These are my favorite riding shorts. I’m compelled to write a review, of the Rapha Core Cargo Bib Shorts, as these are the first shorts I’ve found that are long enough for me! This is not the only reason I love them, but it’s taken me a bit to find…

These are my goto breakfast when it’s too early to eat more solid food. For some of us, starting an athletic endeavor at early hours makes it really tough to get in a good breakfast. I am not a morning person, so that doesn’t help already. But, then needing to…

These are my goto “cool” (to cold) weather gloves for riding, but also backcountry ski touring, and so on. The Castelli Perfetto RoS gloves are really superb and a product I think folks should know about. …

Great front light, great price, great mounting. You’ve potentially seen the Ravemen FR160 light advertised heavily on Instragram or other places. I’m admittedly fairly dubious of stuff advertised on Insta, but I researched these a bit when my current front light failed and am now a happy customer. I was…

Dropping a bunch of wheel weight, but at a cost — worth it? I’ve really been embracing the “downcountry” bike category. For riding in Bend, Oregon, this is the ideal bike for general trail riding. We do have some areas (Mt. Bachelor’s lift served, Cline Butte, and a few others)…

Go’s built in notion of object encoding, where an object (struct) is encoded (and decoded) as JSON or other types, is an under appreciated feature that saves time and code maintenance. Please do enlighten me if/what other languages have this, but I don’t think I’ve seen this before in languages…

DynamoDB streams are a great option for post-processing or observing changes to your data. Combine this with stream filtering to laser target what changes you want to react to, and reduce the costs of using streams. In this article I’ll cover both general use of streams, but also more specifically…

Importing a very large raster data set into PostGIS can take a long time, and if something interrupts that process, you will most likely have to start over. …

Use a simple curl command (or CLI tool) to send yourself a text message. Useful as part of a script, to notify you when a long task completes. I often find it’d be useful to get a notification when some longer task I’m doing completes. In particular I find this…