Dinosaurs Eat Everybody

Coding, as a skill, used to be truly amazing.

The internet is more fun when people build and own their own things.

This blog is now using my home-grown blogging library, Postwave!

I recently moved all my small project sites over to a self-hosted solution using Coolify.

I probably like writing blog engines more than blog posts.

Just what the world needs, another software engineer pontificating about AI!

My most millennial trait is that big purchases must happen in a big laptop screen.

This year I've been thinking more about making computers/the internet fun again.

Nobody asked for it, but it got made.

After doing a rotation on GitHub's "Ruby Architecture" team a few years ago and learning more about how programming languages really work (and getting a few commits into the Ruby language myself) I've been trying to learn more about building languages.

I like making pizza.

There's been a lot of people noticing that the internet isn't as fun as it used to be.

This all started with my irrational desire to build yet another blogging engine.

I always forget to move my car on street cleaning day.

So I added a Now page to this site.

tldr: I wrote and recorded a noisy, bass driven solo record.

Many good projects come from scratching your own itch.

At the end of October I put out a 3 song record, Let 'er RIP!

Last May I got a txt out of the blue from Dane, a good buddy, great drummer, and former bandmate: "Ok dude.

If one listens to enough Ruby related blogs and talks and podcasts they are likely to run in to Crystal.

So once again I participated in Inktober this year, trying to do a drawing every day of October based on the provided prompts.

So, if you haven't heard yet, Eileen and I are having a kid!

On May 25th of last year I started keeping track of my focused practice time for a few things I wanted to get better at.

I built something!

So this year I participated in Inktober, which is basically a month long event where artist attempt to produce an inked drawing every day in October.

One of the first posts I wrote on the new version of this blog was about my genetic algorithm Ruby gem, Darwinning.

Last weekend was my first wedding anniversary.

So back when I was working at Berkeley (and had more free time) I decided to formalize the tracking of some of my skill improvements.

Eileen was out of town this weekend so, as I typically do in these situations, I took advantage of the time do some recording.

I spend the vast majority of programming time working with Ruby these days.

So last month I found out that Dan "Soupy" Campbell from The Wonder Years put out a solo record under the name Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties.

So I posted my first Thing A Week post almost exactly 1 year ago today.

This last week I built something cool that was actually in the spirit of the Thing a Week project!

Unfortunately I've broken my "Thing a Week" streak due to some busy weeks where I just didn't have time to make much of anything.

Last week was a pretty busy week so I didn't get too many "projects" done outside of some RecLaboratory work and even most of that was done in between sessions at the Golden Gate Ruby Conference.

Hey look!

This week I'll take a break from talking about RecLaboratory stuff and talk about art.

This week my major work was around building an in-browser audio recording system.

Along with some other RecLab stuff (which is coming along nicely), this week I finally tackled a little project that I've been thinking about for a while.

So as of last week I have the RecLab Rails site up and running on Heroku and the audio processing API, Roctopus, up and running on my own server.

So, you may have noticed that I've missed the past few Thing a Week weeks.

So most of this week I was traveling so I wasn't able to get very much work done on any projects.

Once again, another busy week divided between wedding stuff and side projects.

Another 7 days, another busy week.

As seems to be the trend lately, last week was very busy.

This was another busy week but I manged to get some solid work done on RecLaboratory stuff.

This weekend Eileen was out of the house for her bachelorette party so I tried to knock out a few outstanding wedding related projects (apparently that is coming up pretty quickly).

This was a pretty busy week.

This seems like a bit of a cop out but when I thought back to what took up most of my time last week it turns out, it was putting together and mailing out wedding invitations.

This week I ended up getting quite a bit of RecLab work done, especially for a shortened week.