2023-04-17: โœ๏ธ Notes about Technical Debt Some captured notes about technical debt from recent book club โ€ฆ

2023-04-02: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป We need to talk…

2023-04-02: ๐Ÿ–– My face when I take a break from a weekend Star Trek marathon to play some Red Dead 2.

2023-04-02: ๐Ÿ–– I’m only in the middle of season two, but Voyager is overloaded with techno-babble. I was โ€ฆ

2023-04-02: ๐Ÿ–– I watches some Voyager during lunch, and those krazy Kazons were back at it.

2023-04-02: โœ๏ธ Journal – April 2, 2023 The morning coffee has been consumed, and itโ€™s time for some Sunday โ€ฆ

2023-04-02: โšพ๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ I can’t say enough nice things about The Negro Leagues content in MLB: The Show. Really โ€ฆ

2023-04-02: โœ… Today’s goals: Discover my milk is bad/expired via a lousy glass of chocolate milk. (done) โ€ฆ

2023-04-02: โ˜•๏ธ That first cup of coffee went down really fast today.

2023-04-01: โœ… Today’s goal: Run a two-hour mentoring session. Continue working on admin authentication โ€ฆ

2023-03-31: ๐ŸŒป My sister is out of school sick (she is a teacher). I sent her some flowers with “SAVE โ€ฆ

2023-03-31: โœ… Today’s goals: With baseball opening day behind me, time to regroup on some real work. Post โ€ฆ

2023-03-30: ๐Ÿ”— Tailwind CSS v3.3: Extended color palette, ESM/TS support, logical properties, and more โ€ฆ

2023-03-30: ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽฎ App Store shenanigans have infected my enjoyment of MLB: The Show. Their companion mobile app โ€ฆ

2023-03-30: โšพ๏ธ๐ŸŽง I’m still working on my pre-game playlist but the early parts are working for me. โ€ฆ

2023-03-30: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’œ Code demo: I added direct-to-S3 file uploads to my LiveView app, emulating the GitHub editor โ€ฆ

2023-03-30: โšพ๏ธ Philadelphia Phillies 2023 Season Hype Video www.youtube.com/watch

2023-03-29: ๐ŸŽฎ Looks like physical copies of Metroid Prime Remastered are back on shelves. Just picked one up โ€ฆ

2023-03-29: ๐Ÿ“ My initial thought seeing the map, was that it was to scale. I was like, “that’s a big โ€ฆ

2023-03-29: ๐Ÿ’Š Am I allowed to be petty about this?

2023-03-29: โšพ๏ธ Are you ready?

2023-03-28: ๐ŸŽฎ With anticipation, I look forward to the inevitable Mega64 fuse video. PS: I really need to finish โ€ฆ

2023-03-28: โšพ๏ธ The Realmuto ejection was uncalled forโ€”spring training, so no big deal but a big overreaction. โ€ฆ

2023-03-28: โšพ๏ธ How many more days until regular season baseball?

2023-03-27: โœ… Today’s goals: Oversleep and miss my morning walk time. (done!) Experiment with Javascript โ€ฆ

2023-03-26: ๐Ÿฟ Ended up watching Tenet again on a whim. Second time since original viewing. I still have no clue โ€ฆ

2023-03-25: โšพ๏ธ Current Phillies status:

2023-03-24: ๐ŸŽฎโšพ๏ธ For those wondering, yes I’m enjoying MLB: The Show early access and I did get a Trea โ€ฆ

2023-03-23: ๐Ÿ’”โšพ๏ธ Sadness.

2023-03-23: ๐ŸŽฎโšพ๏ธ So excited to play MLB: The Show tonight. SO MUCH CONTENT. The new edition looks fantastic.

2023-03-23: โœ… Today’s goals: Get a fresh breakfast sandwich at the local bagel shop. (done!) Work on โ€ฆ

2023-03-22: โœ… Today’s goals: Cut myself shaving. (done!) Work on Franklin uploads. (This is a carryover โ€ฆ

2023-03-21: โšพ๏ธ USA vs Japan tonight. www.mlb.com/world-bas…

2023-03-21: โœ… Today’s goals: Work on Franklin upload code (carryover – ended up working on some โ€ฆ

2023-03-20: ๐Ÿ”— How Quantum Computers Break The Internet… Starting Now www.youtube.com/watch

2023-03-20: ๐Ÿค– This feels new, but I like it. It seems like my PRs are getting inline credo warning references. โ€ฆ

2023-03-20: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Saw this poster for a community egg hunt and could not help myself.

2023-03-20: โœ… Today’s goals: Work on Franklin upload code. Watch some Phillies during lunch. After lunch โ€ฆ

2023-03-20: ๐Ÿค˜ With a lack of consulting income, I now have to be the headliner of a death metal concert. โ€ฆ

2023-03-19: โœ… Today’s goals: After back-to-back days of slacking, I need to regain some semblance of โ€ฆ

2023-03-16: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Bummed to realize that some software I’ve been playing with this week inside my MIT-licensed โ€ฆ

2023-03-16: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Remember kids, the HTTP verb IS part of the signature’s source content. An hour I will โ€ฆ

2023-03-16: โšพ๏ธ How many weeks until the baseball regular season?

2023-03-16: ๐Ÿ”— OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world - Ars Technica Prompt: Using your โ€ฆ

2023-03-16: ๐Ÿค” Someone feed GPT4 the Phoenix Component documentation and then a Tailwind UI page sample and tell โ€ฆ

2023-03-15: ๐Ÿž๐Ÿ”ฅ I need to buy a new toaster. Primary use cases include bagels, pop tarts, and white/rye toast for โ€ฆ

2023-03-15: ๐Ÿงน It has been a housework day. Food shopping and downstairs cleaning. A bit embarrassing how much of โ€ฆ

2023-03-14: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ’œ Elixir Rap Song So if you want to build something thatโ€™s fast and robust Elixirโ€™s the language โ€ฆ

2023-03-14: ๐ŸŽญ Prompt: Compose a haiku about the hatred programmers have for Jira. Jira, oh Jira โ€ฆ

2023-03-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป A demonstration of how I handle code presentation and animations in Keynote slides. โ€ฆ

2023-03-14: ๐ŸŽฎ Old Warcraft screenshot of my monk Ziggles with his pet Mr. Wiggles.

2023-03-14: โœ… Today’s goals: Watch it snow from my office window. (done) Continue working on Franklin โ€ฆ

2023-03-14: ๐Ÿค I was once held hostage by a group of mimes. They did unspeakable things to me.

2023-03-13: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Perfection.

2023-03-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’œ I love having my dialyzer CI check run in parallel to my build and test check. I know this is โ€ฆ

2023-03-13: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Capitalism has got me down; I’m leaving this job and moving to the country, says the โ€ฆ

2023-03-13: โœ… Today’s goals: Oversleep. (done) Schedule car oil change. Work on image uploading for โ€ฆ

2023-03-12: โœ๏ธ Journal – March 12, 2023 Been a few weeks since the last journal. Letโ€™s catch up on things. โ€ฆ

2023-03-12: ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ’ธ Silicon Valley had a bank… HAD www.youtube.com/watch

2023-03-12: โšก๏ธ Set up my first zapier workflow today (to email me when some notable Stripe events happen). Been โ€ฆ

2023-03-12: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Aw Willy. Thanks. โค๏ธ

2023-03-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Archived footage of me having dinner with a friend who was laid off from a programming job. I โ€ฆ

2023-03-12: ๐Ÿชด I attempted to re-pot a house plant into a new bigger pot, but it did not go very well. I am bad โ€ฆ

2023-03-11: ๐ŸŽฎ Archived footage of me playing the Octopath Traveler 2 demo. youtu.be/688z-4SWx…

2023-03-11: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ญ I will never beat Junimo Kart. www.youtube.com/watch

2023-03-11: ๐Ÿ”— Spent some time today learning about MinIO for some personally managed S3-compatible storage that โ€ฆ

2023-03-11: ๐Ÿ”— Appleโ€™s File Provider Forces Mac Cloud Storage Changes - TidBITS This sounds awful. I like putting โ€ฆ

2023-03-10: ๐Ÿ”— For anyone interested in self-hosting Google Fonts, this is a very helpful tool: โ€ฆ

2023-03-10: โœ… Today’s goals: Do some pre-call client research. Client call. Work with an ElixirClub โ€ฆ

2023-03-09: ๐Ÿ”—โค๏ธ Over the last few days I did my taxes and some budgeting. Whenever I do this, I really get a lot โ€ฆ

2023-03-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’œ Video from last night’s meeting is now online. #MyElixirStatus ElixirClub: Creating Your โ€ฆ

2023-03-09: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done) Re-record the slide deck and mix it with the audio to โ€ฆ

2023-03-08: ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ Very disappointed in the amount of compression artifacts present in the Zoom Cloud recording โ€ฆ

2023-03-08: ๐Ÿ‘‹ Current Discord status:

2023-03-08: ๐Ÿค” This email almost feels like a threat of some kind.

2023-03-08: โœ… Today’s goals: Work on some personal budgeting (carryover). Do a review of my slides in โ€ฆ

2023-03-07: ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿงน Finally got to decluttering and cleaning up my office yesterday. Feels great to start the day โ€ฆ

2023-03-07: โœ… Today’s goals: Add the ability to delete Articles in Franklin along with some other โ€ฆ

2023-03-06: ๐Ÿ–– Riker Googling: When does Voyager get good?

2023-03-06: ๐ŸŽฎ Cities: Skylines II HYPED. www.youtube.com/watch

2023-03-06: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ I hope “51033005446GB” is a typo, or I’m going to be downloading videos for a โ€ฆ

2023-03-06: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’œ Over the weekend, I updated my side project to Phoenix 1.7.1. I did a video-recorded code walk โ€ฆ

2023-03-06: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ“† The Denver Erlang and Elixir Meetup (Online) is tonight and hosting: Introduction to query โ€ฆ

2023-03-06: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ“… On Wednesday I’m doing a talk: Creating Your First Elixir/Phoenix CI Check with GitHub โ€ฆ

2023-03-06: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ I’d much rather buy the physical version of Metroid Prime Remastered, but it seems out โ€ฆ

2023-03-06: ๐Ÿ“† The Philly ETE conference is April 11/12 with a mix of in-person and streamed sessions. I’ll โ€ฆ

2023-03-06: ๐Ÿค” If I were to create an email sequence, I think I might sign it: ~ Automated Mike PS: Yes, this โ€ฆ

2023-03-05: โšพ๏ธ When my sister asks how I’m taking today’s Phillies 16-4 loss.

2023-03-05: โšพ๏ธ Phillies on the radio with gameday dashboard mirroring from my iPad.

2023-03-05: โšพ๏ธ I was mistaken and the Phillies are not on TV, but there is a radio broadcast. Kevin Stocker has โ€ฆ

2023-03-05: โœ… Today’s goals: Finish slides in prep for Wednesday’s GitHub Actions talk. Food โ€ฆ

2023-03-03: โšพ๏ธ Current Phillies status:

2023-03-03: โœ๏ธ Potential Consulting Client Questions A series of questions I ask prospective consulting clients โ€ฆ

2023-03-03: โœ… Today’s goals: With taxes done yesterday, time to get back to the code. Work on a blog post โ€ฆ

2023-03-02: โšพ๏ธ I need a cut of Moneyball without Bobby Kotick.

2023-03-02: โœ…๐Ÿ’ธ I got the tax totals ready, and my tax appointment is scheduled for next week. I still want to โ€ฆ

2023-03-02: ๐Ÿ™„”The ACLU works to expand the right to privacy, increase the control individuals have over โ€ฆ

2023-03-02: โœ… Today’s goals: Had a bit of a low day yesterday and hoping to get back on track today. Work โ€ฆ

2023-03-02: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Finished the museum last night.

2023-03-01: ๐Ÿค” How much longer till I get an AI called Ziggy who can tell me why Iโ€™m here?

2023-03-01: ๐Ÿ“… Philly CocoaHeads and the local Google Developer Group are hosting a joint in-person meetup! State โ€ฆ

2023-02-28: ๐Ÿ’ก Perfection is the enemy of progress.

2023-02-28: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ“… Iโ€™m going to be doing a talk: Creating Your First Elixir/Phoenix CI Check with GitHub Actions. โ€ฆ

2023-02-25: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปI keep observing an issue where sometimes my iTerm2 window sticks to the top of my window stack. โ€ฆ

2023-02-25: โšพ๏ธPersonally I find the new pitch timer and the average 20 minutes of game time saved not worth the โ€ฆ

2023-02-25: ๐Ÿค” OpenAI is neither open nor an intelligence. It should be called ClosedBS.

2023-02-25: โœ… Today’s goals: Pickup the ceremonial weekend pretzels. (done) Attend Side Project Saturday. โ€ฆ

2023-02-25: โšพ๏ธ

2023-02-25: โšพ๏ธ Cheers to the first spring training game of the year. Go Phillies!

2023-02-24: ๐Ÿ˜ณ I just used ChatGPT for the first time. I asked it questions to help me craft a little helper โ€ฆ

2023-02-24: โœ… Today’s goals: Have an off-putting dream about being unprepared for a conference talk. โ€ฆ

2023-02-23: ๐Ÿ“š Some thoughts on a few recent books completed and a few in progress. โ€ฆ

2023-02-23: ๐Ÿ“š While reading a pdf book from PragProg, I spot this. Itโ€™s a very nice touch more publishers should โ€ฆ

2023-02-22: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Dark times.

2023-02-22: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Back in my day…

2023-02-22: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Wednesday feels.

2023-02-22: ๐Ÿ”“ Cracking JSON Web Tokens Nice introduction to the topic and the things to be mindful of as a โ€ฆ

2023-02-22: ๐Ÿ”Ž๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ’œ Spring 2023 Elixir Consulting Availability I want to contribute to an Elixir, Phoenix, and/or โ€ฆ

2023-02-21: ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Touring a recent Franklin PR and talking through CQRS, testing, and app architecture things. โ€ฆ

2023-02-21: โšพ๏ธโค๏ธ Lots of great old-school Phillies TV intros in this video. I have a special spot in my heart โ€ฆ

2023-02-20: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ’œOne of the challenges for a newcomer to Phoenix is understanding which libraries own and document โ€ฆ

2023-02-20: ๐Ÿ”— New Project Commands for new Elixir Phoenix LiveView project in 2023 Good little collection of โ€ฆ

2023-02-20: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ

2023-02-20: ๐Ÿค” Trying to better understand / resolve an issue where my use of Live Navigation inside a LiveView โ€ฆ

2023-02-19: ๐Ÿ’œ Adjusted the ElixirClub coworking schedule to offer bi-weekly Saturday sessions (in addition to โ€ฆ

2023-02-19: ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ“š The Elixir Book Club has chosen our next book: Modern CSS with Tailwind, Second Edition. It is โ€ฆ

2023-02-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Saw this sticker while browsing some Stardew Valley merch. Gave me a smile.

2023-02-18: โ˜ ๏ธ When I die, someone play the Castlevania death sound effect. youtu.be/B55BOwHi4…

2023-02-17: โšพ๏ธ๐ŸŽง Archived footage of me enjoying my Phillies-related podcasts talking about the start of spring โ€ฆ

2023-02-17: ๐Ÿ˜ž Watching the Linode brand being devoured by Akamai continues to depress me. I’m not sure if โ€ฆ

2023-02-17: ๐Ÿ”— The Twelve-Factor App Iโ€™ll reread this from time to time. Yes, the specific context for your โ€ฆ

2023-02-17: ๐Ÿ’œ Under the Hood of Ecto Ecto is such a unique, powerful and pleasurable take on databases. Being so โ€ฆ

2023-02-17: ๐Ÿ”— Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS - WebKit This has been a long time coming. Canโ€™t wait to โ€ฆ

2023-02-17: ๐Ÿฉน After they drew blood I got a much cooler than a bandaid red wrap. I feel like Iโ€™m taped up for a โ€ฆ

2023-02-17: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ How come it is those mornings where you have to fast for blood work that you wake up the most โ€ฆ

2023-02-16: ๐Ÿ˜• Very low energy / low motivation this week. Kind of expected after some recent stressful weeks but โ€ฆ

2023-02-15: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ Archived footage of me looking for new endgame stuff to do. www.youtube.com/watch

2023-02-15: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

2023-02-15: ๐Ÿ–– My face when during an attack the runabout pilot tells the computer an order like “iniciate โ€ฆ

2023-02-15: ๐Ÿ”— Use GitHub discussion to have comments on your Jekyllย blog - Bartosz Gรณrka Neat integration.

2023-02-15: ๐Ÿง What are some really well designed and documented graphql APIs? Bonus point for those that act โ€ฆ

2023-02-15: ๐ŸŽฎ My mind is filled with thoughts of ChocMillk.

2023-02-14: ๐Ÿ–– TIL: Voyager can land on a planet.

2023-02-14: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done) ElixirClub coworking / blog project work. Haircut. โ€ฆ

2023-02-14: โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿ•บ Time for the first coffee of the day. www.youtube.com/watch

2023-02-13: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿชซ How do I reconcile that Voyager is constantly worried about energy reserves, but also allows โ€ฆ

2023-02-13: โ™ฟ๏ธ Just observed after uploading a 2-minute screen recording demo that Slack linked an โ€ฆ

2023-02-13: โœ๏ธ Journal – February 13, 2023 The only consistent thing in this world is change. โ€ฆ

2023-02-13: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done) Client production deployment. (done) Food pickup. Work โ€ฆ

2023-02-13: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ Morning walk midway rest. Hoping to get back on track with more daily walks. Got sloppy during โ€ฆ

2023-02-12: ๐Ÿˆ Everyone enjoying the halftime show?

2023-02-12: โœ๏ธ [New Blog] When providing an accessor function inside your context, do you prefer a return type โ€ฆ

2023-02-12: โœ…๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ’š Today’s goals: Catch up on mail and bills. (done) Order and pickup some wings to heat up โ€ฆ

2023-02-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ› My face when I realize the bug is caused by the API inserting rows directly into the database โ€ฆ

2023-02-10: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ’ฃ The fair is going to be an explosive success.

2023-02-10: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽง If you are looking for a fun take on video game music while you work, I recommend my โ€ฆ

2023-02-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I’ve been working with Ecto for almost 6 years and every time I have to use / read the โ€ฆ

2023-02-09: โค๏ธโšพ๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ MLB The Show 23 introduces Storylines: The Negro Leagues Season 1 This was something I โ€ฆ

2023-02-08: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ธ There is a PragProg / data-themed bundle up for sale. In particular, the book “Practical โ€ฆ

2023-02-07: ๐Ÿ’œ I am continuing to evolve and expand ElixirClub’s design. Today added some new “new โ€ฆ

2023-02-05: ๐Ÿ’œ It’s not your fault. #MyElixirStatus

2023-02-05: ๐ŸฟHacker Culture Movies For The Kids We were looking for recommendations for the younger members born โ€ฆ

2023-02-05: ๐Ÿ–– Trek Lunch Report: Once again, those tricky Cardassians are at it again. Donโ€™t let the nose fool โ€ฆ

2023-02-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐ŸŽธ Me and my friends are starting an Elixir-parody rock band and are looking for name suggestions. โ€ฆ

2023-02-05: ๐Ÿฅจ๐ŸงŸ There is a growing crowd here at the local pretzel store waiting for the ovens to warm up.

2023-02-02: ๐Ÿฅถ Iโ€™ve been isolated in my own bubble of stress but just saw some photos from Texas AND the expected โ€ฆ

2023-02-02: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป As someone building an event-sourced side project I particularly enjoyed the real world issues โ€ฆ

2023-02-02: ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ”— Watched this with lunch. Really need to find some time to play with Ash. I also share the natural โ€ฆ

2023-02-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป TIL: There are limits to how smart Absinthe is with auto-converting Elixir name formats into โ€ฆ

2023-02-01: ๐Ÿ––โ˜•๏ธ๐Ÿ“บ Voyager S1E6: Janeway risks the safety of her crew to harvest nebula energy to fuel her coffee โ€ฆ

2023-02-01: ๐Ÿ˜ž Been struggling with a lot of work related busyness and stress lately. Some things will let up โ€ฆ

2023-01-31: ๐Ÿ“บ Whatโ€™s the deal with these AI-generated sitcoms? Nothing, Forever is a show about nothing, that โ€ฆ

2023-01-30: ๐Ÿ˜“ The weather is such I need to bundle up for the first half of the walk, but the second half I rip โ€ฆ

2023-01-29: ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿˆ Go birds.

2023-01-29: โœ… Today’s goals: Laundry. Food pickup. 2-3 hours of client work. Watch the Eagles game. Work โ€ฆ

2023-01-28: ๐ŸŽฎ There are some Breath of the Wild shrines that are clever; and some others that have me scream โ€ฆ

2023-01-28: ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Finished my annual holiday/winter rewatch of Lord of the Rings trilogy today. Amazing how well โ€ฆ

2023-01-28: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘ƒ Everytime I catch the smell of someoneโ€™s perfume or cologne as they walk by I immediately imagine โ€ฆ

2023-01-28: ๐Ÿค“ What are some other computer / hacker culture movies that should be on our recommended list for โ€ฆ

2023-01-28: ๐Ÿช Made some cookies.

2023-01-28: ๐Ÿ˜Žโ˜•๏ธ Until I can wear AR/VR glasses AND drink coffee at the same time without fogging up the lenses, โ€ฆ

2023-01-28: ๐Ÿ‘ด I had a bit of a moment yesterday when in quick succession I had to give my birthdate and the new โ€ฆ

2023-01-27: ๐ŸŽฎ Save those ethers! www.youtube.com/watch

2023-01-27: ๐Ÿ–– What came first, the character design for The Kazon in Voyager or this guy from the History โ€ฆ

2023-01-26: ๐Ÿ–– Started watching Voyager this evening. LET THE TORPEDO COUNT BEGIN! youtu.be/PIGxMENwq…

2023-01-26: ๐Ÿ“บ Over lunch, I watched the pilot of a dark drama TV show from AMC with a fun gimmick. It’s โ€ฆ

2023-01-24: โ˜•๏ธ The amount of dysfunction in any organization is directly proportional to the percentage of Slack โ€ฆ

2023-01-23: โœ… Keeping up with those dependency updates for my side project. #MyElixirStatus #ElixirClub

2023-01-23: ๐Ÿง What are my options for image and asset storage for a LiveView app? I could do an S3 bucket โ€ฆ

2023-01-22: ๐Ÿ––โค๏ธ I just finished Deep Space Nine. I’ve been watching it bit by bit for over a year. I loved โ€ฆ

2023-01-22: โœ๏ธ Journal – January 22, 2023 First journal of the new year. Sorry, it took so longโ€”lots to โ€ฆ

2023-01-22: โœ… Today’s goals: Pickup some pretzels. (done) Attend Elixir Book Club. (done) Work through a โ€ฆ

2023-01-22: ๐Ÿ’ก Yesterday I discovered the wall switch next to my front door is connected to my router. Probably โ€ฆ

2023-01-21: ๐Ÿˆ Eagles pregame is live. Go Birds.

2023-01-21: ๐Ÿ˜ด I slept 12 hours last night. Guess I needed it.

2023-01-20: โ˜•๏ธ It is going to be a decaf coffee day. I’ve been particularly busy this past week and very โ€ฆ

2023-01-20: ๐Ÿ’œ Today I am attending the first Dockyard Academy Beta Cohort Demo Day, where students who have โ€ฆ

2023-01-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿš€ Tonight we had one of our two weekly #ElixirClub coworking sessions. I took the hour and โ€ฆ

2023-01-16: ๐Ÿคช Just had one of those dump self-sabotage moments. I think it’s time for bed.

2023-01-16: ๐Ÿค  I’m listening to Red Dead Redemption 2 music and writing out my estimated tax payments for โ€ฆ

2023-01-16: โœ… Today’s goals: Write out checks to pay quarterly tax estimates. Finish working through โ€ฆ

2023-01-16: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿค– Does anyone know of a Slack App or other integration that can auto-link phrases to specific URLs? โ€ฆ

2023-01-15: ๐Ÿ˜ญ None of my attempts to mark messages as read in Slack persist after restarting the app. This is โ€ฆ

2023-01-15: โœ… Today’s goals: Look into analytics bug. Review client PR. Work on Franklin markdown โ€ฆ

2023-01-14: ๐Ÿ”™๐Ÿ†™ With a nod to @DazeEnd, yesterday was Friday the 13th, and I we are all reminded to back up your โ€ฆ

2023-01-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปWorking through this React Relay tutorial today. I’m starting to contribute to an Elixir / โ€ฆ

2023-01-12: ๐Ÿ––โค๏ธ DS9: S7E10, We love you Nog.

2023-01-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I’m using a tool called pv to help observe the progress of a large MySQL import but I โ€ฆ

2023-01-11: ๐Ÿ’œ My thanks and appreciation to Noah Betzen @Nezteb, who stopped by to help add credo and dialyzer โ€ฆ

2023-01-11: โœ… Today’s goals: Continue to debug some React Native issues in prep for a pairing session โ€ฆ

2023-01-11: ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซThis week has been a blur, and it’s only Wednesday. Lots going on and lots of big work โ€ฆ

2023-01-09: ๐Ÿš„ Today was a jam-packed day with a bunch of calls and a lot of things done. The party train โ€ฆ

2023-01-09: โšพ๏ธ Is it spring training time yet?

2023-01-08: ๐Ÿ•บWhile I am already linking LOTR videos on this fine Sunday, here is another classic. Theyโ€™re taking โ€ฆ

2023-01-08: ๐Ÿ˜‰ While cooking my chicken bites today I had Two Towers playing in the background. The bond between โ€ฆ

2023-01-08: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ It took a bit to do all the batches in the air fryer, but overall Iโ€™d call the boneless chicken โ€ฆ

2023-01-08: โœ… Today’s goals: Attend Elixir Book Club (done) Do some laundry. Clean the bathroom a little. โ€ฆ

2023-01-08: ๐Ÿค’Was in bed Friday & Saturday with a sore throat and exhaustion. Feeling a bit better today. โ€ฆ

2023-01-07: ๐Ÿ––โšพ๏ธ Two of my favorite pastimes in one episode.

2023-01-06: ๐ŸŽ‰ Happy Friday! www.youtube.com/watch

2023-01-06: โœ… Today’s goals: Do some client PR review. Work on editing and markdown rendering for โ€ฆ

2023-01-05: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ˜ข Season 7 begins. So sad for Worf.

2023-01-05: ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿšจ If you use CircleCI it’s time to rotate those secrets. circleci.com/blog/janu…

2023-01-05: ๐ŸŒฑ When my heater broke 2 weeks ago, my house plant took it hard. Did some extreme pruning today an โ€ฆ

2023-01-05: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Between the security breeches and companies stealing my privileged stored content for their AI, โ€ฆ

2023-01-04: ๐Ÿค” I wonder why the doorbell is not working? Oh.

2023-01-04: ๐ŸŠโ€โ™‚๏ธ The smell is NOT chlorine, it’s more musty and foul. I do shower after swimming. โ€ฆ

2023-01-04: ๐ŸŠโ€โ™‚๏ธ I enjoy a swim now and again. With my move, I’m at a new YMCA, and while they have a โ€ฆ

2023-01-03: ๐Ÿค“ Iโ€™m the kind of guy who enjoys watching 60+ minutes of YouTube content about the intricacies of โ€ฆ

2023-01-03: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ Used my new air fryer tonight to make roasted potatoes. It worked really well. Hot takes: will โ€ฆ

2023-01-03: ๐Ÿ–– It was a Worf babysitting episode with lunch.

2023-01-03: ๐Ÿ’œ During today’s #ElixirClub coworking session, I worked on my test file for the new admin โ€ฆ

2023-01-03: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ˜ A new Blake Crouch audiobook. YES PLEASE. www.audible.com/pd/Abando…

2023-01-03: ๐Ÿ’œ Turns out I did not win the lottery with that stocking scratch-off ticket, and once again am โ€ฆ

2023-01-03: ๐Ÿ˜ณ Because job interviews aren’t stressful enough.

2023-01-02: ๐Ÿ’ก If you feel overwhelmed by two weeks of unread messages in a busy Slack/Discord. I recommend โ€ฆ

2023-01-01: ๐Ÿ’œ Each week #ElixirClub members are encouraged to post a project update post. This is my own for โ€ฆ

2023-01-01: ๐Ÿ“ท A short recap and some photos from my Boston trip. mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2023-01-01: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ My paper free discount.

2023-01-01: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done) Finish unpacking backpack stuff. Last bit of vacation โ€ฆ

2023-01-01: ๐ŸŽ‰ Good morning and Happy New Year. Temperature was reasonable this morning so am outside for my โ€ฆ

2022-12-31: ๐ŸŽ‰ Had a nice relaxing day of sleeping in, playing Breath of the Wild, and watching Deep Space Nine. โ€ฆ

2022-12-30: ๐Ÿ“… Booked my ticket for the in-person return of Philly’s own Emerging Technologies for the โ€ฆ

2022-12-30: ๐Ÿš€๐ŸŽ‰ I’m catching up on a backlog of emails since being away for the holidays. So pumped to โ€ฆ

2022-12-30: ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ†™ I thought this Amtrak program was called Bird Up. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-12-30: โšพ๏ธ Iโ€™m going to wear my Phillies jersey and watch the video yearbook premiere later tonight. โ€ฆ

2022-12-30: ๐Ÿ”— LastPass users: Your info and password vault data are now in hackersโ€™ hands - Ars Technica I am a โ€ฆ

2022-12-30: ๐Ÿ”— New York governor signs modified right-to-repair bill at the last minute - Ars Technica The last โ€ฆ

2022-12-29: ๐Ÿ  I am home from my Boston trip. Trip was great. Sadly maintenance was not able to fix my heater โ€ฆ

2022-12-25: ๐ŸŽ„ Merry Christmas!

2022-12-23: ๐Ÿฟ Finished Fellowship this afternoon. Rewatching the final fight reminded me of these WoW Classic โ€ฆ

2022-12-23: โ˜ƒ๏ธ Snow is here.

2022-12-23: ๐Ÿ“š Got my new bookshelf set up. As expected, probably going to need a second one soonโ„ข.

2022-12-23: ๐Ÿ“† HAPPY FESTIVUS.

2022-12-22: ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Is there anything more cozy than the first hour of Fellowship of the Ring?

2022-12-22: ๐Ÿ˜ก Personal Peeve: When I’m in an online chat with a Community Manager from product X, I point โ€ฆ

2022-12-21: ๐Ÿง An ElixirForum question by me: What is the best way to get phx_live_storybook to use the same font โ€ฆ

2022-12-21: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Me venting (for 6 minutes) about Tailwind, Phoenix, TailwindUI; and a tower of complexity to โ€ฆ

2022-12-20: ๐Ÿ’œ ElixirClub subscriptions are live in prep for the January launch. For more info and a complete โ€ฆ

2022-12-19: ๐Ÿ“… Got the first events on the calendar for ElixirClub. We will do two coworking sessions per week, โ€ฆ

2022-12-19: ๐Ÿฅถ Checkout those low temperature predictions headed into Christmas weekend.

2022-12-19: โค๏ธ I enjoy the simple things in life; like assigning colorful emojis to GitHub Project tabs.

2022-12-19: ๐Ÿ“šGot my yearly email listing the books I finished in 2022. My overall observation is that my reading โ€ฆ

2022-12-19: ๐Ÿ”— Cool website that helps get the most out of YouTube transcriptions. Love the click-to-jump โ€ฆ

2022-12-18: ๐ŸŽ All the presents are wrapped.

2022-12-17: โœ๏ธ Journal – December 17, 2022 This weekend kicked off with some dedicated time to my office. โ€ฆ

2022-12-17: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Do I know anyone who has contributed to documentation powered by GitBook? Nothing actionable on โ€ฆ

2022-12-16: ๐Ÿ‘‹ I know this sounds like I’m a grumpy old fart (and I am), but I find the Discord prompt โ€ฆ

2022-12-16: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk with Random Trek podcast. (done) Review a client PR. Work on โ€ฆ

2022-12-16: โœ… Saw this image in one of my communities today. Take some action on something that is important to โ€ฆ

2022-12-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Hey, I just forked you, and this is crazy; But here’s my PR, so merge it maybe?

2022-12-16: ๐ŸŽฎ Pokรฉmon has gotten so bad, even Ash is done with this shit.

2022-12-15: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปAnother two hours of my life sacrificed to #ReactNative demons. The “victory” I had โ€ฆ

2022-12-15: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ“บ Slowly Iโ€™ve been working my way through DS9 this year and tonight I loaded up my podcast player โ€ฆ

2022-12-13: ๐Ÿšš

2022-12-13: ๐Ÿข

2022-12-13: ๐ŸŽ„ This is me as an ornament. I made it in cub scouts. My photo is taped to the back of a tin foil โ€ฆ

2022-12-13: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿฟ Archived footage of my friends and me talking lasers and recent fusion energy news.

2022-12-12: ๐Ÿ”— Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes - Ars Technica Geeky โ€ฆ

2022-12-11: ๐Ÿ“š This morning during Elixir Book Club started to get much closer to my napkin length personal take โ€ฆ

2022-12-11: ๐Ÿˆ After some shopping I stop in my local bar for some lunch. Forgot the Eagles were playing. Place โ€ฆ

2022-12-10: ๐Ÿ”— Improve UX with LiveView page transitions โ€” Alembic Skilling up at the intersection of Phoenix / โ€ฆ

2022-12-10: ๐Ÿ”— Elixir/Phoenix Security: Introduction to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Great little โ€ฆ

2022-12-10: ๐Ÿ”— What I learned from pairing by default Iโ€™ve only paired in limited scope. Iโ€™m up for more, and โ€ฆ

2022-12-10: ๐Ÿฆ– My face when someone asks me what all this AI stuff will mean for humanity.

2022-12-09: ๐Ÿ’œ The ElixirClub (side project accountability group) has a website! The club will officially open in โ€ฆ

2022-12-05: ๐Ÿ”— Bandit is a pure Elixir HTTP server for Plug & WebSock applications. โ€ฆ

2022-12-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I updated the README for my Franklin project, adding flavor text explaining my motivations โ€ฆ

2022-12-05: โšพ๏ธ Today was a baseball day. Welcome to the team Trea Turner.

2022-12-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The complexity of the React Native build toolchain is sucking the life out of me. I don’t โ€ฆ

2022-12-04: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป To my #Elixir friends who are watching ChatGPT generate articles and code for our somewhat niche โ€ฆ

2022-12-02: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Spending a bit today working through the React Native Introduction docs, and wow, this is so โ€ฆ

2022-12-02: ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽถ I want a hippopotamus for Christmas And only a hippopotamus will do No crocodiles No rhinoceroses โ€ฆ

2022-12-02: ๐Ÿ’œ Posted a talking head video (12m) covering my ElixirClub project and some of my motivations behind โ€ฆ

2022-12-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปI’m looking for a new Elixir consulting project. An ideal engagement is 10-25 hours/week. โ€ฆ

2022-11-30: ๐Ÿ’ก UX tip: When presenting a list of checkboxes, try to use the same cadence for each verb, ie: make โ€ฆ

2022-11-28: ๐Ÿ”— PrimerLive is a collection of functional components that implements GitHub’s Primer Design โ€ฆ

2022-11-28: โœ๏ธ A New Project: ElixirClub ElixirClub is an outcome-oriented community that helps Elixir โ€ฆ

2022-11-28: ๐Ÿฅธ This mornings eye appointment went well. No diabetic issues. I did get a prescription for computer โ€ฆ

2022-11-27: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ I think a productive personal theme for next year is to improve my cooking skills. Tonight I โ€ฆ

2022-11-27: ๐Ÿ“Š๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Computer, plot for me a graph correlating my git commits over time compared to how often I โ€ฆ

2022-11-27: ๐Ÿ“š Elixir Book Club starts in about an hour (via Discord). Stop by and say hi. We’ll be โ€ฆ

2022-11-26: ๐ŸŽ„ Spent some time yesterday and today cleaning the house and putting up some Christmas decorations. โ€ฆ

2022-11-24: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ I know I have not been the most productive person this week – how about this for a โ€ฆ

2022-11-23: ๐Ÿ–Š I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.

2022-11-21: ๐ŸŽ„ Forgive me. I’ve started playing Christmas music. A Charlie Brown Christmas โ€ฆ

2022-11-20: โœ๏ธ Journal – November 20, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-11-20: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿคฉ My face when itโ€™s a Barclay episode.

2022-11-20: ๐Ÿ”— Maintainable Code - Strange Leaflet

2022-11-20: ๐Ÿ”— Passkeys & 1Password: The Future of Passwordless - 1Password

2022-11-19: โค๏ธ Attended a funeral service this morning. A good friend of my mother passed away, and in her โ€ฆ

2022-11-18: ๐Ÿ“š The annual Pragmatic Bookshelf ebook sale is here. Use code “turkeysale2022” for 40% โ€ฆ

2022-11-18: โœ… Today’s goals: Work out at YMCA in preference to cold outside morning walk. (done) Last โ€ฆ

2022-11-17: ๐Ÿ‘‹

2022-11-17: ๐Ÿค“ Got my first pair of reading glasses today. They make a noticeable impact for books and my phone. โ€ฆ

2022-11-17: ๐Ÿ’œ The ElixirConf talks are now on YouTube. A personal recommendation: Not a topic I sought out, but โ€ฆ

2022-11-17: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done) Do some laundry and cleanup in prep for weekend โ€ฆ

2022-11-15: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Worked on my event-sourced Elixir side project today. It feels like things are starting to โ€ฆ

2022-11-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป That feeling when you just fiddled with the build for 90 minutes and somehow got it to work but โ€ฆ

2022-11-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Tonight, while searching for an obscure docker error, I encountered a site that impersonated a โ€ฆ

2022-11-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปYesterday’s book club covering chapter one of Testing Elixir went great. Lots of โ€ฆ

2022-11-12: ๐Ÿ’ฌ DNA is Memory A fun little quote from my current audiobook. mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-11-12: ๐Ÿ“ As I read chapter 2 for book club tomorrow, I scratched lots of observations and questions on โ€ฆ

2022-11-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The Testing Elixir book has a few pages showing how to use ExVCR. I wonder if the young kids โ€ฆ

2022-11-12: ๐Ÿ“š The Elixir Book Club kicks off tomorrow. Join us. mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-11-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Micro.blog does not do retweets/boosts, and honestly I think that is for the best. For iOS โ€ฆ

2022-11-12: ๐Ÿšถ Overcame my lazy default for a morning walk with some podcasts. Itโ€™s so warm for mid-November. โ€ฆ

2022-11-11: ๐Ÿ“บ After my lukewarm take on the reboot, I went ahead and got season one of the original Quantum โ€ฆ

2022-11-10: ๐Ÿชซ Had a bit of an off, unproductive day. Midday power outage didnโ€™t help. Going to bed early and try โ€ฆ

2022-11-10: ๐Ÿ˜ข When a loved one dies, it sure does highlight the inhuman nature of software memory prompts and โ€ฆ

2022-11-10: โœ… Today’s goals: Pay some IRS bills. A bit of client sprint shaping/pr review. Watch some โ€ฆ

2022-11-09: โœ๏ธ My Standup Format There is an async standup format Iโ€™ve been using for over a year now, and since โ€ฆ

2022-11-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปProblem is the open-source GPL projects GitHub is disenfranchising through Copilot do not have โ€ฆ

2022-11-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I’m watching #GitHubUniverse sessions today, and I have very mixed emotions. In many ways, โ€ฆ

2022-11-09: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done) A few morning errands. Watch some GitHub Universe โ€ฆ

2022-11-09: ๐Ÿšฟ My face when PECO shows up three days late to work on my meter and then shuts off the power while โ€ฆ

2022-11-08: ๐Ÿ”Ž Hey AI, generate a comic strip: The board meeting where they decided to, in tandem, compress the โ€ฆ

2022-11-08: ๐Ÿ”Ž Hey AI, generate a comic strip: The board meeting where they decided to render my vision insurance โ€ฆ

2022-11-08: ๐Ÿ’ฅ It is a laundry day, and I’m washing some of my hoodies. The zippers of the hoodies clang โ€ฆ

2022-11-08: ๐Ÿ˜ป One topic my new Mastodon’s “following list” is missing is funny cat photos and โ€ฆ

2022-11-08: ๐Ÿ—ณ I voted.

