icco @icco@merveilles.town

#introductions

I'm Nat, or icco. I've been building software since the early 2000s. I love building cli and web tools, and spend a lot of time #datahoarding. I try to do everything in the open, so all of my personal code in FOSS, and most of my thoughts are public on subdomains of https://natwelch.com.

When I'm not writing code, I like hiking, fly fishing, reading, writing, and listening to and making music.

Community blessing of the fields by seven different religious leaders at our community farm. Here's to a great Spring!

Train home from NYC last week.

Rebuilt https://natwelch.com and merged my public wiki into it. Still redoing a bunch of content, but I'm happy with the new look. Code at github.com/icco/natwelch.com

Preach! Such great advice: https://mattambrogi.bearblog.dev/make-a-lot/

I shared this on the birdsite a little while ago, but figured I'd share how much money I've made from my two nonfiction computer programming books. Note this is pre-taxes, but just what I get from publishers, and not raw sales.

I view sharing information as the goal, not making money, in these endeavors, but it still shocks me when I look at this chart.

Writing fiction takes such a complete different headspace than nonfiction did. Kind of amazes me. Requires a lot more work to get into and stay in. Didn't have this issue when I was younger.

Finally finished my year in review post: https://writing.natwelch.com/post/717

Always love seeing peoples time logging tools: https://chaidarun.com/ten-years-of-logging-my-life

Oh, and if you want to follow along, the source is at https://github.com/icco/locative.garden

I'm putting together a book of fiction short stories based on location, technology, nature and art. It'll be available for free at https://locative.garden, but if you want a physical copy, you can back the project at http://kck.st/3Ft2AHf

This work is inspired by all of the amazing things folks have posted on Merveilles over the past two years. I know I'm not the most active user, but you all inspire me constantly. #theWorkshop

I use jq (https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) alot. Today I learned about mlr, which is just as cool (https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

I learned about the amazing proquints (an easy to pronounce UUID) a few years ago, but today took the time to write out a simplified version of the algorithm: https://github.com/icco/proquint #theWorkshop

https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/ - very reminiscent of stuff folks are doing here

Gave a talk at work yesterday to inspire folks about the project we're working on to the whole company. Never done a hype talk like that before, but it seems it was well received! Yay!