: 🛫 Preparing to depart SJC. I enjoyed a lovely week out in Cupertino, with an evening trip to Aptos.
: One Year Later My father, John Wyman Adams, passed away a year ago today. I knew the anniversary was approaching, …
: Finished reading: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 📚 Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day …
: 📺 Stick I found Stick to be a lot of fun. Sad to see the season finale. If the writers have more …
: Absolutely incredible finish to the Brickyard 400 today. Bubba Wallace with a sensational finish. He …
: Finished reading: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 📚 Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. Ashley …
: Finished reading: Lead Yourself First by Raymond M. Kethledge 📚 Community is a group of individuals …
: Finished reading: Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod 📚 When I was a kid, the whole world felt …
: 🔗 The rise of Whatever But I like programming. I like writing. I like making things and then being …
: Thoughts on "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts" Some individuals resist using LLMs in their work due to a desire for control, enjoyment in their …
: Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚 I enjoyed the concepts laid out in this book. …
: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of …
: In the utter darkness Of a moonless night, A powerful wind embraces The ancient cedar trees. …
: I saw a recommendation for Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. I decided to reserve a copy at my …
: Finished reading: A Series of Unfortunate Events #6: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket 📚
: Finished reading: A Series of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket 📚 How …
: Finished reading: Make Time by Jake Knapp 📚 I don’t think there was anything revolutionary here. I …
: Vitals and Sleep Tracking Drinking beer and eating a cheeseburger affected sleep quality, as indicated by elevated heart and …
: Finished reading: The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery 📚 I was taken aback at how spiritual and …
: Finished reading: A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket 📚
: My Last Hurrah In March, I made the difficult decision to hang up my pads after the end of this season. I have been …
: Went on a mountain biking ride for the global #CloseYourRings day at Calero County Park. It was a …
: Excerpts from Becoming Steve Jobs I recently went back and read Becoming Steve Jobs by journalists Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. I …
: Finished reading: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton 📚 Thoroughly enjoyed this. I wanted to read the book …
: 🎧 The RFK Jr. Problem | Revisionist History There are many reasons to be disappointed, concerned, or …
: Finished reading: Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender 📚 There were so many good anecdotes and …
: Take a look at this pheasant.
: The Bravery of Sharing Opinions on a Blog Sharing opinions in a podcast feels more casual and forgiving than in a blog, which can come across …
: Finished reading: A Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket 📚 Count Olaf …
: 🔗 Daring Fireball: Did TikTok Swing the Election to Trump? I worry that the liberal/left response …
: Poaching Eggs in a Microwave A quick and effective method for cooking poached eggs in a microwave using a ramekin, providing a …
: 📺 NeXTSTEP Release 3: A Demonstration with Steve Jobs I never had the opportunity to use a NeXT …
: Finished reading: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 📚 Ashley’s recommendation upon me revisiting …
: Looking at the weather forecast, tonight will be one of those nights where I question why I choose …
: My slow progression into farsightedness has become very annoying. I have been very fortunate to not …
: Happy Daredevil: Born Again premiere day, to all those who celebrate. Looking forward to watching …
: Grateful A journey of discovery with Grateful Dead and Dead & Company transformed a past disdain into …
: 2025 Pinewood Derby A series of stressful challenges in the lead up to, and during, my son’s Cub Scout Pack’s Pinewood …
: 🔗 My Open Letter to Elon Musk - Democracy Docket
: 🔗 Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency …
: Finished reading: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 📚
: 🔗 The LBJ the Nation Seldom Saw Any jackass can kick a barn down. But it takes a carpenter to build …
: Finished reading: If You Can’t Take the Heat by Geraldine DeRuiter 📚 Out of my wheelhouse, but …
: Finished reading: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket 📚
: I received a limited edition “Retro Record Player” Lego kit for Christmas. I started building the …
: 🔗 An Unreasonable Amount of Time - Allen Pike Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on …
: Apple paying respect to a real one.
: 🔗 Daring Fireball: OpenAI’s Board, Paraphrased: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of …
: Winter is my least favorite season. The lack of sun or being able to enjoy the sun is difficult. The …
: Finished reading: A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 📚 My …
: Finished reading: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron 📚 I believe I saw this recommendation on …
: 🔗 Complaints | Seth’s Blog This is a distinction with which I have struggled. I am prone to …
: LLM Exposure I had abstained from using AI assistance since the initial ChatGPT announcement. I understood, at a …
: 🔗 The confusing reality of AI friends Lengthy, but fascinating. I’m not sure how I feel about it …
: 📺 I used 1980s technology for a week Loved it. Clever challenge and amazingly creative execution.
