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Technology is advancing the production process, moving faster than ever. The media landscape is shifting as politics and business models challenge every aspect of our world. As professionals we must strive to stay current from content and engineering perspectives. Every other week, I gather articles that catch my eye, intrigue, inspire, or just feel relevant to our world. The goal is simply to share what I’m reading and learn from our great colleagues throughout the industry. ...

Sometimes your runner’s high gets interrupted. Life telling you to check your ego. The day is not complete. Sitting in the parking lot after an evening run, the sun has already set, when a stranger gets my attention seeking help with a flat tire. A woman in need, I help. Yet, there’s an unchristian hesitation. The situation will evolve, weakness creeps in. What am I getting myself into? Mission creep is the rusted spare tire that won’t lodge free from the underside of the vehicle. Trying to figure out the Rube Goldberg system the car manufacturer used to mount and store the tire and jacks. Then the lug nuts, which I convinced myself must be welded on. ...

April 2025: 69.2 miles. April 2026: 20.6 miles. The rebuilding phase fights you every day. Poor routines hold their grip. The memory of half marathon races taunts. 3-mile base runs hurt more than they should. One mile at a time is the only way out. It is time to dig.

We often think of “help” as someone standing next to us while the work is happening. But the most generous help is often performed in an empty room, days before the curtain rises. It’s the work that ensures the person following behind doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel. If you have to “figure it out” on the fly, you are spending your creative energy on survival. When a friend pre-programs the logic, they aren’t just doing technical work. They are giving you the gift of bandwidth. ...

We are on family vacation this week. Temperatures hit the 40s today, so we skipped the slopes to avoid the “mashed potato” snow and headed to the Alton Bay Seaplane Base (B18). In the winter, this is better known simply as the Ice Runway. Located on Lake Winnipesaukee, this is the only FAA-approved ice runway in the lower 48 states. It is having a banner year thanks to an early winter and consistent cold. The runway has already surpassed the previous season record of 764 landings. ...

After years on WordPress, I’m transitioning my digital journal to a more local, file-based system. Why the Change? Ownership: My notes stay in my vault. Speed: Next.js and Docker on my Contabo VPS are lightning fast. Focus: Writing in Obsidian allows for deep thinking without the clutter of a CMS dashboard. Technology & Learning This blog isn’t just a place for updates; it’s a project in itself. Learning to containerize this with Docker has been a great Sunday exercise.

Garmin recommended long run today, 1hr 10min. Temps in the high 20s, felt comfortable. Enjoyed the frost cover and the thin coating of ice on the Blackstone Canal.

Ran a snow covered Blackstone Bike Path this morning. I love the muffled sound after a snowfall. Just cold air, quiet surroundings, and the crunch of the snow.

Currently in post-production, Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch is working on a passion project, ‘Her Name was Moviola‘, a documentary about cutting film the way it “used to be done”. What is a Moviola? Well, simply put the Moviola was a tool used in the process of editing film from the 1920 all the way to the 1970s. Not a flashy device, but a workhorse of the film industry! Editors like Walter used the Moviola to birth masterpieces like “Citizen Kane” and “Gone with the Wind”, shaping the language of film editing for generations. ...

I’ve been taking the time to learn ffmpeg and some of the really useful stuff you can do with this command line tool (CLI). Here’s one example of a situation I find myself in frequently and have not had a great solution until now. The ability to trim a video file without re-encoding! “Re-encoding” means loss of video quality in my mind. Not quite as bad as copying a VHS tape, known in the analog world as a “generation loss” Having the ability to trim a video file WITHOUT suffering any quality loss, that was a WOW ffmpeg moment for me. ...