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I’ve used the context package alot with basically little thought, so I figured it would be helpful to have a few notes on the use and reason behind it for later reference.

Trusting Your Gut: The Key to Fulfilling Work or how to stop attending meetings that make you feel sick Have you ever found yourself dreading a meeting, only to leave it feeling completely drained and uninspired?

The last month, April 2024, has been a sobering time of calling friends, reaching out, networking, and generally trying to find some space and some security.

Got started on this book from a recommendation from my wife and wasn’t disappointed.

TAKE A COPY OF MY RESUME TOGO Taking Systems From Complex to Automated …and an avid bug squisher 🚫👾 wherever they popup Start Game Restart Score: 0 About me… I’ve been building software since 2006, across gaming, ad tech, fintech, and now AI startups.

Wrapping up NaBloPoMo2023 Doing thirty days of blog posts was a lot harder than I thought.

small psa, this is a little ranty because I enjoy writing code and solving problems.

Again, running low on ideas for one post per day, so today im going to rank the anime im watching on crunchyroll Top Tier Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Shangri-La Frontier Jujutsu Kaisen The Kindgoms of Ruin Taking the lead is Frieren, just because the ar…

Highlights remembering to meditate taking a walk having a few street tacos Thanksgiving walking out of the super market and seeing a flock of birds Takeaways Thanksgiving was fun.

Bleh, another day of thinking about new things to write… oh, I said this today and thought it witty “its like beliving in unicorns or fat free bacon” takes bow

I journal every day.

Started thinking that I wanted to have an explosion after someone signs up for an email.

Really was looking forward to today and I wasn’t disapointed.

Happy Thanksgiving.

The Gemini protocol is this neat gopher like protocol that lets me broadcast this blog like a good ol fashioned MUD.

Alright, ill admit it, my draft box for this challenge is running a little dry.

Highlights Listening to the QAnon Anonymous Podcast - little intense but facinating.

Continuing on, lets go ahead and add air because doing reloads is lame.

Was putsing around on the debian 12 machine today and wanted to quickly find a program.

Had a little bit of time today, so wanted to do a quick skeleton for golang that included htmx.

In yesterdays post I laid out some of my experiences with unikernels and touched a little little bit on wasm technology.

Much like many of us who got swept away from the fantastic world of docker, I have been interested in technology that built upon solaris zones or BSD jails for a long long time.

Back in the day, when I was daily using scala.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Highlights Listening to my mom work with my cousins on selling our grandparents old place (its time) Playing a game called ‘Concrete Genie’ My kiddo having her bday Finding a poem the kids wrote me when they were younger Having a moment to drink a beer wi…

Of all the time management strategies that I apply on the daily is the pomodora technique.

Probably one of the more contentious discisions that I’ve had to deal with as a person with the ability to set culture at my startup, Compliable, was to support the four day work week.

When I say Psudocoding, what I mean, is a process of writing comments in place of an actual program to inform what the application/feature will be before the actual code is written.

I spent a long time thinking about what I should be writing for today and tomorrow.

Wanted to share a great SaaS secret sharing service I stumbled upon a few years back. https://scrt.link/, why: Really love the persons development attitude It works really well for sharing on time secrets (rather then sending in anyplace with history) Fou…

A big sync of time, even in a relatively small startup is the daily standup for agile teams.

Highlights got to try out a lime scooter for the first time watched more bicycle youtube videos then should be allowed my journal finally was completed for a year, so I can flip back and forth now to last year at this time!

Was over at jzhao.xya - really loved the site layout.

Things ive researched that were non work related today Found this article call MVC is dead, its time to MOVE on.

Today on domains I wish id bought sh.itjust.works buymea.beer Things ive researched that were non work related today Manifesting, is it bullshit?

Saw this post and didn’t realize I was missing out on a writing challenge.

Highlights had a bee try and take me out while picking up the kids lots of wins doing managerial tasks ended up watching a really great video by Amy Hupe got a few runs in!

Highlights ordering some pizza late with the kids watching some blue jays chase off a squirell in the tree outside my office window hearing about the adventures at second and charles. turned out 20lbs of kids books was worth about a dollar a pound having…

Another day and another bug.

Hugo and AI Should be pretty easy, just toss a robots.txt into your static folder and toss the following into it User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: /

The hidden meetup Back in Febuary, I was going through some articles on social.coop a mastmastodon instance that describes itself as being A Fediverse instance for people interested in cooperative and collective projects..

The Stack (original) Going to use the following frontend: htmx backend: golang / fiber for the language and server fig for configuration clover for the database The Repo Going to have a publicly hosted repo over at github.

The month started great, a dry January.

This is a test of me adding mermaid.js to this blog flowchart TB c1-->a2 subgraph one a1-->a2 end subgraph two b1-->b2 end subgraph three c1-->c2 end one --> two three --> two two --> c2

For years ive struggled with keeping up with ideas.

Fun and Fantasy NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories Personal Development second brain power of moments Shape Up https://basecamp.com/shapeup/0.3-chapter-01 the web of meaning the this Antifragile Stumbling on Happiness / Daniel Gilbert The Surre…

Obsidian Plugins As an update Note Taking Apps I ended up biting the bullet and a now using obsidian sync.

The way this book introduces its world is fantastic.

On Implementing webmentions When going through the process of implementing webmentions I found the process to be a little challenging.

This was a quick read and a really great horror story.