Eric Phelps

@ericphelps
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Worked in USA, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, UAE, Morocco, Iraq, Nigeria, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, India -- and all of them full of good people. Still working, now back in the USA.

Weekends are usually biking, kayaking, or hiking. It's "urban hiking" in the hidden areas everyone else drives past.

I follow #hiking and #kayaking, so even if it looks like I'm not following you... I'm following you ;)

I usually post a couple times a week.

Webhttp://ericphelps.com/
Relive videoshttps://www.relive.cc/profile/ericphelps
Eric Phelps6h ago

A bunch of y'all will hate me, but I've been using LLMs and it's pretty amazing. I'm not a programmer, but I work with a lot of text (log file analysis mostly). Using a chatbot or VSCode to analyze a gigabyte of text is crap.

The answer is the "CLI Tool". All the big providers make one (Copilot-cli, Opencode, Claude-code, etc.), but it's cheaper to sign up with OpenRouter, then use https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush. Just open Crush (or similar) in your logs folder and ask questions.

Really impressive.

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Eric Phelps14h ago

Feeling pretty conservative about my knee, so went hiking with a buddy who recently had hip replacement surgery. Just 3 miles, which suits us both perfectly. And both of us feel more comfortable not being solo.

Por ahora.
#hiking

Eric Phelps5d ago

One of the programmers at work has been building a rubber band ball for a while. It's remarkably heavy. I think it's going to reach a point very soon where the bands we scavenge from the incoming mail aren't going to fit. Even my celery contributions will have problems.

They grow up so fast.

Show threadEric Phelps5d ago

At the trailhead there were two choices. Everyone was taking the flat trail, so I took the hilly trail and had the place to myself. Almost.

A guy on a mountain bike came zooming by, so I moved to the side and he said "two more behind me" as he passed. Five seconds later I gave up on the "two more" and started hiking again. I found them a hundred yards further, stopped on a rise, grumbling about following an idiot onto bad trails.

Always a chuckle.

#hiking

Eric Phelps6d ago

After ending up on crutches for a week after my last two hikes, I took a much more limited 6 mile (~10km) walk today. The knee did fine and it felt SO GOOD to be outside.

You know how it is to turn a corner and find yourself in a field of flowers? To walk through grassland one minute and be in dark woods right after? To have a nice trail, then find yourself bushwhacking when the trail disappears? All in one glorious day? Then you know how good it was.

https://www.relive.com/view/vrqDXDMeLwq
#hiking

Eric PhelpsMay 2
Someone put a sticker on a gas pump at my local gas station. It's funny.
The $6.55 per gallon isn't as funny.
Eric PhelpsApr 12

8 mile walk in the rain because it's going to be worse tomorrow. I have an umbrella and a rain jacket, I didn't walk in any puddles, and I didn't slip in any mud, so it's all good.

Relive movie is for a photographer friend of mine who visited the trail 2 days ago and said there were no flowers. I think he's looking for the "big expanse" shot, while I'm the kind of guy who smiles at the pieces of glitter still in the carpet from the party two years ago.
https://www.relive.com/view/vwq1zxx2QBv
#hiking

Eric PhelpsApr 6

My knee is making an *incredible* recovery, but I'm giving it an easy day. Took the bike out for a quick 21 mile ride on a PERFECT day.

Snakes are out more this year than in the last ten years, but so far they're all pretty mellow.

Eric PhelpsMar 30
03:20. The Great Horned Owl in the woods behind my house just woke up. Quiet enough to sleep through, but loud enough to let me know I'm not the only one awake.
Comforting.
Eric PhelpsMar 29
Because I hike on less-popular trails, I always wear my snake gaiters. But since I started wearing them about 5 years ago (?) I haven't seen a snake. Until yesterday.
I walked right up to one laid out across the trail. Speckled light coming through the trees made it so I didn't see it until I was one meter away. And it just stayed there.
"Oh, must be a gopher snake, it's so passive". Hmmm, diamond pattern on the back, triangle head, and oh crap, rattles on the tail.