My perpetually changing, personal waste of cyberspace.
Hi, I'm Cory LaViska — a principal software engineer, business owner, and Army veteran living in Florida. This is my personal corner of the web.
Here you'll find thoughts, poems, half-baked opinions, and the occasional thing that's actually useful. I write open source software for a living, drink an irresponsible amount of tea, and spend my spare time exploring the wilderness. I overshare at times. You've been warned.
Looking for my serious side? I build software and design things over at A Beautiful Site. Everything else lives here.
How are we feeling?
Twenty-some years of posts, sorted by emotion.
- laughs 11 posts Static electricity (via cat), the Global Object Model, and a dancing taco.
- hates 11 posts Comic Sans, voicemails, stupid laws, and people who deserve a good smack with a fish.
- loves 9 posts Rum, sweet tea, Chili con Awesome™, and a cake recipe smuggled off a cruise ship.
- cries 5 posts The ones I wrote with the lights off and the same song on repeat.
Lately
Higgs Field
I think many of us have a special place like Higgs Field. Going back so many years later, it's just so different. It's bittersweet.
Taco Dance
The cruise dance is awesome, but bananas aren't the only things with moves. Behold, a dancing taco.
Read everything I've written or browse by tag.
Paper fortune tellers are cool again
I said so back in 2007 and I stand by it.
Pick a color.
Every tear leads to a smile.
Life is an opportunity, not a punishment.
Talking to people doesn't work. Try talking with them.
When things really start to suck, smile. Maybe even laugh a bit. Seriously. It works.
It's hard to keep your balance when you stand corrected.
— Things I say, 2012
Your desire to learn should always be greater than your desire to be correct.
— Things I say, 2012
Turn, pinch and peel.
— The right way to peel a banana, 2010
one lonely ramen
sitting inside the drawer
eat me you bastard
— Ramen haiku, 2007
All I know is that something great is on the horizon.
— Bring on the rain, 2007
This isn't rogue, this is renaissance.
— On web developers, 2012
Opportunity knocked
And you answered the door
It didn't work out
But there will be plenty more
— Too Fast, 2012
The trees — they can't be that far away.
— The field, 2017
A good fwap never hurt anyone…but it would be funny as hell.
Hey, it's the small things that count.
— Kudos for Hershey's syrup, 2006
By the numbers
- 2002 the year I started this thing
- 101 posts and counting
- 26 poems, most of them past bedtime
- 0 successful attempts at quitting sleep
- 2 cats interrogated, neither charged
- 1 hurricane poem that went viral without credit
- 6 laundry baskets, non-returnable
- 1 dancing taco. Type “taco” to summon a taco.
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