: Basketball and Loss Louisville’s men’s basketball team has not been competitive over the last three or four seasons. I …
: 📺 Twin Peaks: All the pie and coffee Happy pie for breakfast season, to all those who celebrate.
: 🔗 Tesla owners turn against Musk: ‘I’m embarrassed driving this car around’ | Elon Musk | The …
: Housekeeping About a month or so ago, I realized that I had become stifled with my previous blog setup. I had …
: 🔗 I have some notes on Sam Altman’s note-taking advice - The Verge Finally, blue ink is unserious. …
: 🔗 The Tetrahedral Days of Christmas A fun exercise and a Peanuts comic strip. What’s not to love?
: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, …
: Birthdays and Death We visited my sister in Kentucky this weekend. I had been looking forward to this trip for a few …
: System 7 - Wikipedia This would be followed by version 1.1, which included LaserWriter driver …
: I tapped out at work after a half day. I am just not feeling well and I wanted to rest.
: Eleven Days, Post Election I have been tuning out on news and most social media, but I have been tuning into how I feel and how …
: 🔗 2004 was the first year of the future I adore the thought and care put into this retrospective of …
: 🔗 Election Day It’s tempting to imagine that the person who would feed a group of strangers every …
: It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and …
: 💿 Merrie Land Damon Albarn began work on this album in the aftermath of Britain’s EU …
: When I was younger, I typically counted seconds too fast; now that I am older, I typically count …
: 🔗 The Yale Review | Chris Ware on Richard Scarry and the Art of Children’s Literature …
: Early voted this morning. Voting for democrats in Tennessee feels a little like pissing into the …
: 🔗 Charles Schulz on Being a Good Citizen Loved stumbling across this on kottke.org today. I needed …
: 🔗 How I Experience the Web Today 🎯 Nailed it.
: Drinking coffee and monitoring the weather as we prepare to start our week long DisneyWorld …
: Twenty Years The passage of time is omnipresent in my digital life. Photos regularly surfaces memories of past …
: 📺 Susan Kare demonstrating the Macintosh Interface in 1984 So much respect for Susan Kare. The …
: 🔗 How will you save small midwestern towns without mass immigration? Interesting perspective. My …
: Finished reading: Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words 📚 I received a printed copy …
: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. Quote from The Story of …
: Finished reading: Treasure Island - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth by Robert Louis Stevenson 📚 And you …
: Third day in a row of spending the majority of my time in my bed. Two negative rapid antigen Covid …
: Localization of dates frequently trips me up. I find myself regularly searching for the following …
: After much consternation, I got back on my bicycle last month. Sixteen rides for over eighty-seven …
: 📺 The secret inside One Million Checkboxes An entertaining story about a group of ingenious kids.
: 📺 “In Search of Excellence” at Apple Computer in 1984 I love the idea of people working …
: 📺 Apple Computers 1995 Promotional Video “The Martinettis Bring Home a Computer” Loved watching this …
: 🔗 Ten weird NHL facts that bother me more than they should (News+) That was the year Boston took …
: 🔗 Shine On, Ride On, Bill Walton After Bill Walton passed away earlier this year, I read a few …
: Finished reading: Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 📚 Ashley’s suggestion. She’s a Vonnegut fan. I …
: Finished reading: The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy 📚 Loved the nostalgia. My iPod Mini was my first …
: Finished reading: California by Edan Lepucki 📚 Before moving into our current home, we hired an …
: Finished reading: The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald 📚 Why did I waste so much time …
: 🔗 The Last Kid in Ninth Grade Without an iPhone An ongoing conversation I’ve had with Ashley is when …
: 🔗 8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story Interesting article outlining those …
: 📘 Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs To me, Apple exists in the spirit of the people that work …
: 🔗 Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise I love this post by Cabel Sasser about The Firehouse …
: 🔗 John Graham-Cumming’s blog: The original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file from …
: Going back in time. Finished reading: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 📚
: Everything old is new Again Max’s school was out of session and he was hanging out in my office when I started repairs on …
: iPod of Theseus I recently had the urge to bring out my iPod Mini and take it with me to the coffee shop. This was …
: 🔗 The 10 Rules of Being Human “There” is no better than “here”. When your “there” has become a …
: Finished reading: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 📚I picked this up before my recent trip …
: Temperatures over 90°F paired with unhealthy air quality makes for a rough day in Nashville.
