contest since the 2019 contest in Paderborn, Germany. I honestly consider…

August Updates and Links I genuinely don’t understand how it’s the middle of August already. I think my brain is still stuck somewhere back in April? Summer was somehow both a million years long, and…

The problem, besides your dumb customers not realizing how awesome you are, is you're going to hire people, and most people are idiots. I’m an idiot. You’re an idiot. When you show me a sales motion…

why are my interests/hobbies expensive?

Usually when it comes to talks about getting older I see a lot of people talk about how much it sucks which yknow what fair. Going from incredibly active to groaning everytime you get out of your…

I flew to Minneapolis for a wedding this weekend and only got back home to Portland last night, so this post is a bit delayed. This was my first time experiencing Minneapolis and we stayed just a few…

It’s hard for people to know this until they get there, but money has such diminishing returns. Once you can buy dinner and not worry about it, everything beyond that is just marginal square footage…

On the merry-go-round of L&D trends, hot topics come and go, only to return at some unspecified time in the future. The latest one to swing by once again appears … Continue reading…

Been a while

The New York Times recently published an absolutely dogshit op-ed from Celeste Marcus titled, "Cutting Off Your Parents Isn't The Answer." Inside, Celeste essentially generalizes parents as being…

A look back at my attempt to take a selfie every day for the past year.

Every time Claude Code uses the Chrome MCP it adds a new tab group, but it never cleans up after itself. This was of course already reported many times in the 5000+ open issues Claude’s GitHub.

For as long as my children can remember, I have told them that they are students at Hurst University. It has no campus, no accreditation, and no admissions process. Joining the family is enough to…

Each term comes with its own information that another person will use to understand you. What you anchor to does make a difference in how you are perceived, as well as how you level up to the next…

I’ve written before about taking breaks like this, it’s practically a tradition here at this point.* But this one feels a little different. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how…

For three years now, I've dutifully filled out my gorgeous Hobonichi Weeks planner every single day. As someone who hates blank pages, I really believed I had achieved the elusive planner peace that…

In which I talk at great length, meandering toward a half-baked conclusion

In the year since initially building the foundations of the Data Introspection Project and building out a practice of personal archival and data tooling, I have been considering what artifacts and…

This year Venus goes retrograde in Scorpio and Libra at the same time that Mercury also goes retrograde in Scorpio – should be fun! The entire Venus retrograde cycle runs from August 2026 to August…

The August Issue of my monthly newsletter is out

A few of my observations from a whirlwind submersion into Sydney's coworking market. The post Observations on coworking from Sydney… appeared first on Hector Kolonas.

zizimor does static analysis of GitHub Actions workflows. Great idea! remctl lets you manage your Apple Reminders tasks entirely via CLI.

Tech is an excellent field to be in, as the compensation-to-effort ratio far exceeds virtually all others. I am not aware of any other career that offers a six figure income at such a low barrier of…

• This week I kicked off our Hanakai sponsorship drive for 2026, and shared an exciting new stretch goal — if we can raise another $15k for this year, we’ll...

“It’s easy to find a girlfriend, but difficult to find a wife.” This line was spoken by someone I know seeking advice on finding commitment. I’m not entirely certain that I’m one of the right people…

And with DevCon over, that's half of the year down, and I can finally start getting some rest and working on my projects! Here we go for yet another blogpost about DevCon, the local…

A colleague's accent brings back a childhood memory. I open a Commodore 64 emulator and go looking for Menaville, a city that never existed, and the freedom that did.

Have you ever looked at someone and thought, “They figured it out”? Maybe they have a good career, a nice house, a happy family, or a large group of friends. They always seem to be traveling, eating…

Week 33 of 2026: eclipseThis week there was a solar eclipse in Europe. I also went on a boat with coworkers for "the most amazing barbecue you will ever have", dixit the 20 year old guy who…

The Issue: In grocery stores, many snacks are sold in gigantic jumbo size packages. It can be hard to resist the compelling economic argument in favor of these snacks: you might get TEN TIMES as many…

Every self-help book in the airport bookstore will tell you to change your mindset. Fewer of them will tell you the truth: it's often easier to just change your zip code. You've heard the sayings ...…

This week, six million Tessera S3 objects were renamed. ocaml-gdal was extended to handle vector formats. FreeBSD CI performance investigations and OCaml compiler updates. Further work on day10 and…