Finished Reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚
Another powerful, beautifully written book by Claire Keegan.
Do yourself a favor: pour yourself a cup/mug/pint/glass of something, sit down with this book, and read it from start to finish in one sitting.
Powerful, sobering, thought-provoking prose that seeps into you and will stay in your thoughts for days to come.
We have a lot to answer for, us humans.
Finished Reading: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab 📚
Finished reading: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab 📚
Do you like vampires?
Do you like good writing and a great story?
You’ll like this.
Not for everyone, but if you’re a fan of V.E. Schwab, this fits in nicely. She’s a great storyteller and brings the characters alive. I do have quibbles with the ending, though. Decide for yourself.
TERRAINK: THE CARTOGRAPHIC POSTER ENGINE
This is really fun to play with. Build high-detail map posters from OpenStreetMap data with curated palettes, custom typography, and print-ready PNG output.
CyberPower UPS Internal Battery Replacement
CyberPower UPS Internal Battery Replacement - Easy Enough!
Finished reading: The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard 📚
Another deep dive into complex characters, questioning life, love, and family bonds, all with a strange celestial morning star in the heavens.
My 1993 Psion Series 3a Palmtop Computer Makes a Comeback
Digging through some old boxes, I came across my 33 year old palmtop computer.
New Book Alert 🚨 Maria Popova - Traversal 📚
Maria Popova has a new book out today Traversal. 
Synopsis from Kobo:
“From the Marginalian creator and bestselling author Maria Popova, a bold exploration of what makes a meaningful life. What is life? What is death? What makes a body a person? What makes a planet a world? In Traversal, Maria Popova illuminates our various instruments of reckoning with the bewilderment of being alive—our telescopes and our treatises, our postulates and our poems—through the intertwined lives, loves, and legacies of visionaries both celebrated and sidelined by history, people born into the margins of their time and place who lived to write the future: Mary Shelley, Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Fanny Wright, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Marie Tharp, Alfred Wegener, Humphry Davy, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Woven throughout their stories are other threads—the first global scientific collaboration, the Irish potato famine, the decoding of the insulin molecule, the invention of the bicycle, how nature creates blue—to make the tapestry of meaning more elaborate yet clearer as the book advances, converging on the ultimate question of what makes life alive and worth living. By turns epic and intimate—as concerned with the physical laws binding atoms into molecules as with the psychic forces binding us to one other—Traversal explores the universe between cells and souls to reveal the world, and our lives, in a dazzling new light.”
I have it in the queue now and look forward to reading it.
I LOVED her first book Figuring.
Paused: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Did Not Finish: Paused: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 📚
Paused for now. Will have to come back later and try again. 115 pages or so into the story, and I don’t have a connection to the characters or the story. There is such high praise for this book, it surprises me. But, it may just take more time…
Gotta always remember:
Words of Wisdom from Doris Lessing:
” There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you."
Finished Reading: Foster by Claire Keegan 📚
This was the first book I’d ever finished, and I immediately started over. Claire Keegan is a master with words and story.
Finished reading: Breakneck by Dan Wang 📚
This fast-paced book offers a compelling exploration of the stark contrasts between China and the United States, highlighting issues related to governance, infrastructure, and societal challenges.
The Good Stuff - January 2026
A smattering of useful things I’ve come across this month of January 2026.
Building An Online Micro.blog Editor
A custom Micro.blog editor was created using Vercel and Claude Code, enabling easier blog management and posting options.
Claude Code Makes A Cliff538 Status Board
Claude Code Makes A Cliff538 Status Board deployed locally on a Mac Mini.