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This wiki serves as my professional and public knowledge base. It's where I go to save information that I think will be useful in the future, for myself or others. I like to start with a few simple rules:

• To retrieve information, I should know where to start: a Schelling point. For me, it's wiki.klenwell.com, this page.
• It shouldn't take me more than three clicks to get from my starting point to the information I'm looking for.
• Links/URLs will tie everything together. They are the edges in my knowledge graph. Keep the graph shallow.

To minimize spam and maintenance costs, public edit access is restricted.

Professional Interests

Management

• Hiring
• Planning
• Agile Scrum
• Best Practices

Software Development

• Ruby-on-Rails
• Python
• Git
• Code Smells

DevOps

• Ansible

Personal Interests and Preoccupations

• Epistemology
• Epidemiology
• Queues
• Surfing

Projects

• CrudCraft
• ForeKarma
• LastGoogle
• Mushpup
• Scrumwell

Timeline

A few recent interesting or noteworthy things I've seen or done or read about:

• 2023.10.07 Hamas launches surprise attack against Israel from Gaza Strip.
• 2023.10.03 House of Representatives votes to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker.
• 2023.08.23 Yevgeny Prigozhin presumed dead in suspicious plane crash in Russia.
• 2023.08.20 Tropical Storm Hilary reaches Southern California.
• 2023.08.08 Wildfires in Maui raze the town of Lāhainā.
• 2023.07.12 COVID finally catches Bob Wachter and nearly kills him.
• 2023.07.09 Intense rains lead to historic flooding across northeast United States.
• 2023.06.23 Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leads army toward Moscow.
• 2023.06.09 Former U.S. President Donald Trump indicted for mishandling classified documents.
• 2023.06.06 Smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets major cities.
• 2023.04.22 The Fantasmic dragon, Murphy, catches fire at Disneyland.
• 2023.04.18 Fox News settles defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million. A week later, they shitcan Tucker Carlson.
• 2023.03.21 Shohei Ohtani strikes out Mike Trout to win World Baseball Classic for Japan.
• 2023.03.09 There is a run on Silicon Valley Bank. (I would learn that SVB is my company's bank the next day.)
• 2023.02.28 California COVID state of emergency ends.
• 2023.02.06 7.8 earthquake strike Turkey and Syria.
• 2023.01.22 Lunar New Year 2023. Also day I happen to complete Advent of Code 2022.
• 2023.01.13 Area CEO bricks several Twitter clients, including the one I've used for years.
• 2022.12.30 CDC warns about new COVID Omicron variant XBB 1.5.
• 2022.12.26 I solve the final puzzle of the 2022 Advent of Code. (Still a few to do.)
• 2022.12.01 2022 Advent of Code begins. Let the memes fly!
• 2022.11.30 OpenAI releases ChatGPT.
• 2022.11.11 FTX files for bankruptcy, CEO resigns. Bizarre fortune cookies suddenly make sense.
• 2022.11.08 Democrats perform better than expected in 2022 General Election.
• 2022.10.30 I drop my vote-by-mail ballot for the 2022 General Election in my local drop box.
• 2022.10.20 Head of lettuce outlasts Liz Truss, who resigns as Prime Minister of Britain.
• 2022.09.09 Tropical Storm Kay ends Southern California heat wave.
• 2022.08.30 Intense heat wave hits California.
• 2022.08.09 I am granted DALL·E access.
• 2022.07.21 President Biden tests positive for COVID. He recovers without being helicoptered to Walter Reed.
• 2022.07.11 I complete the New York Times crossword 365 days in a row.
• 2022.07.03 Bob Wachter explains implications of spreading COVID BA.5 variant.

Past timeline events