Coding and other things
Around the year 2000, I got a job at a startup. This was during the first dot-com boom, and i was 27, and was getting paid $90 an hour to work at a startup. The problem was that I lived in San Francisco, but the job was in Santa Clara, which was about an hour commute via 101 (on a good day with not-terrible traffic)
I have these projects I keep returning to. They don’t earn anything, and no one’s waiting for me to finish them. I drop them for years at a time. I don’t think of them as goals. They just feel like part of who I am.
I am no longer on Twitter
A list of must haves for any todo app
I have had this hobby over the past few years of learning 3D Modeling and Design. Originally, a lot of my efforts were geared towards making a game in Unity. I quickly realized that a lot of the work in game development revolved around asset creation. So, I got distracted from the idea of making a game and instead wanted to design assets.
I have been working on a game for fun in Unity. It is inspired by the movement of “watching plants grow”. I can’t explain why I enjoy watching plants grow, but it is mesmerizing to me. I’d like to build a simulation that lets you create your own plants and watch them grow, and share them.
On a forum that I participate in, someone recommended Dark Sky as an alternative to the iOS weather App. It cost $3.99, and I was wondering why I would pay for something that I get for free with the iOS Weather app.
I swear by Apollo the Logical, by Athena the Wise, by Harmonia, by Eris, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture. To hold my PM in this art equal to my own developers; to make my Ops Team partner in my livelihood; when they are in need of status updates, I will share mine with them; to…
I’ve had Google Analytics running on my personal website for a long time. I’ve recently gone through the process of converting my site to use TLS (eg, HTTPS). As part of that process, I’ve had to think about what was on my site, and why.
I’ve been noticing a trend on several sites using Google Analytics. There seems to be a lot of traffic coming from Boardman, Oregon.