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Before the session. Today I took off on a wave and after it broke I ended up underneath it for 21 seconds. I think it’s accurate to say that I was “held down” for 15 seconds of that time. I did not like that. There’s a sign in the window...
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That right there is, to me, the very best reason to get back out there tomorrow! Glad you’re okay friend.
Just made banana bread ama
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Tonight's waffle stack: 72 waffles!
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The plural of "fish" is "fish" if they are all of the same species, and "fishes" if they're different species. So I propose that we use "die" for a single die (1d6), "dice" for a collection of more than one die of the same type (4d6, for...
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Yesterday evening I wondered how long this blog had been around. So I decided to look it up on the wayback machine. I was not ready to realize that yesterday was my blogs BIRTHDAY 🎉 Wow. It's been 12 years! Crazy how fast time has flown and how much of my life has changed since then. I'm now no longer: Working at Boostability. Married. Mormon. However, a lot is the same! I'm still a dad. I'm still a software engineer (and I've grown in my career a lot!). And a lot is actually better....
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One of the areas of the Artemis codebase that I update the most is the logic that relates to the list of posts published by authors to which a user is subscribed. Because Artemis works with so many different formats of information – web ...
Read moreThis is part of what I’ve loved about building my own tools! Adding in debug modes and error logs surfaced in app is so nice.
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Animation of a white cat bopping its head as if jamming to music
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This makes me wonder how long I've owned mine!
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Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, runs as a systemd process. When I want to update the software, I deploy the new code to the server and then restart the systemd process. This has a significant downside: while the Artemis process ...
Read moreBlue/Green deploys are part of why I use Digital Ocean App platform. It’s definitely more expensive but I love that it safely deploys to prod when I merge to main.
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A few years ago, a couple students at the University of Washington asked me to come to their campus for a visit. They gave me a demo of an early prototype they’d been working on — a haptic feedback device that could allow someone who is ...
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