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It made big news yesterday, but for the sake of posterity, we are the first F-150 Lightning Owner in the world at this point. The timing was great as we have a long-ish road trip today to visit the beautiful Mackinac Island. This meant practically moving a car seat, all the junk in the current truck, and getting the suitcase and bikes loaded before the following day. Yippie! First Charge At the dealership, I had to sign paperwork stating that I acknowledged that the fast charger would not come for some amount of time. How much time? No idea, but luckily we have the Tesla and Airstream, so we already have a NEMA 14-50 in the garage. ...

I have struggled a little to collect my thoughts around the Steam Deck. The Linux geek in me is astonished that I sat on an aeroplane and played Halo on an Arch powered gaming system. Given that people in my life are not necessarily that same type of geek, I am going to break this review into three sections: Is this a fun gaming device? Is it an excellent portable Linux system? I am not a tinkering gamer; should I buy one?         ...

Prague is a familiar location for our marriage; we have found ourselves here for my work. We were here often enough to have made friends, had favourite local places, and met US friends here as they went on holiday (Hi Brandon!). While I have been coming here for decades now, it was always with the eyes of Milan Kundera. From the moment I read “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, the Prague Spring became the lens through which I viewed everything as I explored this stunning city. ...

My generator was an island of mystery in my home data pool. The Overview When we moved to Northern Michigan, loosing power was not an option. While I was not working from home as much back then, my wonderful Wife made it very clear that she would not be going cold in the great artic winters we have. “Duly noted,” I said, and when our home was built, I ensured that we buried the power lines up our winding driveway and installed a 22kw Generac generator. I dusted off my hands and called it a day. Success! ...

One of our design philosophies at Blueprint Power is that you don’t spend too much time optimising code early on but instead focus on writing maintainable code with maintainable languages. More often than not, I have watched teams concentrate on picking the fastest language or improving the processing by some percentage instead of defining a solid data model and design pattern for the code. This hunch has served me well throughout the years. More often than not, by the time the performance bottleneck impacts you if your teams have been writing documented code in a readable language, it is easy enough to profile and optimise those areas that need it. For every performance landmine you find, there are at least a hundred you missed by focusing on this philosophy. ...