2022-11-07: โœ๏ธ 2022 Phillies Recap and Thank You! I look back on the 2022 season with immense pride for my team โ€ฆ

2022-11-07: ๐ŸŽ Why does Apple make it so hard to power down (and keep powered down) a laptop for some light โ€ฆ

2022-11-07: ๐Ÿ—ณ Verified my polling place and expected ballot for my new location. No big questions, just office โ€ฆ

2022-11-07: ๐Ÿ“บ Continued working through DS9 and enjoyed this fun silly episode during lunch. โ€ฆ

2022-11-07: โœ… Today’s goals: Be at home for PECO visit. (was planning on working elsewhere) Client: โ€ฆ

2022-11-05: โšพ๏ธ Just want to share my appreciation to the @phillies and all of #RedOctober for a wonderful year. โ€ฆ

2022-11-05: ๐Ÿ’ฃ Good jorb Kyle. #RingTheBell

2022-11-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป All of the codebases I’ve been involved in have done authentication and authorization in โ€ฆ

2022-11-05: ๐Ÿ”— Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Patterns in Phoenix Some good education and recommendations to check โ€ฆ

2022-11-05: ๐Ÿงฆ If we have separate shoes for our left and right feet, how come we don’t have separate socks โ€ฆ

2022-11-05: ๐Ÿ”— Gleam v0.24 released! โ€“ Gleam

2022-11-05: ๐Ÿ”— Better LiveView Tests / iamvery.com These helpers look really cool. Anxious to try them out.

2022-11-05: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done) Pickup pretzels and deposit a check. Read Chapter 1 of โ€ฆ

2022-11-05: ๐Ÿšถ Saw a trio of hawks (?) on my morning walk. Two resting on the power line tower.

2022-11-05: ๐Ÿ˜ด Had a dream I had to go back to high school, but not my own. My body was magnetized, enough to โ€ฆ

2022-11-04: โšพ๏ธ These late nights of baseball have taken their toll. Canโ€™t wait to sleep in tomorrow. Which means โ€ฆ

2022-11-04: ๐Ÿบ Happy Friday.

2022-11-04: ๐Ÿ“š I ordered a physical copy of Testing Elixir for the book club. I used Bookshop.org, which costs โ€ฆ

2022-11-04: โœ๏ธ Recent Estimating Work Notes The goal of this estimate is to, in a time-boxed format, create a โ€ฆ

2022-11-04: โšพ๏ธ Pain.

2022-11-03: โšพ๏ธ Game 5. Letโ€™s go. #RedOctober #RingTheBell

2022-11-02: โšพ๏ธ Iโ€™ll cry tonight and come back strong tomorrow.

2022-11-02: โšพ๏ธ The radio commercial: “For every Phillies run scored company X will donate 100 pounds of โ€ฆ

2022-11-02: โšพ๏ธ Game 4 mood.

2022-11-02: โšพ๏ธ Game 4 Mood. #RedOctober

2022-11-02: โšพ๏ธ Had so much fun listening to Philly sports radio during my drive today. This city is pumped.

2022-11-01: โšพ๏ธ It was a good night. #RedOctober #RingTheBell

2022-11-01: โšพ๏ธ Bedlam at the bank. #RedOctober #RingTheBell

2022-11-01: โšพ๏ธ Dingers, lots of dingers. #RedOctober #RingTheBell

2022-11-01: โšพ๏ธ My pregame photo did not post, so here we go again. Go Phillies!

2022-11-01: ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ™ƒโค๏ธ Looks those crazy interns are testing email templates in production again.

2022-10-31: โšพ๏ธ No baseball? No problem. Game 1 of the World Series had so many fun moments, a breakdown. โ€ฆ

2022-10-31: ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ˜ข More so than the game, I’m bummed for my local trick or treaters – it’s wet out โ€ฆ

2022-10-31: โšพ๏ธ Waiting for game 3 in rain. POSTPONED?!?!?

2022-10-31: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Embracing Halloween by watching Ghostbusters in the background while working on some technical โ€ฆ

2022-10-31: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ”ฅ Lots of CI test flakes today. Would love to personally dig in and solve them but being pulled โ€ฆ

2022-10-30: โœ๏ธ Journal – October 30, 2022 It is Sunday night, and after a chill day, I wanted to catch up โ€ฆ

2022-10-30: ๐Ÿ™ƒ Today was a pretty chill Sunday. Small victories include laundry, washing my CPAP equipment, and โ€ฆ

2022-10-30: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿ”— Shameful cheating. youtu.be/Uu0HHn2G3…

2022-10-30: ๐Ÿ“šElixir Book Club: Testing Elixir, Starts November 13th I read this in April 2021 and thought well โ€ฆ

2022-10-29: โšพ๏ธ Sadness.

2022-10-29: โšพ๏ธ Game 2 is about to start. Let’s go Phillies! SAID!

2022-10-29: ๐Ÿ“ฆ I requested and downloaded an archive of my Twitter data. It took about 24 hours for delivery, and โ€ฆ

2022-10-29: ๐Ÿ“šโค๏ธI finished Project Hail Mary (via audiobook) and it was really good. The sci-fi was fun and โ€ฆ

2022-10-29: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Lots of new Mastodon followers this weekend. Join the party and follow me at: @zorn@jawns.club โ€ฆ

2022-10-29: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป For my client work, I need to skill up a bit in React Native. This is not for a greenfield app โ€ฆ

2022-10-29: โšพ๏ธ Oh no, I forgot how to sleep!

2022-10-29: โšพ๏ธ My favorite screen grab of the night. #RedOctober #RingTheBell

2022-10-29: โšพ๏ธ Phillies win! Come back from a 0-5 deficit to win in extra innings.

2022-10-29: โšพ๏ธ Happy Saturday everyone.

2022-10-28: ๐Ÿ“ซ I get email. After this survey is closed – fuck your feedback? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

2022-10-28: ๐Ÿบ Happy Friday.

2022-10-28: โšพ๏ธ Ready for the morning zoom calls. cc/ with โค๏ธ @jptoto.

2022-10-27: โœ๏ธ The Curse of Test Fixtures Be extremely mindful of the API boundaries of your code. Test the โ€ฆ

2022-10-26: ๐Ÿ“บ Finished Rings of Power season one. Shorter season than I expected. Overall so-so. Not nearly as โ€ฆ

2022-10-26: ๐Ÿš… Just booked a 4-day/3-night post-Christmas trip to Boston for my sister and me. Recommendations โ€ฆ

2022-10-26: โšพ๏ธ Sadness. Thank you for registering for a chance to purchase tickets to a 2022 World Series game โ€ฆ

2022-10-25: ๐ŸŽฎ Final got into a certain someone’s cave tonight and can now see the perfection numbers. Lots โ€ฆ

2022-10-25: ๐Ÿคข Earlier today I thought I smelled some kind of chemical in my office area. I suspect it might have โ€ฆ

2022-10-25: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป When I drag an image into a GitHub issue it (usually) adds standard Markdown syntax for an โ€ฆ

2022-10-25: ๐Ÿ˜ผ If you can’t put the cat back in the bag, how did the cat get in the bag?

2022-10-25: ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ It takes me so long to break in new walking sneakers. The first few walks went well with this new โ€ฆ

2022-10-25: ๐Ÿšถ Itโ€™s a foggy morning walk.

2022-10-24: โœ๏ธ Closing Thoughts on my Exercism Video Project Not overlooking an opportunity to recap the โ€ฆ

2022-10-24: โœ… Today’s goals: Sleep in after celebrating the Phillies last night! (done) Catch up on email โ€ฆ

2022-10-23: โšพ๏ธ Tonight was a good night.

2022-10-23: โšพ๏ธ Go Phillies!

2022-10-22: โšพ๏ธ

2022-10-22: โšพ๏ธ

2022-10-22: ๐Ÿ˜• I keep getting an injury in my leg. It a muscle in the upper, inner thigh. I first recall having โ€ฆ

2022-10-22: ๐Ÿ”— Applying Csikszentmihalyi’s psychology of flow to the writing of technical documentation โ€ฆ

2022-10-22: ๐Ÿ’ก I like this UI in the Buffer blog that, as you scroll the article, it shows the blue line advance, โ€ฆ

2022-10-22: ๐Ÿ”— Efficient Name Search with Postgres and Ecto

2022-10-22: ๐Ÿ”— Ash Framework - a declarative, resource-oriented application development framework for Elixir Iโ€™ve โ€ฆ

2022-10-22: ๐Ÿ”— Oban Starts Where Tasks End ยท Oban Web+Pro

2022-10-21: โšพ๏ธ Redemption.

2022-10-21: โšพ๏ธ Letโ€™s Go!!!

2022-10-21: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Spent today debugging a curious bug in a codebase I had no experience with. Had a great outcome โ€ฆ

2022-10-21: ๐Ÿšถ As I see repeat people during my morning walks Iโ€™ve started to make nicknames for everyone. So far โ€ฆ

2022-10-19: โšพ๏ธ Game face.

2022-10-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about GenServer while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-10-19: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Using Teams for a new gig. It’s so bad. The good news is we have a small team and can โ€ฆ

2022-10-19: ๐Ÿ’ฌ As a Slack user signed in to many workspaces, I want to highlight “Drafts & Sent” โ€ฆ

2022-10-19: ๐Ÿงต I participate in the MicroConf slack, and I love how they built a culture of demanding people use โ€ฆ

2022-10-19: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done!) Do some new code exploration for client work. Post โ€ฆ

2022-10-19: ๐ŸŽ

2022-10-19: ๐ŸŽ Just saw a horse on my walking trail.

2022-10-19: ๐Ÿฅถ Cold walk this morning but after last nights win Iโ€™m on fire.

2022-10-18: โœ๏ธ Journal – October 18, 2022 Itโ€™s been three weeks since I posted a journal entry, and I have โ€ฆ

2022-10-18: ๐Ÿ—ณ For my Philly friends looking for an overview of the various races this year, check out: โ€ฆ

2022-10-18: โšพ๏ธ “I love this place.”

2022-10-17: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปI did a presentation of my WIP Elixir Documentation talk for the local meetup tonight. Overall it โ€ฆ

2022-10-17: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Behaviours and Use while completing โ€ฆ

2022-10-15: โšพ๏ธ Another series in the books. Let’s keep it going. #RingTheBell #RedOctober

2022-10-15: โšพ๏ธ Phillies fans are about to go nuts. This has been awesome.

2022-10-14: โšพ๏ธ Time for baseball. Go Phillies!

2022-10-14: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Iโ€™m working on a meetup presentation covering Elixir documentation. Iโ€™d like to capture the vibe โ€ฆ

2022-10-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Streams while completing the Lucas โ€ฆ

2022-10-14: โœ… Today’s goals: Prep agenda for new client kickoff meeting at 1pm. Record Exercism video. โ€ฆ

2022-10-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Has anyone been able to get Tailwind CSS IntelliSense (or Emmet / HTML completions) to work โ€ฆ

2022-10-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป As I’m building out the page layout and core HTML components for my new blog, I ask: Is โ€ฆ

2022-10-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Watched this with lunch. Great talk. Share Jack’s frustrations regarding how computer โ€ฆ

2022-10-13: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ปWhat programmer friendly slide presentation software do you like? Iโ€™m currently using Deckset on โ€ฆ

2022-10-13: ๐Ÿ—ณ We have some important elections coming up in November here in the US. Verify your registration โ€ฆ

2022-10-13: ๐Ÿ“š There are sparks of interest in restarting the Elixir Book Club. In particular, we are looking for โ€ฆ

2022-10-12: ๐Ÿฅ˜ At my new place I have an electric stovetop. I observe the heating circles will get red but then โ€ฆ

2022-10-12: โšพ๏ธ One of the reasons I enjoy baseball is the pastime nature of the game. It (usually) is a very โ€ฆ

2022-10-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I constantly forget the command #iex:break to cancel open expressions in the Elixir repl. While โ€ฆ

2022-10-11: โšพ๏ธ Doing some talk prep with the American League game running on my iPad.

2022-10-11: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Please be sure to take your receipt.

2022-10-11: โšพ๏ธ @Phillies win 7-6.

2022-10-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Saw this sign in a strip mall near my new grocery store. Seems like a cool little teaching kids โ€ฆ

2022-10-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Exceptions while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-10-11: โœ๏ธ Advice for New Consultants mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-10-11: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done!) Record new Exercism video. Work on new documentation โ€ฆ

2022-10-11: ๐Ÿšถ More neighborhood exploration during the morning walk. Found a nice gazebo that should act as a โ€ฆ

2022-10-10: ๐Ÿบ Dogfish Head Pumpkin Ale Got a bit of a kick. I wouldnโ€™t want to drink it all night but Iโ€™ll enjoy โ€ฆ

2022-10-10: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s @Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about the With special form while completing โ€ฆ

2022-10-10: โœ… Today’s goals: Update voter registration with the new address. Record new Exercism video. โ€ฆ

2022-10-09: โšพ๏ธ Really enjoying watching this Met’s loss. They were so smug all year. Buh bye!! ๐Ÿ‘‹

2022-10-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“… Just grabbed a virtual ticket to CODE BEAM America, November 3-4. codebeamamerica.com

2022-10-09: ๐Ÿ”— Prevent overlapping time ranges with Ecto and Postgres Nice post. I feel like there is a lot I โ€ฆ

2022-10-09: ๐ŸŽ‰ Here is Stubbsโ€™ locker room playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/…

2022-10-09: ๐Ÿšถ Great walking weather.

2022-10-08: โšพ๏ธ Current game status:

2022-10-08: โšพ๏ธ I watch the @Phillies game with the gameday website board live on my laptop, the local broadcast โ€ฆ

2022-10-08: ๐Ÿ’‰ Boosted.

2022-10-07: ๐Ÿ“บ Speaking of Quantum Leap, back in the day, I had a notable crush on Alia, the evil leaper. Why do โ€ฆ

2022-10-07: ๐Ÿ“บ Just watched episode one of the Quantum Leap reboot. It is kind of neat though nothing โ€ฆ

2022-10-07: โšพ๏ธ Game time.

2022-10-07: ๐ŸŽ Pretty sure the arrival of said item will be a significant influence on my opinion of the โ€ฆ

2022-10-07: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning doctor visit (done!) Coffee and email catch-up (done!) Office โ€ฆ

2022-10-06: ๐Ÿ“ฆ Had a fair day unpacking, doing laundry, getting a food order in, and scheduling my mailbox key โ€ฆ

2022-10-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ It’s my first day at the new place, and my Stardew Valley instinct is to plant some โ€ฆ

2022-10-04: ๐Ÿ“ฆ Move is done. Went fairly smoothly. Lots to do / unpack but on my own timeline now.

2022-10-04: โ˜”๏ธ Itโ€™s is going to be a rainy moving day. Iโ€™ve tried to bag and wrap as good as I can. Hoping the โ€ฆ

2022-10-03: โšพ๏ธ The @Phillies are going on to the postseason!

2022-10-03: ๐Ÿบ In the audiobook I started today the narrator had a flashback where he ordered a Guinness; and now โ€ฆ

2022-10-03: ๐Ÿ“ฆ I met two of my new neighbors in passing as I carried in a few boxes that were not mover friendly. โ€ฆ

2022-10-02: ๐ŸŽฎ She said “Yes!”

2022-10-02: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning pretzel pickup (done!) Some lunchtime book reading. Apartment โ€ฆ

2022-10-02: ๐Ÿ‘ด๐Ÿป After years of watching my music habits Spotify just comes out and says it. I’m old.

2022-10-01: ๐Ÿ“บ WRONG! youtu.be/WYBpWAiwW…

2022-10-01: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป The best first programming language to learn is the one your friend/mentor likes and can help โ€ฆ

2022-10-01: ๐ŸฆŒ Saw a pair of Deer in the backyard of my new place after getting the keys today.

2022-09-30: โœ๏ธ The Importance of Side Project Tiny Tickets Deep work programming sessions are hard to come by. โ€ฆ

2022-09-30: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Errors and Try/Rescue while โ€ฆ

2022-09-30: โœ… Today’s goals: Virtual coffee with a friend. Finish the first draft of a new personal โ€ฆ

2022-09-30: โšพ๏ธ To all my @Phillies friends out there: I know it’s been a hard week, but we got two games โ€ฆ

2022-09-29: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Alias and Import while completing โ€ฆ

2022-09-29: The @Phillies have lost 9 of their last 12.

2022-09-28: ๐Ÿ“ฆ Box City.

2022-09-27: โ˜•๏ธ I have intentionally skipped regular food pantry orders to make the apartment move easier. Today โ€ฆ

2022-09-26: ๐Ÿ“ฆ I’m starting to run out of steam packing up the apartment. Feel like I’m moments away โ€ฆ

2022-09-26: โœ๏ธ Some Early Thoughts on LiveView Native #MyElixirStatus After working through the intro tutorial โ€ฆ

2022-09-25: โšพ๏ธ Phillies status:

2022-09-24: ๐ŸŽฎ Iโ€™m supposed to be packing boxes, not opening new ones. Exceptions must be made.

2022-09-24: ๐Ÿ”— LiveView 0.18 Released - Phoenix Blog Iโ€™ve been thirsty for this component attribute feature for โ€ฆ

2022-09-24: ๐Ÿ”— Wallaroo and SwiftUI (1 of 5) โ€ข The Breakroom My Elixir friends should read this series and think โ€ฆ

2022-09-24: ๐Ÿ”— Search Filters with Ecto Queries - Zweitag Some neat patterns here. ๐Ÿ‘

2022-09-24: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I Just did a fun demo of LiveView Native to my iOS friends during our @phillycocoa side project โ€ฆ

2022-09-24: โœ… Today’s goals: Pick up some pretzels. Attend virtual Side Project Saturday. Kick the tires โ€ฆ

2022-09-24: โšพ๏ธ My game shot never uploaded last night, so here we go again. Phillies beat up on the Braves 9-1.

2022-09-23: โšพ๏ธ Go @Philllies.

2022-09-23: โ™Ÿ My high school varsity letters. Chess > Football

2022-09-23: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ–– In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Erlang Libraries and Randomness while โ€ฆ

2022-09-23: ๐Ÿ”— How to Talk to Developers by Ben Orenstein This link came via an @ElixirConf presenter as a video โ€ฆ

2022-09-23: ๐Ÿ The first real fall chill is here in Philadelphia. Aligned with my packing/moving chores it brings โ€ฆ

2022-09-22: ๐Ÿ”— What Resources Does Apple Provide for teaching iOS to students? Excellent list and review by โ€ฆ

2022-09-22: โ˜”๏ธ Trying to figure out if the rain is done and itโ€™s safe to go for a walk.

2022-09-22: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Protocols while completing the Bread And โ€ฆ

2022-09-22: ๐Ÿ“ฆ Just got back from the new apartment walk-through. Looks great. One little repair fix but overall โ€ฆ

2022-09-22: ๐ŸŽง Some morning music for all my @Phillies friends out there. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-09-21: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Inspired by some discussions on the Elixir Slack, I replaced some string-based describe labels โ€ฆ

2022-09-21: โšพ๏ธ Some @Phillies baseball pitching change music. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-09-21: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Agent while completing the Community โ€ฆ

2022-09-20: ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ Starting drafting notes towards an Elixir blog post I’ve been thinking about. The amount โ€ฆ

2022-09-20: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about List Comprehensions while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-09-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Structs while completing the Remote โ€ฆ

2022-09-19: ๐Ÿ’œ Monday Elixir community thread: What side projects are you working on? Share a link! โ€ฆ

2022-09-19: โœ… Today’s goals: Record Exercism video. Work through some LiveView testing course material. โ€ฆ

2022-09-19: ๐Ÿ™ˆ Not even close.

2022-09-18: ๐Ÿ”‹ It has been interesting observing battery behavior with my M1 Macbook Pro. Today was a pretty โ€ฆ

2022-09-18: ๐Ÿ™ Father, forgive me. It has been 0 days since my last domain purchase.

2022-09-18: ๐Ÿ’ก An automated service that, after a time, looks at the most replayed sections of your YouTube โ€ฆ

2022-09-18: โœ๏ธ Journal – September 18, 2022 A short recap of the last two weeks since ElixirConf. A review โ€ฆ

2022-09-18: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Archived footage of me helping junior Elixir developers deal with undecipherable Dialyzer โ€ฆ

2022-09-17: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Spent a few hours working through this LiveView testing course I bought months ago and โ€ฆ

2022-09-17: ๐Ÿ“ฆ Got some meaningful apartment packing done today. Might do some more from my closet (books and โ€ฆ

2022-09-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Working on my new blog project, and while I kind of have something working am adding a comment โ€ฆ

2022-09-16: ๐Ÿค˜๐ŸŽฎ Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun game soundtrack is underrated. It hits hard. โ€ฆ

2022-09-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s @exercism_io Elixir Track video, we learn about Ranges while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-09-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Absolutely stunned a simple power cycle fixed my internet outage this morning. Was preparing for โ€ฆ

2022-09-15: ๐Ÿซฅ Had a particularly bad day yesterday. Trying to bounce back today. Late morning walk and long โ€ฆ

2022-09-14: ๐Ÿ˜ก Scheduling an apartment move over the phone with Verizon is like being questioned by a lawyer in โ€ฆ

2022-09-14: ๐Ÿ’ธ There is a particular uneasiness in mailing out tax estimate payments when there is no actual โ€ฆ

2022-09-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about the File module while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-09-14: ๐Ÿ˜œ Stopped by the in person Verizon store to schedule a tech to handle my FiOS transfer for the โ€ฆ

2022-09-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Is there a VS Code extension or other workaround to quickly, from the position of my cursor, โ€ฆ

2022-09-13: โœ… Today’s goals: Watch Nintendo Direct. (done) Record Exercism (File) video. (done) Publish โ€ฆ

2022-09-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป USB device support is so flaky with my new M1 Macbook. Mice, keyboard, and camera dongle just โ€ฆ

2022-09-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) while โ€ฆ

2022-09-13: ๐ŸŽฎ How is the Nintendo Farming Direct treating everyone?

2022-09-13: โฐ Why do we call one timezone “Pacific” and the other “Eastern”? It should โ€ฆ

2022-09-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Tonight, I tried to extract some pity from an online class running in Pacific Time. I was โ€ฆ

2022-09-12: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ My Elixir Exercism video series is, by its nature, NOT a very tight video presentation, and its โ€ฆ

2022-09-12: ๐Ÿ”— How to use COUNTDOWN timers for your livestreams The is a really good video. The content is โ€ฆ

2022-09-12: ๐Ÿ”— The Carlson Block

2022-09-12: ๐Ÿ• My interest in buying a personal pizza oven increases with inspiring videos like this. โ€ฆ

2022-09-12: โšพ๏ธ Me waiting through a day with no @Phillies baseball.

2022-09-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Binaries while completing the File โ€ฆ

2022-09-12: โœ…๐Ÿ“บ Rings of Power: Episode 3 I was lukewarm on the first two episodes but things are starting to โ€ฆ

2022-09-12: โœ… Today’s goals: Record Exercism coding video. Send email to consulting work prospects. โ€ฆ

2022-09-11: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Does anyone have any recommendations for organizations in Philadelphia that would come and pick โ€ฆ

2022-09-11: ๐Ÿ“ฆ Life is better with labels.

2022-09-11: โœ… Today’s goals: Grocery pickup (done). Clean up desk, dust, and vacuum. Pay bills. Observe โ€ฆ

2022-09-10: ๐Ÿ“บ This video combines three of my favorite YouTube genres: dog grooming, power washing, and room โ€ฆ

2022-09-10: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Enum while completing the Boutique โ€ฆ

2022-09-10: ๐Ÿ”— A process for finding your niche

2022-09-10: ๐Ÿ”— Benchmark Your Elixir App’s Performance with Benchee - AppSignal Blog Great introduction. โ€ฆ

2022-09-10: ๐Ÿ”— Roll Your Own Blog in Elixir and Phoenix Timely read considering my own side project. ๐Ÿ‘

2022-09-10: ๐Ÿ”— TIL about the @external_resource module attribute in Elixir - Jordan Elver Neat. ๐Ÿ“ธ

2022-09-10: ๐Ÿฅจ Happy Pretzel Day.

2022-09-10: ๐ŸŽฎ WWE Commentary (Jim Ross) on Video Games - Episode 2 www.youtube.com/watch

2022-09-10: ๐Ÿšถ Todays morning walk contained the scene of a man tossing a ball with some kind of racket thing. โ€ฆ

2022-09-09: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Had another frustrating interaction with my landlord today. They even flat out said once I put โ€ฆ

2022-09-09: ๐Ÿบ Summer Sam Adams is no longer on tap. Welcome Octoberfest. Happy Friday!

2022-09-09: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Ever notice how your Slack does not use consistent dashes or underscores to represent spaces in โ€ฆ

2022-09-08: ๐Ÿ“บ Netflix status: (Was watching Deep Space Nine, it’s gone, all gone.)

2022-09-08: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Signs of bachelorhood: tonightโ€™s dinner is a cheese sandwich and oven baked french fries. I โ€ฆ

2022-09-08: ๐Ÿถ Is it just me, or is there a lot of cookie judgment in this robot confirmation prompt?

2022-09-08: ๐Ÿคฌ I finally did the account conversion today after snoozing the todo for a bit. I was kicked into โ€ฆ

2022-09-08: ๐Ÿคฌ First, they forced all Oculus accounts to be migrated into Facebook accounts. Then they forced โ€ฆ

2022-09-07: ๐Ÿ™ƒ After a few low-focus days, got some positive work done towards some Livebook todo items I โ€ฆ

2022-09-07: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ I keep reading this YouTube video title as “human beef”.

2022-09-07: ๐Ÿค– Had a call today about a potential gig. The client invited robot notetaker @firefliesai. โ€ฆ

2022-09-07: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Access Behaviour while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-09-06: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Archived footage of a friend asking me my opinion about climate change, clean water availability, โ€ฆ

2022-09-06: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ณ Stardew Valley status…

2022-09-06: โค๏ธ Just renewed my yearly membership for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation / @TheErlef. โ€ฆ

2022-09-06: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about PIDs and Processes while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-09-06: ๐Ÿ•ฐ It’s a 10 hours of Clock Town kind of day. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-09-05: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done) Record / Publish Exercism video. (done) Clean out โ€ฆ

2022-09-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Dates and Time while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-09-05: ๐Ÿ“บ I’ve gone much more all-in on YouTube in recent weeks. Finally started using the Watch Later โ€ฆ

2022-09-04: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป ElixirConf Recap This past week I attended #ElixirConf in Colorado. It was my first time out at โ€ฆ

2022-09-04: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Considering drafting a talk titled: “WTF if LiveView and why do you want this in mingled โ€ฆ

2022-09-04: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done) Grocery pickup. (done) Laundry and misc apartment โ€ฆ

2022-09-04: ๐Ÿšถ Nice morning walk weather.

2022-09-03: ๐Ÿ  I am back home from @elixirconf. Was an awesome week. Going to unpack, prep laundry for tomorrow, โ€ฆ

2022-09-02: ๐Ÿ“บ TIL: There is a Quantum Leap reboot coming out. Oh boy. Related: mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-09-02: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป My only significant #ElixirConf disappointment is that we didnโ€™t last minute combine forces with โ€ฆ

2022-09-01: ๐Ÿ”— WebAuthnLiveComponent, A drop-in LiveComponent for password-less authentication. This looks โ€ฆ

2022-09-01: ๐Ÿ”— An interactive cybersecurity curriculum designed for enterprise use at software companies using โ€ฆ

2022-09-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป An #ElixirConf idea: add topic cards like โ€œectoโ€ or โ€œLiveViewโ€ to lunch tables encouraging โ€ฆ

2022-09-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I don’t know if the Elixir community is ready for what they just unleashed.

2022-09-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Baby’s first steps. #ElixirConf

2022-09-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป

2022-09-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป If anyone is interested in GitHub products (Actions, Projects, etc.) Iโ€™d recommend signing up โ€ฆ

2022-08-31: ๐Ÿ”— Taking Hashrocket’s “Ultimate Elixir CI” to the Next Level This is an amazing โ€ฆ

2022-08-31: ๐Ÿ”— Translating User Interfaces Is Way Harder Than You Think (And Youโ€™re Probably Doing It Wrong) - โ€ฆ

2022-08-31: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป @ElixirConf Is this a bug or an inside joke? I’m okay either way. โค๏ธ

2022-08-31: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป If there were no programming memes, I would have left this industry long ago.

2022-08-30: ๐Ÿ“… Iโ€™m attending @ElixirConf this week, and in preparation, I looked over the session schedule to see โ€ฆ

2022-08-29: โœˆ๏ธ No traffic, no lines and Iโ€™m at the gate with two hours to spare. Rather have been safe than โ€ฆ

2022-08-28: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Exercism Elixir Track: DNA Encoding (Bitstrings and Tail Call Recursion) Not nearly as bad as โ€ฆ

2022-08-28: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Modern technology is me watching the Phillies on Apple TV to be interrupted with a notification โ€ฆ

2022-08-28: ๐Ÿ“… Erlang Ecosystem Foundation - ElixirConf US Student & Diversity Program 2022 There are some โ€ฆ

2022-08-27: โšพ๏ธ

2022-08-27: ๐Ÿ”— Set Up Stripe Checkout for Elixir Phoenix - StakNine

2022-08-27: ๐Ÿ”— Supercharging our event-sourcing capabilities with Phoenix LiveView - by Simone D’Avico - โ€ฆ

2022-08-27: ๐Ÿงณ I’m a bit paranoid about my ability to keep my ElixirConf packing on the light side. I โ€ฆ

2022-08-26: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Keyword Lists while completing the Wine โ€ฆ

2022-08-25: ๐Ÿ”ฅ I am awful with regular expressions and today’s Exercism exercise was painful for me to โ€ฆ

2022-08-25: ๐Ÿง“ Signs I am old: The gear-and-gadgets chatroom I participate in is mostly dedicated to the โ€ฆ

2022-08-24: ๐Ÿ˜œ If someone came into the apartment unannounced they might think Iโ€™m playing musical chairs, but โ€ฆ

2022-08-24: ๐Ÿง I’ve been uploading some videos to YouTube daily. I do this manually via the site, editing โ€ฆ

2022-08-24: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about If and Nil while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-08-24: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Apparently I watch too much YouTube.

2022-08-23: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Why are promoting Knight Rider with a topless woman @netflix?

2022-08-23: โœ๏ธ Journal – August 23, 2022 People; People who need people; Are the luckiest people in the โ€ฆ

2022-08-23: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about IO while completing the RPG Character โ€ฆ

2022-08-23: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done!). Record/publish Elixir Exercism. Prep for dinner โ€ฆ

2022-08-22: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In high school, junior year, I took a computer science elective. I learned BASIC and then Turbo โ€ฆ

2022-08-22: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Case and Charlist while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-08-22: ๐ŸŽฎ Leslie Nielsen in Detroit: Become Human www.youtube.com/watch

2022-08-21: ๐Ÿ˜œ For the third day in a row I have plans with face to face humans. This is exhausting. Today is a โ€ฆ

2022-08-20: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Docs and Typespecs while completing the โ€ฆ

2022-08-19: ๐ŸŽฎ There are two types of people in this world, those who wait for Shadow before they jump and those โ€ฆ

2022-08-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป My programming emotions tonight went from confusion to frustration to debating throwing the โ€ฆ

2022-08-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Recursion while completing the Bird โ€ฆ

2022-08-18: ๐ŸŽฎ Current Stardew Valley status: www.youtube.com/watch

2022-08-18: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Fall 2022 Elixir Consulting Availability My summer vacation is over, and I am looking for my next โ€ฆ

2022-08-18: ๐ŸญSince updating to macOS 12.5 via my new laptop, I’m experiencing periodic keyboard/mouse โ€ฆ

2022-08-18: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Maps and Module Attributes as Constants โ€ฆ

2022-08-17: ๐Ÿถ I’m not much of a dog/cat person, but the YouTube algorithm recently got me into this โ€ฆ

2022-08-17: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In today’s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Pipe Operator and Strings while โ€ฆ

2022-08-16: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Today was day two of feeling very off and very tiered. I was led to check my cpap to see how my โ€ฆ

2022-08-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Pattern Matching and Tuples while โ€ฆ

2022-08-15: ๐Ÿซฅ Very tired today despite a long sleep last night. Going to eat an early dinner hoping to get a โ€ฆ

2022-08-15: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Domo: A library to validate values of nested structs with their type spec t() and associated โ€ฆ

2022-08-15: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video, we learn about Default Arguments, Guards, and Multiple โ€ฆ

2022-08-15: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Observing burn-in on my new LG UltraFine 4K Display.

2022-08-14: ๐Ÿช Donโ€™t be hating just because Iโ€™m baking.

2022-08-13: ๐Ÿ”— Tailwind CSS v3.1: You wanna get nuts? Come on, let’s get nuts! โ€“ Tailwind CSS This was a โ€ฆ

2022-08-13: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub - mirego/mix_audit: ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ MixAudit provides a mix deps.audit task to scan a project Mix โ€ฆ

2022-08-13: ๐Ÿ”— Write a Standalone CLI Application in Elixir - AppSignal Blog

2022-08-13: โ˜€๏ธ While out getting my Saturday pretzels I couldnโ€™t help but observe how nice the weather was. When โ€ฆ

2022-08-13: ๐Ÿ˜ด The end of my dream was in the style of some kind of superhero lego movie. There was a power โ€ฆ

2022-08-12: ๐Ÿ–โœ๏ธ Journal – August 12, 2022 “The past week started with some enjoyable and relaxing โ€ฆ

2022-08-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video we learn about Atoms and Cond while completing the Log โ€ฆ

2022-08-12: ๐Ÿง”โ€โ™‚๏ธ Shaved my vacation beard today. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-08-12: ๐Ÿšถ The weather is particularly pleasant during this morningโ€™s walk.

2022-08-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปIn todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video we learn about Lists while completing the Language List โ€ฆ

2022-08-11: ๐Ÿ”— espanso: cross-platform / open-source Text Expander written in Rust. Going to give this a shot โ€ฆ

2022-08-11: ๐Ÿ“… It was the best meeting ever.

2022-08-11: ๐Ÿ“š Current status: Overwhelmed by the amount of email settings on Goodreads.

2022-08-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I enjoy Screenflow and get notable value from it, but their DRM and license practices leave a โ€ฆ

2022-08-09: ๐Ÿ”’ The shore food shopping cart has a wheel lock if you take it out of range. My car was parked out โ€ฆ

2022-08-08: โ˜€๏ธ Helllo from the boardwalk.

2022-08-06: ๐Ÿ˜ท Got some new masks in prep for my upcoming plane trip. They are MUCH more air tight than the โ€ฆ

2022-08-06: ๐Ÿ”— Elixir Observability: OpenTelemetry, Lightstep, Honeycomb Good introduction post. Iโ€™m hoping to โ€ฆ

2022-08-05: โœ๏ธ Journal – August 5, 2022 “Hello world, from my new laptop.” โ€ฆ

2022-08-05: ๐Ÿ’ป Does anyone have a tool to “fix” the menu bar in macOS 12.5 to be more like the one I โ€ฆ

2022-08-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Mutable state is like a kitchen mixing bowl. As long as there is a single chef working the bowl โ€ฆ

2022-08-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video we learn about Floating Point Numbers and Integers while โ€ฆ

2022-08-05: ๐Ÿบ Happy Friday.

2022-08-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Leadership Sync “Yeah, I’ll send you a calendar invite – right after I send โ€ฆ

2022-08-04: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Ran into an issue where target disk mode on old laptop is not mounting on new laptop. Not sure โ€ฆ

2022-08-04: ๐Ÿ˜‚ That first comment.

2022-08-04: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป New laptop is here. Lots of UI bug screenshots likely coming soon. Iโ€™ve coming into this from โ€ฆ

2022-08-04: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video we learn about Booleans while completing the Pacman Rules โ€ฆ

2022-08-04: ๐Ÿ˜ด For part of my dream I was stuck at a hotel. Tim Allen was there, all scruffy washing windows. He โ€ฆ

2022-08-03: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ”ฅ Make sure you got some burn heals on standby before checking out this Pokemon roast compilation. โ€ฆ

2022-08-03: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In todayโ€™s Exercism Elixir Track video we learn about Anonymous Functions and Bit Manipulation โ€ฆ

2022-08-02: ๐ŸŽฎ Had an itch to break out the DS. This music is so good.

2022-08-02: โœ๏ธ Exercism Elixir Cohort, New Video Series Exercism is going to be hosting a free August cohort for โ€ฆ

2022-08-02: โšพ๏ธ My head is spinning with all these baseball trades. Padres are scary.

2022-08-02: ๐Ÿ“š Pirated books thrive on Amazon โ€” and authors say web giant ignores fraud I have one of the printed โ€ฆ

2022-08-01: โšพ๏ธ An evening with no @phillies to watch.

2022-08-01: ๐Ÿ“ฆ Doing a frustrating dance between Apple, FedEx, and myself–trying to make sure a laptop โ€ฆ

2022-08-01: ๐Ÿšถ Itโ€™s a misty rain this Monday morning walk.

2022-07-31: ๐ŸŽฎ How can the Final Fantasy pixel remasters on iOS NOT have controller support. I just assumed it โ€ฆ

2022-07-30: โœ๏ธ Journal – July 30, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-07-29: ๐Ÿฅƒ Treasure Chest

2022-07-29: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Good choice. Bad choice.

2022-07-29: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy; but here’s my PR, so merge it maybe?

2022-07-28: ๐Ÿ˜ˆ At the dentist for a cleaning. โ€œFather forgive me, it has been 4 boxes of Oreos and two bags of โ€ฆ

2022-07-28: ๐Ÿ”— Introducing the Livebook desktop app - Livebook.dev - The Livebook Blog

2022-07-26: โœ๏ธ Journal – July 26, 2022 “Today Iโ€™m specifically trying to get my head around โ€ฆ

2022-07-25: โšพ๏ธ #ringthebell

2022-07-25: โšพ๏ธ

2022-07-25: โšพ๏ธ Go Phillies!

2022-07-25: โœ๏ธ Started a new Notion page today.

2022-07-25: โ˜”๏ธ It’s curious to me how no one seems to talk about the California water shortage. To my โ€ฆ

2022-07-24: โšพ๏ธโค๏ธ Baseball vs. Football youtu.be/aIkqNiBAS…

2022-07-24: โœ๏ธ Journal – July 24, 2022 “One feeling that is gnawing at me as the new week approaches โ€ฆ

2022-07-24: โšพ๏ธโค๏ธ This weekend Buck O’Neil was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Buck was such a great โ€ฆ

2022-07-24: โšพ๏ธ In lieu of the official @phillies tv broadcast (which is behind a @peacock subscription wall) I โ€ฆ

2022-07-24: โšพ๏ธ I canโ€™t watch the Phillies on TV today because they are on paid-only Peacock plan. Lame.

2022-07-23: ๐Ÿฅต Setting my alarm for 6:30am so I can do my morning walk at the low temperature of the day, 80ยฐ. โ€ฆ

2022-07-23: ๐Ÿ˜‚ Too Funny to Fail: The time slot. youtube.com/watch

2022-07-23: โšพ๏ธโœ๏ธ Baseball Hall of Fame Trip Recap I just returned from my trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame in โ€ฆ

2022-07-22: โšพ๏ธ Let the Phanatic pitch!

2022-07-22: โšพ๏ธ I thought I was having a bad night watching the Cubs stacking up runs vs the Phillies – โ€ฆ

2022-07-22: โšพ๏ธ Empathy for the poor souls running the Hall of Fame gift shop.

2022-07-22: โšพ๏ธ Who is on first.

2022-07-22: โšพ๏ธ Three innings in, my quick take on the Apple TV+ baseball game presentation: dull and โ€ฆ

2022-07-22: โšพ๏ธ Looking ahead to Monday where I got Phillies tickets.

2022-07-22: โšพ๏ธTonight is my first time watching baseball on Apple TV+. Curious how it will go. Frankly, I do not โ€ฆ

2022-07-22: ๐Ÿฅณ Feeling good about some stuff that happened today. Nothing final but feeling good about some โ€ฆ

2022-07-22: ๐Ÿฅต It is going to be a multiple t-shirt day.

2022-07-21: ๐Ÿก I am home. Had a great little trip but nothing like returning to your own place. That said, Philly โ€ฆ

2022-07-20: โšพ๏ธ Just coming in from dinner after a wonderful day in Cooperstown; about to relax and enjoy some โ€ฆ

2022-07-20: โšพ๏ธ My dinner side reading.

