Raymond Douglas

Two nights west of Kearsarge Pass early last month rmdd.net/tours/2026/k...

Text-only mode almost makes the news palatable text.npr.org

Doing something I've been meaning to do rmdd.net/posts/2026/e...

Just realized CalTopo has a weather station overlay and that is 👌🏼 caltopo.com

Filesystem bind mounts can be useful when a NixOS module doesn't have an option for setting the data directory. rmdd.net/writing/2026...

Walking across the Scottish Lowlands last August rmdd.net/tours/2025/l...

This USFS trail map of the Emigrant Wilderness

Oh look, my home county.

Civic inheritance rmdd.net/writing/2026...

Pine Mountain Los Angeles 1, LosAngeles County, CA 🗺34.2234, -117.9022 🧭292° ⛰4482 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2718

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

This actually captures my middling feelings about using generative AI in practice. ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

I wrote a small, almost-stateless Bluesky -> Mastodon cross-posting daemon last night. codeberg.org/rmdd/atap

Sloan 2, SanLuisObispo County, CA 🗺35.6148, -120.7104 🧭0° ⛰1220 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2397

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

One of these is incoming ✨ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus...

Out and about

A commuter on a BMX bike.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Ah, when a Craigslist deal restores a bit of humanity to your day.

“You’re someone I’ve shared life with, shared holiday tables with, worked alongside, grew up with. I know who you are, at least who I thought you were, and so this is personal for me.” https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-the-people-i-know-who-voted-for

Federal land to be for sale in the Senate's Reconciliation bill https://wilderness.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=821970f0212d46d7aa854718aac42310

No Kings—Santa Barbara