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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 22/05/2026

Ran the Revel Reno Tahoe Marathon last weekend! Still sore 😅

Selfie after the Revel Reno Tahoe Marathon holding up the finisher medal.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 04/05/2026

My favorite part of the marathon is the view from Eden Park. Helps that you only get here by conquering a mile of hills

Selfie from Eden Park in Cincinnati, overlooking the city.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 17/04/2026

"now discover drink ideas with ChatGPT" they're putting AI in the damn coffee what will they think of next

Screenshot of a notification from the Starbucks app reading "Now discover drink ideas with ChatGPT".

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 12/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 done! 🥳 I'm actually glad this year was shorter, made it way less stressful. Got trolled a bit on the final problem, but this was a lot of fun :)

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 11/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 Days 10/11 blog posts now up! Day 10 Part 2 sucked, I hate that the standard solution for those problems is "just use z3". But glad I could do something fun at least Day 11 was the first time I nailed using a recursive CTE with zero assistance, very happy about that! 😁

Advent of Code Day 11 Part 1 solution, using a recursive CTE to calculate paths between nodes.

Advent of Code 2025 Day 10 Part 2 solution, using Python/z3 inside of a Postgres database to solve systems of equations.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 11/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 Day 11 done! Part 2 just required memoization 🤦‍♂️ took way longer than it should have, but at least Part 1 was easy!! Still drained from Day 10, gonna chill for tonight and do a write-up tomorrow

Screenshot of Postico 2 with my table definitions for Day 11 Part 2.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 11/12/2025

Ended up using Z3, but at least I found a way to do something a little fun with it

Screenshot of Postico 2 SQL workbench tool showing two statements. The first is "CREATE EXTENSION plpython3u;", which creates the Python extension (allowing you to run Python code from SQL). The second is creating a function that uses the z3-solver library in Python, but the function is defined in Postgres using the plpython3u extension.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 11/12/2025

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

Advent of Code 2025 personal times, with Day 10 at the top. My Part 1 time for Day 10 is 1 hour, 16 minutes, 13 seconds. My Part 2 time for Day 10 is 23 hours, 54 minutes, 24 seconds.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 11/12/2025

Not thrilled about it but did find a workaround 😝

Screenshot of the Postico 2 SQL workbench tool. The first line reads "CREATE EXTENSION plpython3u;". The second statement creates a function to test the Python/z3-solver code. The third line runs the function. Below that, the output is displayed.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 09/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 Day 9 done! I knew exactly what Part 2 would be as soon as I saw Part 1. I didn't bother coming up with a general solution, just wrote a quick and dirty query with some shortcuts Plotted the points in Desmos to help find those shortcuts 😎

Desmos graphing calculator displaying the challenge prompt for Advent of Code 2025 Day 9 as a polygon.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 08/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 Day 8 done! It took me way too long to figure out what the prompt was even asking me for Part 1 😭 And of course there was an edge case that I hadn't accounted for Part 2 was relatively easy though!!

SQL query calculating the final result for my Advent of Code 2025 Day 8 Part 2 solution. The query selects the last member from the "circuit members" table, finds the closest node to it, and returns the x-coordinates of the two nodes multiplied together.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 07/12/2025

Sucked but eventually got it. Bedtime, posting about it tomorrow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Screenshot of my Advent of Code 2025 times so far. The latest day, Day 7, shows 34 minutes 24 seconds for Part 1 and 3 hours, 12 seconds for Part 2.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 06/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 Day 6 done! Calculating the result was easy, it's just the complex string manipulation that's really really hard

SQL statement calculating the final result for the Advent of Code 2025 Day 6 challenge. The code calculates both a multiplication aggregate and summation aggregate across a dataset, joins the aggregates to the operator, then calculates a final result.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 04/12/2025

will post my solution in the morning, brain too tired tonight

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 03/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 Day 3 done! My Part 1 Solution is extremely fugly, but made good use of a helper function in Part 2 for a more verbose but much cleaner solution

Screenshot of a helper function in Postgres. The function is called "largest_index", and it calculates the index of the largest value in an array given exclusive start/end positions.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 02/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 Day 2 done! The power of helper functions and bigint prevails :)

Screenshot of a helper function in SQL for chunking strings into an array of equally sized strings.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 01/12/2025

Advent of Code 2025 Day 1 done! Trying to solve problems using Postgres/SQL this year. Day 1 was really easy, but took awhile to figure out exactly how I wanted to structure this in SQL 😅

Screenshot of SQL code showing a snippet of my Advent of Code 2025 Day 1 solution.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 07/09/2025