2022-07-20: โšพ๏ธ Should I ask the attendant at the Baseball Hall of Fame where the Astros trash can is?

2022-07-19: โšพ๏ธ Even in the All Star game, Mets are getting hit by pitches.

2022-07-19: โšพ๏ธ Watching the All Star game from a Cooperstown bar seems like a good branch of chaos. Go National โ€ฆ

2022-07-18: โšพ๏ธ All this towel kids pushing the sponsored Gatoradeโ„ข when the batters just want some water.

2022-07-18: โšพ๏ธ Alonso needs to lighten up.

2022-07-18: โšพ๏ธ Night plans: Homerun derby and then need to pack for my trip. Then check out new MLB The Show โ€ฆ

2022-07-18: ๐Ÿก On the road today for another apartment tour. This one was very nice but is on the fringe of the โ€ฆ

2022-07-18: ๐Ÿ•บ Gone, but never forgotten. PS: Watching your liked music disappear is really lame.

2022-07-17: ๐Ÿ“š Stocking up on some new audio books for the upcoming car trip.

2022-07-17: ๐Ÿ˜œ The project manager overheard how we use rubber ducks to help debug problems and in typical โ€ฆ

2022-07-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Back in my day the internet came on DVDs. #WWDC

2022-07-16: โœ๏ธ Journal – July 16, 2022 “Other fun news, I think it was Wednesday or Thursday, I โ€ฆ

2022-07-16: ๐Ÿฅจ The morning walk is done. Need to do some morning chores and then head off the ceremonial Saturday โ€ฆ

2022-07-15: ๐ŸŽฎ The retro controller is out and ready. Letโ€™s do this.

2022-07-15: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ The more I apartment hunt, the more I consider a houseโ€”preferably in the middle of nowhere.

2022-07-14: โณ You would have thought I had asked the thing to calculate the last digit of pi. What is this โ€ฆ

2022-07-14: โœ๏ธ Journal – July 14, 2022 “On Wednesday, I hoped to see the apartment repair man โ€ฆ

2022-07-11: ๐Ÿ™ƒ My face when the landlord uses the phrase “mold isolation” instead of mold removal.

2022-07-10: โœ๏ธ Journal – July 10, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-07-06: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Went out to let my apartment air out a bit. Pretty sure this guy isnโ€™t coming back until next โ€ฆ

2022-07-06: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Watching the repair man break out my moldy wall with no mask or gloves. Says he’s done mold โ€ฆ

2022-07-05: ๐ŸŽฎ WWE Commentary (Jim Ross) on Video Games - Episode 2 www.youtube.com/watch

2022-07-05: โšพ๏ธ #RingTheBell

2022-07-05: โšพ๏ธ Live update: Schwarber is up 2-0 vs the Nationals.

2022-07-05: โšพ๏ธ Best mascot in sports.

2022-07-05: โšพ๏ธ The tarp is being cleaned up. Baseball will live, if not slightly delayed.

2022-07-05: โšพ๏ธ I lied. Itโ€™s pouring now.

2022-07-05: โšพ๏ธ Just arrived and tarp is on the field. But rain is light and should pass.

2022-07-05: ๐Ÿ˜ก I think the straw broke the camelโ€™s back today. The new apartment hunt is on.

2022-07-04: โœ๏ธ Journal – July 4, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-07-03: ๐Ÿ˜… IF YOU LOSE YOUR POOL ASS A NEW ASS WILL BE ISSUED AT THE COST OF $25.

2022-07-03: ๐Ÿ Fresh pasta is so much better than the alternative. Do it.

2022-07-02: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub - fuelen/ecto_erd: A mix task for generating Entity Relationship Diagram from Ecto schemas โ€ฆ

2022-07-01: โšพ๏ธ John Kruk commentary is on fire tonight.

2022-07-01: ๐Ÿ”— A simple Elixir library to check passwords and emails with the HaveIBeenPwned? database. โ€ฆ

2022-07-01: ๐Ÿ”— Markwhen is a text-to-timeline tool. You write markdown-ish text and it gets converted into a nice โ€ฆ

2022-07-01: ๐ŸŽฎ I was listening to the Final Fantasy 4 OST while reading my books. Iโ€™ll be respectful and let it โ€ฆ

2022-07-01: โœ๏ธ Journal – July 1, 2022 Good news, I tested negative this morning and best I can tell have โ€ฆ

2022-07-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆณ I’d say about 74.6% of the ads I get on YouTube promote some form of men’s gray โ€ฆ

2022-06-30: ๐Ÿง After some mindful reflection, Iโ€™m starting to think there is an addictive substance in these โ€ฆ

2022-06-28: โšพ๏ธ I would love to see @mlbtheshow do a program to celebrate some players from the historical negro โ€ฆ

2022-06-27: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub Copilot and open source laundering [GitHub Copilot] represents a flagrant disregard of FOSS โ€ฆ

2022-06-27: โœ๏ธ Journal – June 27, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-27: ๐ŸŽฎ I ordered a new PS4 controller with the misguided hope a clean/new analog stick will improving my โ€ฆ

2022-06-27: โ˜”๏ธ I do not trust my apartment appliances and so when we have a combo of doing laundry with it โ€ฆ

2022-06-26: โœ๏ธ Journal – June 26, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-25: โšพ๏ธ An EMOTIONAL RETURN! Freeman receives World Series ring, gets standing ovation in return to โ€ฆ

2022-06-24: ๐Ÿคง Journal – June 24, 2022 I’m back from vacation early after getting COVID. ๐Ÿ˜ญ โ€ฆ

2022-06-21: โ˜•๏ธ Morning coffee view.

2022-06-17: โšพ๏ธ Since I finished my contract on June 1 and given the @phillies my full attention since we are โ€ฆ

2022-06-17: โšพ๏ธ I watched 7+ hours of baseball today, not counting some pre-game and post-game stuff too. Time โ€ฆ

2022-06-17: โœ๏ธ Journal – June 17, 2022 I have been slacking on my journal entries so letโ€™s catch up. โ€ฆ

2022-06-17: โšพ๏ธ Double the flavor, double the fun. A long day of baseball is ahead of us.

2022-06-16: โšพ๏ธ Watching the trends so I donโ€™t overpay for Maddux. Could just wait to buy when I get back from โ€ฆ

2022-06-15: โšพ๏ธ Phillies.

2022-06-14: ๐Ÿฅณ Was able to get blood drawn this morning without fainting.

2022-06-13: โœ๏ธ Journal – June 13, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-13: โšพ๏ธ It bothers me how gambling platforms have saturated the marketing space of Baseball games and the โ€ฆ

2022-06-13: ๐Ÿ’ก A Slack plug-in that limits how many messages you are allowed to post per day.

2022-06-12: ๐Ÿ”— A beginnerโ€™s guide to CI/CD and automation on GitHub - The GitHub Blog

2022-06-12: ๐Ÿฅ— Archived footage of me trying to eat more healthy choices.

2022-06-12: ๐Ÿ’ช Archived footage of me after my VR workout session.

2022-06-11: โœ๏ธ Standup for Saturday, June 11, 2022 Normally I wouldnโ€™t journal over the weekend but since I โ€ฆ

2022-06-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Software frameworks are like power tools; they can help you build things faster, but they can โ€ฆ

2022-06-10: ๐Ÿธ Happy Friday.

2022-06-09: โšพ๏ธ Just booked a July weekday excursion to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Is about a 4.5 hour ride from โ€ฆ

2022-06-09: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Iโ€™m officially โ€œout of pills, the pharmacist says I picked them up two weeks ago, but I canโ€™t find โ€ฆ

2022-06-09: โœ๏ธ Standup for Thursday, June 9, 2022 โค๏ธ Feeling: The Phillies have won six in a row and I donโ€™t โ€ฆ

2022-06-08: โœ๏ธ Standup for Wednesday, June 8, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-07: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Did some podcast subscription cleanup and additions tonight. What should I be listening to?

2022-06-07: ๐Ÿ“ฑ Current home screen. Widgets are kind of neat. Keeping things basic for now.

2022-06-07: โœ๏ธ Standup for Tuesday, June 7, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-07: โ˜•๏ธ My third cup is coming very late in the day(schedule change due to emergency water shutoffโ€”Iโ€™m โ€ฆ

2022-06-07: ๐Ÿ”— With BA.2.12.1 now dominant in US, experts eye new subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 [Updated] - Ars โ€ฆ

2022-06-06: โœ๏ธ Standup for Monday, June 6, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-05: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Also updating the iPhone to 15.5 from 14.something. The advertised release notes donโ€™t even โ€ฆ

2022-06-05: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Updated my iPad to iOS 15.5 from iOS 14.something today. Launched Photos and get privacy promo โ€ฆ

2022-06-04: โšพ๏ธ Yanks figure out pitcher is tipping his pitches, a breakdown The game within the game. โ€ฆ

2022-06-03: ๐Ÿ”— Adding soft delete to a Phoenix Commanded (CQRS) API - DEV Community

2022-06-03: โœ๏ธ Side Project Idea Audit I keep a running list of project ideas in my notebook, and here is the โ€ฆ

2022-06-03: โœ๏ธ Standup for Friday, June 3, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-02: โœ๏ธ Standup for Thursday, June 2, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-01: โœ๏ธ Extended Vacation (Again) Repeating my choice from last year, I have decided to take an extended โ€ฆ

2022-06-01: ๐Ÿ’ธ Pulled the trigger on a purchase I wasn’t really planning on. I’m worried without a โ€ฆ

2022-06-01: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿ–– Iโ€™ve peered across dimensions and in the mirror universe the @phillies still have a loosing โ€ฆ

2022-06-01: โœ๏ธ Standup for June 1, 2022 mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2022-06-01: ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ New walking sneakers are hurting my feet. Specifically agitating a callus on my right foot. Might โ€ฆ

2022-05-31: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Is there a way to run PostgreSQL locally such that when my @elixirphoenix app does a Repo query โ€ฆ

2022-05-31: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I wish there was a way on a @GitHub PR to attach a comment for any arbitrary line of code, not โ€ฆ

2022-05-29: ๐Ÿ“บ I need to keep some prune juice on hand for these lunch episodes of DS9 with Warf plot lines.

2022-05-29: ๐ŸšฝHad a bit of a moment today when the toothpaste slipped out of hand, bounced on every possible โ€ฆ

2022-05-28: ๐Ÿ›’ When you buy food at the grocery store, the receipt should show you totals for calories, sugar, โ€ฆ

2022-05-28: ๐Ÿ“บ Minority Report is on TV. This chase scene at the mall is extremely out of place. WTF is a mall? โ€ฆ

2022-05-27: ๐Ÿ”— Sick of picking up toys? Dysonโ€™s future home robots want to do it for you - Ars Technica

2022-05-27: ๐ŸŽฎ Did you give her a high five?

2022-05-26: โšพ๏ธ I only link this because we won in the end. Go Phillies! Runner gets duped by simple deke, a โ€ฆ

2022-05-25: โšพ๏ธ Go Phillies!

2022-05-24: ๐ŸŽ‰ Confession: I bought the party size Doritos but ate them by myself.

2022-05-20: ๐Ÿ”— UUID or GUID as Primary Keys? Be Careful! | by Tom Harrison | Tom Harrisonโ€™s Blog Some good things โ€ฆ

2022-05-20: ๐Ÿ”— Using CQRS in a simple Phoenix API with Commanded - DEV Community Fun read. Would be very โ€ฆ

2022-05-18: ๐Ÿ‘• For the last three days I have had to do mid-day shirt changes after food stuff falling on me. โ€ฆ

2022-05-18: ๐Ÿ“บ Recommendation happenstance.

2022-05-17: ๐Ÿ—ณ I voted.

2022-05-16: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Today was a bizarre and unsettling day for many reasons. Off to bed. You know what – โ€ฆ

2022-05-15: ๐Ÿ˜‚ So much for passive-aggressive, letโ€™s just go to aggressive-aggressive. By the way, we need to โ€ฆ

2022-05-14: ๐Ÿ”— Ken Burns: The Civil War: Was it Not Real? www.youtube.com/watch

2022-05-14: ๐Ÿ”— Procrastinatorโ€™s Guide to the May 2022 primary election in Philadelphia May 17. VOTE! โ€ฆ

2022-05-13: ๐Ÿ–ฅ Almost three years after buying the 23.7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display, this week I bought a second โ€ฆ

2022-05-13: ๐Ÿ“บ Tonight finished rewatching the Civil War documentary by Ken Burns. So very good, but so very sad.

2022-05-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Archived footage of me, May 13, 2022 at 3:45 PM.

2022-05-13: ๐Ÿช In my easter basket my very thoughtful aunt gave me these cookies from @ikea. I am amazed I did โ€ฆ

2022-05-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป People: “What do you want to do after your coding contract is up?” Me: “I want โ€ฆ

2022-05-12: ๐Ÿ“น Zoom meetings will never be the same again, and that is ok.

2022-05-09: ๐Ÿ’ฌ I’m generally pretty sus on Slack Direct Messages, but when JIRA sends me DMs – oh โ€ฆ

2022-05-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Archived footage me using git blame to find the reckless developer who introduced this bug.

2022-05-05: ๐ŸŽง Changelog podcast: What I’ve learned about writing reliable code (Frank Krueger) Some BEAM โ€ฆ

2022-05-05: โ˜•๏ธ New coffee mug.

2022-05-04: ๐Ÿ˜ญ We turned on a big feature I had worked on for the last few months. It blew up in production. It โ€ฆ

2022-05-04: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป A third-party vender my client uses sends out these emails. Someone there must think that โ€ฆ

2022-05-04: ๐Ÿ’ช Archived footage of me doing the one-day Star Wars themed VR workout on @getsupernatural. โ€ฆ

2022-05-03: ๐Ÿคฌ Is it too much to ask for a WORKING unsubscribe link for the mother’s day flower reminders. โ€ฆ

2022-05-02: ๐Ÿ“บ After enjoying Ken Burn’s latest Ben Franklin film, I have been working through his back โ€ฆ

2022-05-01: โšพ๏ธ Going to be a hard night for the @phillies vs Max Scherzer and the Mets. Here we go…

2022-05-01: ๐Ÿ“š A nice day to grab some tree shade and read my books in front of the river.

2022-04-30: ๐Ÿ“ฌ It is wrong that I DO want a simple game where I become a small town mail delivery person? This โ€ฆ

2022-04-30: ๐Ÿ’ช I love that this is happening. I am very sad this is a one-day only workout.

2022-04-30: ๐Ÿ”— A free JSON API for actor Owen Wilson’s “wow” exclamations in movies. Wow. โ€ฆ

2022-04-29: ๐Ÿป Happy Friday.

2022-04-28: ๐Ÿ”— Mission Possible: Performant GraphQL APIs made easy in Elixir

2022-04-28: ๐Ÿ”— Adding traceability to Elixir applications with Spandex: our experience - by WTTJ Tech - Welcome โ€ฆ

2022-04-28: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿฅถ Archived footage of my uncle down at the @phillies game.

2022-04-28: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I don’t like rebase for the same reason I don’t like mutability. It’s โ€ฆ

2022-04-28: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿงน Get those brooms ready @phillies nation!

2022-04-27: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ญ Try to escape the problems of my programming career and play some online baseball. My season has โ€ฆ

2022-04-27: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป A button observed at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

2022-04-27: ๐Ÿค” Modern times summed up in 25 seconds from the Arther PBS show. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-04-26: ๐Ÿค Archived footage of when HR invited me to a conflict resolution meeting.

2022-04-25: โšพ๏ธ Schwarber loses his mind on รngel Hernรกndez, a breakdown. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-04-25: โšพ๏ธ For anyone who needs a more full recap of last night’s strike zone. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-04-25: ๐Ÿšซโ˜•๏ธ Had to get some fillings this morning at the dentist. Still numb and can’t drink coffee. โ€ฆ

2022-04-24: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub suspending Russian accounts deleted project history and pull requests ยท Jesse Squires

2022-04-24: ๐Ÿคง Allergies.

2022-04-18: โญ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ”—How we lost 54k GitHub stars I accidentally made the projectโ€™s repository private for a moment. โ€ฆ

2022-04-15: ๐Ÿ”— Is there a good computer job? - Pam The Webivore

2022-04-13: ๐ŸŽฃ Enjoying fishing is to working at a fish processing plant as enjoying programming is to working in โ€ฆ

2022-04-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Who want’s to be my regex hero? elixirforum.com/t/anyone-…

2022-04-10: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ƒ My face when my friend asks me how he’ll spot me at the ballpark gate before the game โ€ฆ

2022-04-10: ๐Ÿ“š Starting the Metaprogramming Elixir book today for book club. Page 7… โ€ฆ

2022-04-08: ๐ŸŽฎ I have a confession to make. I never collected all the chaos emeralds.

2022-04-08: โšพ๏ธ Very much excited for the first game of the new season today. Go Phillies! โ€ฆ

2022-04-07: ๐Ÿ“… The PhillyETE schedule is up: 2022.phillyemergingtech.com/schedule/ Virtual: April 19-20, 2022

2022-04-06: ๐Ÿ“… Devs For Ukraine is a free, online engineering conference with the goal to raise funds and provide โ€ฆ

2022-04-05: ๐Ÿ˜ A small sign that we can evolve as a species. My new sheets have a tag showing the long side.

2022-04-03: ๐ŸŽฎ Today I was reminded the Chrono Cross remaster is due to drop this week. Can’t wait to play โ€ฆ

2022-04-03: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ That feeling when you spend a good part of your Sunday cleaning the kitchen and canโ€™t stand the โ€ฆ

2022-04-03: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปElixir Book Club is voting in our Discord to decide the next book. We are considering โ€ฆ

2022-04-03: โœ… Today’s goals: Play some Supernatural (done!) Laundry. Book reading. Kitchen cleanup. Food โ€ฆ

2022-04-03: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Archived footage of me brainstorming what’s next for my programming career. โ€ฆ

2022-04-02: ๐Ÿ’ธโœ๏ธ Budget Revisit 2022 Iโ€™ll share how I collect and organize my numbers, and hopefully, it will โ€ฆ

2022-04-02: ๐ŸToday I preemptively sprayed stuff to hopefully discourage the carpenter bees who loved nesting in โ€ฆ

2022-04-02: ๐Ÿ’ฌ sive.rs/n

2022-04-02: ๐Ÿค” One signal for how motivated or interested I am in my work is, do I watch a short episode of โ€ฆ

2022-04-02: ๐Ÿ”— Instead of sharing generic startup validation best practices, weโ€™re sharing the story of how one โ€ฆ

2022-04-02: ๐Ÿ”— Doctest functions with side effects Some great tips here.

2022-04-01: ๐ŸŽฎ I can’t speak to the details of Farewell Edition, but I thoroughly enjoyed this game when I โ€ฆ

2022-04-01: โœ… Today’s goals: Going to keep it light today. Client work for 1-2 hours to help get a PR out โ€ฆ

2022-03-31: ๐Ÿ”ˆ It is unhealthy to let other people / tech trigger you with these sounds at such regular โ€ฆ

2022-03-30: ๐Ÿ”— Databases reimaginedโ€” whatโ€™s changed? Feels like Iโ€™m almost over the hump to fully invest in my โ€ฆ

2022-03-30: ๐Ÿ”— Architecture Decision Records help you, your team, and future teams Iโ€™ve never been on team that โ€ฆ

2022-03-30: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜‚ Nintendo Announces New Daily Fee to Keep Your Pokรฉmon Alive

2022-03-30: ๐Ÿ” 1Password offers a nice simple printout you can make called an Emergency Kit. Good to make and โ€ฆ

2022-03-30: ๐Ÿ“ฌ The lawyersโ“‡ are in charge of email copy.

2022-03-29: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป TIL when positioning the macOS Dock at the bottom of the screen and using multiple monitors, the โ€ฆ

2022-03-29: ๐Ÿคฌ Hey look! A fun new prompt I get to dismiss in every single Slack I am logged into.

2022-03-29: ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ Somehow I feel like this wording choice does not put the company in the best light.

2022-03-28: ๐Ÿ’ธ Starting a Monday morning with a carry over todo of my finalizing my tax paperwork. Ugh.

2022-03-27: โœ… Today’s goals Morning walk (done). Weekly food pickup. Finalize tax paperwork and payments. โ€ฆ

2022-03-26: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ข Played some MLB: The Show 2020 this past week to get in the mood for the baseball season and wow โ€ฆ

2022-03-25: ๐Ÿค” Archived footage of me brainstorming what’s next for me and my career. www.youtube.com/watch

2022-03-23: ๐Ÿฅ— I know this is far from breaking news for many but as someone who historically washed his lettuce โ€ฆ

2022-03-22: ๐Ÿž๐Ÿ“š New book from Daniel Steinberg: A Bread Baking Kickstart. You’ll learn fundamental โ€ฆ

2022-03-22: ๐Ÿ“ซ Them: Find a job doing something you are good at. Me: Is there a job for snoozing email?

2022-03-20: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ A respite during morning walk.

2022-03-19: ๐Ÿฅœ What kind of monster does not wipe down a peanut butter knife before putting it in the dishwasher?

2022-03-17: โšพ๏ธ Looks like I’ll have the @phillies game on the radio tomorrow and first TV version on โ€ฆ

2022-03-17: ๐Ÿ–– I feel like Star Trek has given people a false sense for how accurate engineering estimates are.

2022-03-16: ๐Ÿ”— Introducing Rustler Precompiled - Dashbit Blog

2022-03-16: ๐Ÿง The last two years I took time over the summer to learn a new programming language. Not so much โ€ฆ

2022-03-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Ending the night with an ugly, but working, LiveView that does client side direct to S3 file โ€ฆ

2022-03-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Don’t rat me out but I am using XMLHttpRequest and I’m not interfacing using XML.

2022-03-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Ned Flanders finally snaps during the latest open source pull request against his project. โ€ฆ

2022-03-13: ๐ŸŽฎ Victory!

2022-03-12: ๐Ÿ’ฐ If you are self employed, what software do you pay for and are unhappy with?

2022-03-12: ๐Ÿ”— Benchee 1.1.0 released + why did it take so long Library for easy and nice (micro) benchmarking in โ€ฆ

2022-03-12: ๐Ÿ”— Build Simple Reusable Widgets Using Slots ยท Fly Looking forward to experimenting with slots and โ€ฆ

2022-03-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป A few tech meetups I am in are experimenting with 2D spaces during our meetings. I wonder if โ€ฆ

2022-03-11: โœ… Today’s goals: Work out of @indyhall. LiveView code refactoring for client. Attend Elixir โ€ฆ

2022-03-09: ๐Ÿ–– DS9 Question: Sometimes in conversations people will say “Jadzia” or sometime โ€ฆ

2022-03-08: ๐ŸŽฎ

2022-03-07: ๐ŸŽฎ Current Stardew Status

2022-03-07: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Quantum JIRA And so Doctor Zornek finds himself leaping from ticket to ticket, striving to put โ€ฆ

2022-03-07: โœ… Today’s Goals: Morning walk (done!) Help sister with party invite. Finalize @phillyelixir โ€ฆ

2022-03-06: ๐Ÿ”— Write What You Know - Big Nerd Ranch Not shared here, but reading this reminded me of, is an idea โ€ฆ

2022-03-06: ๐Ÿ”— An opinionated Elixir Style Guide I disagree with some of these notes, but I love the idea of โ€ฆ

2022-03-06: ๐Ÿ“บ Looking for some light live TV to have on in the background while I read, I saw a show titled Mega โ€ฆ

2022-03-06: ๐Ÿ”— Democracy, Dictatorships and Access to Information - Pointers Gone Wild Iโ€™ve had similar concepts, โ€ฆ

2022-03-06: ๐ŸŽฎ Considering just looping through my old Red Dead 2 saves so I can just go hunting and fishing with โ€ฆ

2022-03-06: โœ… Today’s Goals: Take a walk before it starts to rain. (done!) Morning errands including post โ€ฆ

2022-03-04: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The scene opens: Gandalf tirelessly reading through texts looking for how to destroy the ring โ€ฆ

2022-03-02: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป When the kids ask me about which continuous integration system I used back in the day I explain โ€ฆ

2022-02-27: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ“บ An non-federation ship docked and yada yada yada, drama ensues on the promenade.

2022-02-23: ๐Ÿ• Tonight was gluttonous.

2022-02-22: ๐Ÿฆนโ€โ™‚๏ธ The YouTube algorithm just suggested for me: “A playlist for a 19th century villain โ€ฆ

2022-02-18: ๐ŸŽฎ While it is easy to get lost in the upbeat visuals there are some dark undertones to Stardew โ€ฆ

2022-02-17: ๐Ÿค– Just saw a show and tell at @indyhall talking about the development of DiscoNap. The DiscoNap bot โ€ฆ

2022-02-17: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ The warm weather took me by surprise during the morning walk. Ended up carrying my undercoat โ€ฆ

2022-02-16: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿ’” I’m a big fan of baseball but have not been down to see a in-person game in a while. On a โ€ฆ

2022-02-15: ๐ŸŸ๐Ÿ˜ญ Tried a new place for lunch. Got a survey link. Wanted to fill it out to explain in part how โ€ฆ

2022-02-07: โค๏ธ Mom’s Passing Over the last few months, I have had to increasingly step back from friends โ€ฆ

2022-02-04: ๐Ÿ“บ How I Met Your Undefined (Inspired by my YouTube topic filters.)

2021-12-31: ๐Ÿ”— Inside Sketch: remote working from day one ยท Sketch The chat-based interview is an interesting โ€ฆ

2021-12-30: ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿ˜ข Doing my daily look at the COVID numbers. www.youtube.com/watch

2021-12-29: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ I’ve been distracted by my own family emergencies but holy shit, New York City had a +627% โ€ฆ

2021-12-26: โณ App Idea: A Slack App providing a real time dashboard to help quantify how bad Slack is for your โ€ฆ

2021-12-22: ๐ŸฟThe Matrix Resurrections: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

2021-12-18: ๐Ÿ“š My 2021 books.

2021-12-17: ๐ŸŽ„ I am officially on holiday break. Looking forward to books, naps, walks, and family time with mom โ€ฆ

2021-12-17: ๐Ÿ”— dev.betterdoc.org Creating testable HTTP API client code in Elixir | BetterDoc Product โ€ฆ

2021-12-17: ๐Ÿ”— Our contribution to the Hex package manager - BetterDoc Product Development Blog

2021-12-17: ๐Ÿ”— Link Phoenix debug page stack trace to your editor - Angelika.me

2021-12-17: ๐Ÿ˜œ Everyone takes photo from a high perspective to look thin and pretty.

2021-12-16: ๐Ÿ”— Eextoheex provides best effort conversion of html.eex templates to .heex templates. โ€ฆ

2021-12-15: ๐Ÿ“š Finished reading Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing โ€ฆ

2021-12-15: ๐Ÿ”— Some friends were involved in the website relaunch for the Philadelphia Old City District website. โ€ฆ

2021-12-12: ๐Ÿ”— Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening - Electronic Frontier Foundation

2021-12-11: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Revisiting my VS Code setup and trying out a new commercial font made for software devs, โ€ฆ

2021-12-10: ๐Ÿ”— New Improvements in Elixir 1.13.0- Elixir Releases - by Blackode - Dec, 2021 - Medium Great notes โ€ฆ

2021-12-10: ๐Ÿ”— Best Error Monitoring Services for Elixir Phoenix - StakNine I continue to hear good things about โ€ฆ

2021-12-10: ๐Ÿ”— WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web โ€ฆ

2021-12-09: โœ๏ธ Filters Shaping My Next Project Idea A collection of notes for what my next project should be and โ€ฆ

2021-12-07: ๐Ÿ”— Underjord - Are Contexts a Thing? Really enjoyed this article. Touches a lot of Elixir coding โ€ฆ

2021-12-07: ๐Ÿ”ฅ If your website is currently responding with “Oops something went wrong.” you’d โ€ฆ

2021-12-07: ๐Ÿช There are so many things to hate about the barrage of cookie prompts on the web but as a developer โ€ฆ

2021-12-07: ๐Ÿ“š My @indyhall friend’s new book is out! Miradenโ€™s Folly – a young adult high fantasy โ€ฆ

2021-12-06: ๐Ÿคฌ Just lost a 15 minute story editing session cause you know, Jira is awesome.

2021-12-05: ๐Ÿ“š I like that we have some LiveView-doubters inside our @elixirbookclub. It will enable the โ€ฆ

2021-12-05: ๐Ÿ”— Three Ways to Debug Code in Elixir - AppSignal Blog Some great tips here.

2021-12-03: ๐ŸŽค As both a historic Cocoa developer and Big Nerd Ranch instructor, this was a fun podcast episode โ€ฆ

2021-12-03: ๐Ÿ”— HTML Sketches: Whither Cards? โ€“ย Colophon Cards I enjoy watching a design evolve as seen here. Cool โ€ฆ

2021-12-02: ๐Ÿ˜ข I think Slack and the bad habits it encourages has been an immeasurable destructive force for โ€ฆ

2021-12-02: ๐Ÿคช In one of those phases where some work Slacks have new behaviors but others do not. Why does Slack โ€ฆ

2021-12-02: ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ Some parts of my Google account are so old and misaligned with the current platform that basic โ€ฆ

2021-12-01: ๐Ÿฟ I watched Die Hard to celebrate the holidays. Some observations: John’s wife’s name โ€ฆ

2021-11-28: ๐Ÿ“šโœ๏ธ Book Thoughts: Company of One mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2021-11-28: ๐ŸŽ‰ It is telling as I catch up with old tech peers, the updates Iโ€™m most interested in is how they โ€ฆ

2021-11-26: โค๏ธ Officially boosted.

2021-11-26: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The Elixir Book Club is finishing up Elixir in Action and starting up Programming Phoenix โ€ฆ

2021-11-24: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปI’m not doing SwiftUI these days, but am observing people running into the same issue I did โ€ฆ

2021-11-24: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป All my Elixir friends agree, iex is DAM sexy.

2021-11-24: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ• Coworker from London area shared with me his tool for helping coordinate our timezone diverse โ€ฆ

2021-11-24: ๐Ÿค” You can tell a lot about one’s relationship to a Slack community via the Frequently Used โ€ฆ

2021-11-22: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽบ A Link to the Brass - Complete Soundtrack Replacement Album - Announcement Trailer โ€ฆ

2021-11-22: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Worked a longer than normal day in order to get my hours in before Thanksgiving. Felt a bit like โ€ฆ

2021-11-20: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Working on my Tic-Tac-Toe Elixir Code Jam entry for @phillyelixir today. โ€ฆ

2021-11-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I Have Delivered Value… But At What Cost? www.youtube.com/watch

2021-11-18: ๐ŸŽฎ Out of Bounds Secrets | Metroid Dread - Boundary Break www.youtube.com/watch

2021-11-17: ๐ŸŽ„ I gave in to my temptations and started listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving – โ€ฆ

2021-11-17: ๐Ÿ”— Finally! A Raspberry Pi Linux Tablet that works! Could be a fun hardware item to base an โ€ฆ

2021-11-14: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Updating my personal (not business) Apple account email is probably the most stressful change of โ€ฆ

2021-11-14: ๐Ÿ“ซ Doing some email cleanup today. Making sure important services are using my real email and not an โ€ฆ

2021-11-13: ๐Ÿ”— 7 GUIs: Implementing a CRUD App in LiveView This is a great series.

2021-11-13: ๐Ÿ”— The Twelve-Factor App Each time I come back to this doc I appreciate its advice even more.

2021-11-13: ๐Ÿ”— Making 12factor Elixir/Phoenix releases

2021-11-13: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub Projects beta feedback: More customization options for group by sort order. โ€ฆ

2021-11-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปOne of the first feature enhancements I have in the new GitHub Projects beta is for the โ€ฆ

2021-11-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป GitHub Universe 2021 Keynote Day 1 (16m) There is so much cool stuff coming out of GitHub. I โ€ฆ

2021-11-12: ๐Ÿงบ Laundry day.

2021-11-10: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Dropbox Shop feels like a desperate revenue pivot and notably lowers my confidence about the long โ€ฆ

2021-11-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐ŸŽฎ ElixirConf 2021 - Digit - Game Programming Patterns in Elixir? - RPG Battles! Some lunch time โ€ฆ

2021-11-08: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป #myelixirstatus

2021-11-08: โœ๏ธ Shutting Down my Side Project Guildflow In the spirit of the blog I thought I would document some โ€ฆ

2021-11-07: โœ… Today’s goals: Finish editing blog draft. Food store pickup. Read chapter 10 for โ€ฆ

2021-11-07: ๐ŸŽฎ VG Myths - Can You Beat Rockman 3 Without Getting Hit? Very impressive. For sure learned a few new โ€ฆ

2021-11-06: ๐ŸŽง I just discovered The Art of Product podcast and enjoyed my first episode, 178: Why Build A โ€ฆ

2021-11-06: ๐Ÿฅถ The morning freeze has come to the local park.

2021-11-05: ๐Ÿ”— Apple Broke iPhone 13 Screen Repairs #RightToRepair www.youtube.com/watch

2021-11-05: ๐ŸŽธ Capo: Learn your favorite songs without tabs or sheet music Cool to see Capo still going strong. I โ€ฆ

2021-11-05: โœ… Today’s goals: Take Mom for a haircut. Read at least 1 chapter for Elixir Book Club. Watch โ€ฆ

2021-11-05: ๐Ÿ”‹ Trying out my solar panel today.

2021-11-04: ๐ŸŽฎ I rotate through many video game soundtracks as background music while I code. FF7R is back with a โ€ฆ

2021-11-03: ๐ŸŽฎ Do I have any friends playing Animal Crossing? I am trying to get all the fruit trees for my own โ€ฆ

2021-11-02: ๐Ÿ“… Good morning – and for my US / Philly friends, donโ€™t forget to go out there and VOTE today! โ€ฆ

2021-10-31: ๐ŸฆŒ๐Ÿ“ท Saw this buck in the park during my morning walk. I kept my distance.

2021-10-31: ๐Ÿงน Gave the office and apartment a good cleaning today. Iโ€™ve definitely become more regular with โ€ฆ

2021-10-31: ๐Ÿ˜Ž How come the agents in the Matrix have such bad aim?

2021-10-29: ๐Ÿ”— Extremely fast online playground for every programming language. riju.codes

2021-10-25: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป TIL about shorter_maps: Elixir ~M sigil for map shorthand. ~M{id, name} ~> %{id: id, name: โ€ฆ

2021-10-25: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ”— Procrastinatorโ€™s Guide to the 2021 November election in Philadelphia November 2nd is right โ€ฆ

2021-10-22: ๐Ÿ“š Infrastructure and Ops Book Bundle by O’Reilly I’ve broken deploys enough I suppose I โ€ฆ

2021-10-21: โค๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ ConcernedApe’s Haunted Chocolatier – Early Gameplay www.youtube.com/watch

2021-10-21: ๐Ÿ“ข My client has it setup that any mentions of the company on Twitter are shared in a โ€ฆ

2021-10-21: โœ… Today’s goals: Full day of client work with a mix of onboarding phone calls and demos. โ€ฆ

2021-10-19: ๐Ÿ„โ€โ™‚๏ธ I’m onboarding to a new client project this week. What are some good questions to ask or โ€ฆ

2021-10-19: ๐Ÿ”‹ New battery is here. Mostly a backup for cpap in case of long term outage. Also got a portable โ€ฆ

2021-10-19: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ Late morning walk. Itโ€™s wonderful out here.

2021-10-18: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป @Twitch Extensions enable viewer interactivity on top of the streamed video, as seen in the โ€ฆ

2021-10-18: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป My root canal was postponed because the computer system in their office went down and they โ€ฆ

2021-10-18: โœ… Today’s goals: Take Mom to doctor’s appointment. See dentist for my own root canal โ€ฆ

2021-10-17: ๐ŸŽฎ I’m getting back into Animal Crossing in prep for the new expansion and these videos are โ€ฆ

2021-10-17: โœ… Today’s goals: Sleep in. (done!) Morning walk with podcasts. (done!) Reply to GitHub issues โ€ฆ

2021-10-15: ๐ŸŽฎ 30 Year Old Discovery Allows Speedrunners To Beat Dragon Quest 3 in 8 Seconds! Some real fun โ€ฆ

2021-10-15: ๐Ÿฟ “The Future of Conferences” by Cristina (Crista) Lopes Good stuff in here for โ€ฆ

2021-10-15: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Excited for the last day of #ElixirConf2021. It has been a great conference so far. Leaving with โ€ฆ

2021-10-15: ๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽง My @phillycocoa friends are building things in the open and talking about it via a podcast: For โ€ฆ

2021-10-14: ๐Ÿšฝ Adult Swim is real life. smarttoilet.pratt.duke.edu www.youtube.com/watch

2021-10-13: ๐Ÿ”ฅ This morning’s #ElixirConf2021 keynote by @chris_mccord was packed full of awesome. LiveView โ€ฆ

2021-10-12: ๐Ÿฅฉ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Almost used the spelling “steakholders” in a client email.

2021-10-12: ElixirConf2021 Goals โœ… #ElixirConf2021 goals: Learn how others are using LiveView in the field and benefit from the โ€ฆ

2021-10-12: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk and start Ready Player One audiobook. (done!) Attend โ€ฆ

2021-10-11: ๐Ÿ—ž I like to sprinkle Elixir news into our local meetup slides and one of my great sources is the โ€ฆ

2021-10-11: โœ… Today’s goals: Schedule root canal visit for next Monday.๐Ÿ˜ฐ Review Virtual ElixirConf โ€ฆ

2021-10-10: ๐ŸŽฎ I feel really bad for the people playing the new Metroid: Dread who have not figured out that + โ€ฆ

2021-10-08: โœ… Today’s goals: Finish Phoenix 1.6 upgrade for RetroTaxi. Pair with Todd and talk about โ€ฆ

2021-10-05: โค๏ธ๐Ÿ˜‹ The brownies from Monday are almost all gone already.

2021-10-04: โœ… Today’s goals: Yearly checkup with Pulmonary doctor. (done!) Enjoy freshly baked brownies โ€ฆ

2021-10-04: โค๏ธ๐ŸŽค Oliver Sipple Really enjoyed this week’s Radiolab podcast episode. โ€ฆ

2021-10-04: ๐Ÿฆท Do you rinse (at all? with water, mouthwash or both?) after brushing your teeth. Saw some โ€ฆ

2021-10-03: ๐Ÿคง As much as I am enjoying the nice weather and having my windows open, this is not going well for โ€ฆ

2021-10-02: ๐ŸŽฎ Chrono Trigger Flames of Eternity Review | The rom hack sequel we need I had limited but fun โ€ฆ

2021-10-02: ๐Ÿ“Š Showing me 12k thumbs up but only 625 views does not build my confidence in your software โ€ฆ

2021-10-02: ๐Ÿฟ Q&A with Chris McCord & Josรฉ Valim | ElixirConf EU 2021 Lunch time conference talk โ€ฆ

2021-10-02: ๐ŸŽƒ The Matrix 2021 Halloween Light Show As much as I want to acknowledge the craftsmanship and โ€ฆ

2021-10-01: ๐ŸŽฎ

2021-10-01: ๐Ÿ”— Introducing TypeCheck โ€” TypeCheck v0.7.0 TypeCheck is an elixir library to, you guessed it, check โ€ฆ

2021-10-01: ๐ŸŽฎ I’ve been jumping around game to game after finishing Spiritfarer and waiting for Metroid โ€ฆ

2021-10-01: โœ… Today’s goals: Enjoy @indyhall events (coffee/town hall). Take a client prospect call. โ€ฆ

2021-09-30: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Made some good progress with my PubSub features in LiveView / RetroTaxi tonight. Sadly, still โ€ฆ

2021-09-30: ๐Ÿ“šFinished: Progressive Web Apps I enjoyed the book a lot. Great informative and tight introduction โ€ฆ

2021-09-30: โœ… Today’s goals: Hit snooze for an extra 30m; the blankets were particularly comfortable this โ€ฆ

2021-09-29: ๐ŸŽฎ Absolutely humbled by my failure to get the depth perception and controls of Super Mario 3D World โ€ฆ

2021-09-28: ๐Ÿ”— Masked Email from Fastmail and 1Password protects your identity online I feel like itโ€™s time to โ€ฆ

2021-09-28: โšพ๏ธ Big game for the Phillies tonight. Put on your rally caps!

