Simple Things
I like simple things. Simple recipes. Simple furniture. Simple architecture.
Aaron Moodie
Aaron Moodie is a Melbourne based product designer.
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Web Development for Fun and Enjoyment
A couple of weeks ago, I came to the realisation that building for the web is not only what I’m good at; it’s what brings me joy. This may seem like a strange realisation, given that I design software for a living. However, my roles over the last few years have, for the most part, moved away from hands-on development as part of my day-to-day work.
Lessons Learned Setting and Missing Goals
Two years ago I made a commitment to myself to post once a week. This is the third post in that time. I could list a number of reasons as to why I missed this goal, but the reality is it wasn’t a priority. Despite how much I love the idea of posting more often, it’s something I’ve not made time for. And that’s okay.
RSS Club
Hey there! It’s been a while. One of my last posts was a public commitment to post something every week. Almost twelve months later and this is only the second time I’ve published something. In days past I would have been disappointed in myself, but I guess I’ve grown in that regard (hopefully). Life gets in the way and other things take priority. Having said that, I need to keep looking after…
Resource vs Technology
When I was a kid my family upgraded our PC, installing a 100MB hard dive. We’d previously run everything off floppy discs, so to go to 100MB was mind blowing (DOOM ran so fast). That was nearly 30 years ago. Today the hard drive in my phone has over a thousand times more capacity and is a fraction of the size.
Setting a New Writing Goal
Last week marked one year of me keeping a journal. As I’ve mentioned previously, writing is not something that comes easily, but has always been something I’ve wanted to do more of. Being able to look back and see that in the last 12 months I’d written over 70,000 words came as both a surprise and a great sense of accomplishment.
Sharing Early And Often
I’ve been writing a lot. Yet despite 10 months of daily journal entries I’ve only shared one post. Part of this was my concern over spelling, but I can also attribute it to waiting for the ‘right’ thing to write about – overthinking what will make a good post and missing the value of messy thoughts and discovery.
On Spelling And Owning Your Weaknesses
Writing is something I’ve always wanted to be better at, but for some reason never able to form a routine around until recently. Half way through last year I started a journal with a goal of writing something every day. About 3 weeks into my new writing routine, I read Atomic Habits by James Clear which helped me build on the momentum I had already gained.
Getting back into writing
I recently read two things that have helped me get back into writing.
Using Ruby to Compare Two Lists of Email Addresses
I recently joined the committee of my son’s daycare and have been helping out on the communications side of things. One of my first tasks was to add the new parents to our mailing list and remove folks who had left. This seemed easy enough until I realised that I’d need to manually compare two lists of around 100 emails to figure out who was new and who had left … 😅