Honor. Valor. Writor.
Ophelia (Concert Version) - The Band (The Last Waltz) Baby, Let Me Follow You Down - Bob Dylan (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4: Live 1966 - The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert) I’ll Keep It With Mine (Take 1, Piano Demo) - Bob Dylan (The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12) F**k and Run - Liz Phair (Exile in Guyville) I’m So Tired - Fugazi (Instrument) Box of Rain - Grateful Dead (American…
What is BLIS? You can read about it here.
It’s not fun to be on the computer. They changed everything about it. It used to be so cool. Connor O’Malley, “ Endorphin Port “ Connor O’Malley’s “Endorphin Port” video is completely unhinged and still makes so much sense. We do need a new place, right? The places we have don’t feel good anymore. The body is bad , the body’s not good! It used to be so cool This past weekend, I had some time to…
What does productive look like in your workplace? There has been a lot of metaphorical ink spilled over how to make software engineers (and knowledge workers more generally) “productive.” In the past ~three years or so the discussion has reached a fever pitch, first with the shift towards (and back away from) remote work, and then the introduction of AI tools. Middle management all around the…
When I joined GitHub in 2021, they were on the cusp of launching GitHub Codespaces. Codespaces is one part cloud IDE, one part VM; the key selling point is that you can go to any Codespaces-enabled repo in your browser, click “New Codespace,” and you’ll be launched into an environment where you can write, test, and commit code, without a lot of setup. This is powered primarily by Visual Studio…
Something to listen to while you read… 2024’s Playlist Forever in Sunset - Ezra Furman ( All of Us Flames ) Tripe Face Boogie (Live) - Little Feat ( Waiting for Columbus (Deluxe Edition) ) Moon - The Lemon Twigs ( Songs for the General Public ) Roundabout (Live) - Yes ( Yessongs (Live) ) Future Me Hates Me - The Beths ( Future Me Hates Me ) Expert In a Dying Field - The Beths ( Expert In a Dying…
On July 8th, 2018, I made the first commit to Geneac. From the beginning, a conscious design decision was made to use “off-the-shelf” components for the project, such as using the Administrate gem as the editor interface. I also optimized for deploying to Heroku, which was free and came with Postgres and Redis. Frickin’ sweet! Heroku also encouraged good web app development patterns that shaped…
What’s this? I’m trying to blog once a day for 50 days! Inspired by Forking Mad and Lou Plummer.
What’s this? I’m trying to blog once a day for 50 days! Inspired by Forking Mad and Lou Plummer.
What’s this? I’m trying to blog once a day for 50 days! Inspired by Forking Mad and Lou Plummer.