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A ridge is backlit by late evening light, and whips yellow and orange clouds sit above it. In the foreground is a shadowed field of cut alfalfa.

We had another nice Ogden valley sunset, last night. It’s been hot here, and back in Flagstaff, too, but monsoon rains are forecast to cool down both of these hometowns this week.

A visualization of a Peloton ride with instructor Emma Lovewell. It’s a 30 minute new tracks ride in which I spent most time in heart rate zone 3.

I haven’t done a proper bike-bike ride for a while so I made sure to get one in while I’m home this week. I’m practicing not blowing up to my high HR zones quite as quickly as I tend to – not too bad on this one.

I’ve been spending some time up in Utah, and I had forgotten how much bigger the 24th of July holiday here is than the 4th of July. While Independence Day is certainly a big holiday, the weekend of the 24th – “Pioneer Days” – is absolutely massive.

I’m publishing a project I’ve been tinkering with for a while and finally decided to make “good enough” to share! D2Rstats is a set of Quarto notebooks that fetch, store and make fun and useful data out of your Destiny 2 postgame carnage reports, such as this all-time weapon treetop. If you’re comfortable enough with R, it can be a jumping off point to exploring your own game data further. It’s been a lot of fun to refine this, and I’ve learned a ton along the way.

A treemap showing my Destiny 2 total weapon usage. My largest single category is Auto Rifles, and most used single weapon is Bygones.

You can find all my Destiny 2 related projects over at deardestiny.blog.

It’s kind of ridiculous that in 2023 I can’t put two user profiles in a brand new iPad so that my wife and I can share it without being all up in one another’s grills.

A red barn sits at the far edge of a green field. In the distance is a set of rocky peaks with snow still on them.

A wet and cool spring means that there is still some snow on the peaks, but summer is now coming in hot, so it won’t last much longer.

I’ve decided to experiment with two new tools for a little while: Aboard for bookmarking and filing interesting things (and I’m always interested in things that Paul Ford gets excited about); and Omnivore as a new read-later platform. Something about a new clean slate in each of those categories is really appealing, so I’ll see how it goes.

An infographic summarizing a Peloton high intensity and hills ride. Instructor Ally Love stands at the right side in a pink top, hands on her hips.

Vacation days are great! Today I improved RideShare, my Shiny app that makes shareable ride cards from my Peloton workouts. I had to update to accommodate the new images that the API sends, and I added a clickable history to build cards for any recent ride. I don’t like the styling of these new images quite as much – they’re not as powerful-looking cycling-specific images as the old feed provided – but I’m still really pleased with what I can build with it!