Mike walks with camera off | Ramblin' & Amblin' | Oct 26, 2026
Ramblin' & Amblin' Field Notes with Mike Hall (Staff Software Engineer)
Recorded on the move: engineering observations, systems architecture, and software craftsmanship reflections.
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Spoken Overview:
"We're going to be the last video for today, but I'm down to 60% battery life and I hope you guys like this better. I think I like this better because when I'm walking I'm having to hold it up to my face. I don't have one of those..."
Recorded: October 26, 2026
The Interviewer
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
We're going to be the last video for today, but I'm down to
60% battery life and I hope you guys like this better. I
think I like this better because when I'm walking I'm
having to hold it up to my face. I don't have one of those
extension bars, selfie sticks, and I don't really like
being on the camera that much anyway. I think this is a lot better.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
This is more fun. You can see
what I'm kind of looking at too. I feel this is more like
we're having a walk together in a nature park and I'm dr
oning on and on. You're tolerating it.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
I was out here the
other day talking about AI and competence. Barbed
competence. Oh man, but God bless, I've been angry lately. This whole
mess, my whole stupid life.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
I have an angry injustice sentence off the short circuiting
, I should say, and maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong, but
it's not effective, but I feel like walking and talking
here, showing the path in front of me as I'm proceeding. It's a lot more fun than trying to look at my face wobbly
wobbly in the camera. I'm not picking that up either. You know.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
So I deleted a bunch of videos. They're not going to go up
from tomorrow, yesterday, I mean, because I was so angry
and I was naming names with who I'm angry with. And why exactly. My injustice meter was, you know, my Spide
y Spencers were going wild.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
And my inner Judge John was like, I am the law. This is,
you know, just me being super rigid. Not that I'm unjustified or wrong or anything like that,
but it wasn't going to help anything. And it would just make a headache for me.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
Wouldn't solve
any problems. But because I did record it, I did spend a good deal of
time, a good amount of time getting it off my chest. And I knew that I had the choice there to proceed or to not
. But I said what I had to say.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
I recorded it. And then lots of F-bombs because I was so frustrated. But this is much better. I can't go back and change the past.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
I can't fix the things that I broke. I can't fix the things that I was trying to fix. I can't change anything. But I can decide to turn the camera around and see how that
works out.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
There's chipmunks. I'm always a little bit too slow to
catch them for you. There's so much life out here. And I'd rather turn the camera around and just talk and
walk.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
Rambling and ambling. Then, uh, rant. I am going to get to a point where I do have a structure
for these. I'm settling down.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
My nervous system is, you know, in waves
. But, um, it comes in waves. Sometimes I start stories from in the middle. And I work my way out both ways from there.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
Sometimes I go find a different middle and I start from
there. Working on that. Or maybe that's just part of the rambling. But, uh, batteries are almost dead.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
I probably have more to say. But maybe I do need this moment to shut up and just walk
and think. Not just rambling while I'm ambling. Oh, he said the thing.
Mike Hall
Host, Ramblin' & Amblin'
▶ Speaking
All right, thanks. Bye.