Eric Wagoner
@kestrelsnest.social
Amateur costumer and tabletop enthusiast. Developer at Infinity Interactive. Creator of Locallygrown.net. Former astrophysicist. Nerdy father to nerdy offspring. he/him ericwagoner.com has links to all my many online places and things.
I didn’t have any sweet vermouth, but this 30+ year old port from Missouri of all places took its place and made an outstanding Negroni.
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I didn’t have any sweet vermouth, but this 30+ year old port from Missouri of all places took its place and made an outstanding Negroni.
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Calvin and Hobbes is one of a handful of pieces of art that I sort of expected to leave behind when I grew into adulthood but instead continue to point at in increasingly desperate ways to beg people to increase their humanity
Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Calvin and Hobbes is one of a handful of pieces of art that I sort of expected to leave behind when I grew into adulthood but instead continue to point at in increasingly desperate ways to beg people to increase their humanity
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Nothing - and I mean nothing - will prepare you for how this ends
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Nothing - and I mean nothing - will prepare you for how this ends
I wrote about something I’ve been struggling with for forty years as a software developer: the gap between being good at solving problems and being terrible at the mechanical act of typing code. I’m neurodivergent, and my brain excels at patterns and systems but struggles with mechanical precision.
Forty Years of Code, Still Can't Type: A Developer's Confession
After four decades of writing code, I still feel like an impostor. Not because I can't solve problems, but because the mechanical act of typing them has always been excruciating. Until now.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I wrote about something I’ve been struggling with for forty years as a software developer: the gap between being good at solving problems and being terrible at the mechanical act of typing code. I’m neurodivergent, and my brain excels at patterns and systems but struggles with mechanical precision.
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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I can’t see this photo either (adult content whut) but I went a-searching and here’s a direct link to the gay sheep sanctuary Rainbow Wool, about which everything is delightful. rainbow-wool.com/Shop/
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I can’t see this photo either (adult content whut) but I went a-searching and here’s a direct link to the gay sheep sanctuary Rainbow Wool, about which everything is delightful. rainbow-wool.com/Shop/
This might be the most striking nighttime photo I’ve ever taken, thanks to the technology on this phone, an ivy covered tree, and solar storms making the sky light up way down here in Georgia.
November 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This might be the most striking nighttime photo I’ve ever taken, thanks to the technology on this phone, an ivy covered tree, and solar storms making the sky light up way down here in Georgia.
Fifty years ago today the gales of November came early. I put a mournful sticker on my car to commemorate the occasion.
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Fifty years ago today the gales of November came early. I put a mournful sticker on my car to commemorate the occasion.
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Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Unlike other places, The Onion is quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically.
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loading the dishwasher in a way that infuriates others is the most human these things have ever behaved
The loading-the-dishwasher struggle is real. Even—or especially—for the $20,000 1X Neo humanoid home robot.
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
🔗: on.wsj.com/47whlZ1
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
loading the dishwasher in a way that infuriates others is the most human these things have ever behaved
Just started Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model. The first chapter reads like a retelling of “There Will Come Soft Rains” and I mean, look, if it were Joe Random author I think I would have bailed halfway through because that short story is perfect the way it is. I don’t need it to be a novel.
November 1, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Just started Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model. The first chapter reads like a retelling of “There Will Come Soft Rains” and I mean, look, if it were Joe Random author I think I would have bailed halfway through because that short story is perfect the way it is. I don’t need it to be a novel.
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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The Wild Rumpus Spectacle and Parade is one of my favorite events of the year. I’ve been in all 17, going back to the first one where the organizer put out a call for folks in costume to walk the downtown sidewalks with him and so many people showed up he got ticketed for holding an illegal parade.
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The Wild Rumpus Spectacle and Parade is one of my favorite events of the year. I’ve been in all 17, going back to the first one where the organizer put out a call for folks in costume to walk the downtown sidewalks with him and so many people showed up he got ticketed for holding an illegal parade.
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The LP was, as I said, created entirely out of my head, by a fictional songwriter called RJ McKendree. But I knew exactly what it sounded like. When the book was done, I asked @dimorphodons.bsky.social "Do you fancy having a go at making it exist?" So he did: rjmckendree.bandcamp.com/album/wallfl...
Wallflower, by RJ McKendree
11 track album
rjmckendree.bandcamp.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The LP was, as I said, created entirely out of my head, by a fictional songwriter called RJ McKendree. But I knew exactly what it sounded like. When the book was done, I asked @dimorphodons.bsky.social "Do you fancy having a go at making it exist?" So he did: rjmckendree.bandcamp.com/album/wallfl...
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In chapter one of my novel Villager, I described a fictional painting, painted 60+ years ago by a forgotten painter: a psychedelic swirl of moorland landscape, which later became the cover of a fictional psych-folk LP.
