Lane Sawyer🌹

When I started my first real job out of college, I had no idea how to operate in the real world.

Automated testing saves lives.

Git is an extremely powerful tool used to track changes in files, particularly source code.

It's been about a month since I moved to Utah and wrote about the whole pandemic thing that's currently consuming the world.

Mozilla, one of my favorite non-profits and a staunch defender of Internet freedom and privacy, has just gutted themselves.

Every time I try to install Diesel.rs on one of my Ubuntu machines, I run into the same error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpq It always takes a bit of time to remember how to fix it, so I'm throwing this on my blog for future reference. 👋 Hey future me, it…

Holy hell people, tone it down with the AC.

If you're one of the zero people who avidly read my blog, you'll have noticed that I had to move in with my parents thanks to pay cuts from COVID-19 causing an economic downturn.

Over the last few years, I've made a concerted effort to find open-source tools that focus on protecting user privacy.

Welp, after getting my pay cut drastically due to the pandemic, I can no longer afford to live in Seattle.

The last handful of years have been some of the hardest of my life.

Every day in the pandemic is the same, and all of them feel like this: 08:00 - Wake up freezing, even though I'm buried under sheets, cuddling Kaladin in a 76 degree apartment 08:30 - Ignore the constant body aches and pains by planning my day or snoozing…

Wave 2 is here, folks.

Our world is broken.

2020 is quite the year.

So my friend and I were talking about how crazy 2020 has been.

Pull Requests I primarily contribute to open source through coding.

Time has no meaning during an eternal present.

If you've talked to me in the past couple months, I've likely mentioned the Rust programming language.

Since we're in the midst of a global pandemic, I figured I should write my thoughts on it.

I did it!

Work makes the world go round.

Every day I come home to a mystery.

I’ve always loved the rain.

At the end of last year I changed projects at work, which allowed me to start commuting to my company’s downtown office instead of a client site.

Nobody will have noticed that I’ve started publishing content less frequently.

Have you ever come across a line of code that made you pause and think WTF is going on here?

It’s clear nothing will ever be done to stop mass shootings.

You read the title.

Have you ever done something radical?

Another year has flown by.

Excess defines modern society in the United States.

The GOP’s inaction shows deep indifference towards stopping mass shootings.

What would happen if these two teams clashed?

At some point in the last fifty years the great American pastime pivoted from baseball to television.

During my first year as a developer I screwed up a lot.

It happens every morning.

Every team needs a written working agreement.

To be effective, development teams should—at a minimum—have the following processes in place: Team Ground Rules or Working Agreement Definition of Done Code Reviews One on Ones Static Code Analysis Style Guide Automated Tests Branching Strategy Continuous…

Parking lots are surprisingly dangerous.

Finding time to exercise can be tough.

The rise of Trump and “America First” has shown us that tribalism still reigns supreme.

During 2016, in an effort to help boost my confidence and self-image, I changed one of the few passwords I actually know (use a password manager, people!)

Can you believe it’s been almost a year since I last talked about poop?

It’s okay to be lazy.

Write unit tests Ask others to review your code Review other people’s code Listen to programming podcasts Volunteer for work that makes you uncomfortable Learn something new every day Exercise regularly Get enough sleep Read a book on design patterns, code

For the last three months I’ve been traveling every other week to Denver for work.

The concept of retrospectives has seemingly permeated every nook and cranny of the IT industry.

Nights like this suck.

Man, oh man, do I wish I had looked at React.js a few years ago.