PROJECTS

It turns out that sleep is really important. For years I got by on 6 to 6.5 hours of sleep, and thought it was okay. So do most chronically sleep deprived people, I've learned. You don't realize you're not performing well, or so the studies say. I've been using the Apple Health sleep system with my Apple Watch to aim for 8 hours of sleep a night.

Making things takes space. I'm building out a space that will let my family and I build a variety of projects, as well as my day-to-day work. The workshop is 30x50. We've set aside 30x15 of that for a finished office area with desks, tables to support programming, electrical engineering and anything else you'd need a lot of desk area for. The remainder of the space is for woodworking and larger scale projects.

I want a real voice assistant. Siri, Google Home and Alexa never quite measured up, and now appear to be mostly abandoned products by their creators. I want to see what I can build from open source, particularly with the Elixir Machine Learning ecosystem.

Fitness has taken a back seat since 2014. I started 2022 at around 270 lbs, and in May decided to get back into a normal range. I hit goal weight of 200lbs in November 2023.