2021-09-28: โœ๏ธ Framework Laptop First Thoughts The Framework laptop is a new product that prioritizes your right โ€ฆ

2021-09-27: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk. (done!) Experiment with the new @elixirphoenix 1.6 release. โ€ฆ

2021-09-26: ๐Ÿ“š Enjoying a nice day in the shade of a tree, reading my books and listening to the baseball game on โ€ฆ

2021-09-25: ๐ŸŽฎ I finished Spiritfarer, a cozy management game about dying. I enjoyed it a lot. It is not a โ€ฆ

2021-09-25: Film Theory: The Matrix NEVER Existed! (Matrix 4 Trailer) Depending on your thirst to spoil or โ€ฆ

2021-09-25: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปA Taste of Roc โ€” Richard Feldman Roc is a new purely functional programming language built for โ€ฆ

2021-09-24: ๐Ÿ“š With a stack of 5 books next to me I ask, “yeah but where is the delivery person with my NEW โ€ฆ

2021-09-24: ๐Ÿ”— A curated list of awesome Elixir, Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), and event โ€ฆ

2021-09-24: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป DevTernity 2017: Ian Cooper - TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong www.youtube.com/watch Lunch โ€ฆ

2021-09-24: ๐Ÿ“… I’ve been doing a lot of thinking around calendar software and am looking for more ideas to โ€ฆ

2021-09-24: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿฟ Hey Luigi, how is the search for Bowser coming along?

2021-09-23: ๐Ÿ“š Don’t let Sunday catch you off guard – get it GUARD! Elixir in Action (2nd Edition), โ€ฆ

2021-09-23: ๐Ÿ“šLocal writer friend is trying to fund a book project called Still the Stars: Book One of a queer YA โ€ฆ

2021-09-22: ๐Ÿ”— End of an Era: Man Clicks โ€œUpdateโ€ Instead of โ€œRemind Me Laterโ€ They want constant updates about โ€ฆ

2021-09-22: ๐Ÿ Fall is coming.

2021-09-21: ๐Ÿ”Considering the escalation of ransomware and the kinds of software I’ve come to work on with โ€ฆ

2021-09-20: ๐Ÿฟ The ElixirConf EU recordings are starting to show up. I recommend watching some over lunches this โ€ฆ

2021-09-20: โฐI have a bad habit where I prioritize email and Slack/Discord content cleaning and it is a HUGE โ€ฆ

2021-09-20: ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ I wish there was a way to tell LinkedIn that while I have iOS on my profile, I am not โ€ฆ

2021-09-20: โœ… Today’s goals: Clean up around the desk. Pay some bills. Reschedule some dental work. Pick โ€ฆ

2021-09-18: ๐Ÿ”— Accessible Palette: Stop using HSL for color systems - Wildbit

2021-09-18: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป As I prepare to get into some GraphQL work I rewatched this video course from @pragmaticstudio. โ€ฆ

2021-09-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป New laptop, who dis?

2021-09-16: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽน Anyone have a good / non-scammy source for video game soundtracks? I’m specifically looking โ€ฆ

2021-09-16: โ˜•๏ธ Good morning.

2021-09-15: ๐Ÿ”‹ I loose faith in tech reviewers instantly when they just regurgitate the vendor’s own โ€ฆ

2021-09-12: ๐Ÿ”— Accessibility from the Ground Up - Kitty Giraudel

2021-09-10: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Happy to report a good sleep and fresh eyes helped instantly fix a bug I was fighting with for โ€ฆ

2021-09-10: ๐Ÿ”— PSA: preventing outages due to DST Root CA expiry on Sep 30th The safest thing to do is make sure โ€ฆ

2021-09-09: ๐Ÿ˜ธ And then there was this time where a cat gave us a tour of the new @septa design language for โ€ฆ

2021-09-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The LiveBook for my @phillyelixir Changeset talk is up. One notable feature you might want to โ€ฆ

2021-09-09: โœ… Today’s goals: Sleep in cause it’s raining outside. Update my blog post on Changesets โ€ฆ

2021-09-09: ๐Ÿฟ Homestar Runner: How to Master a Dying Art Form www.youtube.com/watch

2021-09-08: ๐Ÿ“š The lighting I have at lunch makes me think this might be a good book.

2021-09-08: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Got a simple Elixir test action working on GitHub Actions today. This setup-beam action was โ€ฆ

2021-09-08: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done!) Take car in for oil change. Read more Elixir in Action โ€ฆ

2021-09-08: Love how the prompt say โ€œaskโ€, as if the app will consider my intent but do what it wants anyway.

2021-09-07: โœ… Today’s goals: Haircut (done!) Publish Changeset article on @elixirfocus Weekly food โ€ฆ

2021-09-06: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ I re-enabled my Audible subscription and am currently accepting audio book suggestions. My mix โ€ฆ

2021-09-06: ๐Ÿ“š Wanted to put out a second plug for the new book (season?) we are starting in Elixir Book Club. โ€ฆ

2021-09-06: โœ… Today’s goals: Finish up blog post on schemaless changesets (publish tomorrow). Prep โ€ฆ

2021-09-05: ๐Ÿ”— The Framework Laptop - The โ€œBโ€ Ark Iโ€™d call the Framework a very solid competitor to the X1 or โ€ฆ

2021-09-04: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽน Today I’m writing some blog prose while listening to one of my favorite video game โ€ฆ

2021-09-04: โค๏ธ The Man Who Lived By the River www.youtube.com/watch

2021-09-03: ๐Ÿ™„ Nothing like clicking an article to learn about some important concept of the deadly pandemic only โ€ฆ

2021-09-02: ๐ŸŽฎ Learning Rust via Game Development: Starting Dungeon Crawler (updated link – woops) โ€ฆ

2021-09-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป In between sheltering during the tornado I was able to get a few exercises done on the new โ€ฆ

2021-09-01: ๐ŸŒช It has been a scary night here in Philly; again – had a tornado 4 weeks ago too, WTF.

2021-09-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Kicking the tires on the new Exercism site. Looks awesome. Love sneaking a peek at other โ€ฆ

2021-09-01: ๐Ÿ˜ณ Today I found out there is a Zorin OS / @ZorinOS I think I need to check this out. zorin.com/os/

2021-09-01: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Really excited to see the community enthusiasm about running Linux on these new Framework โ€ฆ

2021-09-01: โณ Software management wisdom tells me, now that I have two copies of Elixir in Action I’ll be โ€ฆ

2021-09-01: ๐Ÿ“š Finished: Write Useful Books Loved it. Lots of great suggestions and very focused delivery. Highly โ€ฆ

2021-08-31: ๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽ‰ Broadway 1.0 released with a new dashboard - Dashbit Blog

2021-08-31: ๐Ÿ˜Ž New Zoom background.

2021-08-30: ๐Ÿ”— How to correctly install Erlang and Elixir - Coletiv Blog I was a bit grumpy when my last client โ€ฆ

2021-08-30: ๐Ÿ“‰๐Ÿšถ Dropped the ball with my walking goals this month. Hoping to do better in September.

2021-08-30: ๐Ÿ”’๐Ÿšช Frodo asks, “what is the Elvish word for friend?” but I’m left wondering why โ€ฆ

2021-08-30: ๐Ÿ“… I decided I will not be attending the in-person ElixirConf event this year. Really bummed it โ€ฆ

2021-08-30: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Playing around with @NotionHQ today after some peers demoed their own usage last week. Poking โ€ฆ

2021-08-30: ๐Ÿฅ Worked on updating my LinkedIn profile over the weekend. Was very tempted to explain that all I โ€ฆ

2021-08-30: โค๏ธ My heart goes out to the teachers, children and parents which are about to enter a scenario which โ€ฆ

2021-08-29: ๐Ÿคนโ€โ™‚๏ธ UX frustration: Code of Conduct says: “f you are being harassed, … please contact โ€ฆ

2021-08-29: ๐Ÿ“ˆ I have a suspicion the conference I attended Thursday and Friday did not have a very optimized โ€ฆ

2021-08-28: ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Gandalf the Grey > Gandalf the White

2021-08-28: ๐Ÿคนโ€โ™‚๏ธ Please do not use the product as we are demonstrating it.

2021-08-28: ๐ŸŽฎ Wholesome video game moment to start your day: The time he ROM hacked Earthbound so during their โ€ฆ

2021-08-26: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Any interesting in pairing through Elixir on Exercism v3? elixirforum.com/t/any-int…

2021-08-26: ๐Ÿ“… Today I’ll be (virtually) attending the Reliable Web Summit which is new for me. There are โ€ฆ

2021-08-26: ๐Ÿšถ๐Ÿฅต It is toasty out here and itโ€™s still early in the day.

2021-08-25: ๐Ÿค” Is This Good for the COMPANY?

2021-08-25: ๐Ÿค” On of my todo items is to update to Big Sur but I have little user facing motivation to do so. My โ€ฆ

2021-08-24: ๐Ÿ’ฐ September 2021 Elixir Consulting Availability My summer vacation is coming to a close and I am โ€ฆ

2021-08-23: ๐Ÿ”— 5 components of useful documentation

2021-08-23: ๐Ÿ”— Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance

2021-08-22: ๐ŸŽฎ๏ธ Stardew Valley After You Read the Wiki www.youtube.com/watch

2021-08-22: ๐ŸŽฎ Few hours into Spiritfarer, “a cozy management game about dying.” Enjoying it so far โ€ฆ

2021-08-22: ๐ŸŽฎ๏ธ A digital museum of video game levels noclip.website

2021-08-22: ๐Ÿ”—๏ธ How The Wind Waker Defined Cel Shading www.youtube.com/watch

2021-08-21: โ›ˆ๏ธ Really bummed for those who wanted to enjoy the concert that rained out tonight.

2021-08-21: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Using the PopOS open firmware updater on my System76 NUC.

2021-08-21: ๐Ÿ”ด The fact @omnifocus visualizes a 1 in red within the UI but a 2 in red on the Dock icon causes โ€ฆ

2021-08-19: ๐Ÿ”— (Visual) Elixir Enum Cheatsheet angelika.me/elixir-en…

2021-08-19: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป More Rust game coding progress.

2021-08-17: โœ๏ธ The values I align with when it comes to my work in product design and software development. โ€ฆ

2021-08-17: ๐Ÿง€๐Ÿ—บ Do you know why this clip comes with a prefix of cheese? www.youtube.com/watch

2021-08-17: ๐Ÿ’ฐ If people want to adjust my pay depending on where I live, I’m going to tell them I live on โ€ฆ

2021-08-17: ๐Ÿ’ก A mentor for people trying to get into tech, but instead I convince them to run away as fast as โ€ฆ

2021-08-16: ๐Ÿš€ Just finished an hour coding sprint in Elixir and boy do I have some vacation cobwebs to clear โ€ฆ

2021-08-16: โœ… Today’s goals: Start moving out of vacation mode mindset and getting back to work. Make โ€ฆ

2021-08-15: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽ‰ The Johto Pokedex is complete.

2021-08-14: ๐ŸŽฎ I finished Firewatch today. Wish I could say more, but was kind of meh for me. Still looking โ€ฆ

2021-08-12: ๐Ÿ”‹ I am observing significant battery usage from the COVID exposure logging (via the PA COVID iOS โ€ฆ

2021-08-12: ๐ŸŽฎ Learning Rust via Game Development Short demo of my first little Rust game. vimeo.com/586359041

2021-08-12: ๐Ÿ“… Tomorrow is Micro.camp. 18 presenters from the Micro.blog community will be giving presentations. โ€ฆ

2021-08-12: โœ… Today’s goals: More Rust book, game code, typing out. Attend @indyhall show and tell. Take โ€ฆ

2021-08-12: ๐Ÿ‘ถ Trying to cleanse my YouTube recommendations by watching laughing babies.

2021-08-11: โค๏ธ Keynote slides as virtual background is a pretty cool Zoom feature.

2021-08-11: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done!) Type out code examples from Concurrent Data Processing โ€ฆ

2021-08-10: ๐ŸฅตFor the first time I can ever remember, my shower radio (which has the WX station) turned itself โ€ฆ

2021-08-10: ๐Ÿ”— What If…CobolToElixir - DockYard

2021-08-10: ๐Ÿ˜ปGrats to Philly CocoaHead Greg for his updated Feline Finder app! Fill out a short fun survey to โ€ฆ

2021-08-10: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done!) Clean up desk area. Do some laundry. Catch up on โ€ฆ

2021-08-08: ๐ŸŽฎ Does Elekid have a European outlet style for a head in other countries?

2021-08-06: ๐Ÿ˜ข It is disappointing and concerning how intertwined gambling commercials alongside live sports โ€ฆ

2021-08-06: ๐Ÿ‘ I finished the 4.5 hr Rust video course on @frontendmasters this week. @rtfeldman is a great โ€ฆ

2021-08-06: ๐Ÿ˜‚ Bart Conner on being more famous for Rad than for his Olympic gold medals www.youtube.com/watch

2021-08-06: ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿšฒ What is better, Rad: The Movie or Rad: The Soundtrack? open.spotify.com/album/4Xs…

2021-08-06: โšพ๏ธ Dare we talk about this?

2021-08-05: โœ๏ธ The primary goal of the ideal business should be to provide a long-term, welcoming and supportive โ€ฆ

2021-08-04: ๐Ÿค” Considering writing a Dylan-esk song about how many YouTube Premium prompts must a man โ€ฆ

2021-08-02: ๐ŸŽฎ Last night while chasing the last roaming legendary I gave in and used my Masterball. The only โ€ฆ

2021-08-01: ๐ŸŽฎ Elite 4 rematch complete. All that remains is Red.

2021-07-31: โš–๏ธ Drew this in my notebook a few weeks ago and keep thinking about it as I brainstorm my own core โ€ฆ

2021-07-30: ๐Ÿ”— micro.welltempered.net More Micro Camp announcements ๐Ÿ“ฃ

2021-07-30: ๐Ÿ”— This 900-person delta cluster in Mass. has CDC freaked outโ€”74% are vaccinated [Updated] - Ars โ€ฆ

2021-07-30: ๐Ÿฟ As someone who enjoyed reading the Encyclopedia Brown books as a kid, I enjoyed The Kid Detective. โ€ฆ

2021-07-30: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done!) Read chapter 2 of Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir โ€ฆ

2021-07-30: ๐Ÿ“ˆ Felling pretty good with my July numbers. Keep in mind this is just walks, I donโ€™t carry my phone โ€ฆ

2021-07-30: ๐Ÿคฃ Literally LOLโ€™d hearing about the outside council Bobby brought in to handle the โ€ฆ

2021-07-30: ๐Ÿšถ Morning walk. Nice out but humid.

2021-07-30: โค๏ธ Best ad roll ever. overcast.fm/+71Qf6ehk

2021-07-30: ๐Ÿ•ท Pretty sure I have spiders living in my car.

2021-07-29: ๐Ÿฆ€Started “The Rust Programming Language” video course from @frontendmasters tonight. โ€ฆ

2021-07-29: ๐Ÿ‘‹ Back from my short shore vacation, but still on work vacation for a few more weeks. Working โ€ฆ

2021-07-27: ๐Ÿ”— Review: Frameworkโ€™s lightweight modular laptop is a winner - Ars Technica

2021-07-25: ๐Ÿ”— Framework Laptop Teardown: 10/10, But is it Perfect? www.youtube.com/watch

2021-07-23: ๐Ÿ”— Dancing With Systems - The Donella Meadows Project

2021-07-23: ๐Ÿง Hard question: What is something that is important to you but can not be measured? How do you โ€ฆ

2021-07-23: ๐Ÿง Hard question: How does your current or prospective job improve humanity?

2021-07-22: ๐ŸŽฎ Set up my Pokewalker today. Got to finish that Soul Silver dex.

2021-07-22: ๐ŸŽฎ Listened to this NPR Planet Money episode during my morning walk. I love MMO stories like this. โ€ฆ

2021-07-21: โœ๏ธ Vacation is Good, I Recommend It Figured Iโ€™d do a short check in with how my vacation is going. โ€ฆ

2021-07-21: ๐Ÿ”— Alabama doctor One of the last things they do before theyโ€™re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. โ€ฆ

2021-07-21: ๐Ÿค”When the job interviewer asks โ€œwhat is your min salary?โ€ reply back, โ€œfirst Iโ€™d like to understand, โ€ฆ

2021-07-21: ๐Ÿฆ Ever since I was young I’ve always associated Mr. Mister - Broken Wings with a Felix the Cat โ€ฆ

2021-07-19: ๐Ÿฆท It only took 42 years but I flossed like three times this past week. Still can’t do that โ€ฆ

2021-07-19: ๐Ÿ”— Last Week on My Mac: The perils of M1 Ownership โ€“ The Eclectic Light Company

2021-07-17: ๐ŸŽฎ Team Galactic Eterna took many friends last night. Rest in peace: Tony the Shellos, Static the โ€ฆ

2021-07-17: ๐Ÿ“š Just started Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, and while I think it’s a โ€ฆ

2021-07-17: ๐Ÿ“š Finished: Modern CSS with Tailwind Flexible Styling without the Fuss As someone already using โ€ฆ

2021-07-16: ๐Ÿ”— Best practices for writing code comments - Stack Overflow Blog

2021-07-15: ๐Ÿค” I can’t log in to my personal email this morning and I’m not sure if this is a bug or โ€ฆ

2021-07-14: ๐Ÿ“ท Actual footage how I look waking up with my CPAP mask on.

2021-07-14: ๐Ÿ”— Enhancing Elixir Documentation with Mermaid Charts I love using Mermaid to share text editable โ€ฆ

2021-07-13: ๐ŸŽฎ Ask me how the Nuzlocke went.

2021-07-13: ๐Ÿ“š Just updated my book list. www.goodreads.com/zorn711

2021-07-12: ๐Ÿ˜ก My computer backup failed multiple times so now Iโ€™m doing a fresh backup on new drive to see โ€ฆ

2021-07-12: ๐Ÿ”— Join us every other Sunday to talk about the current Elixir book. elixirbookclub.com

2021-07-11: โšพ๏ธ Padres reliever Daniel Camarena hits a grand slam off Max Scherzer, a breakdown I love โ€ฆ

2021-07-10: ๐ŸŽฎ Played / finished What Remains of Edith Finch tonight on PS4. Was more of an interactive story โ€ฆ

2021-07-09: ๐Ÿ“š Finished: Practical Microservices: Build Event-Driven Architectures with Event Sourcing and CQRS. โ€ฆ

2021-07-09: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿค โœ… 100% completion for Red Dead Redemption 2.

2021-07-09: ๐Ÿ”— Write good examples by starting with real code

2021-07-08: ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿž Starting to see more and more Spotted Lanternflies in NE Philly. โ€ฆ

2021-07-08: โœ… Today’s Goals/Standup: Did a shorter morning walk before getting rained on and retreated โ€ฆ

2021-07-07: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ‘ Just finished INSIDE (atmospheric puzzle game) on PS4. www.youtube.com/watch I was doing the Joe โ€ฆ

2021-07-06: ๐Ÿ“šFinished: The Power of Habit. โ€ฆ kind of meh. Too long winded for my tastes. There are some good โ€ฆ

2021-07-06: ๐Ÿ”— pxlnv.com All the Right Words on Climate Have Already Been Said

2021-07-05: ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿฆท It is lunch time but Iโ€™m still numb from my fillings this morning.

2021-07-04: ๐ŸŽฎ I FINALLY played Journey tonight on the PS4 – and it was a pretty cool little game. If you โ€ฆ

2021-07-04: ๐Ÿ”— Observing Elixir in Production ยท Fly

2021-07-04: ๐Ÿ”— Tracking Users in a Chat App with LiveView, PubSub Presence ยท Elixir School Great and timely โ€ฆ

2021-07-04: ๐Ÿšถ I donโ€™t always have my phone on me, nor a watch so these numbers only represent my walks but a โ€ฆ

2021-07-03: ๐Ÿ”— Josรฉ Valim - New in Livebook v0.2: inputs, graphs, and more! www.youtube.com/watch

2021-07-02: ๐Ÿ”— Public and open source frameworks and career pathways to help you or your team with personal โ€ฆ

2021-07-01: ๐Ÿ“… Open Office Hours: Summer 2021 I love hearing what people are excited about and working on. Noting โ€ฆ

2021-07-01: ๐Ÿ“š Result of my summer book shuffle. Also have a box ready for donations.

2021-07-01: ๐Ÿš€ TIL #myelixirstatus https://hexdocs.pm/iex/IEx.Helpers.html#import_if_available/2

2021-07-01: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done!) Work through more marketing course work. Work on some โ€ฆ

2021-07-01: ๐Ÿ˜Ž First day of vacation.

2021-07-01: ๐Ÿง The most interesting conversion that has come out of GitHub Copilot is how abusive this is of the โ€ฆ

2021-06-30: ๐Ÿ”— What is a rent strike? ยท Jesse Squires

2021-06-29: ๐Ÿ˜ Today I was able to restore a local only git branch I mistakenly deleted like a week ago. โ€ฆ

2021-06-29: ๐Ÿ˜ฎ Both excited and terrifying at the same time. copilot.github.com

2021-06-28: โœ… Today’s Goals: Take Mom to doctor appointment. Book reading in the car while I wait. Work โ€ฆ

2021-06-28: โ˜€๏ธ Up early, today for some errands. Yawn.

2021-06-27: ๐Ÿ”— 4-Day Workweeks Canโ€™t Work Without Deep Work - Wildbit

2021-06-27: ๐Ÿ”— New Elixir 1.12 - The developerโ€™s point ofย view - Bartosz Gรณrka

2021-06-27: ๐Ÿ”— github.com dashbitco/nimble_totp: A tiny Elixir library for time-based one time passwords (TOTP) โ€ฆ

2021-06-27: ๐Ÿ”— Phoenix/Elixir testing: beyond mix test - by Brooklin Myers - Jun, 2021 - Medium

2021-06-27: ๐Ÿ”— Senior Software Engineer, C#/.NET at Wildbit - Wildbit Great people here. Highly recommend.

2021-06-25: โœ๏ธ Consulting Retrospective and Summer Learning Plans mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2021-06-24: ๐Ÿ˜ Worlds collide and I discover Yo-Yo Ma covering Ennio Morricone’s โ€œThe Good, the Bad and the โ€ฆ

2021-06-23: โ˜•๏ธ Been working through a BIG release at my client this past week; still ongoing working out the โ€ฆ

2021-06-21: ๐Ÿ”— thewebivore.com Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters (talk notes)

2021-06-19: ๐Ÿ”— v0.16 - Gleam compiles to JavaScript! gleam.run/news/v0.1…

2021-06-17: Share for the new ๐Ÿ–‹ discovery channel on Micro.blog.

2021-06-17: ๐Ÿ‘‹

2021-06-16: ๐Ÿ•“ Got into a great code flow yesterday. I attribute it all to 10 hours of Clock Town Day 1 Music. โ€ฆ

2021-06-16: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Had an overall good doctor checkup today but once again almost pass out trying to get blood drawn โ€ฆ

2021-06-14: ๐Ÿฟ Really enjoyed this talk from ElixirConf EU 2019: Modular Design in Elixir, Maciej Kaszubowski. If โ€ฆ

2021-06-13: ๐Ÿค” Wonders aloud what an app for a shower sponge would doโ€ฆ

2021-06-10: ๐ŸฆŒ Hello friend. (Outside my apartment.)

2021-06-10: ๐Ÿ‘ฝ TRUSTNO1 code.visualstudio.com/docs/edit…

2021-06-10: โšพ๏ธ Luke Williams goes from team USA to walk-off hero, a breakdown www.youtube.com/watch

2021-06-10: ๐ŸŽฎ I don’t play WoW anymore, but I still love the memes. www.youtube.com/watch

2021-06-09: ๐Ÿค” Firefox has a feature of view source and where if you hover over some red invalid markup it will โ€ฆ

2021-06-08: ๐ŸŽฎ Metroid Prime 4 - First Look www.youtube.com/watch

2021-06-06: ๐Ÿ”— The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software โ€” Dawid Ciฤ™ลผarkiewicz aka dpc

2021-06-05: ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐ŸŽฎ SECRETS, CODES, & INTEL | The Legend of Zelda Declassified NES | NESComplex I’m amazed โ€ฆ

2021-06-05: ๐Ÿ”— Good and Bad Elixir Not sure Iโ€™m in complete agreement on all these patterns, but appreciate the โ€ฆ

2021-06-05: ๐Ÿ”— Failing Big with Elixir and LiveView - A Post-Mortem A post-mortem of why a political party in โ€ฆ

2021-06-05: ๐Ÿฅต Ended up taking my walk after lunch today. Sun is strong on my soft winterized skin.

2021-06-05: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ In @firefox, is seems like a risky UI choice to put such a destructive button next to the main โ€ฆ

2021-06-04: ๐Ÿคช While trying to get my JIRA tickets through business validationโ€ฆ Product manager: โ€œI have altered โ€ฆ

2021-06-04: ๐ŸŽน Congratulations to Ludwig van Beethoven whom I’ve been told has released some new music this โ€ฆ

2021-06-03: ๐Ÿค” When I start Harry Potter on my Apple account I see this notice.

2021-06-02: ๐Ÿ”— One neat trick to getting Tailwind’s JIT compiler working in Phoenix ยท sevenseacat.net

2021-06-02: As a Slack user, I want to be informed of new Slack features upon entering each and every workspace โ€ฆ

2021-06-01: ๐Ÿค” So you are telling me these algorithms are up to the task of influencing the beliefs and actions โ€ฆ

2021-06-01: ๐Ÿง‚ My call is very important to them. I should wait for the next available agent.

2021-05-31: โœ… Today’s Goals: Morning walk (done!) Work on two Elixir blog posts. Pick up groceries after โ€ฆ

2021-05-29: โ˜”๏ธ Raining today and likely tomorrow so no walking for me. Still feel good about my week.

2021-05-29: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Had a scare where my laptop would not come back from a power reset today. Time to make sure the โ€ฆ

2021-05-28: โค๏ธ Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

2021-05-27: ๐Ÿ“‹ Bring on the TPS reports.

2021-05-27: ๐Ÿ‘€ Auxl is a native API client for macOS. Its powerful node based system provides a whole new way to โ€ฆ

2021-05-27: ๐Ÿง‚ I’m so sick of my finger lightly brushing up against the thunderbolt wire that connects my โ€ฆ

2021-05-26: โ›ˆ Hold on to your butts.

2021-05-26: ๐Ÿ–จ New printer. I legit got Hammermill paper because it was a brand I recognized from The Office.

2021-05-25: ๐Ÿฟ Lunchtime conference talk: JavaScript is too convenient (Sam Jones of @testdouble) Attaching my โ€ฆ

2021-05-25: โœ… Today’s Goals Morning walk (done!) Redacted Elixir/Phoenix client work. Fixing bugs as we โ€ฆ

2021-05-24: ๐Ÿฟ Lunch time conference watching: Rocky Mountain Ruby 2016 - Kill “Microservices” before โ€ฆ

2021-05-24: ๐Ÿ“š Book update: Finished Calm Technology (3/5 stars) over the weekend and started Better Onboarding. โ€ฆ

2021-05-24: โœ… Today’s Goals Morning walk (done!) Print out worksheets and work through course work. โ€ฆ

2021-05-23: ๐Ÿ“š Itโ€™s a reading books by the river day.

2021-05-22: ๐ŸŽฎ I have a lot of grinding to do if I want to beat Red. That level 88 Pikachu. Ouch.

2021-05-21: ๐Ÿ”— Introducing Firefox’s new Site Isolation Security Architecture - Mozilla Hacks - the Web โ€ฆ

2021-05-21: ๐Ÿ”— Six Years of Rust - Rust Blog

2021-05-21: โšพ๏ธ Manager throws first base in protest, a breakdown www.youtube.com/watch

2021-05-21: ๐Ÿ˜ด I had a dream last night I was trying to walk up a steep paved road but it was covered in snowy โ€ฆ

2021-05-20: โœ๏ธ Hostname-based Privacy Tools Need to Evolve For Websocket Concerns How do we block ads and โ€ฆ

2021-05-19: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Truncation.

2021-05-19: โšพ๏ธ Manager ridicules his player for hitting a home run, a breakdown www.youtube.com/watch

2021-05-17: ๐ŸŽฎ I may have only every played through Chrono Cross (maybe twice?), but I listen to its soundtrack โ€ฆ

2021-05-17: โœ… Today’s Goals: Publish blog post written over the weekend (done!) Continued progress on my โ€ฆ

2021-05-17: โœ๏ธ The Values That Define Us Having well-thought-out and excessively reenforced values are an โ€ฆ

2021-05-16: ๐Ÿ”— People-First Business - Wildbit

2021-05-16: ๐Ÿ”— The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was โ€“ย Baldur Bjarnason Are โ€ฆ

2021-05-16: ๐Ÿ”— People-first leadership - Wildbit Great stuff in here.

2021-05-16: ๐Ÿšถ Still room for improvement but getting back into walking regularly.

2021-05-15: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Found myself debugging some Signin with Apple (website button) stuff today for my client after not โ€ฆ

2021-05-15: ๐Ÿ”— Find your next job at a company with a healthy approach to work peoplefirstjobs.com/jobs/

2021-05-14: ๐Ÿ”— gomakethings.com How to lazy load images and iframes with the native HTML loading attribute

2021-05-13: ๐Ÿ™„ TIL Apple changed the license for macOS 11, making it harder for places like CircleCI to charge โ€ฆ

2021-05-11: ๐Ÿ‘€ Behind the scenes, of a master at workโ€ฆ

2021-05-11: ๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿฟ I like finding Yo Gabba Gabba songs that appropriate to my software development work. When you โ€ฆ

2021-05-08: โšพ๏ธ I know Iโ€™m late to the party but the Nike logo on these baseball jerseys is awful.

2021-05-07: โœ๏ธ Philly ETE Notes I find ETE (Emerging Technologies For The Enterprise) to be a great place to โ€ฆ

2021-05-06: ๐Ÿ”— Because software developers work in systems, we learn to think in systems. Let’s do that โ€ฆ

2021-05-06: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ Got in a nice walk this morning and now getting ready for #PhillyETE day 3 to begin.

2021-05-05: ๐Ÿ”— Equally important is the design of communication. How many notifications are necessary? How and โ€ฆ

2021-05-05: ๐Ÿ“š Finished: Retrospectives Antipatterns This is a great book for those who are enjoying regular team โ€ฆ

2021-05-05: ๐Ÿ”— phil_columns - A full featured Elixir/Ecto seeding and factory solution providing means for dev โ€ฆ

2021-05-04: ๐Ÿ”— Wardley Mapping is a technique that helps you examine your environment, identify upcoming changes โ€ฆ

2021-05-04: ๐Ÿ“… @IndyHall, a supportive and social coworking community that I have been a member of for years, is โ€ฆ

2021-05-04: ๐Ÿ”— Mergify is a pull requests automation service. No experience with this (yet?) but seems neat. โ€ฆ

2021-05-03: ๐Ÿš— Betsy 2 (my 2015 Hyundai Sonata) is all fixed up and well oiled. Back home and it is time for โ€ฆ

2021-05-02: ๐Ÿ”— medium.com Towards Maintainable Elixir: Testing | by Saลกa Juriฤ‡ | Very Big Things | Apr, 2021 | โ€ฆ

2021-05-02: ๐Ÿ”— medium.com Towards Maintainable Elixir: The Anatomy of a Core Module | by Saลกa Juriฤ‡ | Very Big โ€ฆ

2021-05-02: ๐Ÿ”— medium.com Towards Maintainable Elixir: Boundaries | by Saลกa Juriฤ‡ In this article Iโ€™ll use the โ€ฆ

2021-05-01: ๐Ÿ”— medium.com Towards Maintainable Elixir: The Core and the Interface | by Saลกa Juriฤ‡ | Very Big โ€ฆ

2021-05-01: ๐Ÿ”— Optimizing Phoenix endpoints using flamegraphs - Kabisa

2021-05-01: ๐Ÿ”— Routing in Phoenix Umbrella Apps - AppSignal Blog

2021-05-01: ๐Ÿšถ Short rest.

2021-05-01: ๐Ÿฟ Declaration of Principles www.youtube.com/watch

2021-05-01: โœ๏ธ When you are drafting a project proposal and at the top you list what you want to do, it is as โ€ฆ

2021-04-30: ๐Ÿค” Does the new Apple TV remote have a built in AirTag? If notโ€”why not?

2021-04-30: ๐Ÿ”— Shirt Pocket Watch We’re happy (and, frankly, relieved) to announce the immediate โ€ฆ

2021-04-29: ๐Ÿ’ก A zoom plug-in that plays the Doctor Katz theme music when our time is up.

2021-04-29: The Education working group at the @TheErlef would like to invite students, underrepresented groups โ€ฆ

2021-04-27: ๐Ÿ“… Philly Google Developer Group meetup is tomorrow night, Wed, Apr 28, 7:00 PM (EDT) Artificial โ€ฆ

2021-04-27: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Leave me alone.

2021-04-26: ๐Ÿ‘ Had a good day. Did a touch of side project coding; ran errands; got a nice walk outside and a few โ€ฆ

2021-04-26: ๐Ÿ”— Empowering your engineering team with an effective decision-making process - LeadDev

2021-04-26: ๐Ÿ”— wildbit.com Hiring like a human: what we learned from taking a people-first approach

2021-04-26: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿคช Dev recovered from COVID now prefers Material Design due to permanent loss of taste

2021-04-26: ๐Ÿ”— Add punctuation to your alt text The presence of end punctuation such as a period will make the โ€ฆ

2021-04-26: ๐Ÿฆ€ What books do you recommend for learning Rust with long term interests for WebAssembly use? Iโ€™d โ€ฆ

2021-04-25: ๐Ÿšฒ www.youtube.com/watch

2021-04-25: Found a hidden alter during my walk.

2021-04-22: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ โ€˜Sherlockโ€™ Scheduled to Leave Netflix in May 2021 www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-s…

2021-04-22: ๐Ÿ”— BEAM Wisdoms This is the collection of easy to read (ELI5) articles as well as in-depth knowledge โ€ฆ

2021-04-21: ๐Ÿ“

2021-04-19: ๐Ÿšถ

2021-04-19: ๐Ÿ 

2021-04-18: ๐Ÿฅณ Happy Birthday!

2021-04-17: โœ๏ธ Life Updates, Moving, Work, Side Projects and Learning Plans Itโ€™s been a while since I posted on โ€ฆ

2021-04-15: โšก๏ธ Fios seems speedy.

2021-04-14: ๐ŸŽฎ Fun auto cropping.

2021-04-13: ๐Ÿ˜Œ New apartment, coffee view.

2021-04-10: ๐Ÿ”— MNAM: A method for defining your next role - Pam The Webivore

2021-04-10: โšพ๏ธโค๏ธ How about those Phillies?

2021-04-06: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Jim face.

2021-04-05: โœ… Today’s Goals: Mom errand (done!) Coffee chat with coworker. Company paperwork stuff for โ€ฆ

2021-04-03: ๐Ÿฅณ Happy Saturday. Today’s goals: Get pretzels. (done!) Pack more desk stuff for move (next โ€ฆ

2021-04-02: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ Photo footage of me trying to switch phone providers while trying to keep my current number.

2021-03-30: ๐Ÿšถ Afternoon walk. The Animal Crossing player in me really wants to pick these weeds.

2021-03-30: ๐Ÿšถ Yeah, Iโ€™m going to wait and walk post lunch.

2021-03-29: After a pretty lax Sunday it’s time to get back to work. โœ… Today’s Goals: Setup Verizon โ€ฆ

2021-03-27: โค๏ธ Retrospective Prime Directive: Regardless of what we discover, we must understand and truly โ€ฆ

2021-03-23: ๐Ÿ’ I used git cherry-pick for the first time ever tonight. I think I’ve been using git since โ€ฆ

2021-03-22: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Is there an editor where I can paste in this SVG code and then edit the checkmark out of the โ€ฆ

2021-03-22: โœ… Today’s Goals: More TailwindCSS design work for RetroTaxi. Video coffee chat with friend. โ€ฆ

2021-03-22: ๐Ÿ“šThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondล I liked the book a lot. A good pre-move read. โ€ฆ

2021-03-21: โœ… Today’s Goals: Sleep in (done!) Prep tax payments. Clean up desk area a little bit; though โ€ฆ

2021-03-20: โœ… Today’s Goals: Sign the new apt lease. Errands. Take a long walk and enjoy the sun. Finish โ€ฆ

2021-03-19: โ›ˆ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Anyone else get stressed out when Marty opens that letter in the pouring rain? The ink is going โ€ฆ

2021-03-18: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Just to be clear, I like the content from Frontend Masters, but this new home page of the learning โ€ฆ

2021-03-18: ๐Ÿ”— Elixir Wizards |> Conference Call for Proposals - open through April 18th โ€ฆ

2021-03-17: FIXED LINK. ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽฎ There was a period in early WoW where the boats did not work and if you wanted to โ€ฆ

2021-03-17: ๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽฎ There was a period in early WoW where the boats did not work and if you wanted to travel across โ€ฆ

2021-03-16: ๐Ÿ˜ญ When the code base uses both โ€œsigned in” and “logged in” to describe the current โ€ฆ

2021-03-15: โœ… Today’s Goals: Technically Monday is a personal project day but since I was half days โ€ฆ

2021-03-15: โ˜€๏ธ Good morning. Time for standup.

2021-03-13: ๐Ÿ“š A good book does not have all the answers. A good book helps you come up with the right questions โ€ฆ

2021-03-13: ๐Ÿฅณ So we got some good news about our apartment application and it looks like I’ll be moving โ€ฆ

2021-03-13: ๐Ÿ“š Finished reading Ultralearning last night. I liked the book a lot. … can see myself coming โ€ฆ

2021-03-13: โœ… Today’s Goals: Get pretzels. (DONE!) Finalize RetroTaxi cycle one pitch doc. Blog about โ€ฆ

2021-03-13: ๐Ÿฅจ Today is Saturday. On Saturday we enjoy fresh Philly Soft Pretzels. Happy Pretzel Day.

2021-03-11: ๐Ÿ”ช Ever see the Too Many Cooks guy in Superman 3? Well, now you can’t unsee it.

2021-03-11: โœ… Today’s Goals: Very similar to yesterday. :P Work PR maintenance. Work ticket grooming โ€ฆ

2021-03-10: ๐Ÿค” Gavin.

2021-03-10: โœ… Today’s Goals: I have a series of work pull requests in queue so need to keep those ready โ€ฆ

2021-03-09: ๐Ÿ“š Work was doing a book photo thread so I figured I’d share here too. There are some books in โ€ฆ

2021-03-08: โœ… Today’s Goals: Grocery pickup. Taxes with accountant. 1:1 project update meeting. Finish my โ€ฆ

2021-03-08: ๐Ÿค” I appreciate marketing images of user interface will take allowances to the accuracy of device or โ€ฆ

2021-03-07: ๐Ÿฟ โ€œI have spells.โ€ www.youtube.com/watch

2021-03-06: ๐Ÿคž The apartment we checked out looks good. Hopefully it works out.

2021-03-06: ๐Ÿ”— Keyboard Event Viewer Helpful tool for web devs who need to better understand keyboard events. โ€ฆ

2021-03-05: ๐Ÿค” My code review zoom background.

2021-03-05: ๐Ÿ”— A Walking Tour of Philadelphia | A Virtual Guided Walk www.youtube.com/watch

2021-03-05: โ˜€๏ธ Happy Friday.

2021-03-04: ๐Ÿ˜ญ The interface says โ€œzipโ€ but the code uses โ€œpostal_codeโ€.

2021-03-03: ๐Ÿ˜… I did not faint getting blood drawn this morning (unlike last time) so I’m considering this โ€ฆ

2021-03-02: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿฟ Finding out your friend is transferring his character for TBC www.youtube.com/watch

2021-03-02: ๐Ÿค” If the Mac Pro wheels cost $700, how much will the Apple Car wheels cost?

