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A couple of months ago, I put my name down on a waiting list for an online course I thought would be useful for my career. I got an email last night saying that applications open next week and now I’m slightly afraid to enrol. Must be worth doing, just for that reason.
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It’s interesting. I’ve lived in Melbourne my whole life, and there are large, large swatches of the metro area that I’ve never seen before. Might be worth exploring some of these places.
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One thing that has been lost from all this working from home is the ability to use things like whiteboards to sketch out an idea with a team. I bought an Apple Pencil in 2020 so that I can recreate the experience to some degree in video conferences. Probably one of the most useful things I bought during this pandemic.
Now, if only Apple made it easier to share an iPad screen during these video conferences.
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Finished reading: The Dip by Seth Godin 📚
Short book: only took a few hours to get through it. Message is quite simple but will require some courage to apply.
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On Posting Daily
I recently listen to an interview with Seth Godin on the Tim Ferris podcast. In that interview, Seth mentions that he writes up to five blog posts a day. He just doesn’t publish them all. I guess that means that he has at least one or two drafts that can be touched up and published when he needs them. Although I don’t think of this blog as being anywhere near the quality of Seths, I think I’d like to start trying to publish on this site at least once a day. Continue reading →
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At the cafe this morning, someone arrived with a dog that shares the same name as myself. It was surprisingly tricky not to respond to this person issuing commands like “Leon, get down” and “Leon, stop doing that.” 😄
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Boosted. 💉💉💉
Also bought a “Moderna muffin” to mark the occasion. (it’s just a chocolate-chip muffin from a nice bakery) 🧁
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It’s amusing to see that Google is confident enough in their AI to tell me that I’ve received a SMS message that is spam, yet not quite confident enough not to tell me that I’ve received a SMS message that is spam.
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I got a bit of a streak going so I was hoping to post something here today. Only trouble is that I had some nervousness and pessimism preventing me from thinking of topics to write about. It calmed down after some writing it my journal, freeing me up to make this post.
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The Future of Computing
I got into computers when I was quite young, and to satisfy my interest, I read a lot of books about computing during my primary school years. I remember one such book that included a discussion about how computing could evolve in the future. The book approached the topic using a narrative of a “future” scenario, that would probably correspond with today’s present. In that story, the protagonist was late for school because of a fault with the “home computer” regarding the setting of the thermostat or something similar. Continue reading →
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Shut down one blog this week and moved all the posts into this one. There’s another blog that I haven’t updated for a while, but people are reading it and I’m wondering whether it’s worth bringing it back to life. I only wish I picked a better name for it.
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I posit to you that the reason developers find it hard to do anything related with encryption is not because they’re in the weeds of how the algorithms work. Rather, it’s the confusing barrage of acronyms and standards that all reference each other.
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I was looking for a simple timer this morning until I remembered that the Vivaldi browser actually comes with one. And sure enough, it works. The addition of these little utilities like a timer, alarm, and notepad is one of the things I like about Vivaldi.
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It might be time to unsubscribe from developer related podcasts that talk about new technologies and platforms. It’s stressful seeing all these services being discussed, and thinking to yourself “I should check that out”, even when you know there’s nothing forcing you to do so.
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My face is getting sore with all the palm prints on it. 🤦
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Bocce in Fitzroy Gardens. Grand final for the 2021 season (yes, my friends and I came up with the idea of grand finals for our little casual comp 😏).
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It’s a shame that there’s a non-insignificant number of people and companies that I admire and appreciate for their contribution to tech, while at the same time I personally would want nothing to do with.
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While poking around the Micro.blog XML-RPC documentation, I had a flashback about SOAP. I had some limited experience with SOAP and it was always a huge pain. Looking back on it now, it’s striking how much was touted about SOAP middleware, as if that was what anyone using SOAP cared about.
I’m glad SOAP has been replaced by simpler technologies like REST. Simplicity eventually wins out in the end. I guess that’s why XML-RPC is still around.
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PGBC Scoring Rules
I get a bit of a thrill when there’s a need to design a mini-language. I have one facing me now for a little project I’m responsible for, which is maintaining a scoring site for a bocce comp I’m involve in with friends. How scoring works now is that the winner of a particular bocce match gets one point for the season. The winner for the season is the person with the most points. Continue reading →
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🔗 Wordle and IP law: What happens when a hot game gets cloned
I guess the moral of the story is that you might have the legal right to do something like clone a game, but there’s no guarantee that you’ll get off looking honourable doing so.
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Wordle 208 6/6
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Was close to missing it today. The winning guess was a bit of a fluke.
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On the Moxie Marlinspike Post About web3
Today, I took a look at the Moxie Marlinspike post about web31. I found this post interesting for a variety of reasons, not least because unlike many other posts on the subject, it was a post that was level-headed and was coming from a position of want to learn more rather than persuade (or hustle). Well worth the read, especially for those that are turned off by the whole web3 crap like I am. Continue reading →
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Burnt Out on Design
I’ve been doing a heap of design work at my job at the moment; writing documents, drawing up architecture diagrams, etc. I’d thought I would like this sort of work but I realise now that I can only tolerate it in small doses. Doing it for as long as I have been is burning me out slightly. I’d just like to go back to coding. I’m wondering why this is. I think the biggest feeling I have is that it feels like I’m not delivering value. Continue reading →
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I’ve been listening to, and buying, a fair bit of music from Anders Enger Jensen over the last few days. My current earworm is about half the tracks on Retro Grooves Volume 2. Some pretty good retro synth music there. 🎵
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One of the domains for a blog that I’ve since abandoned is coming up for renewal in a few days. Might be a good as time as any to shut it down.