Hey, I’m Austin. I’m an engineer based in San Francisco, California.

Writing

Running the Maroon Bells Four Pass Loop in One Day
Adventure
Running a Sub-3 Hour Marathon and Qualifying for Boston
Fitness
My rating system for books
Reading
Climbing Mt. Whitney via the Mountaineer's Route
Adventure

Book reviews

Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
★★★★
August 9, 2022
Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich
★★★★
May 24, 2022
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
★★★★★
January 31, 2022
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
★★★
July 19, 2021
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
★★★★
March 11, 2021
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
★★★★
January 4, 2021
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
★★★
May 19, 2020
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
★★★★
April 28, 2020
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
★★★
April 15, 2020
Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus
★★★
April 7, 2020

Learning in the open

WWDC 2023
iOS
July 5, 2023
Time and Distance
Physics
May 10, 2022
Conservation of energy
Physics
May 7, 2022
Basic Physics
Physics
May 6, 2022
Economic Cycles
Finance
October 6, 2021
Atoms in Motion
Physics
August 20, 2021
Curried Functions
Computer Science
August 6, 2021
Objective-C targets within a Swift package
iOS
July 17, 2021
Futures with Combine
iOS
May 26, 2021
Dependency Injection
Computer Science
May 17, 2021
CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types)
Computer Science
May 15, 2021
Actors
iOS
April 29, 2021
Staff Engineer
Engineering