Ran nearly 18 of these miles yesterday and my legs are really feeling it today

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app showing a summary of Saturday, September 6th. The step count for the day is 32,230 steps. The step distance for the day is 19.39 miles. The move ring shows 2,828/900 active calories burned. The exercise ring shows 199/30 minutes of exercise. The stand ring shows 12/12 hours of standing.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 31/08/2025

Nice and easy 10 miles on the treadmill yesterday

Apple Fitness app showing a 10.55 mile indoor run.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 21/07/2025

I've played 3 games of Word Play so far and beaten Easy, Normal, and Hard on my first attempt of each. Kinda cracked

The game "Word Play" showing the "you win" screen for hard mode. 46 words were used, 11 perks were purchased, and the best word was "awakener" for 308 points.

Stats for the game "Word Play". The total number of words spelled is 132. The longest ever word is "invigorate". The highest scoring word is "grossers" for 1204 points. The credits are displayed on the right.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 22/05/2025

Just had the craziest luck ever. This guy took 10+ throws to catch while using golden raspberries and ultra balls With a 90% flee rate, that's something like 1/10,000,000,000 chance of occurring And of course it's a shiny

A screenshot of Pokemon Go. I'm trying to catch a wild, shiny Zapdos.

A screenshot of Pokemon Go with a shiny Zapdos displayed in the Pokedex.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 04/05/2025

Finished my 4th Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon, my 3rd "4-Way with Extra Cheese" challenge!

A selfie of Fletcher immediately after finishing the Cincinnati Flying Pig Marathon. There's a mylar blanket around his shoulders, a marathon medal hanging from his neck, and a plate of LaRosas pizza in his hand.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 03/05/2025

Flying Pig 5k and 10k complete! Soaking wet, but was still a blast

Selfie of Sam on the left and Fletcher on the right. Both are wearing Flying Pig 10k shirts. Sam has a 10k medal, Fletcher has both a 5k and 10k medal.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 28/04/2025

Got 9 miles of hiking in today! New trail, big elevation changes but was very pretty

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app showing a hiking workout from today. The workout shows 2:59:41 duration and 9.17 mile distance. The total elevation gain was 1,972 feet. The average heart rate was 143 beats per minute. The average pace was 19:35 per mile.

Photo of the trail. The trail goes through a valley between two mountains. There's also a sign with information about the trail, including difficulty and distance.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 21/04/2025

Reviewing the #COVID19 data I've got, the stories you can pull out of this are fascinating Worldwide and USA collections both peaked early January, 2022. A resurgence of the virus in late 2021, right before holidays, meant a LOT of people got infected when they travelled, and they tested soon after

Screenshot of two graphs displaying trendline data for SARS-CoV-2 sample submissions. The top graph shows worldwide data. The bottom graph shows USA data. The x-axis is days for both graphs, ranging from the start of the pandemic (December 2019) to the last submission date (December 2024). The y-axis is counts for both graphs. While the graphs have a similar overall shape, there are significant variations between the two over certain time periods. The selected dates are January 3rd, 2022 for the top graph and January 4th, 2022 for the bottom graph. These dates show when the most samples were collected in a single day.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 20/04/2025

Successful day of exercise! Didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted, but I did get >21 miles of running/walking in, which is what I wanted

Screenshot of the Apple Watch showing rings for the day. The movement ring shows 2,901 active calories burned. The exercise ring shows 234 minutes of exercise. The stand ring shows 19 hours of standing.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 20/04/2025

Finally got all of my running medals put up!!

Photo of a pegboard with several medals attached. In front of the board are Lego architecture sets of various cities.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 19/04/2025

Halfway through the day and I'm killing it 💪🏻

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app showing today's progress. The move ring shows 1,758 active calories burned. The exercise ring shows 116 minutes of exercise. The stand ring shows 11 hours of standing. The step count shows 21,805 steps. The step distance shows 13.23 miles.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 19/04/2025

Halfway through the day and I'm killing it 💪🏻

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 12/04/2025

18 miles completed 💪🏻 Was hoping to run the last 3, but the half marathon really took it out of me. Maybe I'll do a light jog later ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app showing the workouts. The first is a 3.06 mile outdoor walk. The second is a 13.17 mile outdoor run. The third is a 2.00 mile outdoor run.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 12/04/2025

Ran the Beach and Bay half marathon!

