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.

So excited that I'll be attending "norns/habitus"! https://luckdragon.space/event/220924-norns-habitus.html - I've never attended a class around making music before, so really curious how this will go. Plus it's at the Monome HQ!

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!