Bytes and Bikes

As part of my work on Nudgsicle, I’ve created a pretty neat development environment where I can work locally with a similar architecture to the production environment, which includes Lambda, an S3 website, etc.

Does your company have a traditional QA team?

What’s the hairiest or most expensive production bug you’ve had to fix?

I think no one is reading this book with me.

The preface of Release It!

What are you hoping to learn from Release It!?

#ReleaseItBookClub starts next week!

I have news!

I’m starting an async book club for the book Release It!

Behold, my tea advent calendar!

More hamstring flexibility progress!

Nudgsicle pre-orders are now available 😁 (also 🤣, also 🙏). https://www.nudgsicle.com/

I love books.

I’ve been trying to practice POSSE - Post On (your own) Site Syndicate Everywhere (LinkedIn, X, and Mastodon for now).

The hamstring stretching routine I’ve been doing is working!

I set myself an audacious goal this year to try to launch product(s) that will make me $1M / year by the time I’m 40.

Tralina (my wife) and I give ourselves a “discretionary spending” budget that we can each spend however we want without consulting the other.

I’ve reached a major milestone with Nudgsicle - the product I’m working on to help with timely code review.

I’ve always had issues with hamstring and lower black flexibility.

Well I made it fit.

I love how Mastodon does link shortening using ellipses.

I recently open sourced a project at work with some colleagues.

Nothing to see here Someone messed up… Was it you?

It’s interesting to look back at how life changes over the years.

My ham radio license was issued this week!

I very highly recommend the book Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi.

I have finally finished reading Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Ryan Singer after many months.

I did not enjoy Prey as much as I thought I would.

I have been very busy, but that’s no excuse.

I’ve been listening to the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.

Skunk Works by Ben Rich is a memoir about Rich’s time working at the Lockheed Skunk Works.

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m rebuilding this website using Clojure.

I have been reading Saying No to God by Matthew Korpman.

I am working on setting up a new system for publishing content.

This blog is ancient, but let’s start a new habit with it.

I am pretty fast at typing.

Well, I have been trying to read faster for about a week.

I am a slow reader.

I watched a series of videos of an interview with Richard Feynman today.

I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 this evening and the first thing I noticed was that my touchpad no longer worked… Of course, I immediately suspected that “touchpad-indicator”, the application I installed to disable my touchpad when I have a normal mouse plugged

First post!