Great tutorial! I'd like to point something out that wasn't obvious to me when stepping through it: make sure you uncomment 'listen_addresses' by removing the # in front of it. Took me a while to figure that out.

Step one of my software engineering bootcamp starts today with pre-course training and I spent the last couple weeks perfecting my workspace.

I’m obsessed with a desk setup that’s just right and, while I already had some of this organized for my gaming PC, I was able to build a dual boot system that shares the same monitors and peripherals.

This is what’s on my desk for maximum productivity (and a little fun).

Apple M1 Mac Mini

2020 threw my summer tradition for a loop (understatement for the world). Every June, we meet friends from Denver for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. It’s my favorite — it falls on my birthday, Telluride is one of the most beautiful towns in the country, and the festival vibes can’t be beat.

Well, surprise, no Telluride Bluegrass this year! But every great tradition improvises as needed, and our annual meetup shifted from summer in Telluride to September in Durango, Colorado.

A leaky sleeping pad is one of the worst gear failures you can encounter in the backcountry. A good pad isn’t just for comfort — it’s what separates your warm body from the cold ground. When it deflates, you wake up freezing in the middle of the night. No fun, people.

A leak is hard to find in the backcountry but you can do it easily at home. If you backpack with a foam pad, you probably don’t need to worry about this. But air pad users will tell you — sooner or later a leak will happen.

My Thermarest…

Backpacking gear is 100 percent function over form — I love that. Trendy retailers like Huckberry sell gear that looks great, some of it very useful, but all of it marked up and expensive.

You can easily spend more than $100 on a knife. Here’s one by Benchmade for $145. It’s probably a fantastic knife. It sure looks cool and rustic and all the things you’d want a $145 knife to be, but it’s not for me.

I carry what I need in the backcountry. I spend more on boots and trail runners because they protect my feet, more on…

Dismissing an Arizona summer as “dry heat” is like calling a well-done steak “edible” — both are technically true but still awful experiences. The summer sun in state forty eight is so hot that it will literally cook an egg on the sidewalk. This isn’t some insider’s secret from the people that live here. Arizona is openly mocked for its heat.

It’s been two weeks since Ford debuted the highly-anticipated 2021 Bronco to the world, but all the ads on my social feeds are for the Jeep Wrangler. Is it because I follow outdoors and overlanding accounts on Instagram? Maybe. But it’s more likely because I’ve been watching videos like this:

Before I even talk about the Bronco itself, let me just tip my hat to the marketing team. Ford didn’t pull a single punch. Bryan Cranston voices the launch, Jimmy Chin takes us through the Grand Tetons in the two-door, Kip Moore…

This loop doesn’t have an official name, so I gave it one! “Lost Mesa” Loop starts at First Water Trailhead and connects #104 (Dutchman’s Trail), turns back on #241 (beneath Black Mesa), and returns on #236 from Garden Valley.