I particularly enjoyed "The Great Bay" by Dale Pendell. It's a collection of short stories that are linked through the next 16,000 years of Californian history after a 2021 global pandemic and subsequent environmental catastrophe.

Sampson Boat Company's rebuilding of Tally Ho: https://www.youtube.com/@SampsonBoatCo

This is the best series on YouTube far and away. Production quality rough at the beginning but do yourself a favor and watch the whole thing.

I'm using orgmode as well on my emacs install under macOS. By using a simple org capture template bound to SPC-o-j (space, org, journal) a time stamped entry into my journal.org file is relatively painless. Really loving using emacs on macOS too, once I figured out the home-brew installation and configuration.

Would you be willing to share the elisp config in your .emacs file that enables your org capture template?

I'm a relative emacs noob, and have just switched from Doom emacs to rolling my own with a literate config file. I started noticing more and more ~ backup files in all my working directories. Needless to say this is a great tip for those of us who don't understand emacs defaults.

I keep my editor (emacs) window open for my LaTeX document, a second separate terminal window to compile my .tex document and see any errors that crop up, and a third window with Zathura to view the newly compiled document as it automatically reloads upon a successful compilation. I think that may cover what you're looking for?

Yes to this! Bamboo root structure (rhizomes) can be broken down into two basic types, leptomorph and pachymorph. Bamboo that belong to the leptomorph rhizome group can grow many feet over a growing season, and have buds along their length that will grow into new rhizomes or culms (shoots). These are the classic runaway bamboo that folks worry about. Bamboo that have pachymorph rhizomes will (each one) grow into a culm and are thus much slower to spread around your garden. More like a clumping bush. I grow bamboo as a hobby in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, and currently have about thirty bamboo plants of 10 different types growing in pots in my yard. I'm waiting to plant them in the ground at my next house for when I have root barriers to prevent the leptomorphs from spreading too quickly!

These are beautiful maps, and I'd love to add one to my collection.

If anyone is a fan of adding depth to old maps, check out https://scottreinhard.com/Mapping-and-Visualization. Not sure if he's selling them any longer, but they're beautifully rendered.

He's still selling them. I bought one last year. https://scottreinhardmaps.com/

If you're willing to put in the time with LaTeX, there is a very good package for generating some exceptionally beautiful family trees with the https://www.ctan.org/pkg/genealogytree package.

Hi Blake! Kieran's dad here. So great to see your article on Hacker News. Your old bike is safely heading back to Colorado soon.

Ha, that's incredible!

Agreed! Another metric to add might be $/Mb/Month. That way it's easy to compare disparate speeds.