https://aura.ski Orlando Rodriguez — software engineer and scientist. Writing, projects, and things worth sharing. en-US Wed, 27 May 2026 13:52:55 GMT https://aura.ski/blog/fountain-pens https://aura.ski/blog/fountain-pens Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I got into fountain pens, what I've learned using them daily, and why I keep coming back to them. fountain-pens writing analog ongoing https://aura.ski/blog/getting-things-done https://aura.ski/blog/getting-things-done Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A review of David Allen's Getting Things Done and a walkthrough of how I've adapted the system into my own productivity philosophy. productivity gtd book-review tutorial ongoing https://aura.ski/blog/the-book-of-asher https://aura.ski/blog/the-book-of-asher Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A record of a man who mistook the adversary's favor for God's, and the false testimony built upon it. A complement to the Book of Job. fiction scripture spiritual ongoing https://aura.ski/blog/mt-lemmon https://aura.ski/blog/mt-lemmon Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two days on Mt. Lemmon — up on the 22nd, back on the 23rd. travel arizona tucson outdoors https://aura.ski/blog/yellow-basmati-rice https://aura.ski/blog/yellow-basmati-rice Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A simple, fragrant yellow basmati rice made in a rice cooker with chicken broth and warm spices. recipe rice cooking https://aura.ski/blog/first-post https://aura.ski/blog/first-post Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Demonstrating sidenotes, collapsible sections, and typographic details. typography design web meta https://aura.ski/blog/strong-coding-opinions https://aura.ski/blog/strong-coding-opinions Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A collection of opinions that I've developed during my career as a Software Engineer software-engineering opinions best-practices meta https://aura.ski/blog/tucson-festival-of-books https://aura.ski/blog/tucson-festival-of-books Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT A day at the largest book festival in the American Southwest. books tucson events https://aura.ski/blog/hacking https://aura.ski/blog/hacking Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT A compiled list of tools and resources for cryptography, steganography, and password cracking — assembled during the 2020 NCL season with the U of A Cybercats. cybersecurity ctf cryptography steganography tools hacking https://aura.ski/blog/cicada https://aura.ski/blog/cicada Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT Walking through the first part of the 2012 Cicada 3301 puzzle — Caesar ciphers, steganography, Mayan numerals, book ciphers, and a phone number that no longer works. cicada-3301 cryptography puzzle steganography mystery ctf https://aura.ski/blog/vim-latex https://aura.ski/blog/vim-latex Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT Vim and LaTeX are probably the most useful word-processing tools I've ever used — with notes on Knuth, BibTeX, regular expressions, and the grammar of Vim commands. vim latex productivity tools writing