2021-03-02: ๐Ÿ”— Announcing Hush - Samuel Gordalina Hush was purpose built to solve a common use case for projects โ€ฆ

2021-03-02: โœ… Todayโ€™s Goals: Redacted client Elixir/Phoenix work (pr review, api integration testing) Tonight: โ€ฆ

2021-03-01: ๐Ÿ“บ Sha la la laaaaaโ€ฆ. www.youtube.com/watch

2021-03-01: โœ… Today’s Goals: Grocery pickup. Social / Elixir call. More tax prep work. (carryover) โ€ฆ

2021-02-28: ๐Ÿ”— Introducing the Framework Laptop. Upgradeable, repairable, and 100% yours. frame.work

2021-02-28: โœ… Today Goals: Finish LiveView course. More tax prep work. Product / blog post research. Extra book โ€ฆ

2021-02-28: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œI think this shit actually makes FF7 worse.โ€ โ€œThis game makes Advent Children look like โ€ฆ

2021-02-27: ๐Ÿ”‹ I’m looking to buy a large battery + solar panel for my CPAP during power outages. Plan is โ€ฆ

2021-02-27: ๐ŸงŠ Icebreaker Thread: Which TV show has the best theme song?

2021-02-27: โœ… Todayโ€™s Goals: Errands (pharmacy, pretzels). Attend @phillycocoa Side Project Saturday. Work on โ€ฆ

2021-02-27: ๐Ÿค” Anyone have strong feelings towards team retro meetings, formats, tools used, resources? Kicking โ€ฆ

2021-02-26: ๐ŸงŠ Icebreaker Thread: Who was your favorite high school teacher and why?

2021-02-25: ๐Ÿ“š Icebreaker Thread: What book had a meaningful impact on your career?

2021-02-25: ๐Ÿค” Yesterday I Learned: The Johari window is a technique that helps people better understand their โ€ฆ

2021-02-24: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Had two separate pull requests at work yesterday that interacted with external services and each โ€ฆ

2021-02-24: โœ… Today’s Goals: Mastermind meeting. REDACTED client Elixir/Phoenix work. Take mom to โ€ฆ

2021-02-23: โœ… Today’s Goals: REDACTED client Elixir/Phoenix work. Post blog post for @phoenixexamples. โ€ฆ

2021-02-22: ๐Ÿ˜ Note: Today is first day of new 4-day client weeks so today is a personal project day. โœ… โ€ฆ

2021-02-20: โœ๏ธ Prioritizing Customer Feedback Be mindful of how you are spending your time. It can be very easy โ€ฆ

2021-02-20: ๐Ÿ’ก Zoom should add a Zelda-esk stamina meter setting for roundtable discussions and as you talk the โ€ฆ

2021-02-20: โœ… Today Goals: Grocery delivery. Errands (pretzels, pharmacy). Watch more of LiveView course from โ€ฆ

2021-02-19: ๐ŸŽฎ Watching Hodor dropping some beats before Blizzcon.

2021-02-17: ๐Ÿค” I feel like the phrase “code smell” is something I should drop from my vocabulary, โ€ฆ

2021-02-17: ๐Ÿ”— Nx is a multi-dimensional tensors library for Elixir with multi-staged compilation to the CPU/GPU. โ€ฆ

2021-02-16: ๐Ÿ”— North Dakota lawmakers jump into Apple/Epic fight with new app store bill - Ars Technica

2021-02-15: ๐ŸŽฎโค๏ธ This pleases me. hexdocs.pm/faker/Fak…

2021-02-15: โค๏ธ I gave my Mom M&Ms with me (Michael) and my sister (Michelle) on them for Valentine’s โ€ฆ

2021-02-14: ๐Ÿ˜ญ I’m not crying, I just have something in my eye. www.youtube.com/watch

2021-02-13: โœ… Today’s Goals: Errands (grocery pickup, pretzels, gas, atm) Setup monthly loan payments for โ€ฆ

2021-02-12: ๐Ÿค‘

2021-02-10: ๐Ÿ˜ด Despite good hour totals for sleep and no observational issue with my sleep apnea APAP machine, I โ€ฆ

2021-02-10: ๐Ÿค” Is there a way to setup GitHub to display test coverage issues on the files / diff part of a PR โ€ฆ

2021-02-10: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽน Myst / Riven music is good atmosphere when working on coding problems / puzzles. โ€ฆ

2021-02-07: โœ… Today’s Goals: Prepare first @phoenixexamples weekly email update (will go out tomorrow). โ€ฆ

2021-02-06: ๐Ÿ”— pxlnv.com Democratsโ€™ Section 230 Bill Could โ€˜Devastateโ€™ the Internet

2021-02-06: โญ๏ธ This is a nice little UX pattern, showing the previous value you used when you last made this โ€ฆ

2021-02-06: โœ… Today’s Goals: Aquire and enjoy some Philly soft pretzels. (done!) Post a @guildflow โ€ฆ

2021-02-05: ๐Ÿ“š Thinking in Systems on the merits of how we measure GDP, gross domestic product.

2021-02-05: ๐Ÿš— I don’t get all the excitement about an Apple car. After seeing what they did to my TV โ€ฆ

2021-02-03: ๐Ÿฟ TIL that one of my old YouTube tutorials has somehow ended up with 222,000 views?! Love those โ€ฆ

2021-02-02: ๐ŸŽฎ The protagonist speaks!

2021-02-01: ๐Ÿ˜ก Trying to make a burner account to do some Facebook testing for client work. Forgive me if I โ€ฆ

2021-01-31: ๐Ÿ”— Shirt Pocket Watch the future of bootable backups is unclear. How can something this important โ€ฆ

2021-01-31: ๐ŸŽฎ All hail your new league champion.

2021-01-31: โœ… Today’s Goals: Apartment cleaning (done!) Finish testing new @guildflow messaging / email โ€ฆ

2021-01-30: ๐Ÿ”— Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies blog.mozilla.org/security/…

2021-01-30: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Just another day in paradise.

2021-01-29: ๐Ÿ‘ Water situation is stable for now. The toiletโ€™s water intake pipe broke and the nearby emergency โ€ฆ

2021-01-29: ๐Ÿ”— The EU must protect the right to privacy and not attack end-to-end encryption

2021-01-29: ๐Ÿ˜ข Nothing like a broken water pipe to spice up the afternoon.

2021-01-29: Most software projects fail. Most businesses fail. Most relationships fail. Accepting that failure โ€ฆ

2021-01-29: ๐Ÿค” In @github you can connect people to a pull request through the “reviewersโ€ collection as โ€ฆ

2021-01-28: โค๏ธ I can complain about modern WoW lore for hours, but โ€œI AM MY SCARS!” still gives me โ€ฆ

2021-01-28: ๐Ÿ”— Maybe using HTTPS everywhere isn’t the best idea after all? www.youtube.com/watch

2021-01-28: ๐Ÿ”— Form Validation: You want :not(:focus):invalid, not :invalid โ€“ Bram.us

2021-01-27: ๐Ÿ’ฌ There’s a lotta things about me you don’t know anything about, Dottie. Things you โ€ฆ

2021-01-27: ๐Ÿ”— The known knownsโ€ฆ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns

2021-01-26: ๐Ÿ”ฅ Hot take: That behavior where Slack hides old messages / conversations when you don’t pay โ€ฆ

2021-01-26: ๐ŸŽน I have a new QA theme song. www.youtube.com/watch

2021-01-26: ๐Ÿ”— collapseos.org

2021-01-25: ๐Ÿ‘ Trying to slow down and identify behaviors I do around VS Code @code and ask, is there an โ€ฆ

2021-01-25: ๐Ÿ‘€ Should have changed this zoom setting months agoโ€ฆ

2021-01-25: โœ… Today’s Goals: Back to REDACTED Elixir/Phoenix work. Attend the @indyhall roundtable. โ€ฆ

2021-01-25: ๐Ÿค• After four days my neck is about 80% back. Will be first day attempting any long time at my desk โ€ฆ

2021-01-24: ๐Ÿ”— How to Set Up VS Code for Web Development in A Few Simple Steps

2021-01-24: ๐Ÿ”— Open-source Deep Dive: Hound - A Programmer’s Perspective

2021-01-24: ๐Ÿ˜ก The App Store makes things easier.

2021-01-23: ๐Ÿค” Decisions to make.

2021-01-22: ๐Ÿ“š From Thinking in Systems:

2021-01-21: ๐Ÿค• It is amazing how easy it is to take for granted your body working properly. Woke up with a sore โ€ฆ

2021-01-21: ๐Ÿคฌ When I swapped out my old Comcast modem for this new one it offered to restore the wireless โ€ฆ

2021-01-20: ๐Ÿค” If a tree falls in the woods but the analytics session did not capture the event, did it make a โ€ฆ

2021-01-20: ๐Ÿฟ Rebuilding the Instagram Stories UI with Tailwind CSS These videos are tight, informative little โ€ฆ

2021-01-18: ๐Ÿฟ TENET. What the fuck just happened?

2021-01-18: ๐Ÿค” Today I wrote a script, recorded my voice, edited the audio track only to realize this is a blog โ€ฆ

2021-01-18: ๐Ÿ˜ก Got my first data cap warning email from Comcast and lost 30m of my life trying to browse their โ€ฆ

2021-01-18: โœ… Today’s Goals: Morning walk. (done!) No client work. (done!) Record a few videos for โ€ฆ

2021-01-17: ๐Ÿ”— Why Blacksmiths are Better at Startups than You Even though my consulting clients like my work, โ€ฆ

2021-01-17: ๐Ÿ˜ข I now wear noise-canceling headphones in my living room because the neighbors above me are so โ€ฆ

2021-01-16: ๐Ÿค” If anyone out there is using tenant-based databases with Ecto while also being able to use the โ€ฆ

2021-01-15: ๐Ÿ’ฅ If only they knew how bad I was at Voltorb flip.

2021-01-15: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽน It’s the song Still Alive from Portal but done in a big band style. โ€ฆ

2021-01-15: ๐Ÿ“… The Philly ETE (Emerging Technologies For The Enterprise) Conference will be online May 4-6, 2021. โ€ฆ

2021-01-14: ๐Ÿšจ I did get it working (for the planned release tomorrow), but made a ticket to improve the code and โ€ฆ

2021-01-14: ๐Ÿค” What I thought was false (boolean) was really โ€œfalse” (string) and the feature check did not โ€ฆ

2021-01-14: ๐Ÿ˜ณ All week my client has been burning down a stack of 20 tickets to get the BIG deployment ready, โ€ฆ

2021-01-13: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub - pawurb/ecto_extras: Ecto helper functions. Simple helper functions for Ecto.Repo and โ€ฆ

2021-01-12: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿง€ Once I was part of a role-playing guild in WoW made up of extremely friendly Blood Elves who โ€ฆ

2021-01-11: โ˜€๏ธ It’s easy to get stuck doing the same things over and over. Don’t be afraid to shift โ€ฆ

2021-01-10: ๐Ÿ˜ก I’ve been using this MacBook Pro for ~10 weeks and the battery has already lost 9% of its โ€ฆ

2021-01-10: โœ… Todayโ€™s Goals: Morning walk. (done!) Dust and vacuum the apartment. Plan and announce this โ€ฆ

2021-01-09: ๐Ÿ”— Serving open street map vector tiles with elixir and phoenix - DEV Community

2021-01-09: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽน There are a ton of great video game soundtracks on Spotify. I usually tend to listen to my โ€ฆ

2021-01-08: ๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™€๏ธ Weโ€™re going to need a montage, a Pokรฉmon training montage!

2021-01-08: ๐Ÿ˜ญ He beat me.

2021-01-08: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub - KronicDeth/intellij-elixir at v11.9.0 Elixir plugin for JetBrain’s IntelliJ โ€ฆ

2021-01-08: โœ… Today’s goals: Morning walk (done!) Back to work after some unfocused half days. Post some โ€ฆ

2021-01-05: โœ… Today’s Goals: REDACTED Elixir / Phoenix client work. Continue battling CI issues and race โ€ฆ

2021-01-04: ๐Ÿ”— Mutiny! โ€” Blog โ€” NewAperio helps ensure that Ecto records you consider immutable from a business โ€ฆ

2021-01-04: โœ… Today’s Goals: Back to work; REDACTED Elixir / Phoenix client work. Publish Phoenix by โ€ฆ

2021-01-03: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub - jonklein/niex: Niex is an interactive Elixir code notebook built with Phoenix LiveView.

2021-01-03: โœ…๐ŸŽ‰ Just checked off a todo email I’ve been snoozing since early November.

2020-12-29: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending December 27th Iโ€™ve been taking it easy during vacation so this list is โ€ฆ

2020-12-28: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Did my first weigh in in two months. Only gained 4 pounds back, which Iโ€™m cool with. Need to โ€ฆ

2020-12-28: ๐Ÿ–– All I am saying is, I have a Memory Alpha page and you do not. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Zorn

2020-12-28: ๐Ÿค” For those trying to figure out their next steps, rememberโ€ฆ

2020-12-28: โœ… Todayโ€™s Goals: Back to work. Catch up on some PR review. Heads down coding, no meetings. Tonight: โ€ฆ

2020-12-27: ๐Ÿ”— Rust NIFs โ€“ Kraken of Thought Elixir and Erlang are not the most performant options for โ€ฆ

2020-12-26: ๐Ÿ”— Making a custom PCB ornament ยท ./jm This is a cool little project.

2020-12-26: ๐Ÿ“Š My Top 2020 Songs open.spotify.com/playlist/…

2020-12-26: ๐Ÿค” Spending a lot of my vacation time doing deep introspection and planning for 2021. I find myself โ€ฆ

2020-12-25: ๐ŸŽ„ Merry Christmas.

2020-12-23: ๐Ÿ™„ All hail dependabot, for it is wise and relentless in bugging me about things to do.

2020-12-23: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Terraform on Linode Notes Over vacation I worked through a small project to use Terraform on โ€ฆ

2020-12-22: โ˜ ๏ธ Jasmine’s Steelix. Ouch.

2020-12-21: ๐Ÿค” โ€œHow is the vacation going?” Spent most of the day hacking Terraform stuff to automate the โ€ฆ

2020-12-20: ๐ŸŽค Tonight’s is family movie night as we are watching Fiddler on the Roof. TRADITION! โ€ฆ

2020-12-20: ๐ŸŽฎโค๏ธ๐Ÿ”— I Attempted a Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke – Jaiden Animations, YouTube Love these nuzlock โ€ฆ

2020-12-18: ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ”— Using @apply with Complex Classes โ€“ What’s new in Tailwind CSS This is a great addition to โ€ฆ

2020-12-18: ๐Ÿค” Ansible, Chef or Puppet?

2020-12-18: ๐Ÿ”— How we discovered a 7-year old performance issue in Elixir - by Yiming Chen - Dec, 2020 - Tubi โ€ฆ

2020-12-18: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Between the Hulu price increases and the Comcast data caps I feel like I’m getting beat up โ€ฆ

2020-12-17: ๐Ÿ“š One thing I want to work on over vacation is figuring out my first book club of the new year. Off โ€ฆ

2020-12-17: ๐Ÿง‚๐Ÿ™„When a corporation uses every legal loophole it can find to avoid paying taxes but then donates a โ€ฆ

2020-12-17: โ„๏ธ Current status:

2020-12-16: ๐Ÿ’›๐ŸŽ Today I made a donation to Coded by Kids as part of the @indyhall donation exchange. My fellow โ€ฆ

2020-12-16: โ˜ƒ๏ธ Expecting some snow in Philadelphia today. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-12-15: ๐Ÿ”— Blog - Stephanie Wilkinson - Goodreads shutters all APIs, breaking my open source app

2020-12-15: ๐Ÿˆ

2020-12-15: ๐Ÿ› Me after spending two days on this production bug and about to go back in, one more timeโ€ฆ

2020-12-14: โœ… Today’s Goals: REDACTED Elixir/Phoenix work: Try to recreate production error I was alerted โ€ฆ

2020-12-13: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending December 13th Once again I missed my weekly updates so today notes โ€ฆ

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿ“š Had a nice relaxing day and caught up on some much enjoyed reading. Going to shoot for more of the โ€ฆ

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿง I immediately do not trust this book.

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿ”— Introduction - Rust and WebAssembly This small book describes how to use Rust and WebAssembly โ€ฆ

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿ”— SchoolOfSRE Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are Software Engineers specializing in reliability. โ€ฆ

2020-12-12: โค๏ธ๐Ÿ”— 3 Steps to Designing Better Data Structures This article evaluates three different data โ€ฆ

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿ”— Deis Labs Still Rusting - One Year Later

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿ”— Death of an Open Source Business Model - by Joe Morrison - Dec, 2020 - Medium Not sure if agree โ€ฆ

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿ”— Top 5 Elixir Skills to Learn in 2021 [for Juniors] โ€“ Curiosum

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿ”— 5 Phoenix open source projects to study

2020-12-12: ๐Ÿง I had two complete separate interactions with programmers this week who pointed out their โ€ฆ

2020-12-11: ๐Ÿ”— Alt vs Figcaption While both the alt attribute and the figcaption element provide a way to โ€ฆ

2020-12-11: ๐ŸŽฎ

2020-12-11: ๐Ÿ”— Businesses beware: Scammers are posing as employees from local tech companies via fake job posts โ€ฆ

2020-12-11: ๐Ÿง‚ I know a lot of people are excited about Marvel Phase 4 and those Star Wars/Disney titles from โ€ฆ

2020-12-11: ๐Ÿ“š Some light weekend reading.

2020-12-11: โœ… Today’s Goals: REDACTED Elixir/Phoenix client work: PR review, participate in arch design โ€ฆ

2020-12-09: ๐Ÿค” Anyone watching GitHub Universe? Any important take aways?

2020-12-08: ๐ŸŽ‰ Sharing new app from a friend! Jax: Learn JavaScript in quick fun chats Getting started with โ€ฆ

2020-12-08: ๐Ÿ™„ TIL: JIRA will let a user keep a ticket’s description edit box open for days and when they โ€ฆ

2020-12-07: ๐Ÿคฌ The newer “battery health managementโ€ features of Macbooks have caused so much confusion and โ€ฆ

2020-12-07: ๐Ÿ‘€ He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake.

2020-12-06: ๐Ÿค” Wonder what my therapist would say about all these dead project domains I renew every year?

2020-12-06: ๐ŸŽ„ Looking for a holiday themed project retro this month? How about the three ghosts retro: You are โ€ฆ

2020-12-06: ๐ŸŽ Maybe a good gift for a friend who likes a dark joke?

2020-12-06: ๐Ÿšถ Morning walk.

2020-12-05: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Finally took the time to remove that unlimited LTE data plan that was very underutilized in 2020. โ€ฆ

2020-12-04: ๐Ÿ˜› When you are teaching people about @elixirlang supervision trees: www.youtube.com/watch

2020-12-04: โ™› Anyone get some Minority Report ending vibes from that episode 7 ending of the series? What if she โ€ฆ

2020-12-02: ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ“š I finished the book Real-Time Phoenix last night and recommend it. Even though I lean on LiveView โ€ฆ

2020-12-02: ๐Ÿ’ช PR status: โ€œCoverage increased (+0.009%) to 92.692%โ€œ

2020-12-02: ๐Ÿคฌ Looks like this 1.2TB @comcast cap will hit me hard. Fuck. www.theverge.com/2020/11/2…

2020-12-01: ๐ŸŽ„ Iโ€™ve officially started watching The Christmas Story on repeat.

2020-12-01: ๐Ÿ”— www.doesthedogdie.com Crowdsourced emotional spoilers for movies, tv, books and more.

2020-11-30: โ˜€๏ธ It’s Monday after an extended holiday weekend. Time to fire up those video calls!

2020-11-30: โœ… Today’s Goals: Back to REDACTED Elixir/Phoenix client work. Ticket grooming with team. Help โ€ฆ

2020-11-28: ๐Ÿ“š Anyone have any favorite Terraform books / tutorials / resources? Going to be deploying to @linode โ€ฆ

2020-11-26: ๐ŸŽฎ I can only assume these Pokemon trainers LOVE COCAINE!

2020-11-25: ๐Ÿ“… 2021 is looking better already. Got my @seanmartorana calendar today! โ€ฆ

2020-11-25: โœ… Today’s Goals: REDACTED client Elixir / Phoenix work. Most of my team is off so will be โ€ฆ

2020-11-24: ๐Ÿ“š My next book club is going to be reading The Mythical Man-Month. To help the reading go faster โ€ฆ

2020-11-23: ๐Ÿค” Why not both?

2020-11-23: ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐ŸŽ„ I’ve already started listening to Christmas music. Charlie Brown Christmas if you need to โ€ฆ

2020-11-23: โœ… Today’s Goals: Meetings! Refactoring meeting (boundaries and responsibilities). Team โ€ฆ

2020-11-22: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending November 22nd mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-11-22: ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ“š It’s so frustrating and sad to see a tech book publisher, whose content you love, have such โ€ฆ

2020-11-22: ๐Ÿ’ฐ In related medical cost stupidly, this $1 worth of plastic costs $60. I’m suppose to replace โ€ฆ

2020-11-22: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Today I renewed my $400/month health insurance which has an $8,000 yearly deductible. This means I โ€ฆ

2020-11-21: ๐Ÿ‘‹ Just made a new Follow page for my personal site. If you want to follow me or my project, these โ€ฆ

2020-11-20: โค๏ธ Stay home.

2020-11-20: ๐Ÿ’ฌ You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it โ€ฆ

2020-11-20: ๐Ÿ“… BarCamp Philadelphia: Saturday December 5th, 2020 Join us for the 13th annual BarCamp Philly for โ€ฆ

2020-11-20: โ˜€๏ธ Good morning. It’s time to get up.

2020-11-19: ๐ŸŽฎ “I want my journey to be full of laughter.โ€ ~ Yuna, Final Fantasy X www.youtube.com/watch

2020-11-19: ๐ŸŽถ They’re Taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

2020-11-19: ๐Ÿง Am I more productive with the Sim City OST playing in the background?

2020-11-19: ๐Ÿง Bold claims @trello.

2020-11-19: ๐Ÿ” Sacrificing virtual chickens to the VSCode / Elixir Dialyzer gods. May they see in my favor.

2020-11-19: โœ… Today’s Goals: Try to approve other PR that addressed my feedback. Fix some tests I broke โ€ฆ

2020-11-19: ๐Ÿคฏ I don’t think people generally appreciate or account for the complexity that needs to live โ€ฆ

2020-11-19: ๐Ÿ’ฐ A reminder, YouTube WILL show ads on your content, even if you are not in the partner program.

2020-11-19: ๐Ÿง To balance it out for you, maybe I should start a newsletter with all things I failed at last โ€ฆ

2020-11-18: ๐Ÿ’ฐ App idea: A slack plugin that automatically swaps out company abbreviations and replaces them with โ€ฆ

2020-11-18: ๐Ÿ’ฐ I’m a huge proponent of usability testing and user research, but this offer is embarrassing. โ€ฆ

2020-11-17: ๐Ÿ”— Apple lets some Big Sur network traffic bypass firewalls - Ars Technica Beginning with macOS โ€ฆ

2020-11-16: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ”’ Philadelphia announces new โ€œSafer at Homeโ€ restrictions to fight rising COVID-19 cases โ€ฆ

2020-11-16: โœ… Today’s Goals: Post weekly blog week in review. REDACTED Elixir / Phoenix client work and โ€ฆ

2020-11-15: ๐Ÿ˜ข Putting real time tonight into looking for a new place to live. Moving is such a stressful thing โ€ฆ

2020-11-15: ๐Ÿค” I recall a GitHub repo that cataloged Xcode build times of a standardized project across different โ€ฆ

2020-11-15: ๐Ÿง€ Eric Andre has ruined me. I can’t listen to Daft Punk without wanting to make some Kraft โ€ฆ

2020-11-15: ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿšจ Got my first breach report this morning. Thanks @firefox.

2020-11-14: ๐Ÿ”— Optimizing for Free Hosting โ€” Elixir Deployments Iโ€™m going to walk through a deployment strategy โ€ฆ

2020-11-14: ๐Ÿ”— Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn’t Yours

2020-11-14: ๐Ÿค” I do not want to update macOS. Any way to remove that notification bubble?

2020-11-14: ๐Ÿค”๐ŸŽ„ I want to do something fun with my Raspberry Pi 4 and an extra display I have for the holidays. โ€ฆ

2020-11-13: ๐Ÿ˜ข Anyone else feel totally overwhelmed when they have to do ANYTHING on Amazon Web Services?

2020-11-13: ๐Ÿ˜ก I tried to take some RAM away from my local Docker setup and my database container did not like โ€ฆ

2020-11-13: โœ… Todayโ€™s Goals: Lots of meetings, checkins and demos. Code Review! Make use of some new client โ€ฆ

2020-11-12: ๐Ÿ˜ข Please stay home.

2020-11-12: โœ… Today’s Goals: Elixir: Get oban job / worker built and scheduled to execute hourly tasks. โ€ฆ

2020-11-12: โœ… I’ve been slacking at posting my daily goals. Mostly due to the fact that the details are โ€ฆ

2020-11-09: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending November 8th Lots of times itโ€™s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines โ€ฆ

2020-11-06: ๐Ÿ˜ก Me and this new MacBook are off to a rocky start.

2020-11-06: ๐Ÿค” I got my new 16-inch MacBook Pro today. Any issues I should note about doing a SuperDuper! clone โ€ฆ

2020-11-06: ๐Ÿ”— This Linux Command Handbook will cover 60 core Bash commands you will need as a developer. Each โ€ฆ

2020-11-06: ๐Ÿคฌ Last night I broke down my home office to prepare for a construction maintenance request that was โ€ฆ

2020-11-05: ๐Ÿค” Iโ€™m having some issues with my MacBook Pro battery. Its health numbers are all over the place and โ€ฆ

2020-11-04: ๐Ÿ The specific farm we had today was Sweet Farm. Sweet Farm is the first non-profit sanctuary in the โ€ฆ

2020-11-04: ๐Ÿ Goat 2 Meeting: For Your Next Video Call, Invite A Farm Animal www.npr.org/sections/…

2020-11-04: โœ… Today’s Goals: More social network and TV avoidance. (Yes I know the irony of posting โ€ฆ

2020-11-03: โœ… Today’s Goals: Avoid social media and TV as much as possible. REDACTED client Elixir / โ€ฆ

2020-11-02: ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Tonight was the final night of our weekly Android Book Club which kicked off on July 6th. We โ€ฆ

2020-11-02: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending November 1st Lots of times itโ€™s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines โ€ฆ

2020-11-02: ๐Ÿ˜ญโ˜•๏ธ When it’s only 2pm and youโ€™ve already consumed your allotment for daily coffees.

2020-11-02: ๐ŸŽฎ When I was young the big Friday excitement was renting a video game at Blockbuster. I liked RPG โ€ฆ

2020-11-02: ๐Ÿ“š Started reading Real-Time Phoenix this weekend. Looks really good so far. โ€ฆ

2020-10-31: ๐ŸŽฎ Tonight, the second beaver race in Major’s Mask beat my soul. I am defeated.

2020-10-31: ๐Ÿ”— Bodyguard Simple authorization conventions for Phoenix apps

2020-10-31: ๐Ÿ”— Redirecting routes in a Phoenix application using plugs

2020-10-31: ๐Ÿ”— How we verify webhooks - Dashbit Blog implementing a HTTP signature method for your webhooks in โ€ฆ

2020-10-31: ๐Ÿ”— Finch โ€” Finch v0.5.1 An HTTP client with a focus on performance, built on top of Mint and โ€ฆ

2020-10-31: ๐Ÿคช Vandalism.

2020-10-31: ๐Ÿฅจ Happy Pretzel Day!

2020-10-30: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Apple Launches Service Program for AirPods Pro โ€“ 512 Pixels Guess itโ€™s time for round two to โ€ฆ

2020-10-30: ๐Ÿš€ SPACE! www.youtube.com/watch

2020-10-30: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธโ˜”๏ธ This week the rain and some early morning family commitments has made my morning walking โ€ฆ

2020-10-30: โœ… Today’s Goals: REDACTED client work in Elixir/Phoenix. Pair with client team member to talk โ€ฆ

2020-10-29: ๐Ÿ“ท๐Ÿ–จ Local CocoaHead friend released his native macOS app update that helps photographers make the โ€ฆ

2020-10-28: โœ… Late Todayโ€™s Goals: REDACTED Client Elixir / Phoenix work. Take video call to chat meetup groups โ€ฆ

2020-10-28: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ‘ Finished ShapeUp tonight. Anxious to hear from people who have applied the patterns to their own โ€ฆ

2020-10-27: โœ… Today Goals: REDACTED Client Elixir/Phoenix work. Prep notes and slides for tomorrowโ€™s @guildflow โ€ฆ

2020-10-26: โœ… Todayโ€™s Goals: REDACTED client work. Kick the tires with Elixir Oban for job processing client โ€ฆ

2020-10-26: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending October 25th Lots of times itโ€™s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines โ€ฆ

2020-10-24: ๐Ÿฅณ VOTE!

2020-10-23: โœ… Today’s Goals: Client: team huddle meeting. Client: work out local dev data issues. Client: โ€ฆ

2020-10-23: ๐Ÿฟ Video: CBS Sunday Morning / David Pogue: The right to repair movement www.youtube.com/watch โ€ฆ

2020-10-22: โœ… Today’s Goals: Get deep into my first new client tickets, and test out the limits of some โ€ฆ

2020-10-21: โœ… Today’s Goals: Attend Mastermind meeting. Continued client project onboarding work. Take โ€ฆ

2020-10-20: ๐Ÿฟ This talk (40m video) brings up some great questions you should be asking yourself as a โ€ฆ

2020-10-20: ๐Ÿค” Why are .webloc files on macOS so special? Firefox is my default browser yet the icon is โ€ฆ

2020-10-19: ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ I’d love a @firefox setting to always open links from other apps in a private window by โ€ฆ

2020-10-19: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending October 18th Lots of times itโ€™s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines โ€ฆ

2020-10-19: ๐Ÿฅณ Really enjoying Firefox Multi-Account Containers. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir…

2020-10-19: โœ… Today’s Goals: Post week in review blog post. Do some new projects setup / accounts things. โ€ฆ

2020-10-18: โœ… Today’s Goals: Apartment cleanup. Edit Elixir hello world example. Draft @guildflow blog โ€ฆ

2020-10-18: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿฅถ Going to have to consider moving back to after lunch walks. The morning walks are so cold now.

2020-10-18: ๐ŸŽฎ

2020-10-17: ๐Ÿ“… VOTE.

2020-10-17: ๐Ÿงฆ THE SOCKPOCOLYPSE IS UPON US! All socks will be judged! Those socks judged not worthy will be cast โ€ฆ

2020-10-17: ๐Ÿ”— kotaku.com Pet Fish Discovers Glitch In Pokรฉmon Sapphire

2020-10-17: ๐Ÿ”— Jacob Gorban Today, in the App Store: โ€œOur Top 10 Strategy Gamesโ€. All 10 are โ€œpay to winโ€ kind โ€ฆ

2020-10-16: ๐Ÿ”— How to support employees in the upcoming US election - Wildbit

2020-10-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ’ช If I need to step away from the codebase for more than 5 minutes my instinct is to write a โ€ฆ

2020-10-16: ๐ŸŽฎ Clock Town Day 1 10 Hours - Majora’s Mask High Quality www.youtube.com/watch

2020-10-16: ๐ŸŽฎ Iโ€™ve had Clock Town in my head all week – AND NOW YOU DO TOO! Clock Town, First Day - The โ€ฆ

2020-10-15: โœ… Today’s Goals: Project updates call with friend. Demo @guildflow at @IndyHall show and โ€ฆ

2020-10-14: ๐ŸŽฎ It’s time for some video game confessions. Give me yours.

2020-10-14: ๐Ÿ™„โ€œYou’re reading this because we did something wrong, or didn’t do enough right. Maybe โ€ฆ

2020-10-14: ๐Ÿค” “As a thank you for being one of their top fans on Spotify, NINETIES BAND I DONโ€™T REALLY โ€ฆ

2020-10-14: โœ… Today’s Goals: Prep and take prospective project call. Prep and run Philly Elixir meeting. โ€ฆ

2020-10-14: ๐Ÿค” Do people wear their Apple Watch during sex? Does it count as an workout? Does your partner feel โ€ฆ

2020-10-13: ๐Ÿ”— Elixir v1.11 released - The Elixir programming language

2020-10-13: ๐Ÿ”— Tailwind CSS v1.9 We just released Tailwind CSS v1.9 which adds support for configuration โ€ฆ

2020-10-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Using the Lighthouse website tests via Google’s PageSpeed Insights today to identify some โ€ฆ

2020-10-13: โœ… Today’s Goals: Take a meeting about a prospective client project. Look into iCal files / โ€ฆ

2020-10-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Here is a feature Xcode should steal from Android Studio.

2020-10-12: โค๏ธ A testimonial from a customer using my Remote User Testing Session for $99 service today: โ€œMike, โ€ฆ

2020-10-12: ๐Ÿฅณ

2020-10-12: โœ๏ธ Using @postmarkappโ€™s new Broadcast Email Stream via Elixir and Swoosh โ€ฆ

2020-10-12: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending October 11th Lots of times itโ€™s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines โ€ฆ

2020-10-12: โœ๏ธ Airpods Pro Repair: How hard is it to ship an empty box? What followed was an hour long customer โ€ฆ

2020-10-12: โœ… Today’s Goals: Record and publish a client Remote User Testing Session. Record and publish โ€ฆ

2020-10-11: ๐Ÿ™„ Apple support.

2020-10-09: ๐Ÿ”— Introducing Tailwind Play โ€“ Tailwind CSS an advanced online playground for Tailwind CSS that lets โ€ฆ

2020-10-09: ๐Ÿ”— Googleโ€™s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google - Ars Technica

2020-10-08: ๐Ÿ”ฅ How a Microwave Oven Works www.youtube.com/watch

2020-10-08: ๐Ÿ“น Enjoying the zoom filters.

2020-10-08: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป All my unit testing around this new @guildflow email feature uses โ€œPepe Silvia” as the to: โ€ฆ

2020-10-08: โœ… Today’s Goals: Ongoing work on broadcast emails in @guildflow. Attend Virtual CocoaHeads โ€ฆ

2020-10-07: โœ… Today’s Goals: Lots of meetings. Finalize a marketing thing for @guildflow. Ongoing work โ€ฆ

2020-10-06: ๐Ÿ”— The Supreme Court hears Oracle v. Google tomorrowโ€”hereโ€™s whatโ€™s at stake - Ars Technica On โ€ฆ

2020-10-06: โœ… Today’s Goals: Finish up new landing page work for @guildflow. Do sprint planning (leftover โ€ฆ

2020-10-05: โœ… Today’s Goals: Publish @guildflow blog post on new page feature. Ongoing work on new โ€ฆ

2020-10-05: โ˜€๏ธ It’s Monday and time to get back to work. This week we remember that our past failures help โ€ฆ

2020-10-05: ๐Ÿ–ผ Working on adding some screenshots to the @guildflow home page today and I have to say I’m โ€ฆ

2020-10-04: ๐Ÿ”— Trumpโ€™s doctor dodges questions, suggests president tested positive Wednesday - Ars Technica

2020-10-04: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป One Swift thing I miss in Kotlin is the requirement that if a function can throw an exception โ€ฆ

2020-10-04: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป It’s Sunday and so it’s time to do my Android Book Club homework in prep for Monday โ€ฆ

2020-10-03: ๐ŸŽฎ

2020-10-02: โœ… Today’s Goals: Record and prep @guildflow feature demo blog post video. Record and publish โ€ฆ

2020-10-02: ๐Ÿ“น Casual Updates (Video 7m) A short video where I catch you all up on my various project: Guildflow, โ€ฆ

2020-10-01: ๐Ÿ”— Android Basics in Kotlin This course allows people with no development experience to learn โ€ฆ

2020-10-01: ๐Ÿ”— www.manton.org What’s new in Micro.blog 2.0

2020-10-01: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ”— Daring Fireball: Simris Algae Omega-3 If you ads are this off target from your brand, find โ€ฆ

2020-10-01: ๐Ÿ”— Toyotaโ€™s ceiling-mounted robot is like GLaDOS for your kitchen - Ars Technica

2020-09-30: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿฅณ

2020-09-30: ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป It’s time for Hacktoberfest! Help drive growth of open source and make positive โ€ฆ

2020-09-30: โœ… Today’s Goals: Attend @postmarkapp demo of broadcast emails. Work on fork of the elixir โ€ฆ

2020-09-29: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The Jetpack Compose learning path (a mix of articles, videos and codelabs) is very well done. โ€ฆ

2020-09-29: โœ… Today’s Goals: Do some overall goal and sprint planning. Work on new marketing copy for โ€ฆ

2020-09-28: ๐Ÿ”— Tiger Lake is coming in Dell XPS 13, XPS 13 DE, and XPS 13 2-in-1 - Ars Technica Dell is now โ€ฆ

2020-09-28: ๐Ÿคฏ๐ŸŽฎ He Speedruns Super Mario 64 With a Drumset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fKyA0Bfq_k

2020-09-28: โœ… Today’s Goals: Post new blog post on @guildflow covering New Member Onboarding. Prep work โ€ฆ

2020-09-27: ๐ŸŽฎ Played The Last Campfire for about 45m tonight on Switch. The game itself is very cute. It’s โ€ฆ

2020-09-27: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending September 27th Lots of times itโ€™s easy to feel bad about missing โ€ฆ

2020-09-27: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ข Phillies miss on playoffs for 9th straight year www.mlb.com/phillies/…

2020-09-27: ๐Ÿ˜ก Fareed Zakaria: This is how Republicans keep their power www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-27: ๐Ÿค” Somewhere a kid is working through these Jetpack Compose tutorials and asking themselves, โ€ฆ

2020-09-27: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป TIL: Jetpack Compose (the Android equivalent of SwiftUI) can run as far back as API level 21. โ€ฆ

2020-09-27: ๐ŸŽฎ SM64 - How Real Men Beat Koopa the Quick (TAS) www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-26: โ›ฑ Crafting custom zoom backgrounds as one doesโ€ฆ

2020-09-26: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ When the local oldies radio station starts to play songs from your teenage years.

2020-09-26: ๐Ÿคช My favorite moment during Side Project Saturday today at @phillycocoa was when someone did an โ€ฆ

2020-09-26: ๐Ÿ”— Daring Fireball: โ€ŽWidgetsmith and The Case of the Missing App Store Bunco Squad The App Store is โ€ฆ

2020-09-26: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I saw a post about the new PA COVID app. I’m hoping it is or will be open source. If โ€ฆ

2020-09-25: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป This feature branch kicked my ass. Happy to see if FINALLY come together. Hope to deploy this โ€ฆ

2020-09-25: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ๐ŸŽฎ It was suppose to be here sometime today so I still have some hope.

2020-09-25: โœ… “What’s In The Mail?” - How to Complete a Pennsylvania Mail-in Ballot โ€ฆ

2020-09-25: โœ… Today’s Goals: Mastermind meeting Do a PR and code review of my pages and editable โ€ฆ

2020-09-25: ๐Ÿšถ Foggy morning walk.

2020-09-24: โฐ Itโ€™s VOTE oโ€™clock. Todays reminder you need to register to vote. Voting in Pennsylvania: Learn how โ€ฆ

2020-09-24: ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿง‚ TIL: How much salt is in Campbellโ€™s Tomato Soup.

2020-09-24: โœ… Today’s goals: Add tests and final behavior to editable navigation for @guildflow. Side โ€ฆ

2020-09-23: ๐Ÿ”—โค๏ธ Lenovo begins selling OEM Ubuntu PCs to the general public - Ars Technica

2020-09-23: ๐ŸŽฎ Something to look forward to.

2020-09-23: โœ… Today’s Goals: Attend morning mastermind call. Continue work on editable navigation in โ€ฆ

2020-09-22: ๐Ÿ˜ก Uncle Roger DISGUSTED by this Egg Fried Rice Video (BBC Food) www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-22: ๐Ÿ”— Manton Reece - Micro.blog 2.0 will launch next week

2020-09-22: ๐Ÿฅฃ I had a work meeting at noon and had mistakingly assumed it was an hour and not two hours. I โ€ฆ

2020-09-22: โœ… Today’s Goals: Publish @guildflow blog post I wrote yesterday. Continue work on editable โ€ฆ

2020-09-22: ๐Ÿค” At what point to you pack all your things into the car and drive to Canada and ask for refugee โ€ฆ

2020-09-22: ๐Ÿ‘ YarnBuddy is a beautiful, easy-to-use project tracker and row counter for knitters and crocheters. โ€ฆ

2020-09-21: โœ… Today’s Goals: Attend Android Book Club Second attempt with new UI ideas for navigation โ€ฆ

2020-09-21: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending September 20th Itโ€™s easy to feel bad about missing deadlines but when โ€ฆ

2020-09-21: ๐Ÿ“… At the upcoming Side Project Saturday for @phillycocoa I’ll be doing a unit testing Q&A. โ€ฆ

2020-09-20: ๐ŸŽฎ After 29 years I FINALLY found the developer’s room in Final Fantasy 4j.

