2024.01 Learning Japanese - Hiragana and Katakana Weekly notes on my journey learning (or sometimes failing to learn) Japanese.
2024.00 Learning Japanese As a side project, I'm going to try learning another language this year. And because I wanted to make this as difficult on myself as possible, I decided to try Japanese 🤦. According to the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service Institute, Japanese is one of only two
Race Recap: 2024 Hotcake Hustle 5k Alright, kicking off 2024 with a baseline 5k race. It's been about 4 weeks since the Dallas Marathon 🏆 and I haven't trained much since then, just some easy runs here and there. While I'm certainly still carrying fitness from that marathon training block, I
Reflections on 7 Years of Peloton To Garmin Over the years I've built many tools and weekend scripts, but Peloton-to-Garmin is the first tool I wrote that was used by a community of people and it's been so much fun growing and learning how to maintain a free open-source project. Seven years ago, after
The First 3 Community Plugins I Recommend to New Obsidian Users Let me level all of your expectations right now.... these are not fun or exciting plugin recommendations, rather, they are practical 💼. There are plenty of other posts and YouTube videos covering all of the fancy and powerful plugins you can use to make your 🌈dream Obsidian experience. However, I think
Race Recap: 2023 BMW Dallas Marathon The culminating race of 2023 for me was the BMW Dallas Marathon. With a year of consistent training under my belt and a moderately well executed 20w marathon build up, I wanted to put my fitness to the test with a race.
Atomic Reflections on Atomic Habits I am habitually late to trends. I think that's an endearing trait (not sure if anyone else does though). Jumping on the bandwagon of folks reading Atomic Habits by James Clear was no exception as I just now came around to reading it. One of the downsides of
How I Document my Obsidian Setup the problem When it comes to picking up new software and tools I have two major character flaws: 1. I have FOMO 2. I change too many things too quickly and then forget how it all works When I first started using the note taking app Obsidian a little over