On the Web on joe blubaugh

I live in Singapore, and I’ve spent 6 years I’ve been here working remotely for companies where most employees aren’t located in Asia.

Here are some slop “signs” that I find triggering: Quietly Load-bearing Not one.

I recently had a few different scans of my body and brain done.

My AI coding setup has been evolving the last few months.

Everyone is putting AI in their browsers now.

All of the exciting AI coding is happening in terminals.

A few days ago my co-worker Bob turned me on to Beads.

The end of podcasting as a viable cottage industry really does seem to be here now, and the end of podcasting as a culture-moving media format has arrived.

Pablo Torre is on episode 506 of TrueAnon1, which is mostly about the NBA-adjacent poker fixing scandals, but touches on sports betting.

I’ve had a record player for at least 20 years.

I love diagram languages like mermaid.js and PlantUML because the text format that backs the diagram can be tweaked, takes up very little space in storage, and can be re-rendered at various resolutions any time you need.

I’ve had this domain, this site for 10 years.

I first met Marc Maron in 2010 at a comedy festival in Southern California.

I write and publish this blog with Hugo, a static site builder that uses YAML for its posts.

I’ve been using Git for 9 years now, and today was the first time I knowingly encountered a file named .gitkeep in a diff.

I’ve been at a few software organizations navigating the transition from small company to established businesses with big customers.

By 2030, real encryption may be illegal in the European Union.

I love fashion as a means of self-expression.

I bought two of the original Loog guitars, little 3-string acoustic guitars intended for new learners and especially children.

I remember when everyone started talking about using “thunks” in Redux to execute code without blocking the UI.

jq, a tool for manipulating JSON data, is one of the easiest most powerful ways to work with JSON text values in a terminal.

Writing good unit tests is made much easier by dependency injection.

In the latest edition of Casey Newton’s newsletter, Platformer, he makes the case for why the plaintiffs in Gonzalez vs Google botched their oral arguments.

This article was originally published on gopheradvent.com Go’s static typing is a headline feature of the language.

In the last blog, I wrote a few things that software is for: putting people on the moon safely deploying airbags making my bank account add up making sure Mom gets my texts video editing and animation drawing in 10 million colors ebikes But it’s also used…

Once a month or so, this idea comes rambling out of the programming community1: Software is prose.

At work I’ve been building a new program on top of an SDK that’s under very active development.

I recently read this Washington Post Article (archive.org) titled Caroline Ellison wanted to make a difference.

Quick, what does this program print?

I was reading about Phoenix today, looking at guides and documentation.

There’s been a lot of restrospecting lately, lamenting the loss of the “indie web” and its subsumption by content platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter.

I love squash merging.

Dan Luu tweeted about some great work interns that he has mentored accomplished at Twitter: One intern did https://t.co/nsFW20j9Hm and another did interesting data analysis then built a working prototype for across the fleet profiling that others were able

OKRs are one of those business ideas that are just simple enough to be dangerous.

Every so often I’ll see a meme on Twitter like: and it makes me so mad.

Every so often I wonder if I’m making trouble for myself by doing all of my typing in vim.

I’ve spent a lot of time the last 3 years watching Umberto Eco’s sign’s of Ur-Facism manifest, and manifest, and manifest.

TLDR; I learned a bunch about rendering fonts and I thought it would be interesting to read about them from a programmer’s perspective.

I got an email from an old co-worker the other day: I was thinking about you and how you are a person I see as not being particularly embroiled in office politics, but also as having a lot of influence and knowing how and where to leverage it.

We went through layoffs at work recently.

We all use dozens of pieces of software a day - email clients, web browser, email clients inside web browsers.

This is adapted from Tom Lacalamita’s Pressure Cookers for Dummies, but you should use the Serious Eats method of browning stew beef in one large piece, then cubing it before cooking, for better results.

The secret here is that you can replace the Butter in Butter Chicken with just about any high-fat dairy product.

Red beans and rice is simple, fast and good.

Originally from Ever in Transit, this is the best tasting version of the drink to me.

Originally from the NYT, makes enough for two pizzas.

My wife found this recipe on tastemade.com.

I started taking paternity leave on my first daughter’s due date.

I have a lot of guitars and ukuleles, and I was also feeling like I hadn’t played them enough.

Every workshop needs a good work bench.