Nathan R. Yergler

I’ve had this article open in my browser since it showed up on lobste.

This week was a little rocky, which I attribute to a combination of a “holiday hangover” – time spent celebrating rather than recharging – along with most of the team being off.

Regardless of the form of the parable, the moral has certainly been true with my own work, especially writing and blogging.

We recently acquired a second hand Dell laser printer, which was timely: our inkjet printer is a little long in the tooth, and is starting to require more frequent head cleaning and nozzle alignment, both of which use that liquid gold we call “ink”.

I’ve read this summary of iterators in Go repeatedly over the years.

As someone who is easily distracted by naming rather than, uh, building, I’m a little terrified to have discovered Onelook.

With no physical location to work with, librarian Sydney Krawiec started to devise an alternative: a digital escape room created in Google Forms.

“Milton Glaser’s Studio”, CC BY-NC-SA, Jeffrey Zeldman

I have a co-dependent relationship with Create React App.

A mentor, Naomi, once told me “it’s more fun to write programs that help you write programs than it is to write programs”.

If you want to succeed as an artist, make as much work as possible.

I spent most of last week trying to deal with state in a React app; I wound up using my “secret weapon”: Contexts.

I’ve always thought of Go as a “Pythonic” language; that is, embodying much of the Zen of Python.

An interesting write-up of the Haiku Vector Image Format; what particularly stood out to me, though, was this description of vector formats:

TIL that you need to grant permissions to more than just your elasticbeanstalk-<region>-<account> S3 bucket when deploying to Elastic Beanstalk; you also need permissions on elasticbeanstalk-*.

As I mentioned previously, I’ve been using CodePipeline and CodeBuild for continuous integration and delivery on a new project.

Last week I started on a new project — venture, perhaps — which means I’m in the thick of figuring out all the things you take for granted when you join an established project.

Ready to get back to it in my new sewing room/studio.

Happy Mother’s Day to my mom.

One year at Lob last week; they presented me with @pfeiltools block carving tools as an appreciation gift.

Last year I attended Bond, where one of the speakers pointed out how capitalism has invaded our language: “it’s not a hobby, it’s a ‘side hustle’”.

Almost don’t mind going home.

What to do with that leftover historic church?

Toured the “caves” under Maastricht, a system of caverns resulting from limestone excavation hundreds of years ago.

Delightful breakfast at The Living Room in Maastricht.

Breakfast.

On Fridays we ride bikes in Belgium to lunch in a chateau in Maastricht.

Calder-Picasso

Just a little shopping.

The Louvre is a piece of art in and of itself.

Wandering through the neighborhood before dinner this evening.

Welcome to Paris

Love is a boyfriend who patiently waits while you FREAK OUT over fabric stores on vacation.

When they tell you the only way to see the Christian Dior exhibit is to become a member of the V&A, you become a member of the V&A.

Platform

What.

So many corgis.

My handsome date for tea.

Afternoon tea.