2020-09-20: โšพ๏ธ Third baseman Todd Frazier gets his first strikeout on a 55 mph knuckleball, a breakdown โค๏ธ I โ€ฆ

2020-09-20: โœ… Today’s goals: Do Android Book Club homework. Post draft terms of service for @guildflow. โ€ฆ

2020-09-19: ๐ŸŽฎ

2020-09-18: ๐ŸŽฎโ˜น๏ธ LIES.

2020-09-18: โšพ๏ธ Josh Donaldson gets ejected after hitting a home run, a breakdown www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-17: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿคฌ FUCK THESE AIR HORN FUCKERS. Thanks for making even the small amount of baseball this season โ€ฆ

2020-09-17: โšพ๏ธ I am a @Phillies fan, but watching the games with the CONSTANT FUCKING air horns is OBNOXIOUS.

2020-09-17: ๐ŸŽฎ I found the Final Fantasy 16 trailer yesterday to be very bland, predictable and stale. That โ€ฆ

2020-09-16: โœ… Today Goals: Meet with friend to review each other’s side projects. Cont’d work on โ€ฆ

2020-09-16: ๐Ÿ’ฆ If you feel like you are having a bad day, just remember Marc Summers has OCD and had to host โ€ฆ

2020-09-15: โค๏ธ @alexhillman would be proud of this commit.

2020-09-15: โŒจ๏ธ Got my new keyboard today.

2020-09-15: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽค Watch this man sing Mario songs with 7 of his identical twin brothers! www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-15: ๐Ÿ’ช It’s so nice having a short list of technical blog posts and videos to share with a โ€ฆ

2020-09-15: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป No tech project should have just 1 coder. Code is the asset and is only valuable if it can be โ€ฆ

2020-09-15: โœ… Todayโ€™s Goals: Watch Apple event Take client prospect phone call Submit other client proposal Do โ€ฆ

2020-09-15: ๐Ÿ“ข Learn how to exercise your right to vote. This guide will help connect you with Pennsylvaniaโ€™s โ€ฆ

2020-09-15: ๐Ÿ“ข Some good expectations in this video for how election night will feel this year, re: how the โ€ฆ

2020-09-15: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿฅถ Was a little chilly out there during this morning’s walk. I got to buy some sweatpants โ€ฆ

2020-09-14: ๐Ÿ˜ด Was low energy tonight through Android Book Club but got through it and learned some cool stuff. โ€ฆ

2020-09-14: โœ… Today’s goals: Finish writing proposal. Doctor annual physical. Do something marketing โ€ฆ

2020-09-14: โ˜€๏ธ It’s Monday and time to face your fears.

2020-09-13: โœ๏ธ A Look Back: Week Ending September 13th Lots of times itโ€™s easy to feel bad about missing โ€ฆ

2020-09-13: ๐Ÿ”— Been doing some more Phoenix LiveView things this past week and found this project / demo resource โ€ฆ

2020-09-13: ๐Ÿ“šโœ… Finished my homework for this week’s Android Book Club. Still very green on Kotlin โ€ฆ

2020-09-12: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ญ

2020-09-12: ๐Ÿค” If I were to build a Content Blocker Extension for iOS / Safari do other browsers which are โ€ฆ

2020-09-12: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Apple is winning its fight against the Right to Repair movement. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-11: ๐Ÿ”— In-App Purchase Rules โ€“ Marco.org A summary of todayโ€™s changes to 3.1.3 Other Purchase Methods:

2020-09-11: ๐Ÿ˜ป You know what’s wrong with the app store? They would never approve a site/app like this: โ€ฆ

2020-09-11: ๐Ÿค” When I search the iOS App Store on a phone for โ€œblocker” I see a editorial story about โ€ฆ

2020-09-11: ๐Ÿ˜ท Some really neat web interactions and animations on this site: An Explorable Essay on How Masks โ€ฆ

2020-09-11: Feels like I am too overconfident with these goals and they slip, so will try to pick less and be โ€ฆ

2020-09-10: ๐Ÿ™„ In today’s App Store Guideline of the day we honor section 4.1 Copycats. What I love about โ€ฆ

2020-09-10: ๐Ÿ‘‹ Consulting Availability: Elixir, iOS and User Experience Almost all the work I get is through โ€ฆ

2020-09-10: ๐Ÿ™„ JIM FACE.

2020-09-10: โœ… Today goals: Research Elixir contracting opportunities. Next 1000 words for meetup book. Ongoing โ€ฆ

2020-09-08: ๐Ÿ•บ๐ŸฟIt’s tough out there. Remember to KEEP DANCING! www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-08: ๐Ÿ”— Michael Tsai - Blog - Screen Recording in Big Sur Requires Admin Account I donโ€™t understand what โ€ฆ

2020-09-08: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป If you need to catch up with Elixir Conf stuff check out these great notes: โ€ฆ

2020-09-08: โœ… Today’s goals: Prep for tomorrowโ€™s work meeting. Prep for tomorrow’s Philly Elixir โ€ฆ

2020-09-07: ๐Ÿฟ A really touching tale of a loooong game dev cycle and the importance of prototypes. Honestly the โ€ฆ

2020-09-07: ๐Ÿงˆ I buttered it up up, I buttered it up up. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-07: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป My comfort level with designing @ElixirLang modules for @guildflow is really improving. Using โ€ฆ

2020-09-07: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Just to be clear, all this coding I do is just to kill time in-between the coffees.

2020-09-07: ๐Ÿ“น Don’t Waste My Time (Video 2m) A few thoughts on cutting to the chase in videos for an โ€ฆ

2020-09-07: ๐Ÿ”ฅ Sure could use some extra CPU horsepower to do these 30+ minute video exports for my user testing. โ€ฆ

2020-09-07: โœ… Today’s goals: Do some apartment cleanup I skipped this weekend. Finish the UI around โ€ฆ

2020-09-07: ๐Ÿ“น Miziziziz hits hard with his thoughts on making video tutorials. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-06: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Say what you will about Android development, but the fact that Xcode STILL does not have a spell โ€ฆ

2020-09-06: ๐Ÿค” I have a very functional iPad mini 2 collecting dust. The latest official OS it can run is iOS 12. โ€ฆ

2020-09-05: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“š I wrote 1300 words tonight for the technical meetup book. Not very coherent at the moment but โ€ฆ

2020-09-05: ๐Ÿค” I’d like to make some stickers for @guildflow. Anyone have a recommended printer? cc/ โ€ฆ

2020-09-05: ๐Ÿ”— Shirt Pocket Watch At present, it’s not possible to make bootable copies of Big Sur, even โ€ฆ

2020-09-05: ๐Ÿ’ธ Video: Google Ad Numbers Don’t Add Up (5m) I tried to run some Google Ads but canโ€™t โ€ฆ

2020-09-05: โŒจ๏ธ Since I am home now I could jump back into a full clicky mechanical, though I am worried a bit โ€ฆ

2020-09-05: โŒจ๏ธโš ๏ธ I think my Matias Quiet Pro is starting to fail. The right arrow key fails to trigger like 10% โ€ฆ

2020-09-05: ๐Ÿค ๐ŸŽฎ WHERE YOU AT LENNY!?!?!??! www.youtube.com/watch

2020-09-04: ๐Ÿฅณ Finally grabbed a copy of Sim Genie to help manage my Xcode simulators. It’s a must have for โ€ฆ

2020-09-04: ๐Ÿ™„ I’m all for simple prompts, but if click the โš ๏ธ icon, I want to know whatโ€™s going on. SHOW โ€ฆ

2020-09-04: ๐Ÿ™„ When you never even logged in but get an email with the subject โ€œMike thanks for making EVENT Day โ€ฆ

2020-09-03: ๐ŸŽฅ Check out the new promo video for @IndyHall at Home. www.indyhall.org/athome/ And if you have any โ€ฆ

2020-09-03: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Fighting the streaming bugs in my #ElixirConf2020 battle station.

2020-09-03: ๐Ÿ“น A Screencast about Building Screencasts: How I Built the Guildflow 70-second Introduction Video โ€ฆ

2020-09-03: ๐Ÿค” If you are sending out less frequent email newsletters about your product be sure to include a โ€ฆ

2020-09-03: ๐ŸŽฎ No love for Galaxy 2 (my fav) but can’t let the snub overshadow my excitement to play these โ€ฆ

2020-09-03: ๐Ÿฅณ While I would have much preferred to be in Denver, Iโ€™m going to try to make the most of a remote โ€ฆ

2020-09-02: ๐Ÿง Why have you not started, or volunteered with, a local technology meetup? No shaming here, just โ€ฆ

2020-09-02: ๐Ÿคฌ I’ve sticked with @Dropbox despite its focus on a questionable company growth plan and a โ€ฆ

2020-09-02: โค๏ธ This month I renewed my yearly membership of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. They do good work! โ€ฆ

2020-09-02: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“น Video: Using Fixtures and Test Assets in Swift Unit Tests (9m) Use fixtures in your Swift unit โ€ฆ

2020-09-02: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Is there a solution out there for a one button click to mirror a Vimeo video to YouTube? Like โ€ฆ

2020-09-02: โœˆ๏ธ I want to congratulate Tony Stark for his recent successful test flight of the Iron Man suit. CBS โ€ฆ

2020-09-02: โœ… Voting in Pennsylvania Learn how to exercise your right to vote. This guide will help connect you โ€ฆ

2020-09-01: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Migrating JSON File Schema Changes in Swift A demonstration of how you could save your Swift โ€ฆ

2020-09-01: ๐Ÿ“Š When your dashboard has simple numbers that don’t add up I start to loose confidence that โ€ฆ

2020-08-31: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐ŸŽฎ My git feature branches remind me of Rainbow Road.

2020-08-31: ๐Ÿ“š Got my copy today! stackingthebricks.com/tinymba/

2020-08-31: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ‘ I finished Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal. โ€ฆ

2020-08-31: ๐Ÿ˜ก Really sick of these permission prompts.

2020-08-31: ๐Ÿคฌ Things were never good.

2020-08-29: ๐Ÿ’ธ The algorithm thinks I buy Switches like I buy Tic Tacs.

2020-08-29: โœ… If telling users the truth about where their money is going is against the rules, then the rules โ€ฆ

2020-08-29: โœ๏ธ Was doing backlog reorganizing for @guildflow last night. A new trick I’m using is instead โ€ฆ

2020-08-29: ๐Ÿ”— A free, open-source API for generating random user data. Like Lorem Ipsum, but for people. โ€ฆ

2020-08-29: ๐Ÿฅฏ pickup.

2020-08-28: โšพ๏ธ There is a Gritty cutout at the Phillies game.

2020-08-28: โ›ˆ Looking ominous out there. Winds starting to pick up.

2020-08-28: โ˜•๏ธ In my one Slack group, the primary interaction is people trying to one up each other with more โ€ฆ

2020-08-28: ๐Ÿ“น Going to be working on a very short/tight introduction video for the @guildflow home page this โ€ฆ

2020-08-27: ๐Ÿ˜ป quicktype produces nice types and JSON (de)serializers for many programming languages. It can โ€ฆ

2020-08-27: ๐Ÿ”— How do you build something people want?

2020-08-27: ๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽฎ Your PlayStation allegiance may determine whether you can preorder a PS5 - Ars Technica

2020-08-27: ๐ŸŽฎ New toy came in today.

2020-08-27: ๐ŸŽต I could not believe when I found out the music Trump has selected to use during his introduction โ€ฆ

2020-08-27: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿฟ Watched the first episode of the Netflix video game documentary, High Score with lunch. โ€ฆ

2020-08-26: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ปXcode 12 beta 6 has changed the SwiftUI FileDocument protocol and broke my tests. Anyone else โ€ฆ

2020-08-26: ๐Ÿ”— Announcing Jetpack Compose Alpha! android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/a…

2020-08-26: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป A new service I’m offering: A developer-focused, Remote User Testing Session of your โ€ฆ

2020-08-26: ๐Ÿ”‹The Apple tech specs says I should expect 1000 cycles for this battery but I’ve only used up โ€ฆ

2020-08-26: ๐Ÿ”‹ Was in the middle of a video call when my computer shut off. I guess it was the battery but the โ€ฆ

2020-08-25: ๐Ÿคก Can’t sleep. Clown will eat me.

2020-08-25: ๐Ÿ”— mjtsai.com Developer Accounts Nearly Terminated

2020-08-25: ๐Ÿ”— arstechnica.com Thereโ€™s a big hurricane headed toward Texas, and itโ€™s a nightmare forecast I โ€ฆ

2020-08-25: ๐Ÿก TIL: Thereโ€™s a housing coop in an apartment complex in Germantown that was created because the โ€ฆ

2020-08-25: โ˜น๏ธ The one USB-C port on my MacBook Pro is not as firm of a connection as it used to be. This is the โ€ฆ

2020-08-25: ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โš–๏ธ Looking for an example of an open source MIT app that contains trademarked names and logos โ€ฆ

2020-08-25: ๐Ÿ”— FrontendMasters: Complete Intro to Linux and the Command-Line This is part of their paid plan, and โ€ฆ

2020-08-24: ๐Ÿ“… Elixir Conf is next week. Join us! 2020.elixirconf.com

2020-08-24: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿฟ Chernobyl - A Masterclass in Perspective www.youtube.com/watch

2020-08-23: ๐Ÿ”— Anti-patterns of automated software testing - by Luรญs Soares - The Startup - Medium

2020-08-22: ๐ŸŽฎ Playing some rom-hack’d Final Fantasy 4j (Namingway Edition) tonight! โ€ฆ

2020-08-21: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Of course the Friday deploy is buggy. I never learn.

2020-08-21: ๐Ÿ“น Video: Bartering With Other Developers on Side Projects (5m) A short video talking about bartering โ€ฆ

2020-08-20: ๐Ÿ”— www.theolognion.com Company forgets why they exist after 11-week migration to Kubernetes

2020-08-20: ๐Ÿ”— US government built secret iPod with Appleโ€™s help, former engineer says - Ars Technica

2020-08-20: ๐Ÿ™„ “these guidelines create a level playing field for all developersโ€ ~ Apple “After โ€ฆ

2020-08-20: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿ™„ Fernando Tatรญs Jr. apologizes for hitting a grand slam because of the unwritten rules, a โ€ฆ

2020-08-20: โœ๏ธ Copy check: How does this explanation of the @guildflow group export read to you? Make sense?

2020-08-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Was not really feeling it today but still managed to get a pull request done that even has โ€ฆ

2020-08-19: ๐Ÿ“น Challenging My Assumptions Through User Interviews A short talk about how recent user interviews โ€ฆ

2020-08-18: ๐ŸŽฎ TIL: There is a whole LIVE talk show that takes place in Animal Crossing. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-08-18: ๐Ÿง  For my CSS friends out there, always remember: Lord Vader Froze Hanโ€™s Ass

2020-08-18: ๐Ÿ“… Kotlin 1.4 Online Event Join us for a deep dive into the latest release, and mingle with the โ€ฆ

2020-08-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Bug help: I have FileWrapper as part of a Swift document-based app. I am trying to store a bit โ€ฆ

2020-08-16: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Conference battlestation.

2020-08-15: ๐Ÿค”TIL: That the new Xcode project templates no longer distinguish between UI and Unit test targets, โ€ฆ

2020-08-15: ๐Ÿค”TIL: That the new Xcode project templates no longer distinguish between UI and Unit test targets, โ€ฆ

2020-08-15: ๐Ÿ™„ Can’t run unit tests on the Mac target while testing out beta Xcode things cause I have to โ€ฆ

2020-08-15: ๐Ÿค” I’m working a proof of concept for an iOS Swift document-based app that has a custom JSON โ€ฆ

2020-08-15: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Feels incomplete that the new Xcode project layout for multi-platform apps has a Shared folder โ€ฆ

2020-08-15: ๐Ÿคฌ Am I the only one who gets consistent bounce backs trying to contact people with an at mac.com โ€ฆ

2020-08-15: ๐Ÿ“… Tomorrow @360iDev kicks off with some workshops. I’ll be attending the Combining SwiftUI โ€ฆ

2020-08-14: ๐Ÿ”— Developers v. Apple: Outlining Complaints about the App Store - TidBITS

2020-08-13: ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’กPlaying around with new background ideas. How many lights do you see?

2020-08-13: ๐Ÿ“… Spawnfest (Sept 12-13) is an annual 48 hour free online development competition in which teams of โ€ฆ

2020-08-12: ๐Ÿคฏ I’ve been a big fan of user testing but it never occurred to me that if you are in an early โ€ฆ

2020-08-12: ๐Ÿ‘ Only did a quick verification but I think I got the behavior (on the Mac) that I want via: โ€ฆ

2020-08-12: ๐Ÿ’ก Free App Idea: A Mac app that forces all shared Apple News links to open on the original site in โ€ฆ

2020-08-11: ๐Ÿ‘‹ Are you a member of any interesting Discords? I’m kicking the tires and would love to jump โ€ฆ

2020-08-11: ๐Ÿคฌ The fans outside the Phillies game who are blasting these air horns are really fucking obnoxious.

2020-08-11: ๐Ÿ“š Tonight I started reading Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. I โ€ฆ

2020-08-11: ๐Ÿ”— arstechnica.com Massive Salmonella outbreak sweeps US, Canada. Nearly 900 sickened so far

2020-08-11: ๐ŸŽฎ GameCube intro but it’s an unemployment graph www.youtube.com/watch

2020-08-11: ๐Ÿ”— Wisconsin state agency requires employees to wear masks while teleconferencing #NotOnion There is โ€ฆ

2020-08-11: ๐ŸŽฎ While chatting about the MYST documentary Kickstarter I linked to yesterday I was spurred to take โ€ฆ

2020-08-11: ๐Ÿ”— Setapp Mac App Subscription Service Expands to iOS www.macrumors.com/2020/08/1…

2020-08-11: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ’ Flyers playoff schedule: www.nhl.com/flyers/sc…

2020-08-10: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜ฐ Michael Tsai - Blog - SwiftUI Alerts This is not a good advertisement for the Swift UI way of โ€ฆ

2020-08-10: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป These little “video pull quotes” seem like a great way to generate helpful marketing โ€ฆ

2020-08-10: ๐Ÿ“ข Just met one of the organizers of the Women Who Code Philadelphia chapter. Sounds like a great โ€ฆ

2020-08-10: ๐Ÿ“… Philly Elixir meets online this week! Brandon will show progress on his sim telemetry project; โ€ฆ

2020-08-10: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“šAndroid Book Club Update We are moving from our Kotlin book to the Android book. Great time to โ€ฆ

2020-08-09: ๐Ÿฟ Watched Back to the Future with Mom today for a fun Sunday diversion. Going to hit her up with all โ€ฆ

2020-08-09: โœ๏ธ Apple’s Gatekeeper Developer ID Program Needs a Transparency Report Adding a formal, โ€ฆ

2020-08-09: ๐Ÿ”— TIL Exploring Kotin E-Book is free to download from LeanPub โ€ฆ

2020-08-09: ๐Ÿ“š I really miss the built in code examples the @ElixirLang docs have over the @Kotlin docs. Makes โ€ฆ

2020-08-09: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ’ Flyers sweep round robin, earn East’s No. 1 seed in 2020 NHL playoffs โ€ฆ

2020-08-09: ๐Ÿ’’ โ€œ3,000 Philadelphians applied for emergency weddings, only 20% got approvedโ€ The whole idea that โ€ฆ

2020-08-07: ๐Ÿ–– Worf gets DENIED again and again. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-08-07: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I miss having separate interface and implementation files. Yeah it was a little more work but โ€ฆ

2020-08-06: ๐ŸŽฎ MELT WIZARD

2020-08-06: ๐Ÿ”— The world is going to hell and youโ€™re reading a Gritty profile. projects.nj.com/gritty/

2020-08-06: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ The secret word today is COFFEE.

2020-08-05: ๐Ÿคฌ The new neighbor has an “emotional support” dog and it barks ALL THE TIME.

2020-08-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I’m sure I’ll enjoy Kotlin over Java for building Android apps, but I can not agree โ€ฆ

2020-08-05: ๐ŸŽฎ Metroid Prime 4 - First Look is.gd/CsLf0r

2020-08-05: ๐Ÿ“ข On the topic of First Friday at @IndyHall, if anyone wants to take advantage of my own Open Office โ€ฆ

2020-08-05: โค๏ธ @IndyHall has been a great resource during the lock down. It’s a welcoming community and a โ€ฆ

2020-08-05: ๐ŸŽ‰ Power is back! Internet is still out. Using cell phone tethering for now. Let’s hope I โ€ฆ

2020-08-05: โ›ˆ Power is still out and not sleeping well without my cpap machine. I know some people have a house โ€ฆ

2020-08-04: ๐Ÿ”— The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free โง Current Affairs That is a scary headline.

2020-08-04: ๐Ÿ”— Announcing Distillery 2.0 - DockYard

2020-08-04: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ When you have false confidence it’s over but the map says otherwise.

2020-08-04: โœ๏ธ Actionable Ideas How Meetups Can Evolve When Forced Online Only Today I recorded some thoughts โ€ฆ

2020-08-03: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ I was a little anxious about the storm hitting Philly tomorrow but am now very stressed out since โ€ฆ

2020-08-03: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽต Everyone loves to talk about the pre-rendered graphics of Donkey Kong Country, but let’s โ€ฆ

2020-08-03: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ I’m a big fan of @GitHub and many recent Microsoft developer-focused projects but there is โ€ฆ

2020-08-03: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป If you get paid or promoted based on GitHub PR activity be sure to setup Dependabot! You can โ€ฆ

2020-08-03: ๐Ÿ“ข Help Me with an Introduction to Your Meetup Organizer I’m trying to schedule some more โ€ฆ

2020-08-03: ๐Ÿ”‹ The battery on my Late 2016 MacBook Pro was replaced during one of its many repair trips but it โ€ฆ

2020-08-03: ๐Ÿ“… New Mac-focused developer conference is being planned and asking for talk submission. Back to the โ€ฆ

2020-08-02: ๐Ÿ’ธ Related: A ton of people are in for a world of hurt when they realize these unemployment benefits โ€ฆ

2020-08-02: ๐Ÿ’ธ Spent some time to this weekend running the numbers so I can update my estimated tax payments to โ€ฆ

2020-08-02: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽต โ€œHe who drinks from the deep water; May he know the depths of the well.โ€

2020-08-01: ๐Ÿ”— Creating LiveView Modals with Tailwind CSS and AlpineJS

2020-08-01: ๐Ÿ”— Kotlin/Native Memory Management Roadmap โ€“ Kotlin Blog - JetBrains That article doesnโ€™t really โ€ฆ

2020-08-01: ๐Ÿ”— More Elixir Guidelines for Code Maintainability

2020-08-01: ๐Ÿคน A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. โ€ฆ

2020-07-30: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ญ That sad feeling when the small Twitch streamer you like is shilling for a manipulative mobile โ€ฆ

2020-07-30: โšพ๏ธ I don’t say this with an air of schadenfreude but when I hear about all these people in โ€ฆ

2020-07-29: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Slowly catching up with the Swift language changes, both from 2019 and 2020. I’m a little โ€ฆ

2020-07-28: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽต If IKEA doesn’t play the Sims โ€œMall Ratโ€ theme in their stores then they are missing out. โ€ฆ

2020-07-28: ๐Ÿ“š Android Book Club met again last night and we discussed some of the more chewy parts of Ch6 โ€ฆ

2020-07-28: ๐ŸŽฎ Today I was reminded that Metroid Prime 4 was announced at E3 2017 and is no where close to โ€ฆ

2020-07-27: ๐Ÿ“Š Early Failures with Online Ads for Guildflow The plan was to target DuckDuckGo users since a main โ€ฆ

2020-07-27: โ˜€๏ธI had a busy morning and missed my Monday greeting, so here we goโ€ฆ โ€œThe greatest advantage of โ€ฆ

2020-07-27: ๐Ÿ† Achievement Unlocked! Perform a transaction in a bank wearing a mask.

2020-07-27: ๐Ÿคฌ Says a network who makes poll numbers half of their daily content. They learned nothing from 2016. โ€ฆ

2020-07-27: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป On non-nil properties in SwiftUI Views: @EnvironmentObject behavior is a runaround, a legal โ€ฆ

2020-07-26: ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ‘Ž While I’m normally a big fan of Tom Hanks I got to say I was pretty disappointed with โ€ฆ

2020-07-26: ๐Ÿคชโšพ๏ธ I watch the Phillies via Hulu and its about a pitch behind live. The problem is I get score โ€ฆ

2020-07-26: ๐Ÿ“š Got my chapters done for Android Book Club. Going to try to do some extra work and stay ahead โ€ฆ

2020-07-25: ๐Ÿค” How does a SwiftUIย View with a non-nil property decorated with @EnvironmentObject get around that โ€ฆ

2020-07-25: ๐Ÿ˜ท If you canโ€™t see the Trump black sharpie all over those new CDC guidelines then you aren’t โ€ฆ

2020-07-24: ๐Ÿ”ฅโšพ๏ธ For the record, Didi Gregorius has been on fire in my video game for months.

2020-07-24: โšพ๏ธ I hope my PS4 baseball game gets a mustache patch. beyondthebell.mlblogs.com/top-5-mus…

2020-07-24: โšพ๏ธ Happy Phillies Day.

2020-07-24: ๐ŸŽฎ Chrono Trigger Review and Retrospective Happy 25th birthday Crono! www.youtube.com/watch

2020-07-24: ๐Ÿค” Was this main Apple tutorial series not updates for the new version of SwiftUI? Say Xcode 11+. Is โ€ฆ

2020-07-24: ๐Ÿ”— I’m amazed at the amount of content that comes out of @FreeCodeCamp. Today they released: โ€ฆ

2020-07-24: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜ท Dr. Plumber-Brother Mask If I did not have a HUGE HEAD and need something bigger I’d โ€ฆ

2020-07-24: ๐ŸŽฎ I think I need to pick Red Dead Redemption 2 or Ghost of Tsushima to focus on. Doing both at the โ€ฆ

2020-07-23: ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿšฒ Rad (4K Restoration Official Trailer) www.youtube.com/watch

2020-07-23: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ I’m looking for help getting my @CircleCI website deployment to only run when the โ€ฆ

2020-07-23: โš ๏ธ Since Micro.blog counts link URL characters are part of the character limit (and I’m not โ€ฆ

2020-07-23: ๐Ÿคฌ The โ€œLawful Access to Encrypted Data Actโ€ would create an encryption backdoor by mandating that โ€ฆ

2020-07-23: ๐Ÿ“… Final Day for ElixirConf 2020 Early Bird Tickets JOIN US! Sept 3-4, 2020! 2020.elixirconf.com

2020-07-22: ๐Ÿ”— Apple Security Research Device Program Since you canโ€™t prove you did it on your own, everything โ€ฆ

2020-07-22: ๐Ÿคฏ TIL: That Caps Lock is a state of the keyboard and not the system. As an example: If you have an โ€ฆ

2020-07-22: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ“น World of Warcraft: The Corrupted Blood Incident (Zero Punctuation) www.youtube.com/watch

2020-07-22: ๐ŸŽฎ PBS Arthur Theme Song but its with Red Dead Redemption 2 www.youtube.com/watch

2020-07-21: ๐Ÿ˜ณ After nearly passing out while getting my blood drawn for a checkup this morning the day ended up โ€ฆ

2020-07-20: ๐Ÿ˜ญ It’s only because I have to fast for blood work tomorrow morning that I am STARVING tonight. โ€ฆ

2020-07-20: ๐Ÿ“ข I’ve updated the Talks page of my personal website. Funny enough, no new talks but I also โ€ฆ

2020-07-20: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ‘‚ macOS Catalina vs Big Sur: Side-by-side alert and system sound comparison โ€ฆ

2020-07-20: โ˜€๏ธ It’s Monday. How about we do things in moderation this week. Get some stuff done, but find โ€ฆ

2020-07-20: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ Been good about keeping up with my morning walks but today the heat is brutal. Ended up only โ€ฆ

2020-07-20: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ “Apple Doesn’t Let Bad Guys Use iPhones on Camera in Moviesโ€ But what about the Mac โ€ฆ

2020-07-19: โšพ๏ธ I read the @Phillies will put out fake cardboard fans in the stands. Question: Will the Phanatic โ€ฆ

2020-07-19: โšพ๏ธ With the stadiums simulating crowd noise at the Phillies games, will they also simulating some โ€ฆ

2020-07-19: ๐Ÿ”— Daring Fireball: Microbe Economics no rational discussion of economics says that free markets, โ€ฆ

2020-07-19: โšพ๏ธ First Phillies โ€œSummer Camp” TV game is about to get started. Go Phillies! โ€ฆ

2020-07-18: ๐Ÿฟ Picked up some good notes listening to this talk: โ€œThe Future of Mobile: Android/iOS, Flutter and โ€ฆ

2020-07-18: ๐ŸŽฎ Why yes, I am still playing Red Dead Redemption 2.

2020-07-18: ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“– Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws โ€ฆ

2020-07-17: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Proximity.

2020-07-17: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ And by โ€œFederal Law Enforcement” they mean โ€œpeople wearing camouflage with no discernible โ€ฆ

2020-07-17: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ I subscribe via RSS to some of the Micro.blog discovery feeds and occasionally I’ll want โ€ฆ

2020-07-17: โš ๏ธ โ€œNo fonts used on the current element.” What the fuck am I looking at? This is not how HTML โ€ฆ

2020-07-16: ๐Ÿ“š For anyone who also uses the service, I keep my active book list on goodreads. Would love to โ€ฆ

2020-07-16: ๐ŸŒŽ TIL about kombucha leather at @indyhall show and tell. Related TED: Designer Suzanne Lee shares โ€ฆ

2020-07-16: ๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œI love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.โ€ โ€• Douglas Adams

2020-07-15: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Proximity.

2020-07-15: ๐Ÿ’ธ Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time. If you order 1 Zorn T-Shirt today, โ€ฆ

2020-07-15: ๐Ÿคช If any Micro.blog people feel out of the loop, you can send me some Bitcoin for FOMO.

2020-07-15: ๐Ÿฟ More ZORN on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch

2020-07-15: ๐Ÿ˜‚ TIL: Zorn is a heavy metal band, from Philadelphia. LOL. zornphilly.bandcamp.com I found out โ€ฆ

2020-07-15: ๐Ÿ‘ Two things I’ve totally changed my mind about / been impressed with in Slack: The โ€ฆ

2020-07-15: โค๏ธ In a slack chat, discussing economic trends and programming work, I shared: Iโ€™d have a hard time โ€ฆ

2020-07-14: โš ๏ธ The recent @Firefox change that moves “Close Other Tabs” to a submenu really grinds โ€ฆ

2020-07-14: ๐Ÿคฏ After gaining some confidence with Time Zones (see link) I’m about to get a big plate of โ€ฆ

2020-07-14: โš ๏ธ Today I was reminded that macOS does not honor Dynamic Type. It sounds like they are at least โ€ฆ

2020-07-14: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽผ House Building Theme Well, let me have a ruler and a saw and a board And I’ll cut it โ€ฆ

2020-07-14: ๐ŸŽฎ Can I buy my 3D Mario Switch remakes/rereleases yet? I NEED TO COLLECT ALL THE STARS IN HD!

2020-07-13: ๐Ÿ“š Tonight we had our second meetingย for Android Book Club. First meeting was social but tonight we โ€ฆ

2020-07-13: ๐Ÿ”— Manton Reece - Sneak peek at Sunlit 3.0 It sounds like this will be open source. Canโ€™t wait to โ€ฆ

2020-07-13: ๐Ÿ”— App Review Rejects Information Superhighway โ€” Pixel Envy The App Review Board saves us all, once โ€ฆ

2020-07-13: โš ๏ธ Sometimes to build great things we need a new perspective. Have a great week and build some great โ€ฆ

2020-07-13: ๐Ÿ“… While not a replacement for the physical alternative, I’m looking forward to the @360iDev โ€ฆ

2020-07-12: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Android baby steps.

2020-07-12: โ“ Random question: My vacuum broke today. Well it’s on it’s last leg for sure – โ€ฆ

2020-07-10: ๐ŸŽฎ For the second night in a row my nuzlock has ended in less than an hour with full team death. โ€ฆ

2020-07-10: ๐Ÿ”— Tauri helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms - using virtually any โ€ฆ

2020-07-10: ๐ŸŒง๐ŸŒก Taking advantage of the rain and lower temps of the day to focus on doing some laundry. Normally โ€ฆ

2020-07-09: ๐ŸŽฎ I just started a randomized game of Pokemon Platinum. I picked Wailmer but his level 5 moves โ€ฆ

2020-07-09: โ˜•๏ธ The inaugural cup of coffee for the new mug.

2020-07-09: ๐Ÿ”—โš ๏ธ shouldiuseacarousel.com

2020-07-08: ๐Ÿฟ Watching some Tron: Legacy today and I can’t help but associate the orange “bad โ€ฆ

2020-07-08: ๐ŸฟI know there is a lot of talk about Tron 3 this week. If you are looking for some Tron talk check โ€ฆ

2020-07-07: ๐Ÿ”— Elixir 1.10.4 is out! github.com/elixir-la…

2020-07-07: ๐Ÿ”— Phillies infielder Scott Kingery talks about the hell that is coronavirus โ€ฆ

2020-07-07: ๐Ÿ”— Michael Tsai - Blog - AirPods Pro: Rattlegate Iโ€™ve experienced this twice recently. After some โ€ฆ

2020-07-06: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Put on your seatbelt, I want to try something.

2020-07-06: ๐Ÿ”— A visual comparison of macOS Catalina and Big Sur RIP: Titlebar โ€ฆ

2020-07-06: โœ๏ธ Is WebKit Sabotaging the Future of the Open Web? mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-07-06: ๐Ÿ“… Working on slides for the Wednesdayโ€™s Philly Elixir meetup. I’ll be doing a talk about โ€ฆ

2020-07-06: โš ๏ธ I get that technicality โ€œMark as Readโ€ is destructive but it feels wrong to have such a common โ€ฆ

2020-07-06: โœ๏ธ Consulting Availability for iOS and Web Development mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-07-06: ๐Ÿ“š We have 5 people so far for the Android Book Club (for iOS Developers). Tonight is our first โ€ฆ

2020-07-06: ๐Ÿ“Š Wanted to give a big thumbs up to updown.io. Started using it for up time monitoring and โ€ฆ

2020-07-04: ๐ŸŽฎ I have not visited my Animal Crossing island in over a month. I’m expecting it to be like โ€ฆ

2020-07-04: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Kotlin Tools for Android Book Club A quick tour of some of the tools youโ€™ll want to use to โ€ฆ

2020-07-03: ๐Ÿคฃ I saw an ad for a decision-making online workshop. Took every ounce of self-control not to send โ€ฆ

2020-07-03: ๐Ÿ”— With Edge, Microsoftโ€™s forced Windows updates just sank to a new low Yikes. โ€ฆ

2020-07-03: ๐Ÿ“ The big difference between structural engineering and software engineering is that when a bridge โ€ฆ

2020-07-03: ๐Ÿ˜ข A common thread in why I find the current internet so disheartening are the companies that have โ€ฆ

2020-07-02: ๐Ÿ“š Jason from @Promptworks is writing a book. Whether youโ€™re just starting out as a developer or โ€ฆ

2020-07-02: ๐Ÿ”— Gleam v0.10 released! Gleam is a statically typed language for the Erlang VM. โ€ฆ

2020-07-01: ๐Ÿ’ธ Who need a new iPhone charger cable in the boxย when the old one I have is so durable.

2020-07-01: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽผ Coding with SNES SimCity OST today. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-06-30: ๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ณ VICE - This Animal Crossing-Enabled Buttplug Will Let You Hook Up In-Game Lock down is getting โ€ฆ

2020-06-30: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I know it’s a long shot but if you or someone you know helps run an Elixir meetup, please โ€ฆ

2020-06-30: ๐Ÿ“š An Android Book Club for iOS Developers mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-06-30: ๐Ÿคฃ Someone needs to do a video with the laughing Mexican guy talking about how people think Apple โ€ฆ

2020-06-30: ๐Ÿ”— Why AnyList Wonโ€™t Be Supporting Sign In with Apple blog.anylist.com/2020/06/s…

2020-06-29: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ This feature branch I started last week is out of control. Pretty sure I’m going to leave it โ€ฆ

2020-06-29: ๐Ÿ“š This is a book club dedicated to learning Kotlin and Android application development. โ€ฆ

2020-06-28: ๐Ÿ˜ท Philadelphia is tapping the brakes on reopening after key metrics appear to have plateaued or even โ€ฆ

2020-06-26: ๐Ÿ“š Anyone have any strong feelings towards any specific Kotlin book? or one to avoid? Same question โ€ฆ

2020-06-26: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Maybe the answer in an online WWDC with many smaller regional tech talks? I dunno. There is a โ€ฆ

2020-06-26: ๐Ÿ’ฌ One of my Slacks has a hard requirement on thread use and while expressing this to new members โ€ฆ

2020-06-26: ๐Ÿ“Š Can anyone at @stackoverflow reconcile how @elixirlang went from the 8th most loved language in โ€ฆ

2020-06-26: ๐Ÿ”— 5 top-tier companies that use Elixir curiosum.dev/blog/5-to…

2020-06-26: ๐Ÿ“… Going to sit in on some of the IndieWebCamp West stuff this weekend. It’s free with optional โ€ฆ

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ When a sheet is up the window is no longer movable. Just got the beta installed. Am considering โ€ฆ

2020-06-25: โฐ Spends Summer learning how to build cross platform apps with SwiftUI. Client hires me and says to โ€ฆ

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿ”— Installing the macOS Big Sur beta on a new partition - Lickability

2020-06-25: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽง Still waiting for that Final Fantasy 7 Remake OST on @spotify @SquareEnix. Any day now. And โ€ฆ

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Refactoring and filling in the missing pieces to the @guildflow auth system today. Don’t โ€ฆ

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿ’ธ At this rate the book will cost 200% by the end of day!

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿฟ Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020 Video Archive www.youtube.com/playlist

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿ”— tailblocks โ€” Ready-to-use Tailwind CSS blocks mertjf.github.io/tailblock…

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿ“ฑ Gluon: A beautiful, lightweight and customizable cross platform app built for Micro.blog. Really โ€ฆ

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿ–ฑ There is an unfortunate irony in seeing a company like Apple, whom normally is a champion of โ€ฆ

2020-06-25: ๐Ÿ“ A designer who does not embrace usability is like an architect who does not embrace physics, โ€ฆ

2020-06-24: ๐Ÿ“Š As I work on some of the new stuff this weekend I need to temper my emotional response to go all โ€ฆ

2020-06-24: โšพ๏ธ What you need to know about MLB’s agreed-upon 2020 season With more Phillies and Rockies โ€ฆ

2020-06-24: โšพ๏ธ Phillies have 2 more players, 2 staffers test positive for coronavirus โ€ฆ

2020-06-24: Of certain Apple podcasters who are currently talking about usability. ๐Ÿ˜ก It frustrates me so much when a discussion of usability is happening and people provide a counter โ€ฆ

2020-06-24: ๐Ÿ˜ฅ Trying to eat more protean and less carbs. Eating a low sugar Chobani yogurt in place of my Rice โ€ฆ

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿ”— Finding a new home for Conveyor - Wildbit After much internal discussion, weโ€™ve decided to stop โ€ฆ

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿ”— Daring Fireball: Senate Republicans Propose Law to Outlaw End-to-End Encryption If I didnโ€™t have โ€ฆ

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿ”— Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters’ phones against them - CNET

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Ordered a new spare external HD so I can play with the new Xcode project layout this weekend.