"Do you fancy having a go at painting this?" I asked my mum.
So she did...
"Do you fancy having a go at painting this?" I asked my mum.
So she did...
October 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In chapter one of my novel Villager, I described a fictional painting, painted 60+ years ago by a forgotten painter: a psychedelic swirl of moorland landscape, which later became the cover of a fictional psych-folk LP.
"Do you fancy having a go at painting this?" I asked my mum.
So she did...
"Do you fancy having a go at painting this?" I asked my mum.
So she did...
We can’t make it to the Scottish festival today, so the Scottish festival had to come to us.
October 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We can’t make it to the Scottish festival today, so the Scottish festival had to come to us.
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"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
October 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad!
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/
Recorded footage today for my YouTube cooking show, for the first time in months. It felt really good.
I don’t know about nature healing any, but I am, just a little.
I don’t know about nature healing any, but I am, just a little.
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Recorded footage today for my YouTube cooking show, for the first time in months. It felt really good.
I don’t know about nature healing any, but I am, just a little.
I don’t know about nature healing any, but I am, just a little.
I’ve lived in this house, in an a neighborhood populated almost entirely by people of color, for nearly ten years.
Just now at 1am on a Wednesday night a car drove down the road with someone hanging out the passenger window yelling the n-word over and over.
It’s the 1st time I’ve seen that here.
Just now at 1am on a Wednesday night a car drove down the road with someone hanging out the passenger window yelling the n-word over and over.
It’s the 1st time I’ve seen that here.
October 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I’ve lived in this house, in an a neighborhood populated almost entirely by people of color, for nearly ten years.
Just now at 1am on a Wednesday night a car drove down the road with someone hanging out the passenger window yelling the n-word over and over.
It’s the 1st time I’ve seen that here.
Just now at 1am on a Wednesday night a car drove down the road with someone hanging out the passenger window yelling the n-word over and over.
It’s the 1st time I’ve seen that here.
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Six weeks after relaunch, the LocallyGrown.net crisis is behind me. What was once one hardware failure from extinction now has a future—and a roadmap for the next 20 years.
Final post in the series: From Survival to Sustainability
blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/locall...
Final post in the series: From Survival to Sustainability
blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/locall...
From Survival to Sustainability: The Next 20 Years for LocallyGrown.net
Six weeks after the rebuild, the crisis is over. Here’s the focused roadmap—EBT access, delivery tools, and quiet reliability—for community-run, multi-grower markets.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Six weeks after relaunch, the LocallyGrown.net crisis is behind me. What was once one hardware failure from extinction now has a future—and a roadmap for the next 20 years.
Final post in the series: From Survival to Sustainability
blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/locall...
Final post in the series: From Survival to Sustainability
blog.kestrelsnest.social/posts/locall...
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She basically invented astrophysics.
She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally.
She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe.
She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.
She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally.
She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe.
She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
She basically invented astrophysics.
She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally.
She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe.
She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.
She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally.
She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe.
She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.
25 years ago, about 100 webloggers came together (we weren't called bloggers yet) to create "Behind the Curtain: A Day in the Life of a Weblogger" where we posted pictures we took throughout the day. How quaint, right?
Anyway, here was my contribution. blog.kestrelsnest.social/legacy/curta...
Anyway, here was my contribution. blog.kestrelsnest.social/legacy/curta...
Behind the Curtain: a day in the life of a weblogger
No Summary
blog.kestrelsnest.social
September 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
25 years ago, about 100 webloggers came together (we weren't called bloggers yet) to create "Behind the Curtain: A Day in the Life of a Weblogger" where we posted pictures we took throughout the day. How quaint, right?
Anyway, here was my contribution. blog.kestrelsnest.social/legacy/curta...
Anyway, here was my contribution. blog.kestrelsnest.social/legacy/curta...
Part 5 of my LocallyGrown.net series is out: Lessons from the Solo Developer Using Modern Tools
How Claude Code became my frustrating intern, thorough researcher, and tireless documentation writer — and why the tradeoffs were worth it.
How Claude Code became my frustrating intern, thorough researcher, and tireless documentation writer — and why the tradeoffs were worth it.
Lessons from the Solo Developer Using Modern Tools
How I used code-aware tools to multiply my reach (tests, docs, audits) while keeping humans in charge of architecture, business logic, and quality.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Part 5 of my LocallyGrown.net series is out: Lessons from the Solo Developer Using Modern Tools
How Claude Code became my frustrating intern, thorough researcher, and tireless documentation writer — and why the tradeoffs were worth it.
How Claude Code became my frustrating intern, thorough researcher, and tireless documentation writer — and why the tradeoffs were worth it.