Topics For Keen Spirits

Telemetry Feeds, Kinetic Signals
Log noise is the tax nobody talks about. Paid in compute, storage, compliance risk, and the slow erosion of trust in your own telemetry.

3 min read

logbusai

2026-05-03

Upside Down World
There's a fidget spinner sitting on my desk. I can make it dance in my right hand — smooth, effortless, almost unconscious. Then I pick it up with my left hand...

2 min read

life

2026-04-30

The Yak is Back
The danger of yak-shaving isn't new. What's new is the opportunity cost.

3 min read

ailife

2026-03-21

Character vs Personality Ethics
I spent most of my career rejecting "personality ethics" as shallow, manipulative, and intellectually dishonest.

6 min read

life

2025-12-29

ETL Example with LogBus
How I use LogBus to curate my Elasticsearch indices.

4 min read

howtologbuselasticsearch

2025-09-24

Simulated Annealing
Using simulated annealing to search the solution space of a sudoku board.

4 min read

learnalgo

2025-09-12

Make Less, Just More
Why my projects start with a Makefile (but probably shouldn't)

3 min read

dev

2025-09-08

Losing My Relations
To use DynamoDB effectively, toss the relational rules out.

4 min read

learndata

2025-09-07

LogBus as a fail2ban replacement
Ever wish you could take your logs, slice them like a chef, and use them to firewall off internet goblins automatically?