: 📺 I Created Clippy Stumbled across this blast from the past via Kottke. I definitely carry a soft …
: 🔗 Who killed Google Reader? Google Reader may be the only Google product that I actually miss. I …
: Our flower garden produced a unique bloom on our Gerbera Daisies. I feel like there is a name for …
: Finished Ted Lasso last night. I hate to see it end, but I am quite content with how it wrapped up. …
: I watched Whisper of the Heart tonight with the family. I loved it. I can’t get over how much I have …
: I am resting after spending a few hours in my backyard, attempting to clean up our flower bed. The …
: I have tried to cut back on the amount of goods I purchase on Amazon. When I do purchase something, …
: After a long hiatus, I resumed play of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild last night. I was on …
: When you realize that you’re an adult and can just go buy cake anytime you want.
: I enjoyed Tetris on Apple TV+. I know the story is embellished for entertainment, but it’s a fun …
: Monterey Bay is stunning as always
: Bird of Paradise at the Hayes Mansion in San Jose
: 🔗 Daring Fireball: U.S. Treasury: All Silicon Valley Bank Depositors Will Have Access to All of …
: It’s difficult to plan any short Spring Break vacations. We had scheduled a trip to California for …
: I understand that there isn’t an avenue for enforcement, but if you park an oversized vehicle in a …
: 🔗 Daring Fireball: Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff I highly doubt that anyone who reads …
: Late to the party, but just finished season two of Ted Lasso. I like how this season addressed the …
: Clown fish at the Tennessee Aquarium
: Dolly Levi, You are a Damned Exasperating Woman Why Horace Vandergelder. That is the nicest thing you have ever said to me. Ha ha. A few months …
: 🎙️ Song Exploder - Episode 28: The Long Winters - The Commander Thinks Aloud I’ve listened to …
: 🔗 Nashville Mayor John Cooper announces he won’t seek second term I am not sure how I feel about …
: I have used toddgrooms.com as my personal blog since I obtained the domain in college. My blog has …
: Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 Wow! I added this book to my list …
: Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
: Finished reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚 Thoroughly enjoyed this read. Enjoyed The Martian so much, …
: Currently reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚
: After hearing Casey discuss his usage of Day One for journaling on ATP, I decided to download it and …
: I have had a wonderful Christmas Day with my family. I received a few thoughtful gifts. I thoroughly …
: Finished reading: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs 📚
: Day eight of AoC2022 is in the books. This one took me a while, but I got to a decent solution. I am …
: Just wrapped up day seven of AoC2022. This one took me awhile, but was also quite fun. Building up …
: Day six of AoC2022 was definitely a bit easier than day five. I felt like my solution was a bit lazy …
: Day five of AoC2022 took me a bit longer than expected. The most difficult part was coming up with a …
: Completed day four’s puzzle on AoC2022. Started experimenting with writing actually classes in …
: Completed day three’s puzzle on AoC2022. I’m usually working on the puzzle towards the …
: Started Advent of Code last night. I usually complete the first few days worth of puzzles before …
: 🔗 Beautiful animation of the lifecycle of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. I found this relaxing, mesmerizing, …
: While cutting a piece of pumpkin pie for my two year old daughter’s breakfast: “No! Don’t cut it!” …
: It has been a long, but lovely Thanksgiving. We had friends over for a “Friendsgiving”, complete …
: Birdhouse Twitter seems to be in trouble. I have to ask myself, “Why do you care?” I haven’t been an active …
: 🔗 The Right-Wing Mothers Fueling the School-Board Wars Difficult to read at times. It’s …
: At this rate, he would run out of fuel before completing the race. His crew chief instructed him to …
: He searched the room, but his efforts were fruitless. His suspicion on the whereabouts of the file …
: As she entered the door, she was relieved by the message on display. Her flight was on time. The …
: Truly interesting times when a head of lettuce outlasts a British Prime Minister. It still amuses me …
: There was a pit in his stomach. He had been frantically searching for it, but now he was certain …
: The consensus between me and some of my closest friends is that our democracy is doomed. The …
: The deadline is quickly approaching. Without her insight into the inner workings of the system, they …
: The cave was dark and empty. “Hello,” called the man. A response of, “Hello,” was returned a second …
: He could finally breathe easy. The letter he had been waiting for had arrived. He was exempt from …
: I have a deep admiration for those who are writing more long form micro.blog November entries. The …
: When I was sixteen, I remember the joy of obtaining my driver’s license. I was umpiring little …
: ⌨️ Useful alias for Fish Shell users who need to repeat the last command as sudo. Doh!
: Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday. When I was younger, the Thanksgiving feast was the …
: 🔗 RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language I was unaware of this very important figure …
: Our Halloween tradition includes building our Trader Joe’s Haunted Halloween cookie house. I love …
: A sneak peak of Spaceship Earth
: One of the unfortunate experiences of preferring git CLI: entering git restore . instead of git …
: 🎧 Cory Doctorow on TWiT with an eye opening view on the respect we show to others and other things.
: 🔗 We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business – Eye on Design when you’re …
: Leave it to @gruber to hit us with the term “stadium” in his iPhones 14 review. This geometry term …
: Justin Herbert and the Chargers are wildly entertaining to watch. I don’t watch them often, but it …
: Currently reading: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs 📚
: Stuff We are currently having improvements made on our home. The drywall has needed repairs since we moved …
: Finished reading: Reborn in the USA by Roger Bennett 📚
: Separation Failures Over the last eight months or so, I’ve had difficulty separating work from my personal life. I have …
: Fall is finally here in Nashville
: Mammoth Cave, Frozen Niagara
: Macintosh Classic Restoration: Chapter One A few years back, a coworker kept a Macintosh Classic on his desk as an adornment. I was unfamiliar …
: One Year We recently celebrated Adelaide’s first birthday. It is simultaneously difficult to believe …
: Opening up a Macintosh Classic for restoration.
: Christmas Project: Final Chapter A little late with the finished product, but I was able to finish my Christmas project before …
: Resolutions I typically do not set resolutions for myself. I believe that most resolutions are destined to fail. …
: Christmas Project: Part 3 After finishing the light sequence, I modified the breadboard to wire an LED for each channel. Then …
: Christmas Project: Part 2 The next step for my Christmas project was to setup a breadboard with LEDs and to light those LEDs …
: Christmas Project: Part 1 We have friends who put out a huge Christmas light display every year. The lights are connected to a …
: Rainy day walk near Kentucky Lake.
: Fading Childhood Ashley was helping Max cast while fishing this weekend. As she went to cast, Max leaned forward. …
: I found this friend while cleaning up brush in the backyard. Closest look I’ve gotten in real life. …
: The Winter Classic I’ve been meaning to write this post since January. However, with Adelaide’s birth, followed by the …
: Sunflower in the neighborhood.
: Video Games in Quarantine We have tried to avoid allowing Max to use tablets, computers, or video games. Ashley and I were in …
: Backyard Camping Max has been asking to go camping for awhile now. We waited a few weeks for good weather. This …
: 🔉 BBC: 13 Minutes to the Moon I recently discovered a new podcast called 13 Minutes to the Moon. The …
: Coping with Coronavirus Part 3 We have been ordering takeout and having meals delivered from local restaurants. We are trying to …
: Coping with Coronavirus Part 2 I have been a remote employee for one and a half years. I miss working in an office, but I have …
: Coping with Coronavirus The last week has been a strange experience. Last week, we received the call late Wednesday evening: …
: Adelaide In January, Ashley and I welcomed Adelaide into the world. The last few weeks have been quite …
: Showers at 4 AM. Such is life when you are on baby watch. After helping Ashley time her …
: I just finished painting baby #2’s bedroom. I considered hiring painters to do it. However, I felt …
: It’s always fun to wake up to fraudulent charge alert emails. Luckily it was just one attempt …
: 2019 Kentucky Gubernatorial Race I am unhealthily obsessed with my home state’s politics and state-wide races. I have not lived …
: No one prepared me for how much of adult hood is either looking at burned out light bulbs or …
: ⚾️ TIL the Houston Astros were originally the Houston Colt .45s. 🤯
: ⚾️ Watching the Astros/Nationals in game three of the World Series and I just had the realization …
: Goodbye Instagram Since 2016, I have almost entirely checked out of social media. I made my Twitter account private …
: Expedition: Gatlinburg Back in August, Ashley and I decided to get a new car. Our Land Rover had been in the shop quite …
: I just found out what the Q stands for in LGBTQ+. I’m proud of my Alma mater for investing in …
: 🔗 Eddie Money, ‘Two Tickets to Paradise’ Singer, Is Dead at 70 I will not pretend that I …
: One of the things I’m continually disappointed with are the prevalence of violent or scary …
: 10 Years Ten years ago, during our honeymoon in Hawaii, I told Ashley that we would come back to the island …
: Tips I had a first while staying in a hotel on a recent trip. I usually try to leave a tip for the …
: Research After moving back to Nashville, Ashley and I decided to buy adult furnishings for our new home. We …
: Recently reflecting on a very important, often overlooked, task: research.
