kellegous.com/j/2025/10/13...

scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2662/
Revisiting the dubious reasoning in Hester's Open Fields Doctrine which, according to the Institute of Justice, means 96% of private land is not protected by the 4th amendment. This isn't even Justice Holmes' worst opinion.

I hit my breaking point with mobile notifications. If an app pushes a notification that isn't actionable, I turn off the notifications. First on my list was Facebook, king of garbage alerts. Except, Facebook sends notifications even if you turn them all off. I had to remove its permissions.

Published a couple of posts in the last month. First one was about re-learning the lesson of slow cascading deletes in PostgreSQL.
kellegous.com/j/2025/06/29...

TIL that media queries inside of an SVG are applied even when the SVG renders as a background image.
notes.kellegous.com/sharing/back...

I kind of like playing with LLM's in my personal projects but I will never commit to anything that will get in the way of my ultimate goal of retreating to an off grid cabin in the woods. So I've been trying to use local models for real. My current setup:
notes.kellegous.com/sharing/loca...

Let's try out bsky ...

Does anyone have experience with down-leveling themselves in a tech role? Let's say your are a Distinguished Engineer, a Principal Engineer, or a VP and you are willing to forfeit salary for a more enjoyable and sustainable role. Does this work?