Been a long time since I’ve done an in-person talk, but I broke that ice today. It’s my “The web is good now” talk — revamped quite a bit and shrunk to fit into a 25-minute slot. Felt like riding a bike, really. I was able to summon up that old speaker energy and deliver […]
I remember seeing Adam Best’s tweet when it went viral: Boulder: AR-15Orlando: AR-15Parkland: AR-15Las Vegas: AR-15Aurora, CO: AR-15Sandy Hook: AR-15Waffle House: AR-15San Bernardino: AR-15Midland/Odessa: AR-15Poway synagogue: AR-15Sutherland Springs: AR-15Tree of Life Synagogue: AR-15 Sometimes they are “variations” on that exact model by different manufacturers, but they are assault rifles all the same (fact check). Add […]
Just a lovely day here in Bend, Oregon. It’s very warm out. That kind of deep-seeded warmth you can only feel in late summer, when the warmth radiates from every sidewalk square, telephone pole, and deck chair as much as it does from the sun. I’m 42 years old today. I only feel half that […]
It’s an 11″ pot Oak and Pistachio Short Scale Five String Banjo from Beansprout / Aaron Keim & family up in Hood River, Oregon. I drove up to Hood River to pick it up and see Aaron, his shop, and his family. It was so cool to see the woodworking shop of a real luthier. […]
Much of my daily brain power is dedicated to logic puzzles. Coding is effectively a logic puzzle and I do an awful lot of that. Many other aspects of a business are solving puzzles. Determining strategy. Trying to be effective at marketing. Measuring and charting progress. Running a business is just playing a game with […]
Fascinating that the CEO and co-founder of Patreon, Jack Conte, has a YouTube Channel (cheezy clickbait thumbnails and all) where he hangs out with his buddies, invites on super good musicians to talk about their work, and shoots the breeze about good music old and new. Well, I guess I can relate.
I just noticed for this first time while driving along a highway that Google Maps shows “Speed Traps”. Apparently user-reported (where? maybe in Waze?) data where police are using radar speed guns to measure your driving speed, and pull you over and ticket you if you’re speeding. I don’t hate it, it just seems a […]
Ben Ubois was on The Changlelog the other day. Ben is the creator of Feedbin, my preferred RSS service. I say “service” and not “reader” because while I sometimes use Feedbin itself as a reader (it’s good), I also bounce around to other readers for fun. The API they offer enables this, which is a […]
I think about The Seven Things You’re Not Supposed to Talk About fairly often. This American Life producer Sarah Koenig’s mother, Mrs. Matthiessen, has seven rules. I’ll put them here, as she says them (although she credits a “French friend” for the first five): Never talk about how you slept, nobody cares. Never talk about your […]
We decided to move to tankless water heating at our house. So rather than a huge drum water heater that I’ve had in every home of my life, we have these small wall-mounted rectangles. Part of our original impetus was that we’d have “instant” hot water. Which… turns out isn’t really a feature of tankless […]
I’ve noticed that a lot of my commit messages the last few months, especially on new branches, simply say scaffolding. I usually mean it in a very general sense. Not necessarily using some kind of framework or CLI scaffolding, like the famous rails generate scaffold or the generic Yeoman generator, but in a general sense. […]
It’s fascinating how the order of imports doesn’t matter in individual JavaScript files. If you start awaiting them and using their methods for things, then it might matter, but those top-level normal imports at the top of so many JavaScript files… the order is largely irrelevant. This: Behaves no differently than: I know we’re not […]