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Finally got to dig into phx_gen_auth, an authentication system generator for Phoenix 1.5+ โ€ฆ

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ It might feel backwards, and not something the marketing team would ask for, but I’d love โ€ฆ

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿ”Ž One of the great things about the Micro.blog WWDC discovery channel is find new geek people to โ€ฆ

2020-06-23: ๐ŸŽค โ€œWe’re not going to talk about Hey app today.” ~~ 3 minutes later ~~ reads Basecamp โ€ฆ

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿค”Pretty confident we’ll be seeing a touch screen on Macs soonโ„ข. The updated spaced out UI โ€ฆ

2020-06-23: ๐Ÿ“ท 2020 WWDC Micro Meetup Group Photo This year, we would have held the 4th Annual WWDC Micro โ€ฆ

2020-06-22: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ The failure of recent primary elections, like we saw in Georgia, and the continued disregard for a โ€ฆ

2020-06-22: ๐Ÿฟ On the Topic of Mac OS X Sheets (Video 4m) A short little WWDC reaction video that talks about Mac โ€ฆ

2020-06-22: ๐Ÿ”— Always bet on HTML - Go Make Things Thereโ€™s a slogan thatโ€™s been floating around the web for โ€ฆ

2020-06-22: โ˜ ๏ธ RIP Aqua

2020-06-22: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ I find the new sheet UI implementation extremely concerning.

2020-06-22: โ€œfreshnessโ€ == โ€œbored designersโ€

2020-06-22: ๐Ÿคฏ 11 macOS 11 introduces many user interface changes that update the appearance of apps and make โ€ฆ

2020-06-22: ๐Ÿ’ฅ BINGO!

2020-06-22: ๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome macOS: BS

2020-06-22: ๐ŸŽ The Apple App Review process to a lay person: It’s as if the building permit and inspection โ€ฆ

2020-06-22: โ˜€๏ธ Happy Monday. This week we will focus on the needs of the customer. Think out of the box! โ€ฆ

2020-06-21: ๐ŸŽ โ€œThink Different: Because the people who are crazy enough to give Apple 30% of their money, are โ€ฆ

2020-06-20: ๐Ÿ”— PageWatch: Find layout errors, spelling mistakes, slow pages, broken links and more. Only did the โ€ฆ

2020-06-20: ๐Ÿ”— www.nytimes.com U.S. Attorney Who Investigated Trump Associates Is Abruptly Replaced, With No โ€ฆ

2020-06-20: ๐Ÿ”— PhoenixDiff: See the changes needed to upgrade your Phoenix application www.phoenixdiff.org

2020-06-20: ๐Ÿ“… I feel bad for Saturday. I never fill it with pills. Saturday is the day I take the pills right โ€ฆ

2020-06-20: ๐Ÿฟ Today on Outraged YouTuber: More Outrage!

2020-06-19: ๐Ÿ™„ Might be time to look into a credit card reversal charge. Unless some @RockstarGames wants to help โ€ฆ

2020-06-19: โ˜ ๏ธ That Trump rally tomorrow in Tulsa is a death pact. Covid-19 cases in Tulsa, where the Trump โ€ฆ

2020-06-19: โšพ๏ธ Coronavirus outbreak at Phillies camp in Clearwater hits 5 players โ€ฆ

2020-06-19: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Someday a robot AI is going to learn to pick the three photos with traffic lights in them – โ€ฆ

2020-06-19: ๐Ÿ’ฅ Today I can finally share the new name for my meetup app. Say hello to Guildflow! โ€ฆ

2020-06-18: 20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies By Suicide After Seeing A $730,000 Negative Balance ๐Ÿ”— 20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies By Suicide After Seeing A $730,000 Negative Balance โ€ฆ

2020-06-18: ๐Ÿ”— How to delete all node_modules directories from your computer - Go Make Things

2020-06-18: ๐Ÿ”— Google is messing with the address bar againโ€”new experiment hides URL path - Ars Technica One of โ€ฆ

2020-06-18: ๐Ÿ’ˆ If counting lockdown in haircuts, we have been in lockdown for 3 haircuts.

2020-06-17: ๐Ÿ”— SVGuitar - JavaScript Guitar Chord Renderer JavaScript (TypeScript) library to create beautiful โ€ฆ

2020-06-17: ๐Ÿคช

2020-06-16: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ If HEY’s APIs were available to the public and a third-party made an open source app โ€ฆ

2020-06-16: โœ… Just for the record, I think you should have an email that uses a domain you own.

2020-06-16: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ It’s hard to argue the PA unemployment office is not intentionally making it harder to โ€ฆ

2020-06-16: โœ๏ธ Apple’s EU Antitrust Investigation is Long Overdue mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-06-16: ๐Ÿ–•FUCK YOU @APPLE

2020-06-16: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Apple Threatens to Remove Email App ‘Hey’ From App Store Over Lack of In-App โ€ฆ

2020-06-16: ๐Ÿ˜ญ CircleCI has been very helpful to me in the past. However, today as I try to do something with the โ€ฆ

2020-06-16: โ“I would start polling, asking, what are 5 programs Joe Biden is going to enact as president. If โ€ฆ

2020-06-16: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ One of the things that scares me about how the DNC / Biden are shaping their campaign, is that, โ€ฆ

2020-06-15: โœ๏ธ Book Notes: Dreaming in Code mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-06-14: ๐Ÿ”— Building an Animal Crossing New Horizons GraphQL API in Elixir is.gd/AgXzLv

2020-06-13: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿฅจ Go Pretzels!

2020-06-12: ๐ŸŽผ Anyone else while looking at the covid numbers going up and up hear the Price is Right yodeling in โ€ฆ

2020-06-12: ๐Ÿ”— TIL: mjtsai.com iCloud Backups Deleted After 180 Days

2020-06-12: ๐ŸŽฎ Video game confession time. Post yours too! I never finished Earthbound. I never finished Majoraโ€™s โ€ฆ

2020-06-12: ๐Ÿšซ This post was not brought to you by Skillshare.

2020-06-12: What The Truman Show Teaches Us About Politics ๐Ÿฟโ€œI think American society at large is a lot like Truman Burbank. Laboring like him for 30 plus โ€ฆ

2020-06-12: โšพ๏ธ Today I found out my old youth stickball โ€œfield” (aka school parking lot) was built over.

2020-06-12: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽผ Even though I haven’t played it in years, I still love the Chrono Cross 2 OST. โ€ฆ

2020-06-12: โšพ๏ธ Took the day off yesterday and played lots of video game baseball. Back at it today.

2020-06-12: โœ… Today’s Projects: Do some research on ad purchases. Work on some email threads with โ€ฆ

2020-06-10: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Video: How I Use OmniFocus to Track Tasks (12m) mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-06-10: ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ Looking for a designer Initially this is a specifically scoped project around the logo and โ€ฆ

2020-06-09: ๐Ÿ’ฐ More PA PUA payment changes.

2020-06-08: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Why journalistic media outlets continue to give this man an unfiltered live broadcast platform โ€ฆ

2020-06-08: ๐Ÿ˜ญ My face when a favorite publisher redoes their website, outsourcing much of what made their site โ€ฆ

2020-06-08: ๐Ÿ”— Daring Fireball: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver: โ€˜Policeโ€™ It was an informed episode but is โ€ฆ

2020-06-08: ๐Ÿ”— Jersey Shore gatherings traced to COVID-19 cases in Bucks - WHYY โ€œThis is exactly why we canโ€™t โ€ฆ

2020-06-08: ๐Ÿ“… The agenda for the Philly Elixir meetup event this Wednesday has been posted. Weโ€™ll discuss Samuel โ€ฆ

2020-06-08: ๐Ÿ‘ Can I be impressed with some Twitter UX even though I think the platform is a dumpster fire? If โ€ฆ

2020-06-08: โœ… Today’s Projects: Figure out the agenda for this week’s Philly Elixir meetup. Start โ€ฆ

2020-06-08: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Browsing the Elixir Forum. See this thread. Poor bastard.

2020-06-08: ๐Ÿ’ฐ We are not selling the product, we are selling the dream.

2020-06-08: โ˜€๏ธHappy Monday everyone! I’m thrilled to see so much sustained action towards the social โ€ฆ

2020-06-07: ๐Ÿ”— Daring Fireball: Zoom, Still Shitting the Bed โ€œwe donโ€™t want to give [free users] [end-to-end โ€ฆ

2020-06-07: ๐Ÿ”— What about unemployment? … the stock market is back to where it was before the pandemic. โ€ฆ

2020-06-06: โœ… Noticing the irony that today as I listened to @manton on a podcast talking about removing lists I โ€ฆ

2020-06-05: โค๏ธ Just updated my personal site header. Thanks to the @indyhall community for the Anti-Racism โ€ฆ

2020-06-05: โค๏ธ Now, THAT is a call to action! :) www.philabundance.org

2020-06-05: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜ณ 680+ Free Online Programming & Computer Science Courses You Can Start This June โ€ฆ

2020-06-05: โ™ ๏ธ I had misplaced dreams that the poker in the new Nintendo game could carry my defunct weekly in โ€ฆ

2020-06-03: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Fucking tornado warning for Philadelphia.

2020-06-03: ๐Ÿฅณ The power is back!

2020-06-03: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Power has been out since 12:30. Got some ice for some of the fridge stuff. Bout to take a cold โ€ฆ

2020-06-03: ๐ŸŒฉ There are some bad looking thunderstorms headed towards Philly. If you are protesting might want โ€ฆ

2020-06-02: ๐Ÿ”— Find your elected officials & districts using our address-based lookup tool โ€ฆ

2020-06-02: ๐Ÿ’ฐ If you’ve been getting any PA Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) expect those payments โ€ฆ

2020-06-01: โค๏ธ I usually try to start the week with a funny quip, but for today I’ll simply say I love you โ€ฆ

2020-05-30: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Getting pumped for WWDC!

2020-05-29: โ˜€๏ธ Itโ€™s easy for the news and general direction of the world get one down, but try to remember there โ€ฆ

2020-05-29: ๐Ÿ”— Philadelphia’s approach to easing movement and business restrictions while continuing to โ€ฆ

2020-05-29: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽผ FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Full Soundtrack 9 hours 41 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-05-28: ๐Ÿ”— The (Unofficial) MicroConf Video Directory microconf-vault.webflow.io

2020-05-28: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ I’m learning a lot watching DockerCon but 30m sessions for 8 hours strait is a bit too much โ€ฆ

2020-05-28: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป You can tell Iโ€™m starting to get into Docker when I’m documenting projects ideas re: using โ€ฆ

2020-05-28: ๐Ÿ”— A bug in macOS 10.15.5 impacts bootable backups. bombich.com/blog/2020…

2020-05-28: โœ… Today’s projects: Attend Bootstrappers Breakfast meeting, discussing the book, The Mom โ€ฆ

2020-05-27: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ Does anyone else feel guilty about waking Blathers up during the day to check recent fish and bug โ€ฆ

2020-05-27: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ Did my walk in the am this morning to avoid the high sun and heat of afternoon. Summer is โ€ฆ

2020-05-26: ๐Ÿ”— Michael Tsai - Blog - Netflix Stops Charging Inactive Customers This should be a legal requirement โ€ฆ

2020-05-26: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿคฌ Today I learned Tom Nook has been skimming from the top of all my dropbox item prices. You get โ€ฆ

2020-05-26: โœ… Today’s projects: Finish UX refactor of Event Detail / RSVP Form. Do code review for stuff โ€ฆ

2020-05-26: โ˜€๏ธ Good morning everyone! Hopefully the holiday weekend was relaxing and recharging for you all. โ€ฆ

2020-05-25: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Had to use compressed air today to unstuck my y key. Fixed, for now.

2020-05-24: ๐Ÿ”— Combine Phoenix LiveView with Alpine.js This came in handy today. ๐Ÿ‘ โ€ฆ

2020-05-23: ๐ŸŽฎ TIL: Tiny Arthur. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-05-22: โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ญ MLB traditionalists won’t like it, but the universal DH is coming. Insert: Michael Scott โ€ฆ

2020-05-22: ๐ŸŽฎโค๏ธ Loving my @indyhall hoodie in Animal Crossing. MO-D260-V30P-0GT3

2020-05-22: ๐Ÿ˜จ I’m spending a ton of time on meetup privacy and harassment preventionย as I work on my โ€ฆ

2020-05-22: ๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿ“ท Not taking a ton of photos lately (nor going out more than once a week for some supplies) but โ€ฆ

2020-05-22: โœ… Today’s projects: More UX/HTML/CSS refactoring. Try to finalize a large decision I’ve โ€ฆ

2020-05-22: ๐Ÿค” Every time I hear the term โ€œcontact tracingโ€โ€ฆ

2020-05-21: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿ˜ณ A dominatrix is using Animal Crossing to connect with clients in lockdown. when the clients have โ€ฆ

2020-05-20: ๐Ÿ“… Attended my first Homebrew Website Club tonight. https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club

2020-05-20: ๐ŸŽฎ Reverse Engineering The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Wakerโ€™s Sploosh Kaboom minigame and crafting a โ€ฆ

2020-05-20: โœ… Today’s Projects: Attend Mastermind call (lots to talk about). Continue work on massive โ€ฆ

2020-05-20: ๐Ÿ•ธ TIL: download – prompts the user to save the linked URL instead of navigating to it. Can be โ€ฆ

2020-05-19: ๐Ÿช‘ The power is out and I was stuck in the powered recliner which was stuck in the up position. I was โ€ฆ

2020-05-18: โ˜€๏ธ๐ŸŽฎ If you had some trouble last week, embrace the opportunity that is a fresh new day. โ€œWe canโ€™t โ€ฆ

2020-05-18: ๐ŸŽฎ I’m considering a new series of Dutch van der Linde memes in the context of Dutch as the โ€ฆ

2020-05-17: ๐Ÿฟ โ€œI think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem โ€ฆ

2020-05-17: โœ๏ธ How Much Does It Cost to Build an iOS App? mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-05-16: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽผโค๏ธ Red Dead Redemption 2 (Soundtrack - OST) May I Stand Unshaken (EXTENDED) www.youtube.com/watch

2020-05-16: ๐Ÿ˜ข My face when I find out my favorite pizza shop has become one of those โ€œwe don’t wear masksโ€ โ€ฆ

2020-05-16: ๐ŸŽฎ Was trying to do a quest in Red Dead Redemption 2 where I would donate $10 to a nun collecting for โ€ฆ

2020-05-15: ๐Ÿ”— Second-guessing the modern web - macwright.org Embrace request/response. Add rich frontend โ€ฆ

2020-05-15: ๐Ÿ“ท The mighty Delaware river.

2020-05-15: ๐Ÿ“… DockerCon is going digital with theCUBE! Weโ€™ve designed a 1-day conference thatโ€™s free and โ€ฆ

2020-05-15: ๐Ÿ”— Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) is a fully-managed container orchestration engine for deploying and โ€ฆ

2020-05-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The biggest pain in iOS dev is probably the fact we have not properly abstracted away the โ€ฆ

2020-05-14: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Are there any recent, informative reports that break down mobile app project costs based on real โ€ฆ

2020-05-14: โœ… Today’s projects: More work on product onboarding. (Iโ€™m not in love with the tech impl but โ€ฆ

2020-05-13: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Video: Accountability via Masterminds (4m) It can be hard to keep the momentum with a long term โ€ฆ

2020-05-13: โœ… Today’s projects: Post microcast on Mastermindย accountability. Tidy up new @clubhousehost โ€ฆ

2020-05-12: ๐Ÿฆ† Switching to DuckDuckGo as my default browser continues to impress year after year.

2020-05-11: ๐Ÿฟ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is a miss for me. I want to like the show, but the incredibly predictable nature of the delivery โ€ฆ

2020-05-11: Congrats to Kotaro @wild37 who released his recent side project Fav 10, which is a fun โ€ฆ

2020-05-11: ๐ŸŽฎ A years worth Civ 6 DLC coming! The New Frontier Pass! Last I checked I had 220 hours into Civ 6 โ€ฆ

2020-05-11: โ˜€๏ธ Put on that Monday face and meet the challenge head on, like Batman!

2020-05-10: โค๏ธ Happy Mother’s Day!

2020-05-10: ๐Ÿ˜ข There is no doubt in my mind thousands of people are visiting this PA Pandemic Unemployment โ€ฆ

2020-05-09: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜ฑ PokรฉTuber Reacts to Beating Pokemon Platinum Without Taking Damage That was an impressive โ€ฆ

2020-05-09: ๐Ÿ”— MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration Saw someone demo how they used this tool to โ€ฆ

2020-05-07: ๐ŸŽฎ I couldn’t help myself. #FF7R

2020-05-06: ๐ŸŽฎ Finished Final Fantasy 7R tonight. Best way to describe it was โ€œnostalgic masturbationโ€. I had โ€ฆ

2020-05-06: ๐ŸŽผ Zelda’s most iconic sound effect Great little video. ๐Ÿ‘ www.youtube.com/watch

2020-05-06: ๐Ÿ”— www.tbray.org Tim Bray Quit Amazon Over Firing of Whistleblowers

2020-05-06: ๐Ÿ“… dockercon 2020 A (free) 1-day digital event on May 28th featuring sessions from Docker experts and โ€ฆ

2020-05-06: ๐Ÿ”— Trello: Announcing Advanced Checklists: Checking Off Tasks Just Got A Makeover Assigning members โ€ฆ

2020-05-06: ๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.โ€ ~ George Santayana Related: The โ€ฆ

2020-05-06: I went out to deposit some checks and there were so many people. So many cars driving. ๐Ÿ˜ข Every โ€ฆ

2020-05-05: ๐Ÿฟ Meanwhile, in quarantineโ€ฆ www.youtube.com/watch

2020-05-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Got the Phoenix LiveDashboard up and running for @clubhousehost development. Looks like it will โ€ฆ

2020-05-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Upgrading @clubhousehost to Phoenix 1.5.1 today. Can’t wait to dig into the new features! โ€ฆ

2020-05-05: ๐Ÿฅณ Was working on a client proposal and spent some time trying to re-find this one. Posting it here โ€ฆ

2020-05-05: ๐Ÿ’ฌ Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing โ€ฆ

2020-05-04: ๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽฎ Billy Mitchell takes his Donkey Kong high-score cheating case to court - Ars Technica I just โ€ฆ

2020-05-04: ๐Ÿ”— Ubuntu 20.04: Welcome to the future, Linux LTS disciples - Ars Technica

2020-05-04: ๐ŸŽฒ My apartment complex has a fair number of older retirees and with lockdown still active it looks โ€ฆ

2020-05-04: ๐Ÿ’ฌ “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the โ€ฆ

2020-05-04: ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿค‘ PragProg Learn a New Language Sale Use coupon code NewLanguage2020 to save an unprecedented 50% โ€ฆ

2020-05-04: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Video: Clubhouse Roadmap Tour (9m) Iโ€™m using a public Trello board to keep track of my Clubhouse โ€ฆ

2020-05-04: โ˜€๏ธ It’s Monday, it’ll be alright. I’ll help you out. Here is a photo of a Canadian โ€ฆ

2020-05-03: ๐Ÿž Even with Siri disabled on MacOS it still shows up in the touch bar, getting accidental touches โ€ฆ

2020-05-03: ๐Ÿž My Shortcuts icon is missing.

2020-05-03: ๐Ÿ”— User Onboarding - Onboarding UX Patterns Here, we’re cross-referencing the best and โ€ฆ

2020-05-03: ๐Ÿ”— Everything you ever wanted to know about unfurling but were afraid to ask /or/ How to make your โ€ฆ

2020-05-03: ๐Ÿ”— Visual Studio Code Setup For Elixir Development

2020-05-03: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub - benvp/vscode-hex-pm-intellisense Adds IntelliSense for hex.pm dependencies in your โ€ฆ

2020-05-03: ๐Ÿฟ COBOL in 100 seconds COBOL is the hottest programming language of 2020! www.youtube.com/watch

2020-05-02: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿฅฐ These onboarding tear downs are filled with great recommendations. โ€ฆ

2020-05-02: ๐Ÿฟ I watched Interstellar in 4K last night and it was beautiful. www.justwatch.com/us/movie/…

2020-05-02: โ˜€๏ธ Itโ€™s Saturday and the sun is shinning. The weekend is for rejuvenation.

2020-05-01: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜ Alpine.js is a rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup. Think โ€ฆ

2020-05-01: โ˜”๏ธ Happy Friday. Projects for today: Continue drafting UI changes for @clubhousehost and executing โ€ฆ

2020-04-30: ๐Ÿ”— Adding password security to Hex.pm - Todd Resudek - Medium

2020-04-30: โœ๏ธ Personal Lockdown Update Again, Iโ€™m thankful for my privilege. I have savings to live off for a โ€ฆ

2020-04-30: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Today’s projects: Do a lockdown update blog post. Attend @IndyHall show and tell. โ€ฆ

2020-04-30: ๐Ÿค” Do we know anyone who’s seen real money come out of the Pennsylvania Pandemic Unemployment โ€ฆ

2020-04-30: ๐Ÿง  Work up vividly remembering my dreams from last night. Nothing too crazy or scary, just active. โ€ฆ

2020-04-29: ๐ŸฟIt’s criminal the FilmJoy movie reviews don’t have more than a million views. These are โ€ฆ

2020-04-29: ๐Ÿ›Œ Somedays I want to print out my sleep apnea report and put it on the fridge.

2020-04-29: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Video Book Review: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro (5m) mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-04-28: ๐Ÿ“š I finished RUINED BY DESIGN by Mike Monteiro today. I consider it a must read for any designer or โ€ฆ

2020-04-28: ๐Ÿค” How does the logic work where you will protest that things are safe and things should open up โ€ฆ

2020-04-27: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜ข Even The LA Lakers Got A PPP Small Business Loan PPP is โ€œto help small businesses, self-employed โ€ฆ

2020-04-27: ๐Ÿ’ธ Working on my budget tonight. I use Soulver and have personal/business files with monthly/yearly โ€ฆ

2020-04-27: โœ๏ธ Bug Fixes and Changes of Version 0.3.2 Had some great and generous people test out @clubhousehost โ€ฆ

2020-04-27: ๐Ÿ”— Apple and Google Strengthen Privacy of COVID-19 Exposure Notification System, Targeting Next Week โ€ฆ

2020-04-27: ๐ŸŽฎ Wisdom.

2020-04-27: โœ๏ธ My Favorite TextExpander Shortcut Snippets I added a new one today, for the common need to โ€ฆ

2020-04-27: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Video: Nurturing Your Community During Lock Down (7m) mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-04-27: ๐Ÿ”— Use consumer rights to refund for faulty MacBook - diary

2020-04-27: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ“š If you have a pragprog.com account with a valid email address ending in .edu, you can use โ€ฆ

2020-04-27: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽต Today I learned Capcom is posting video game soundtracks to Spotify. Enjoy some Mega Man 2: โ€ฆ

2020-04-27: โ˜€๏ธ Put on your serious face, it’s Monday all over again!

2020-04-26: โšพ๏ธ What a comeback!!

2020-04-26: ๐Ÿ”— Tail Call Optimization in Elixir allows you to reduce the number of stack frames your program โ€ฆ

2020-04-26: ๐Ÿ˜‚ I smile so much watching Avengers: Endgame. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-04-26: ๐Ÿงน It’s a cleaning day around the apartment. The weekly cleaning of my sleep apnea equipment โ€ฆ

2020-04-25: ๐ŸŽฎ Considering how stressed and anxious the real world can be right now, FF7R is far from a relaxing โ€ฆ

2020-04-25: ๐Ÿคฎ Even though I specifically blocked this channel in Apple News it still shows up in my feed.

2020-04-25: ๐Ÿ”— Daring Fireball: โ€˜Why We Canโ€™t Buildโ€™ The first thing that MUST be done to fix any aspect of our โ€ฆ

2020-04-25: ๐Ÿ˜ท Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after a period as an error - The Verge So much for sentence โ€ฆ

2020-04-24: ๐Ÿง  I share in the struggles discussed in this thread about getting comfortable with functional โ€ฆ

2020-04-24: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Tomorrow is @phillycocoa Side Project Saturday, online. I think the general idea is to have some โ€ฆ

2020-04-24: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Video: How I Decided to Build Clubhouse (6m) mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-04-24: ๐Ÿ”— Rajska is an elixir authorization library for Absinthe. github.com/jungsoft/…

2020-04-24: โ˜”๏ธ Happy Friday everyone! Todays battle plan: I have a usability test around 11am but otherwise am โ€ฆ

2020-04-23: ๐Ÿšจ๐ŸŽฎ Updating my Nintendo password due to reported account breaches and the change password form say: โ€ฆ

2020-04-23: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿคฌ Almost 8,000 could be affected by federal emergency loan data breach Awesome. โ€ฆ

2020-04-23: ๐Ÿฟ Fellow @indyhall coworker Ben won the video chat this morning.

2020-04-23: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Video: Quick Thoughts on User Testing (5m) mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-04-23: โ˜€๏ธ Good morning everyone! A busy day ahead. Lots of meetups, meetings and even a food order โ€ฆ

2020-04-22: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜ฑ Apple Offering $700 Kit to Add Wheels to the Mac Pro - MacRumors

2020-04-22: ๐Ÿ”— Unit Test Naming: The 3 Most Important Parts Iโ€™ve been using this style: โ€ฆ

2020-04-22: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ“น MicroConf Video Archive Over 170 Hours of content. 194 talks given from the MicroConf Stage. โ€ฆ

2020-04-22: ๐Ÿ”—๐ŸŽฎ G-Boy: Wii / GameCube Portable DIY Kit www.youtube.com/watch

2020-04-21: ๐Ÿงช The Public Alpha is out! Through the Clubhouse Hosting platform group organizers can host a โ€ฆ

2020-04-20: ๐Ÿฟ Last year’s elm-conf is archived on YouTube if you want to sample some talks: โ€ฆ

2020-04-20: ๐Ÿ“… elm-conf This July 15โ€“17 weโ€™ll be hosting three days of talks, workshops, and open spaces, โ€ฆ

2020-04-20: โœ… Revisiting my use of OmniFocus. Have always used it for long-term (non-code) project storage but โ€ฆ

2020-04-20: ๐Ÿ‘‹ Happy Monday everyone. Do good works this week, and help each other out.

2020-04-19: ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ“บ Rewatching the Firefly pilot and the world building in this single episode is so so good.

2020-04-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The fact Apple still does not provide a Foundation version of AsyncOperation is criminal.

2020-04-18: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜ข The Head of the Postal Workers Union Says the Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months

2020-04-18: ๐Ÿ”— Daring Fireball: ‘Capitalists or Cronyists?’ A bailout wonโ€™t rescue the industry or โ€ฆ

2020-04-18: โœ๏ธโšพ๏ธ Baseball mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-04-17: ๐Ÿ”— Michael Tsai - Blog - iWork 10 in WebAssembly I want to find a reason to get into WebAssembly, โ€ฆ

2020-04-17: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽต Really enjoying this remix of Link’s Awakening. MeowMeow & BowWow by GameChops, Dj โ€ฆ

2020-04-16: ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿซ My sister took a screen cap of her third grade class meeting online.

2020-04-16: ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ˜ Phoenix LiveDashboard LiveDashboard provides real-time performance monitoring and debugging tools โ€ฆ

2020-04-16: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“š April Book Update I recently finished and started some books that have really impressed me so I โ€ฆ

2020-04-16: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽต Finally! Mariachi remakes of some of my favorite video game tunes! โ€ฆ

2020-04-15: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I recommend doing pull requests, even for personal projects. Also helpful, you can create a โ€ฆ

2020-04-15: ๐Ÿ› Waking up a little early for ETE today (and yesterday). Good morning everyone!

2020-04-14: ๐Ÿ˜ฅ Doing DNS updates is always scary.

2020-04-14: ๐Ÿ“š Really enjoyed the Design for Cognitive Bias talk by David Dylan Thomas today. He also supplied a โ€ฆ

2020-04-14: โ“Any thoughts on Tailwind CSS? Considering alternatives to Bootstrap for complex sites. For simple โ€ฆ

2020-04-14: ๐Ÿ—ฃ If in your presentation you say “research showsโ€ฆโ€, you better have a link to said research โ€ฆ

2020-04-14: ๐Ÿ“บ Watching ETE sessions on the big screen.

2020-04-14: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub is now free for teams Even though I currently like GitHub, I more so like paying for my โ€ฆ

2020-04-14: ๐Ÿ› I did the recommended Mac OS update last night and discovered it renamed my computer to โ€œMacBook โ€ฆ

2020-04-14: โœ๏ธ๐Ÿ“น Video: An Introduction to Elixir Covers the basics of the language, what it can be used for and โ€ฆ

2020-04-13: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Did some PR work for a fellow @phillycocoa member and their side project. Tried to mix positive โ€ฆ

2020-04-13: ๐ŸŒช๐Ÿ† Achievement Unlocked Not really excited about this one.

2020-04-13: ๐Ÿ“… Really looking forward to the online Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference โ€ฆ

2020-04-12: ๐Ÿฐ Happy Bunny Day. May you be blessed with all the water eggs you need!

2020-04-11: ๐ŸŽฎ Does Wedge want to eat those cats?

2020-04-11: How about those Apples, Wedge?

2020-04-11: ๐Ÿ”— Apple and Google detail bold and ambitious plan to track COVID-19 at scale - Ars Technica Great โ€ฆ

2020-04-10: ๐Ÿง If I’m understanding the tech of this coronavirus tracking system there are no precautions โ€ฆ

2020-04-10: ๐Ÿ˜ข Disappointed to see even the IndieWeb folks still using Zoom. indieweb.org/this-week…

2020-04-10: ๐Ÿ”— Amid in-game Hong Kong protests, Chinese retailers drop Animal Crossing sales - Ars Technica

2020-04-10: ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ You’d think Slack would see the 8 other slacks running in the app and skip the โ€œhow to โ€ฆ

2020-04-09: ๐Ÿ”— NPR: In Reversal, Federal Support For Coronavirus Testing Sites Continues Linking this since I โ€ฆ

2020-04-09: ๐ŸŽฎ Many people will start watching Final Fantasy 7 Remake steams on Twitch tonight but for me it will โ€ฆ

2020-04-09: โœ๏ธ Putting Zoom in Quarantine Updates on my alternatives (tl;dr; @Whereby is working well) and some โ€ฆ

2020-04-09: โœ๏ธ Swift UInt vs Int I generally like to fall in line with the community … but this issue โ€ฆ

2020-04-09: ๐Ÿ”— Open source libraries for building menu bar Mac apps ยท Jesse Squires Sounds great!

2020-04-09: ๐Ÿ”— Move Fast and Roll Your Own Crypto We find that Zoom has โ€œrolled their ownโ€ encryption scheme, โ€ฆ

2020-04-09: ๐Ÿ”— GitHub - SwiftDocOrg/swift-doc Generates documentation for Swift projects

2020-04-09: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Progressive Auto Insurance COVID-19 Relief All auto customers will receive a 20% credit for April โ€ฆ

2020-04-08: ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ With two new Slack rooms recently the default preference for notifications for set to All โ€ฆ

2020-04-08: ๐Ÿ”— pmsipilot/docker-compose-viz Generates visual diagrams of Docker Compose files; great for โ€ฆ

2020-04-07: ๐Ÿ’ˆ๐Ÿ’‡โ€โ™‚๏ธ Mom cut my hair. I think she did a good job considering.

2020-04-07: ๐Ÿคฏ Citizens Bank Park testing site is closing The city-run coronavirus test site in the parking lot โ€ฆ

2020-04-07: ๐Ÿคฌ Tried to join a Zoom via browser (cause I ainโ€™t installing that shit); forced me to make an โ€ฆ

2020-04-07: ๐Ÿ“ฆ Today’s project is Docker, specifically working through Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, โ€ฆ

2020-04-06: ๐Ÿ“š I finished Permanent Record by Edward Snowden. It was great and related to the issues of the day. โ€ฆ

2020-04-06: ๐Ÿ“… The Philly Elixir Group is meeting online, Wed April 8th at 6:00pm. I’m going to be doing an โ€ฆ

2020-04-05: โšพ๏ธ jezebel.com Would You Have Sex With the Phillie Phanatic? Sports writers are getting desperate.

2020-04-05: ๐Ÿง How did the tiger get a test?

2020-04-05: ๐Ÿ”— An upcoming authentication solution for Phoenix - Dashbit Blog Since I was involved in both โ€ฆ

2020-04-05: ๐Ÿ”— OpenTelemetry is Officially in Beta! - OpenTelemetry - Medium the project provides a single set โ€ฆ

2020-04-05: ๐Ÿ”— History of Erlang and Elixir Be like the BEAM. Be useful.

2020-04-05: ๐Ÿ“š Congrats to Richard Feldman @rtfeldman for the release of Elm in Action. While I prefer โ€ฆ

2020-04-04: ๐Ÿ”— Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2020 I think what Bill Gates is doing is terrific, but โ€ฆ

2020-04-04: ๐Ÿ˜ข How can @SparkMailApp for Mac have so many features but lack any kind of customizable reading font โ€ฆ

2020-04-04: ๐Ÿ”— Color schemes for default macOS Terminal.app I went with a slightly modified “Galaxy”. โ€ฆ

2020-04-04: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Nothing like a fresh install of Mac OS X to remind me itโ€™s a buggy piece of shit.

2020-04-02: โœ๏ธ Open Office Hours If youโ€™d like a free, casual consultation about your project or code issues โ€ฆ

2020-03-31: ๐ŸŽฎ arstechnica.com The year of Mario: A ton of classic 3D games reportedly coming to Switch in 2020 โ€ฆ

2020-03-31: โœ๏ธ Meetup Finds New Owners and I Welcome the Competition Even though I consider us competitors Iโ€™m โ€ฆ

2020-03-31: ๐Ÿ–– Todays Lunch Trek is a Wesley episode. You know the one, where everyone is mad and frustrated with โ€ฆ

2020-03-31: ๐Ÿ“… The Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference has moved online. It’s April โ€ฆ

2020-03-30: ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŽต Did you know you can pretty much search for any video game soundtrack on YouTube? Todays hits for โ€ฆ

2020-03-27: โœ๏ธ Zoom / Google Hangout Alternatives One item of homework for myself is to investigate โ€ฆ

2020-03-27: ๐Ÿค  Arthur, I have a plan.

2020-03-26: ๐Ÿ˜ญ (Temporarily) removed the Phillies link from my bookmark bar. Sad times.

2020-03-26: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ Just saw a major overhaul of the Slack UI pushed out to (some of) my groups. I couldn’t โ€ฆ

2020-03-26: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ What is the Micro.Blog version of Google Hangouts / Zoom? You know the video chat service built on โ€ฆ

2020-03-26: ๐ŸŽฎ Good Job! looks fun. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-03-26: โœ๏ธ Things Change Fast I think it would be bizarre to look back at my blog and not find any writings โ€ฆ

2020-03-25: ๐ŸŽฎ Daily Standup: Yesterday I opened the museum to great fanfare. Today I finally got my 30th iron โ€ฆ

2020-03-25: ๐Ÿ™„ macOS

2020-03-25: โฐ Who else has changed their wake up alarm to “I Got You Babe”?

2020-03-24: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Did you know, In Xcode you can right click a variable or function symbol and find where it is โ€ฆ

2020-03-24: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป If you find yourself refactoring Swift code and have the need to comment out big chunks of โ€ฆ

2020-03-23: ๐Ÿ˜ฅ The SBA’s Disaster Loan Assistance website was made with Microsoft ASP and it is awful. PS: โ€ฆ

2020-03-23: ๐Ÿ™„ My face when the API request fails but still returns a 200 status code and JSON payload with the โ€ฆ

2020-03-22: ๐Ÿฟ “Walter Wipe” www.youtube.com/watch

2020-03-21: ๐ŸŽฎ If anyone wants to play Animal Crossing together, my friend code is SW-0377-2798-3880. I have โ€ฆ

2020-03-21: ๐ŸŽฎ

2020-03-21: I think my apartment building went a little tone deaf with this email. ๐Ÿคช

2020-03-20: โœ๏ธ Consulting Availability Just a quick post today to share that my current client project will end โ€ฆ

2020-03-19: ๐Ÿฟ I just watched Rise of Skywalker, and it was a glorious disaster. What a waste of a franchise. โ€ฆ

2020-03-19: โ™ฃ๏ธ Does anyone know of a site / software that would let me run a private game of poker amongst โ€ฆ

2020-03-19: โœ๏ธ Video: Working With Time Zones in an Elixir Phoenix App mikezornek.com/posts/202…

2020-03-18: ๐Ÿ† Achievement Unlocked: Reference Celestial Mechanics in a Presentation About Programming!

2020-03-17: ๐Ÿ€ Watching some some old Rick Steve’s Ireland episodes today on Hulu to get in the mood.

2020-03-17: ๐Ÿฆ  Nothing Can Kill The Grimace www.youtube.com/watch

2020-03-16: ๐Ÿ€ For Irish music, I recommend Philly’s own Blackthorn! They are on Spotify too! โ€ฆ

2020-03-16: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ I think I need a new email client JUST because the version numbers don’t match anymore. โ€ฆ

2020-03-16: โœ๏ธ Renaissance Man ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Right now Iโ€™m on a client project that has me working on an iOS SDK codebase โ€ฆ

2020-03-16: ๐Ÿ˜ท

2020-03-15: ๐Ÿ˜ญ TED: Bill Gates: The next outbreak? Weโ€™re not ready www.youtube.com/watch

2020-03-14: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The first ever Philly Rust Meetup will happen online next week. Join us. โ€ฆ

2020-03-12: Hey @PHLPublicHealth – Close the schools.

2020-03-12: ๐Ÿ“ฌ Some of the messaging in these automated emails that were probably programmed months ago sure do โ€ฆ

2020-03-11: ๐Ÿ“š I finally started read the Swift For Good book and itโ€™s pretty good. www.swiftforgood.com

2020-03-10: Hey @PHLPublicHealth – PLEASE CANCLE THE PARADE. Know your past. Philadelphia Threw a WWI โ€ฆ

2020-03-08: Technical Writing -ย Google Developers This collection of courses and learning resources aims to โ€ฆ

2020-03-08: ๐Ÿ”— Adding Tailwind CSS to Phoenix 1.4

2020-03-06: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ My face when I realize the Bloomberg campaign was/is the plot to Brewster’s Million.

2020-03-06: ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ It feels strange to say this, but even though I will not be attending @MicroConf Starter the โ€ฆ

2020-03-06: Itโ€™s time to play, Guess the OS Version.

2020-03-05: ๐Ÿ‹๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ I got in trouble at the gym. Every time I finish my workout I yell… DRAGOOOOOOOO!!!!!! โ€ฆ

2020-03-05: ๐Ÿ•น The Bombing Mission theme is constant in my head this morning.

2020-03-04: โ™ฟ๏ธ The organizer of the Philly Accessibility Meetup is building a list, gathering info on meetup โ€ฆ

2020-03-04: ๐Ÿ˜ข Just canceled my planned trip to @MicroConf Starter. Hotel reservation canceled free and clear. โ€ฆ

2020-03-03: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The Philly Elixir March meeting is next week at @indyhall. We are looking for talks. Have โ€ฆ

2020-03-03: The Bluetooth gods are angry with me. ๐Ÿ˜ข

2020-03-02: โœ๏ธ Spinning Plates I donโ€™t do a ton of writing here but I do like to post updates at least once a โ€ฆ

2020-03-02: โ„๏ธ๐Ÿป๐ŸŠโ€โ™‚๏ธ Renewed my polar bear badge this morning as YES the YMCA pool was open again today after โ€ฆ

2020-03-01: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ My neighbors just accidentally tried to AirDrop me 14 photos. I was a good person and hit decline.

2020-03-01: ๐Ÿ’ธ I hate when I donate like $50 to a charity and then for the next 3 years I see all of it go to โ€ฆ

2020-02-29: On my way to Side Project Saturday with the rest of the CocoaHeads. Hope to actually work on my โ€ฆ

2020-02-28: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป There is a new Rust Meetup starting in Philly! www.meetup.com/Rust-Phil… Also a reminder, โ€ฆ

2020-02-26: Poor Splash Woman.

