I'm a husband, cyclist, cross country skier, and software person from snowy Minnesota.

My wife and I live in a cozy hundred-year-old home with our dog, June Bug. All three of us prefer to spend our time outside, seasonal extremes be damned.

The landscape photo is from the top of Glymur (pronounced "Glimmer"), the tallest waterfall in Iceland accessible by foot.

Code should strive to make the problems being solved obvious to the reader—especially since that reader is probably going to be you, a few months from now. The road to spaghetti is paved with clever abstractions.

The last great book I read was Bewilderment by Richard Powers.

I still listen to the Skyrim soundtrack while I work.