Fletcher Easton taking a selfie after running a half marathon, wearing the medal from the race.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 08/04/2025

8 hours 20 minutes to clear half of my drive 😵‍💫

Screenshot of a terminal. The last command run is `rm -rf /Users/fletchereaston/Desktop/gisaid`, which took 8 hours, 19 minutes, 47 seconds to complete.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 08/04/2025

I can finally delete the 500GB of uncompressed genomic sequences. SSD finally has some breathing room 😮‍💨

Screenshot of the Mac Finder app. A folder named "gisaid" is displayed with 482.93 GB of data on disk.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 02/04/2025

Good amount of walking and running in today :)

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app, showing four workouts. The first is a 5.38 mile indoor run. The second is a 0.33 mile indoor walk. The third is a 2.06 mile outdoor walk. The fourth is a 1.33 mile outdoor walk.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 31/03/2025

It's not perfect, workers collide on the data they're processing maybe ~5% of the time. But that's why you make the processing idempotent and just have them retry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A screenshot of 5 terminals crunching data in parallel.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 31/03/2025

Detecting mutations at a rate of ~3 genomic sequences per second. With my current backlog of 15 million sequences, that's only 2 months straight of crunching data 😭

A photo of the Warp terminal on Mac. The terminal displays the command "uv run manage.py lastz EPI_ISL_402124" at the top, with several lines of output displayed below.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 31/03/2025

Got 12 miles of running in 💪🏻 Was very dehydrated by mile 8, so needed to walk more than I'd like. But still kept a decent overall pace!

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app. Three workouts are displayed. The first is a 0.72 mile outdoor walk. The second is a 1.19 mile indoor run. The third is an 11.04 mile outdoor run.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 27/03/2025

7 miles on the treadmill 💪🏻

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app showing a 7.13 mile run. The screenshot includes some metrics about the workout; the workout time was 1:15:04, the distance was 7.13 miles, the active calories burned was 1,097, the total calories burned was 1,222, the average cadence was 157 steps per minute, the average pace was 10'31" per mile, and the average heart rate was 170 beats per minute.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 26/03/2025

Received my fourth care-package from my company, guess I'm doing something right :)

A note from my employer reading...

"Fletcher,
Your impact on reporting has been nothing short of incredible. From owning improvements and tackling the bug space to getting us back on track with Delay Send, you've been at the front lines of every major reporting incident.
Thank you for your hard work, problem-solving skills, and relentless firefighting-you're a true superstar!
Rad Al"

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 23/03/2025

Got a really nice hike in today, right around 7 miles and 1,500ft of elevation gain. Legs are tired but wasn't too bad at all :)

A screenshot of the Apple Fitness app showing a hiking workout. The path traveled is displayed on a map, and information regarding elevation gain, heart rate, and pace are displayed below the map.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 22/03/2025

Just over 10 miles of running today, ~6 miles on the road and ~4 miles on the treadmill 💪🏻

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app. Three workouts are logged for today. From top to bottom, they are a 0.62 mile outdoor run, a 4.00 mile indoor run, and a 5.76 mile outdoor run.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 20/03/2025

An hour on the treadmill done, milestone I've been looking to for awhile now 💪🏻

Screenshot of the Apple Fitness app of an indoor running workout. The time is 1 hour 49 seconds. The distance is 6.53 miles. The active calorie count is 898. The total calorie count is 1,000. The average cadence is 163 steps per minute. The average pace is 9 minutes 18 seconds per mile. The average heart rate is 178 beats per minute.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 10/03/2025

Seems like it's returning to the levels it was at pre-election. The spike occurred in November, presumably because people thought he'd effectively be President behind the scenes, and that sentiment is now starting to fade

Tesla's share price over the last year. There's a spike starting in November 2024 that has declined rapidly since February 2025.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 10/03/2025

Sleep data supports this 😴

A screenshot of the Apple Health app showing the sleep cycles and time I experienced over the last day. I spent 10 hours 4 minutes in total sleeping.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 23/02/2025

I got a decent hiking workout in today, definitely time to nap

A screenshot of the iPhone Fitness app showing stats from a recent hiking workout.

The stats are:
- 2 hours 7 minutes 32 seconds of workout time
- 2 hours 23 minutes 53 seconds of elapsed time
- 5.83 miles covered
- 827 active calories burned
- 1,040 total calories burned
- 991ft of elevation gained
- 21 minute 51 second average pace
- average heart rate of 144 beats per minute

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 23/02/2025

@paskeluoja.bsky.social soup of the day: Potato & Pea Stew with Indian Spices

Scan of the Potato & Pea Stew with Indian Spices recipe from the Every Season is Soup Season cookbook.

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Fletcher @fletcheaston.com · 22/02/2025

Every ULID project coming along nicely. Hoping to get this up in the next day or so!

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