2020-02-26: ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Remember that time Sephiroth went bat shit insane and burned down Nibelheim because someone stole โ€ฆ

2020-02-26: ๐ŸŽฎ Final Fantasy 3 DS is finished. Woot. That was a tough one. Lots of lost progress to end dungeon โ€ฆ

2020-02-26: ๐Ÿ”— Safari to Reject HTTPS Certificates Longer Than a Year I dislike this change. โ€ฆ

2020-02-26: I bought Airmail 3 from the Mac App Store in 2016. Happy with it as-was. Today the App Store pushed โ€ฆ

2020-02-23: โšพ๏ธ I feel like we are all in agreement: The Phanatic plastic surgery changes look awful. He got โ€ฆ

2020-02-22: ๐Ÿง  I keep finding myself trying to use pattern matching in Swift. My Elixir habits are burned into my โ€ฆ

2020-02-22: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป For my client I’m helping to work on their SDK offering. General question to my geek โ€ฆ

2020-02-22: ๐ŸŽฎ Spent 90 minutes in one of the final dungeons of Final Fantasy 3 (DS) last night and then died to โ€ฆ

2020-02-22: โšพ๏ธ First game of the preseason! Go Phillies! Listening in via old school radio while working at my โ€ฆ

2020-02-21: ๐Ÿ’ธ Did my taxes yesterday and things were better than feared. Took the unexpected monies and payed โ€ฆ

2020-02-21: ๐Ÿ”— Just Shipped is a community of makers committed to rapid learning through unique projects shipped โ€ฆ

2020-02-18: Jenkins may have won the battle today, BUT I WILL WIN THE WAR!

2020-02-18: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ› Be sure to use those Xcode sanitizers! I tend to run the address sanitizer for my Run action โ€ฆ

2020-02-14: ๐Ÿš† HYPE TRAIN! ALL ABOARD! FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE - Opening Movie www.youtube.com/watch

2020-02-13: ๐Ÿ“š I’ve been using Hugo for a few years now to build static websites and have been pretty happy โ€ฆ

2020-02-12: ๐Ÿค” Debating if I should talk about Stardate in my Elixir Timezone talk this evening.

2020-02-09: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป The monthly Elixir meeting is this week at @IndyHall, Wed 6-8pm. โ€ฆ

2020-02-07: ๐Ÿ”— Business-Focused Conferences & Events for Founders mastermindjam.com/conferenc…

2020-02-07: For Sale: I’m selling an unopened Stream Deck I bought a year ago but never used. Looking for โ€ฆ

2020-02-05: ๐Ÿ“… There is an Online IndieWebCamp happening this weekend. I hope to be able to watch some of the โ€ฆ

2020-02-04: ๐Ÿ”— Six Famous Companies Using Elixirโ€”And Why They Made the Switch Letโ€™s look at a handful of โ€ฆ

2020-02-04: ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ It’s nice of Xcode to offer customizable Key Bindings. It even has a quick pull down to โ€ฆ

2020-02-01: Picard, Ep1 on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch

2020-02-01: ๐ŸŽ When I met Domininc Toretto he was a street racer who stole DVD players.

2020-02-01: New filter.

2020-01-31: .

2020-01-28: ๐Ÿ“š It’s book club day! Did you read your chapters? I did (but did not code anything yet). See โ€ฆ

2020-01-23: ๐Ÿ˜ญ Safari (Mac) still does not support the date picker of HTML. caniuse.com

2020-01-23: ๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome to Micro.Blog, @amrox!

2020-01-21: Google Calendar lets you override the assumed timezone for an event start time (reasonable). It also โ€ฆ

2020-01-21: I’m learning a lot about timezones today.

2020-01-21: ๐Ÿ”— Great short and informative post why it’s probably a good idea to avoid current Ecto โ€ฆ

2020-01-20: Getting ready for the rebooted poker game this week… โ€ฆ

2020-01-17: ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”— Using 20,000 matches to make a coffee table www.youtube.com/watch

2020-01-16: Newman the wise.

2020-01-16: ๐Ÿ“š We have our next online book club title chosen and it is: Property-Based Testing with PropEr, โ€ฆ

2020-01-15: ๐Ÿšฆ๐Ÿ’ฐ Here are the financials for red light tickets in Philly. www.philapark.org/red-light… It โ€ฆ

2020-01-14: I’m using artificial intelligence to help generate better thumbnails. … and they ask โ€ฆ

2020-01-14: ๐ŸŽฎ Final Fantasy VII Remake, DELAYED until April 10, 2020. ๐Ÿ˜ข www.forbes.com/sites/dav…

2020-01-14: ๐ŸŽฎ After discovering Final Fantasy Fiesta (an event where some Twitch streamers play all FF games โ€ฆ

2020-01-14: โœ๏ธ 2019 Accomplishments and 2020 Goals Regardless if you post or share, itโ€™s very much worth it to โ€ฆ

2020-01-14: โ™ฆ๏ธโ™ ๏ธโ™ฅ๏ธโ™ฃ๏ธ Excited to be rebooting the @indyhall poker game. We got two games planned, Wed, Jan 22 and โ€ฆ

2020-01-13: ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Happy Monday everyone. Let’s kick some ass this week and get some pull requests posted.

2020-01-12: ๐ŸŽฎ 50 days until the Final Fantasy 7 Remake comes out. ๐Ÿคฏ ffvii-remake.square-enix-games.com/en-us

2020-01-11: ๐ŸŒ Someone needs to license and start streaming full seasons of Insomniac with Dave Attell.

2020-01-10: Weโ€™re going to write a replacement for OperationQueue. Iโ€™m anxious to see what will come out of โ€ฆ

2020-01-09: Anyone have experience with an image server for a web app? Something that would let me upload images โ€ฆ

2020-01-09: ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Happy CocoaHeads Day!

2020-01-08: ๐Ÿ”— Blockchain 2020: A Community Conversation Happy New Year! As Philly Blockchain Tech enters โ€ฆ

2020-01-07: ๐Ÿ”— IndieWebCamp Online 2020 I’d really like to get more familiar with the group’s goals โ€ฆ

2020-01-03: ๐Ÿ“ข A quick post to say I have availability and am looking to land a new consulting project. iOS and โ€ฆ

2020-01-03: ๐Ÿ“ฐ …looks at news… Seems like a good a time as any to recommend rewatching Wag the Dog: โ€ฆ

2020-01-02: ๐Ÿ–– Nothing like a Lunch Trek episode all about mind rape to sour the mood. So much for a light โ€ฆ

2020-01-02: Happy Valentines Day.

2020-01-01: I’ll never be convinced Paul Hudson @twostraws is not utilizing a Time-Turner.

2020-01-01: ๐Ÿ“ข This Friday is First Friday, which means @indyhall is open to the public for free coworking! Come โ€ฆ

2020-01-01: ๐Ÿš‘ There is a blood drive in old city at National Mechanics on Monday, Jan 6th which still has a lot โ€ฆ

2020-01-01: ๐Ÿ˜ƒ That feeling when during Lunch Trek you and Picard enjoy a sip of hot tea at the same time.

2019-12-30: Lunch Trek. It’s a Worf parenting episode.

2019-12-27: Sorry for the dead air. Hope everyone had a good holiday. Without going into detail things were a โ€ฆ

2019-12-21: โœ๏ธ Gaming Update, December 2019 With the holiday break going strong and my time for gaming โ€ฆ

2019-12-19: ๐Ÿ”— The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3 | Gaming Historian A documentary about the creation of Super โ€ฆ

2019-12-18: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Starting to take these Android tutorials seriously.

2019-12-18: Found a bulging PSP battery while flipping through some old game boxes. Planning on dropping it off โ€ฆ

2019-12-17: โœ๏ธ Website Revamp At the end of November I took a few days and revamped this site. Let me know if โ€ฆ

2019-12-16: ๐Ÿฟ Just watched The Report with Adam Driver from Amazon Studios. I liked it a lot. Part of me though โ€ฆ

2019-12-14: ๐ŸŽ„acquired.

2019-12-14: Me when all the integration code starts to work… www.youtube.com/watch ๐Ÿ•บ

2019-12-12: (Finally!) Started working on the GraphQL API for @clubhousehost today. Coming together pretty โ€ฆ

2019-12-10: I like that Android Studio gives actual warnings for static text used UI files (in lieu of proper of โ€ฆ

2019-12-09: I launched my refreshed personal website today! mikezornek.com Still have a bunch of odds and ends โ€ฆ

2019-12-06: The Incredible Hulk will not be presented this evening… www.youtube.com/watch

2019-12-06: ๐Ÿ•น The amount of crying from people about PVP on a PVP server is embarrassing. If you don’t โ€ฆ

2019-12-04: Working on a new version of my website, this time with a more hand crafted Hugo template and some โ€ฆ

2019-12-03: ๐Ÿ•น For anyone out there who enjoys crossword puzzles, Black Ink 2 is out today and worth a look. โ€ฆ

2019-12-02: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

2019-11-30: Watching Boiler Room and the FBI agent tells Seth to copy his C: drive to a floppy before leaving โ€ฆ

2019-11-29: ๐Ÿ”— Philly Freelance Fest, January 30th, 2020 We’re flipping a traditional job fair on its โ€ฆ

2019-11-28: Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

2019-11-27: Does anyone know of a passthrough outlet adaptor that broadcasts usage stats over bluetooth?

2019-11-27: Had some fun today setting up my Raspberry Pi 4.

2019-11-27: ๐Ÿ”— First Impression of Elixir, from a Rubyistโ€™s Perspective - Sihui Huang

2019-11-27: While setting up a new Windows 10 install I was forced to connect an MS Account. Only after setup โ€ฆ

2019-11-26: ๐Ÿ”— Stardew Valley - The Stardew Valley 1.4 Content Update is Now Available on Steam & GOG โ€ฆ

2019-11-25: Finally signed into my “free” Disney+ (via Verizon) and they didn’t have the first โ€ฆ

2019-11-24: ๐Ÿ“š I always end up picking up a few books using the Thanksgiving PragProg sale. This year’s โ€ฆ

2019-11-22: ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ‘ A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was great. Nice to bathe in some positivity for a change. โ€ฆ

2019-11-22: I wonder if this will be lost on the kids… ๐Ÿฟ The Dial Comes To Town www.youtube.com/watch

2019-11-19: ๐Ÿ“š Finished my chapter of Elixir in Action for tonightโ€™s book club. Only 2 chapters left. Has been a โ€ฆ

2019-11-18: Why doesn’t Chewbacca get a medal at the end of A New Hope?

2019-11-14: I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: we should not know what underwear the tech โ€ฆ

2019-11-14: ๐Ÿ•น Spent some time back on Koholint Island tonight, trying to finish my instrument collection before โ€ฆ

2019-11-13: ๐Ÿ”— Page with all @elixir-lang conference videos ever published Total talks: 913 Total conferences: 61 โ€ฆ

2019-11-13: I am trying to setup chats with fellow meetup/group organizers for product research re: โ€ฆ

2019-11-13: The $6000 Pro Display XDR does support “One upstream port for Mac Pro or other Thunderbolt 3 โ€ฆ

2019-11-13: Do any monitors support the “96W” of power this new MacBook requires for a one plug โ€ฆ

2019-11-13: It’s embarrassing after all the camera tech we’ve seen Apple come up with for the phone โ€ฆ

2019-11-10: Even on my solo developer projects I make Pull Requests. If possible I then wait at least 24 hours โ€ฆ

2019-11-08: ๐Ÿ”— Elixir in VS Code โ€“ Thinking Elixir Some great tips for people new to this combo. Itโ€™s where I โ€ฆ

2019-11-08: ๐Ÿ”— Cool article that helps address Ecto preloads and Phoenix context api design Iโ€™ve been struggling โ€ฆ

2019-11-05: โ˜•๏ธ The politician’s daughter Was accused of drinking water And was fined a great big fifty โ€ฆ

2019-11-05: Vote.

2019-11-04: I know Swift! www.linkedin.com/in/mikezo…

2019-11-04: ๐Ÿ“น Club House Hosting Dev Diary: 2, A Tour of UI Sketches Show off some of the early UI sketches and โ€ฆ

2019-10-30: ๐Ÿ”— If you want to get started with VSCode you might want to check out this free course, Visual Studio โ€ฆ

2019-10-30: For those who might be interested in Property Based Testing (in Elixir or otherwise) considering our โ€ฆ

2019-10-30: ๐Ÿ”— Resource lists for free or highly discounted developer tools: free-for.dev education.github.com

2019-10-30: Iโ€™m still on iOS 12 and the News app has been broken for two days now. No source list. Restarts do โ€ฆ

2019-10-29: The last day of fall is December 21. #MacPro ๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ˜ด

2019-10-26: ๐Ÿ•น My mage hit level 40 tonight, which is awesome. Unfortunately I only have 13 gold toward the 100 โ€ฆ

2019-10-24: The 20 most influential technologists in Philadelphia: RealLIST Engineers - Technical.ly Philly โ€ฆ

2019-10-24: Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (15-inch) Teardown - iFixit Just like that, the whole top cover assembly โ€ฆ

2019-10-24: โœ๏ธ Available for Consulting: Web and Mobile, Elixir and iOS I have some consulting availability โ€ฆ

2019-10-24: โœ๏ธ How to Deal with No Show RSVPs blog.clubhouse.host/posts/201… Updated with some feedback โ€ฆ

2019-10-23: Iโ€™m the kind of guy who would, if allowed socially, go to hibachi and ask the chef for no theatrics.

2019-10-23: โœ๏ธ How to Deal with No Show RSVPs Then the day comes, youโ€™ve picked a venue that can hold the 50 โ€ฆ

2019-10-22: โœ๏ธ Full Time Spaceship Employees Only No matter how well designed the new campus is, I feel like โ€ฆ

2019-10-20: TIL It was not Dave Winer who invented podcasting, but Jor-El when he prepared all those audio files โ€ฆ

2019-10-20:

2019-10-20: ๐Ÿฟ My recent hobby: watching old Siskel & Ebert movie reviews on YouTube.

2019-10-19: Barcamp Philly was great, per usual. Lots of fresh ideas. Lots of friendly faces. Lots to do.

2019-10-19: Itโ€™s cool to see Club House Hosting start to spread amongst friends while at barcamp. Planning to do โ€ฆ

2019-10-19: Barcamp morning. #bcphilly

2019-10-17: ๐Ÿ”— Why use Elixir for web development Good, concise article. Wish they would at least mention some of โ€ฆ

2019-10-17: I bought a ticket to MicroConf: Starter Edition, April 21 - 23, 2020. Been a long time listener of โ€ฆ

2019-10-14: This Meetup pricing change is crazy. ๐Ÿ˜ฑ www.meetup.com/lp/paymen… I need to standup Club House โ€ฆ

2019-10-13: ๐Ÿ“š 2019 Books. (Not a full representation, as I still get some ebooks too.)

2019-10-13: ๐Ÿ—‘ Grouch (Joker Parody) - SNL

2019-10-12: Took Mom to Shake Shack. Many Son points were earned. ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŸ๐Ÿฅ›

2019-10-09: ๐Ÿ‘ “A step in the right direction.” www.youtube.com/watch repair.org/stand-up

2019-10-09: ๐Ÿž Working in some new software today and I couldn’t help myself. Hey Michael Zornek, Michael โ€ฆ

2019-10-09: Today I return from an almost a full week of unplanned work “vacation” as my laptop was โ€ฆ

2019-10-07: ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ Now that the Fashion District is open, Philadelphians can once again travel across the street โ€ฆ

2019-10-05: At this week’s Philly Elixir meeting we’ll talk about Property-Based Testing using โ€ฆ

2019-10-03: After experiencing the repair process multiple times with this MacBook Pro, one thing that is โ€ฆ

2019-10-03: If you really wanna loose faith in Apple, hang around the Genius Bar and listen to the modern advice โ€ฆ

2019-10-03: Localized Night Mode.

2019-10-02: Doing a bunch of backups and fresh OS installs today as I prep my MacBook Pro for its 5th and final โ€ฆ

2019-09-30: At the end of chapter two, a chapter that recounts how Snowden fixed his original NES with his โ€ฆ

2019-09-30: ๐Ÿ•น Remember my old failed game, TwizShow. www.youtube.com/watch Still love the graphics and music we โ€ฆ

2019-09-28: ๐Ÿ’ฌ “Agile is a word you use when you want to start a bar fight.”

2019-09-27: If you need help figuring out what is using all the space on your hard drive, I recommend the free โ€ฆ

2019-09-27: These storage numbers make no sense. How do I purge? The trash is empty.

2019-09-27: ๐Ÿ“š A reminder that I keep my current reading list mostly up-to-date via Goodreads and welcome friend โ€ฆ

2019-09-26: ๐Ÿ˜ฑ There is a rumor that WeWork will be selling Meetup as it looks to raise cash and cut costs. I โ€ฆ

2019-09-26: Itโ€™s a vacuum under the bed day. Also check off one more place my missing AirPods are not.

2019-09-26: ๐ŸŽจ Shout out to @seanmartorana. His recent mural work is really impressive and can transform an โ€ฆ

2019-09-25: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Oh no, what am I doing?

2019-09-25: โœ๏ธ What Makes a Great Venue for Your Meetup Group, And How to Find It! Finding a great venue โ€ฆ

2019-09-24: ๐ŸŽฎ Is it morally right to wake the Wind Fish?

2019-09-22: TIL: Sketch uses Elixir in the backend. Elixir Engineer at Sketch - Full-time remote position

2019-09-20: How do you manage software and saves on a second Switch? Itโ€™s complicated - Ars Technica Useful info โ€ฆ

2019-09-20: ๐ŸŽฎ Out Today: Untitled Goose Game Itโ€™s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible โ€ฆ

2019-09-20:

2019-09-20: Pokemon Save Data on Switch Realization today: Now that Pokemon data will not be connected to the cartridge it will make self โ€ฆ

2019-09-20: The Switch Lite is pretty cool so far. Sharing user accounts, data and online games is a little โ€ฆ

2019-09-20: Happy Friday.

2019-09-20: Erlang: The Movie Hello Mike. Hello Joe. Hello Mike. Hello Robert.

2019-09-19: โœ๏ธ How to Find and Schedule Speakers for Your Next Event Here are a few ideas to help you keep your โ€ฆ

2019-09-18: The NSData.description issue reminds me of when alongside the introduction of .mac address book โ€ฆ

2019-09-18: Itโ€™s one of those days where I fixed the Xcode UI tests locally, but they still fail on the CI โ€ฆ

2019-09-18: โœ๏ธ How to Discover Presentation Topics for Your Group Keeping on top of what your members are โ€ฆ

2019-09-17: โœ๏ธ My New Project: Club House Hosting Club House Hosting is a new platform that will help group โ€ฆ

2019-09-16: Real devs wait for Xcode GM Pro Max.

2019-09-13: I generally don’t give much thought to podcast ads, but I have an actual negative reaction to โ€ฆ

2019-09-13: IndyHall is hosting the word wide Google DevFest event. I have other obligations but I wanted to โ€ฆ

2019-09-12: Via arstechnica.com Former Donkey Kong champ threatens to sue Guinness over record removal Fuck โ€ฆ

2019-09-11: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿฅณ

2019-09-10: BACK TO WORK!

2019-09-10: Seems like a real blunder to hold this HUGE media event and then not share specifics like ship dates โ€ฆ

2019-09-10: I wonder if the reason they didn’t talk about iOS 13 or its explicit release date is to avoid โ€ฆ

2019-09-10: The irony of telling me how awesome the iPad is in front an auditorium of the most diehard Apple โ€ฆ

2019-09-10: One of the most uneventful Apple events I can remember. Meh on Phone updates. My recommendation is โ€ฆ

2019-09-06: Starting to get that sinking feeling that I am over-engineering this refactor. (Trying to DRY up โ€ฆ

2019-09-04: Curry Dex

2019-09-03: Cancel or Allow? Welcome to macOS 10.15!

2019-09-02: This Friday is First Friday (of the month) which means you can come down and cowork out of IndyHall โ€ฆ

2019-09-02: I am now a dues paying member of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation โ€ฆ

2019-09-01: ๐Ÿ’ฐ Elixir Jobs Get paid.

2019-09-01: Trump Trade War With China Will Hit Apple for Real This Weekend Tariffs. They are coming.

2019-08-31: Had a great week at #ElixirConf. Tons of demos of LiveView maturity, got some hands on time with โ€ฆ

2019-08-29: Some #ElixirConf talks are already starting to show up on YouTube. Bookmark, subscribe and enjoy. โ€ฆ

2019-08-29: To encourage the conference attendees to move from the breakfast area to the keynote a woman walked โ€ฆ

2019-08-28: Can you tell Iโ€™m bored?

2019-08-28: Dark rooms.

2019-08-28: What is this? A hotel for ants?!

2019-08-28: The power went out and the hotel/resort is on generator power. Limited services. No elevator, no AC. โ€ฆ

2019-08-28: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Build a Smart Camera with Nerves - ElixirConf US 2019.

2019-08-28: When you are building a landing page / signup to validate a SaaS product idea, how do you define โ€ฆ

2019-08-28: ๐ŸŽฎ Can You Beat Pokemon Platinum Using Only a Male Combee? What an effort. Pokefans must watch. :)

2019-08-27: UX Gripe: People who use text placeholders as the input’s only label.

2019-08-26: โœˆ๏ธ Up early and flying to Denver (from Philly) for @ElixirConf. Should be a fun week.

2019-08-25: Started a SoulSilver nuzlock run eventhough Iโ€™m also training a team in front of the Pokรฉmon League โ€ฆ

2019-08-24: Spending some time on the betas today to verify new iOS location behavior. Anyone else have related โ€ฆ

2019-08-23: ๐ŸŽฎ Super Mario Sunshine HD confirmed!

2019-08-23: โœ๏ธ If Flying, Print Out MacBook Battery Status The FAA has put a flight ban on the MacBook Pro โ€ฆ

2019-08-23: Retweets.

2019-08-23: โœ๏ธ First ElixirConf, and Then Azeroth Itโ€™s going to be a fun week. Over the last year Iโ€™ve really โ€ฆ

2019-08-19: ๐Ÿ’ก Brainstorming meetup topics. How about “A Night of Failures!” – lighting talks โ€ฆ

2019-08-15: Had some unexpected app behavior today that when I referenced the code, specifically the Swift if โ€ฆ

2019-08-14: โœ๏ธ On Conferences: In my opinion, a conferenceโ€™s main goal is about using presentations to spark โ€ฆ

2019-08-13: Paying my bills and looking at the upcoming September tax estimated payment. ๐Ÿ˜ฑ I’m fine but โ€ฆ

2019-08-12: ๐Ÿ’ป โ“ ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Is there anyway to observe the RAW http messages URLSession is generating and receiving in โ€ฆ

2019-08-12: ๐Ÿ•น Anyone else picking a name/server today? I’m leaning towards EasternTime/PVP. Probably Herod โ€ฆ

2019-08-12: Back to work. Lots to do. Happy Monday.

2019-08-11: Iโ€™m home.

2019-08-05: โ˜€๏ธ Early to rise. Lots to do this week.

2019-08-03: ๐ŸŽฎ๐Ÿฅณ

2019-08-02: Happy Friday! ๐ŸŽต www.youtube.com/watch

2019-08-01: โœ๏ธ A Month with the 2019 23.7-inch LG UltraFine 4K Display In short, Iโ€™m generally pretty positive โ€ฆ

2019-08-01: ๐Ÿš— I am here.

2019-07-31: Just had Shake Shack for the first time. ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŸ๐Ÿฅค๐Ÿคฏ

2019-07-31: The recruiters are in the console now.

2019-07-31: Can’t sleep. ๐Ÿคก

2019-07-30: Sitting here on the conference wifi I can’t help but notice the chatty Bonjour network โ€ฆ

2019-07-29: โœ๏ธ A Smorgasbord of Updates, July 2019 That feeling when you realize you have not posted and the โ€ฆ

2019-07-29: As someone who lived in a web design world where there was a single 90% market share browser and โ€ฆ

2019-07-29: I noticed my Markdown rendering app encoding my email in html entities. I wonder how much spam this โ€ฆ

2019-07-29: From my hotel.

2019-07-28: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Going to be a fun few days. Lots to learn. An Event Apart DC is a three-day conference with 17 โ€ฆ

2019-07-26: ๐ŸŒง

2019-07-25: Time for a โ˜•๏ธ break!

2019-07-24: PragProg is running their Christmas in July sale. All of our ebooks,* screencasts, and audio books โ€ฆ

2019-07-23: Created a slack group for our Philly Elixir meeting and book club. Join us: โ€ฆ

2019-07-23: ๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ”ฅ My MacBook Pro runs noticeably hotter when connected to my new LG retina monitor (lots of pixels โ€ฆ

2019-07-23: ๐Ÿ˜ญ The worst clickbait I ever saw on YouTube. Shame on the Washington Post.

2019-07-20: ๐Ÿ•น Can’t unsee.

2019-07-20: ๐Ÿ•นCaught him with an ultra ball and almost full health. ๐Ÿฅณ

2019-07-20: ๐Ÿ•น Must see Breath of the Wild speedrun. ANY% 04:11 (no amiibo) WR

2019-07-19: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Up early and attending a one-day PostgresConf here in Philly. Lots to learn.

2019-07-18: ๐ŸŽฎ Do I go to the gym? Duh. How many badges do you have?

2019-07-18: โ˜”๏ธ โšพ๏ธ The Phillies are live on YouTube, playing in the rain. www.youtube.com/watch

2019-07-17: โŒ๐Ÿ• Uh oh.

2019-07-17: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป There should be a .xcode folder at the root of a project that contains customizable new file โ€ฆ

2019-07-16: ๐Ÿค˜ Working with Terraform to automate some Linode server deployments, LIKE A BOSS!

2019-07-16: ๐Ÿ”— Remote Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer (Short-term Project) Client I do server work for is โ€ฆ

2019-07-16: ๐Ÿ•น Pokemon Trivia: Name a scenario where using a Master Ball will fail.

2019-07-15: Time to put down the video games and get back to work. ๐Ÿ˜ข Happy Monday. โค๏ธ

2019-07-12: ๐Ÿ•น I named my Growlithe after Bernie Sanders.

2019-07-12: ๐Ÿš‘ Indy Hall and National Mechanics are sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive! Supplies are very low โ€ฆ

2019-07-11: ๐Ÿ•น Despite my frustrations with the lack of a national dex in Sword and Shield – I am enjoying โ€ฆ

2019-07-11: ๐Ÿ”— Silent Mac update nukes dangerous webserver installed by Zoom Good intentions or not, I donโ€™t like โ€ฆ

2019-07-09: ๐Ÿ”— Philly Design Compensation Census Our goal is to demystify salaries and job titles for designers โ€ฆ

2019-07-09: To protect your computer, copy and paste this series of commands you probably don’t understand โ€ฆ

2019-07-09: Had a client app generate a crash on iOS 13 from excessive CPU use. CPU: 144 seconds cpu time over โ€ฆ

2019-07-09: We’re going to be doing an Elixir Book Club! Kickoff meeting, where we’ll pick a book โ€ฆ

2019-07-08: โค๏ธ Good morning.

2019-07-07: Not only does the blue around the Apple menu not extend to the full edge like the notification icon โ€ฆ

2019-07-07: ๐Ÿ”ฅ The new Ryzen CPUs looks amazing. I wanna build a new tower now. www.pcworld.com/article/3…

2019-07-07: Got a random invite to join an empty @github organization today. Looks legit but feels like a scam โ€ฆ

2019-07-06: ๐Ÿƒ I got poker fever watching the WSOP 2019. Watch some on YouTubes: โ€ฆ

2019-07-03: Dave shares the crazy amount of work ahead of him (again). To get SuperDuper ready for 10.15. โ€ฆ

2019-07-01: I miss Hexley.

2019-06-29: Who ever blessed these builds as suitable for public beta is delusional and should be brought to the โ€ฆ

2019-06-28: New monitor is setup. Resolution and color are amazing. ๐Ÿคž

2019-06-28: ๐Ÿ”— Jony Ive Is Leaving Apple It makes me queasy to see that Appleโ€™s chief designers are now โ€ฆ

2019-06-27: Did a bug fix today and learned more about custom Swift JSON decoding. While a good code edit, โ€ฆ

2019-06-26: ๐Ÿ”— Elixir v1.9 released Elixir v1.9 is out with releases support, improved configuration, and more. โ€ฆ

2019-06-26: The more I learn about how Amazon treats its employees the more I realize I need to find โ€ฆ

2019-06-25: Just pulled the trigger on a ticket / hotel for the one-day iOSDevCampDC. I’ve been a speaker โ€ฆ

2019-06-25: Tip of the Day: Marked my WWDC folder as a non-backup folder for Backblaze. No need to re-upload all โ€ฆ

2019-06-25: It’s back to work after a nice week off down the shore. Feeling pretty refreshed and anxious โ€ฆ

2019-06-24: โœ๏ธ The Great Monitor Search Continues The LG 49 inch UltraWide monitor is pretty cool, but not very โ€ฆ

2019-06-21: Sorry, not sorry for lack of posts. Iโ€™m on vacation and having a great time. ๐Ÿ˜€

2019-06-21: Preferring โ€œI like candidate Xโ€™s policiesโ€ rather than โ€œI like candidate Xโ€. Keeps conversation โ€ฆ

2019-06-19: The next Philly Elixir meeting will be on Monday, July 1st at @indyhall. Check out the agenda and โ€ฆ

2019-06-16: Downloading WWDC videos in prep for a week down the shore, as a geek does.

2019-06-14: After a final room search, Iโ€™m considering my AirPods officially lost. I only used them like three โ€ฆ

2019-06-13: โ™ ๏ธ Can anyone recommend any non-scam, no-cash, casual poker sites? I used to play Yahoo Poker back โ€ฆ

2019-06-13: WWDC hype continues at tonights Philly CocoaHeads @phillycocoa meeting. Everyone is pumped to play โ€ฆ

2019-06-12: Dilly dally, shilly shally.

2019-06-12: Fixed two issues with a single one line PR. I’d feel proud of myself except I probably should โ€ฆ

2019-06-11: ๐Ÿ˜ก My face when I realize the web app bug that was driving me up a wall and I put on the shelf for โ€ฆ

2019-06-11: ๐Ÿ•น Sad to see Animal Crossing slip to 2020. Also, where is my Metroid? On the plus side: Dragon โ€ฆ

2019-06-10: ๐Ÿ•น 1ST CLASS EDITION $329.99

2019-06-10: Michael Tsai - Blog - WWDC 2019 Links Great collection.

2019-06-10: Core Data is Appleโ€™s worst active framework, and I look forward to its inevitable Swift / โ€ฆ

2019-06-09: Off topic: I’m thinking about buying some luggage. I need a med-large checkin bag. Looking for โ€ฆ

2019-06-08: ./me wonders aloud how many menu item apps he can install with his new monitor.

2019-06-08: I added a CODE_SMELLS.md to my project today. Might as well help future @zorn to remember where we โ€ฆ

2019-06-07: WWDC 2019 - The Things You May Have Missed ยท Patrick Balestra Great collection of info.

2019-06-07: RIP my personal FormKit.

2019-06-07: FINALLY, the WWDC reaction we’ve all be waiting for… www.youtube.com/watch

2019-06-06: Just catching up with some WWDC videos. www.youtube.com/watch

2019-06-06: I finally get a proper โ€œstoryboardโ€ monitor and they get deprecated.

2019-06-06: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Elixir v1.9.0-rc.0 is out and has new release support!

2019-06-06: ๐Ÿ•บThere is a bunch of Final Fantasy OST now available on Spotify and Apple Music. I’m a huge โ€ฆ

2019-06-06: ๐ŸƒBAD BEATS! www.youtube.com/watch

2019-06-05: ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป I have not been watching anything from WWDC live this week outside of the Monday events. No real โ€ฆ

2019-06-04: Apple Tax. www.youtube.com/watch

2019-06-04: And props to the documentation team, this HTML tutorial experience is top notch.

2019-06-04: As I work through the SwiftUI tutorial it is beginning to sink in that yet again everything I know โ€ฆ

2019-06-04: โšพ๏ธ Cutch out for season with torn ACL … he hopes to be ready by Opening Day 2020, although โ€ฆ

2019-06-04: โœ๏ธ MacPro Reactions We were begging them to built us a tower and display, but they built them for โ€ฆ

2019-06-04: ๐Ÿ’ธ Just pulled the trigger on my new monitor. LG 49WL95C-W 49 inch 32:9 UltraWide 5K Dual QHD IPS โ€ฆ

2019-06-04: ๐ŸŽน Dain Saint is a local Philly musician and geek. I’ve been enjoying his music for years. โ€ฆ

2019-06-04: I’m sobering up and realities are coming back strong. Realization: You can spend 12K on a โ€ฆ

2019-06-04: ๐Ÿ”— macOS 10.15 Beta Release Notes Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are โ€ฆ

2019-06-03: Was it in bad taste that Apple played “Barenaked Ladies – If I Had a Million โ€ฆ

2019-06-03: I just realized the 6K monitor costs $6,000. ๐Ÿคฏ

2019-06-03: This is going to be huge.

2019-06-03: The real question. How much do those MacPro wheels cost?

2019-06-03: Stand NOT INCLUEDED? ๐Ÿคฏ

2019-06-03: Here we go.

2019-06-03: ๐Ÿ Happy WWDC everyone!

2019-06-02: That feeling when you die in phase three of the Lady Yunalesca fight and you have to rewatch all โ€ฆ

2019-06-02: Pool day.

2019-06-01: โšพ๏ธ Yesterday we did bad umpires. Today let’s keep it light. Not-So-Serious Baseball โ€ฆ

2019-05-31: Over the last few years Amazon has been deploying their own “mystery white vans” in โ€ฆ

2019-05-31: The YouTube algorithm thinks I’ll enjoy some videos with shitty baseball umpires. I’ll โ€ฆ

2019-05-30: ๐Ÿ•น Glory days.

2019-05-30: If you are in Philly and want to watch WWDC with some fellow Apple nerds, join us at @indyhall! โ€ฆ

2019-05-30: If I had to summarize my life in recent years with an emoji it would most definitely be ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ.

2019-05-28: It would be nice if after an iTunes rental they offered me the ability to buy the movie (minus the โ€ฆ

2019-05-28: The next Philly Elixir meeting is set for July 1st at @indyhall. Agenda forthcoming, speakers โ€ฆ

2019-05-27: ๐Ÿฟ My Dinner with Andre Finally got to sit down and watch this one after enjoying a few clips over โ€ฆ

2019-05-27: ๐Ÿ”— Forbes | AMD Reveals 3rd Gen Ryzen 9 3900X: $499, 12 Cores, 4.6GHz With Ryzen 7 And Ryzen 5 Models โ€ฆ

2019-05-25: The apartment pool opening day is here! Water was freezing. I deserve a polar bear badge. Nice to โ€ฆ

2019-05-24: ๐ŸŽต This afternoon’s Xcode session brought to us by the StarCraft OST. โ€ฆ

2019-05-23: Spoilers: Naming software is hard.

2019-05-21: ๐Ÿ”— ElixirConf tickets are now on sale! Two days of optional training and two days of conference โ€ฆ

2019-05-20: ๐Ÿ”— fish fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the โ€ฆ

2019-05-20: ๐Ÿ”— Color schemes for default macOS Terminal.app This is a set of color schemes for default macOS โ€ฆ

2019-05-17: For the record, my Apple TV has been a buggy mess since the auto update. THANKS APPLE!

2019-05-16: Great slide showcasing how we technical people need to simplify when speaking to customers.

2019-05-16: Monthly Show and Tell at IndyHall.

2019-05-15: ๐Ÿ•น Didn’t take long for the online play of MLB the Show become pay to win. Diamond players all โ€ฆ

2019-05-14: There is a lot I love about Elixir, but being a dynamic language has me once again making noob โ€ฆ

2019-05-14: And then there was this one time where Bruce Lee fought a guy with lightsaber nunchucks. โ€ฆ

2019-05-11: Loving the weather but not my allergies. ๐Ÿคง

2019-05-07: โœ๏ธ Thoughts on Mac Pros at WWDC Itโ€™s time for Apple to show its cards. Iโ€™m not saying we need an โ€ฆ

2019-05-05: Power went out. I have 79% iPad. Entertain me.

2019-05-04: For @recdiffs (Reconcilable Differences) podcast listeners, we need two pins, one left fridge door, โ€ฆ

2019-05-04: โšพ๏ธ Go Phillies!

2019-05-03: Iโ€™m in the need of buying a new backpack. Any recommendations?

2019-05-01: ๐Ÿ”— Speedrunners BANNED this for being too game-breaking I love the ingenuity of speed runners.

2019-05-01: Taking a breath of time to revisit my business numbers and estimates for the year. All looks pretty โ€ฆ

2019-04-30: Yo yo yo. It’s ya boy Mike YouTuber and it’s time for the daily 11 minute regurgitation โ€ฆ

2019-04-30: The next Philly Elixir Meetup is one week away. RSVP today! www.meetup.com/Philly-El…

2019-04-30: ๐Ÿ”— Sonic The Hedgehog (2019) - Official Trailer Happy End of April Fools!!

2019-04-30: New pattern I have for my bookmark bar: I have a folder for each active project. The first subfolder โ€ฆ

2019-04-29: In envision a Robot Chicken skit of V for Vendetta. He keeps trying to setup his dominos but they โ€ฆ

2019-04-29: Of course that makes sense… WE DON’T OWN OUR COMPUTERS ANYMORE.

2019-04-29: The one true capitalization is MacOS.

2019-04-29: Starting my multiple backups in preparation for my MacOS 10.14 upgrade, courtesy of Xcode 10.2 โ€ฆ

2019-04-29: A detached head with stick legs.

2019-04-28: Just got out of a late night screening. WHEN CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE MOVIE? ๐Ÿฟ

2019-04-28: The leads are weak.

2019-04-27: Italian market shopping.

2019-04-27: Do attend. #DiBrunoBros

2019-04-25: What a concept, opening up a computer to clear out the dust.

2019-04-23: Had a great day 1 at ETE. Will do a write up for the blog tomorrow. For now, time to relax a bit.

2019-04-22: Rewatching Sopranos. Holds up well but some dated things. Just saw Christopher eject a 3.5 floppy โ€ฆ

2019-04-22: I think one of the reasons I lean towards community service in exchange for college / trade school โ€ฆ

2019-04-22: I actually prefer affordable college. Free anything lessens its perceived value and then quality. โ€ฆ

2019-04-22: ๐Ÿ“น Video: Blog Update, April 2019 No big announcements, just a quick update.

2019-04-22: ๐Ÿ”— Philly Elixir Meetup is Rebooting Elixir is a functional programming language that is popular for โ€ฆ

2019-04-19: ๐Ÿ”— Superman II - WTF Happened To This Movie? Can’t express how big Superman: The Movie was to โ€ฆ

2019-04-19: What do ya think of my flyer?

2019-04-19: ๐Ÿ”— Front-end Developer Handbook 2019 This is a guide that everyone can use to learn about the โ€ฆ

2019-04-19: I need to start working but I can’t stop brainstorming how many ways this is going to go โ€ฆ

2019-04-19: TextExpander tip of the day! Every time you write “internet” replace with the more โ€ฆ

2019-04-18: TIL: If you use the .dev domain for anything (even localhost fakery in my case) Chrome and Firefox โ€ฆ

2019-04-16: This is a fun Star Wars theory about Rey. If it tied into the Jar Jar Sith Lord theory it would be โ€ฆ

2019-04-14: We are rebooting the Philly Elixir Meetup. Join us Monday, May 6th! www.meetup.com/Philly-El…

2019-04-14: While we are talking retro, Family Matters was a dark show. www.youtube.com/watch

2019-04-14: Is Greatest American Hero part of the Marvel or DC Universe?

2019-04-14: This YouTuhbe channel has the largest collection of tv intro themes I’ve ever seen. โ€ฆ

2019-04-13: Hope to go to MicroConf someday. Until then, I’ll enjoy the recaps: ๐Ÿ”— microconf.gen.co

2019-04-13: Working on client work, on a Saturday, living the dream? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ To be fair I lost Thursday due to โ€ฆ

2019-04-12: Just booked my flight and hotel for ElixirConf even though the conference tickets aren’t on โ€ฆ

2019-04-09: Fresh haircut. Happy Zorn.

2019-04-08: How come my iPad doesn’t have a section in settings for Battery Health?

2019-04-08: Writing out my tax checks with the most professional writing instrument I own.

2019-04-08: ๐Ÿ˜ข

2019-04-08: ๐Ÿ™€ It’s Monday morning and all the snooze emails from last week have come back!

2019-04-03: How do people avoid a git merge nightmare when maintaining a CHANGELOG on an active project with โ€ฆ

2019-04-02: Itโ€™s a good time to be a Phillies fan. โšพ๏ธ๐Ÿฅณ

2019-04-01: I need more blue pages. Bring them to me! Ignore the red pages.

2019-03-30: Back to back conferences?

2019-03-29: Hyped. ๐ŸŽฎ

2019-03-29: Today we code with Yo-Yo Ma playing in the background.

2019-03-28: “Wee areee awaree that a small number of users aree having issuees with theeeir โ€ฆ