: Perspective We’re on our second big vacation of the year. In February, we took our second trip to Disney …
: Jotting down some thoughts on the end of my recent lease: …
: Ode to the Cadillac ATS The end of a lease After buying a house in Aptos, Ashley and I realized we needed to get a second …
: I get to do one of my favorite things today down in San Jose: talk to people. Looking forward to …
: One Year Later It was Memorial Day weekend 2018 when our house shopping in Nashville began in earnest. Ashley and I …
: Getting out of Your Comfort Zone One of the most difficult transitions for me is to know when it is time to get out of your comfort …
: One of the mild annoyances of being out on the west coast for trips: missing out on live sports that …
: 🔗 Forget Self-Driving Cars. Bring Back the Stick Shift. A car with a stick shift and clutch pedal …
: Cross Country For which there are outcomes that you are not prepared After three years in California, we moved …
: Laminate Flooring Note: this post originally appeared on one of my previous incarnations of my blog. I have been …
: Surly Long Haul Trucker I bought a bicycle I have not owned a bicycle since my first year in middle school. Sure, I have …
: ¡Vamos México! Landon Donovan is seemingly catching shit for “rooting” for Mexico. I feel Donovan has …
: And now Psych? What!? You know that’s right.
: When you’re sick and you feel like death, but there is a Monk marathon on TV: it’s all going to be …
: Shingles update: a week later and I’m still quite itchy. The worst of it seems to be over. I hope …
: If you need me, I’ll be taking a nice apple cinnamon oatmeal bath. 👌🏻
: Shingles The symptoms started Monday. They were hard to quantify, but the gist was a tingling, burning …
: 🔗 U.M.B.C. Makes History With Upset of No. 1 Virginia Since 1985, No. 1 seeds had advanced at least …
: 🔗 Nashville Mayor Megan Barry resigns from office as part of guilty plea to felony theft charge …
: Declutter Ashley and I have been slowly going through our things, attempting to purge things we no longer need …
: Exhilaration While at work the other day, I needed to make a quick trip to the post office. I was without a car …
: Disney Planning Ashley and I have been planning Max’s first trip to Disney World. And by “Ashley and I …
: I think someone forgot to tell Nick Foles that he wasn’t supposed to be as good as Carson Wentz.
: Me, at the end of my summary to Max on why we have Martin Luther King Jr day off from work and …
: Last week, Ashley found the back of the Land Rover had been egged. My guess is that it was probably …
: Christmas 2017 Max received his very own pair of ice skates for Christmas. He had been taking lessons, a parent and …
: At the suggestion of my wife, I started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I’m about a third …
: What is a fleur-de-lis? 🔗 Fleur-de-lis While attending school in Louisville, I observed many fleurs-dis-lis (⚜️) throughout …
: 🎧 I can feel this narcolepsy slide…
: 🔗 Extract from Plato’s Republic: On That Which is Correct Politically Smart and funny.
: I think a future hobby I might get into will be posting random pictures of Macho Man Randy Savage on …
: For silly reasons, I moved this site to be a Github Pages site. At first, I thought I would enjoy …
: 🔗 Horsepower I spend approximately 1.5 hours on a bus most workdays. I recently had an idea of …
: The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar …
: And you may ask yourself, Well… How did I get here?
: via @davewiner. I love this image.
: 🔗 The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe ‘‘I would not leave my …
: Testing a microblog post workflow. 🚀
: My son’s daycare has an Anakin Skywalker figurine missing his right hand. ✋🏻
: Floating point equality is hard when you don’t think about it.
