This system doesn’t get heavy usage, but for a legacy Rails app that I’ve spent the last year upgrading and adding features too it’s nice to see this right in the peak of “busy season”.

Fall in the Japanese Garden.

Writing raw SQL queries and having something complex work rekindles those early highs I got when I was first learning to program with Ruby back in the day.

Katie Zacharia is “stepping down” after 5 days… That’s just about half a Scaramucci for context (anything to not use the metric system).

My youngest, who just turned two started doing these drawings. She spends twenty or thirty minutes on each and everything ob the page is something. She will point to a spot: ”thats monkey!” Or ”thats Pumpkin” (our cat). I’m here for it… and the final product is a pretty cool pattern.

Wonder how many commit messages end with some variation of :wq?

Diffs like this make me proud… Admittedly I also wrote all those 1365 lines; no regrets! They worked in production for about three years, the client switched vendors, the process is more streamlined now my work around was no longer needed.

“I don’t remember signing up for this” is an option, but you did not include “I DID NOT sign up for this” as an option. You must understand, nobody in the history of the world has ever signed up for a mailing list.

Got a notice from Google that my Chrome plugin was removed from the web-store. Which is a bit of a laugh. I wrote it about 8 years ago when I worked at an insurance company, I can’t remember the details but it correctly formatted pasted URLs from various policy documents. That is to say, niche.

I gotta stop going on Linkedin, sometimes I genuinely want to see what a colleague is up to or I need to post something I’m working on (speaking at a conference this fall gotta rep it). My feed is now, essentially 100% rage bait, the unhinged toxic “rise and grind” people are out of control and somehow it’s all I’m shown!