Rob Ballou

@robballou

Finn the cattle dog's human, mountain biker, backpacker, and software engineer.

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Rob Ballou@robballou· 4d

The company that makes this product makes how much money exactly?

A screenshot of the Nest web UI, with unreadable labels in white text on light grey background.

Rob Ballou@robballou· 16d

Corporations always willing to use public infrastructure #bikeden (reposted with alt text)

Veo scooters using the entire on street bike parking provided by Denver city

Rob Ballou@robballou· Jul 11

Some blue skies from today’s hike

A view of the Rocky Mountain, with Mt Blue Sky visible

A view of the Rocky Mountains from 13,500ft

Walking back down the ridge, distant lakes and mountains

Rob Ballou@robballou· Jul 5

America, f yeah edition. Crews working with n cleaning up truckloads of debris from parks and streets. But what is left is countless debris that can’t be picked up.

The parks baseball field is coated in a layer of cardboard and plastic detritus. A sign for not allowing dogs off leash is present (which is the primary offense the city enforces)

200m of red plastic waste is practically glued to the sidewalks. Crews have collected bags of trash and drinking containers

A young man uses a push broom to try to clean up debris next to the park. Across the street, which is no longer Denver city is lined with trash

Rob Ballou@robballou· Jun 26

Finn, happy to stand in the shade, after his human drops off their ballet. Confining a tradition of ballot drop off by foot (and paw)

Rob Ballou@robballou· Jun 21

Hiking is a bit more tame these days, but still happy to spend time with this dude in the mountains

Finn, an Australian cattle dog mix, who is now 11 yo, takes in the sights from an overlook in the Colorado front range. In the distance , smaller mountains and blue skies

Hiking back to the trailhead stopped for a break at a nice meadows with view of the wooded mountains

Rob Ballou@robballou· Jun 13

There should be more snow 😳

Mt. Blue Sky and Rosalie Peak (I think) almost without any snow in early June.

Rob Ballou@robballou· Jun 6

Today was a real warm one

Photo of riding a surly midnight special on some single track in the front range of Colorado. It is a very open blue sky

Rob Ballou@robballou· Jun 6

Tall clouds at sunset with blue sky breaking through

Rob Ballou@robballou· May 26

The cows are rebelling against their pasture at a local park 🤪

A black cow grazes from grasses on the near side of a wooden fence. A few more cows graze on the “correct” side of the fence

Rob Ballou@robballou· May 7

What is job hunting like now?

Screenshot from a website for an "AI interviewer" that says:

Ezra helps you go beyond the resume, skip the noise, and find the signal.

Screenshot includes bullet points about how the tool does not hallucinate and cannot be derailed

Rob Ballou@robballou· May 6

Finn engaging AWD, ready for action during our May snow day

Finn, an Australian cattle dog mix, takes a breather while running around in wet spring snow among drooping tree branches

Rob Ballou@robballou· Apr 30

The vibe when you are on LI looking at jobs. The red highlighted box is the collapsed information that actually relates to the job. Now do this for ~12 jobs a week. #isthisuserexperience

A screen shot of a view of LinkedIn job page, where only a very small portion (shown in red) relates to details about the actual job. Everything else in the right portion of the screen is ads/upsells.

Rob Ballou@robballou· Apr 24

I went for a bike ride

The view from midway up Lookout Mountain in Colorado. Below Hwy 6 winds through Clear Creek Canyon

Rob Ballou@robballou· Apr 24

Doesn't seem like much, but this is pretty good progress. Rust + Redis + React/TS/Vite. The game engine portion exists in Rust, but has to be hooked up to work with the API approach (was built as CLI-first).