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✅ Today’s goals:
- Morning walk. (done!)
- Experiment with the new @elixirphoenix 1.6 release.
- Weekly food pickup.
Not sure how I’ll end the day yet. I have a bunch of interesting books but might dig into my own Elixir project.
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📚 Enjoying a nice day in the shade of a tree, reading my books and listening to the baseball game on my radio.
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🎮 I finished Spiritfarer, a cozy management game about dying.
I enjoyed it a lot. It is not a perfect, but you have to give a game credit that connects you to characters like this one does.😭❤️
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Film Theory: The Matrix NEVER Existed! (Matrix 4 Trailer)
Depending on your thirst to spoil or otherwise influence your consumption of the new movie you may or may not want to check this out.
The problem is choice.
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👨💻A Taste of Roc — Richard Feldman
Roc is a new purely functional programming language built for speed and ergonomics. It’s still a work in progress, but it’s far enough along to be ready for an introductory tutorial and demo.
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📚 With a stack of 5 books next to me I ask, “yeah but where is the delivery person with my NEW book?”
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🔗 A curated list of awesome Elixir, Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), and event sourcing resources.
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👨💻 DevTernity 2017: Ian Cooper - TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong
Lunch conference watching…
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📅 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking around calendar software and am looking for more ideas to shape my thoughts. What books, blogs or conference talks do I need to see?
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🎮🍿 Hey Luigi, how is the search for Bowser coming along?
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📚 Don’t let Sunday catch you off guard – get it GUARD!
Elixir in Action (2nd Edition), Chapters 3 and 4.
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📚Local writer friend is trying to fund a book project called Still the Stars: Book One of a queer YA space fantasy novel in verse series.
Book is written, but needs editing, printing, hence the Kickstarter project.
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🔗 End of an Era: Man Clicks “Update” Instead of “Remind Me Later”
They want constant updates about everything. Imagine if your smart dryer had available driver updates and it didn’t emit a siren to let you know, just imagine that for a second. What a nightmare.
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🍁 Fall is coming.
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🔐Considering the escalation of ransomware and the kinds of software I’ve come to work on with @elixirlang (think big systems, finical transactions, utility companies) I feel like I need to level up my security game. Does anyone have a recommended learning path? #myelixirstatus
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🍿 The ElixirConf EU recordings are starting to show up. I recommend watching some over lunches this week.
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⏰I have a bad habit where I prioritize email and Slack/Discord content cleaning and it is a HUGE time suck. I need to have a brutal rethink of how I interact with those.
The BIG problem is some work/client environments encourage this through undesigned communication patterns.
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🙅♂️ I wish there was a way to tell LinkedIn that while I have iOS on my profile, I am not interested in any iOS job offers. Feels bad these recruiters are being led astray.
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✅ Today’s goals:
- Clean up around the desk.
- Pay some bills.
- Reschedule some dental work.
- Pick up weekly food order.
- Work on RetroTaxi.
- Edit my blog post re: first thoughts of Framework laptop.
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👨💻 As I prepare to get into some GraphQL work I rewatched this video course from @pragmaticstudio. I’ve done some basic Absinthe in the past but this was a great refresher. Loved it.
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👨💻 New laptop, who dis?
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🎮🎹 Anyone have a good / non-scammy source for video game soundtracks? I’m specifically looking to acquire Link to the Past (SNES), Sim City (SNES) and Mario64 soundtracks which I sometimes listen to via YouTube but would prefer local MP3 versions.
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☕️ Good morning.
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🔋 I loose faith in tech reviewers instantly when they just regurgitate the vendor’s own battery claims. Is it too much to ask people to do their own battery tests?
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