: You Know You're not Really Peter Pan, Don't You? This is only a dream. When you wake up, you’ll just be Peter Banning - a cold, selfish man …
: 🔗 The long arrow operator in C++ I’ve always enjoyed a step into the absurd. This long arrow …
: 🔗 Replacing My Kid’s College Fund with a “Start Something” Fund I understand wanting to provide …
: 🔗 NBA Jam Oral History I loved playing NBA Jam. I remember getting royally pissed at the …
: Friday nights are for movies and pizza. 🍕
: Father's Day I had the good fortune of watching Cars 3 today with the reason I’m able to celebrate …
: I’m now attempting to alter the Python script to prefix the posts with the proper yaml metadata. 🐍
: This is a test! Just a trial balloon. 🎈
: I’m kind of infatuated with micro.blog. The idea of “micro” blogging is right up …
: That's a Hell of an Old Hound Dog You Got There What’s he go by? On January 18th, 2017, I made one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever …
: 🔗 How I’d Teach Computer Science I think this is an interesting idea, but it’s a bit …
: How'd That Get in There? A few weeks ago, Ashley and I were watching John Oliver’s piece on the state of Puerto …
: Prince Rogers Nelson I was generally aware of Prince and some of his music in high school. It wasn’t something that …
: Relocated I recently relocated for a job to the Bay Area. I’m not going to mention the name of the …
: Broke Down Monday was one of the most difficult days of my life. Monday was our pack and load date with our …
: Email Addresses I recently read Evan Ratliff’s post, My wife found my email in the Ashley Madison database. I …
: Relying On Experience I’ve recently been pushing for use of pull requests in our workflow at LunarLincoln. I believe …
: Testing An Ios Jekyll Publishing Workflow With Editorial After seeing An iPad-Only Workflow for Creating Jekyll Posts , I decided to try my own hand at it. I …
: 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs In preparation for the start of the Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight (that’s hockey for you non …
: Make My Day Lonely Planet recently had another featured app in the iOS App Store: Make My Day. This app is near …
: Saying Goodbye I have mixed feelings today. I am excited because I am picking up a new (used, but new to me) …
: Pressure is a Choice While listening to Mark Maron’s interview with the Director Richard Linklater on his WTF …
: 🔗 Increase Defect Detection with Our Code Review Checklist An interesting piece from Fog Creek …
: Leaving I have recently accepted a wonderful opportunity to work at LunarLincoln and I will be leaving my …
: Growing Pains I need to stop becoming so frustrated. I need to stop missing moments.
: Beginners I believed that this negative behavior stemmed from arrogance, ignorance, and callousness. After …
: Better Git/Vim Commit Messages I recently decided that my Git CLI experience would be greatly approved with the aid of spellcheck. …
: Android vs. iPhone Cage Match! I have been asked to participate in a panel. The panel will be a debate/discussion between mobile …
: Ten Years My ten year high school reunion is scheduled for this Saturday. I am, begrudgingly, attending. Why …
: Radar Love Earlier this year, there was a bit of a kerfuffle regarding filing bugs for Apple’s APIs and …
: Speed Kills America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936 Yesterday was kind …
: Man, I Could Really Go for a Starbucks, Y'know? I don’t really think we have time for a handjob, Joe. The older I get, the more sure I become …
: Defective Mood As I age, I am perturbed that my mood is directly tied to what I feel that I am either accomplishing …
: My Environment Setup I recently purchased a new 13" MacBook Air (which is a truly wonderful machine). Before I …
: Unintuitive Swift In case you have been living under a rock, Apple announced a new language at this year’s WWDC: …
: He has his Reasons Oh, I know that, but you can’t raise boys to be scared of life. You gotta brew some …
: True Love is Hard to Find Sometimes you think you have true love and then you catch the early flight home from San Diego and a …
: Time Machine Teddy told me that in greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in …
: Introducing CoreDataMate A few years ago, I started development on a project that required long term persistence. Up until …
: O Me, O Life? Answer: That you are here — that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on and you …
: Wendy, Let me Explain Something to You Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you’re breaking my concentration. You’re …
: You Wanna Hurt Me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I’m an easy target. In the movie Planes, …
: Jesus, Man, Can you Change the Station? I’ve had a… had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man. Don’t you …
: I'm Kind of a Big Deal I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. …