Joe Landman

OG High Performance Computing (HPC) veteran. Non-practicing physicist, Ph.D in condensed matter theory. Closet mathematician, aspiring astrophotographer. Hubby, Father, Son, Uncle. Human.

Risks and opportunity costs

02 Sep 2023 5 min read

The context of this post is about an important decision, at which company I am going to work, that I am finalizing now. Every single decision you make between such scenarios carries a

Yarhzeit

12 Aug 2023 2 min read

It's been a year since he crossed the rainbow bridge. I say good morning to his ashes every day. It's still hard. According to tradition, at the end of

I have submitted, after editing/formatting/reviewing, my first SciFi short story for consideration of publication. The next (about) 180 days of waiting for the response, be it negative (19/20 odds) or

Tooling/stack matters

19 Jul 2023 4 min read

As I continue to explore the landscape of options for my next job, I've been having conversations with many people about their needs/wants/think-they-need issues. What is curious to me

Technical debt

13 Jul 2023 7 min read

Waaaay back in graduate school towards the end of my research first days, my father sent me a copy of "The Unix Haters Handbook". It was a mostly humorous compilation of