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The latest episode of Core Intuition (496) resonated with me, especially the discussion about settling and sharing creative works near the end. I know this is something that I personally struggle with and would like to get better at this year.
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I think I’ve settled on my word for 2022: finisher. Someone who finishes what he starts. This is something that I’m not super good at. I find it easy to start, but I rarely follow through all the way. It’s not in the list of words but I think it’s a good one to go for.
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🔗 The Algorithmic Ad Monster Cometh for Podcasts
I’m starting to hear more of these types of ads in the shows I follow, and I despise them. I agree with the statement of the ads being part of the product. I tend to listen to host-read ads. I definitely skip the automated ones.
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It’s interesting to see the technical knowledge and priorities of a software development team come through in the product they work on. Case in point: the syntax highlighting options for a code block in Confluence include ColdFusion, Delphi, Java FX, Groovy and Scala; but not Go.
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Yet another reminder to myself to write things down when they come to me. I had the perfect word for a post, but when it came time to write it I couldn’t recall what that word was. I know that I know it; I was turning it over in my head a few days ago. Should’ve written it down.
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There’s a lot I don’t like about all the “web3” stuff going on: bad actors and environmental impact being on the top of the list. But even if this is set aside, it just doesn’t sound like an appealing way to spend my time. As far as I can tell, it’s just a bunch of projects and people doing the exact same thing seen on the web before, but with an extra layer of trading, hustling, fundraising, etc. completely driven by personal interests. It all seems so distasteful, and even a little boring.
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I’m adding some photos to last year’s journal in preparation for turning it into a book. I’m honestly trying to avoid rushing it and just saying “ah, that’s enough”. Any effort spent now will be paid back in kind once the book is printed and I’m looking through it years later.
I’m also glad that I’ve made Feed Journaler to import blog posts. Looking at the posts made earlier in the year, I can see that many are missing, most likely because they contain images that were not imported. I’ll need to import these manually.
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We haven’t had any decent rain for several weeks now. So with the Bureau predicting rain today, I’m looking outside and at the rain radar like a roulette player waiting for the wheel to stop spinning.
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🔗 Microsoft fixes harebrained Y2K22 Exchange bug that disrupted email worldwide
Dates are hard, but it seems to me that treating the first two digits of a signed integer as the year when it’s so close to the overflow value is just asking for trouble.
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Back at work today, conceptually if not physically. The hardest part of coming back to work after some time off is the feeling that you never actually had any time off.
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That silly maxination countdown site is live again as I’ve just booked my Covid-19 booster shot.
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Wangaratta station. Took a V/Line train back to the city after helping someone with the drive to Canberra.
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I only just realised how good the company name Square was. It’s not just the shape of the RFC reader, it’s also in the saying “we’re square” when payment have been settled. Having multiple, subtle meanings to a name like that makes it valuable.
Block on the other hand…
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I’m seeing many bloggers in my RSS feed talking about how they’re reading “Four Thousand Weeks.” I’m sure like many others, thinking about my own mortality is quite uncomfortable. It might be that it’s worth my while to read it, and confront it head on. Maybe not today though.
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Photos Of Buildings Important To You
Now that we have decent cameras in our pocket and virtually unlimited space, there’s no reason not to take as many photos (and video) of things like buildings and objects that are personally important to you, in addition to people and events. Make sure you get photos of every room, from as many different perspectives as you can. Consider perspectives that you are likely to experience yourself, and try to capture them. Continue reading →
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Got around to releasing Feed Journaler v0.3. Headline feature: option to enable launch on login, so that there’s no need to remember to do so manually just to keep journals up to date with blog posts. Also some more bug fixes around post content.
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I wouldn’t call myself religious — I not someone who reguarily goes to church — but I do have a standing gig on my calendar: playing the pipe organ at the Christmas Eve family mass.
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Ugh, should’ve taken today off.
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Well, I feel like a bit of a turkey. I just spent two weeks researching technologies that will help us aggregate messages at scale, only to have a 30 minute meeting demonstrating that we didn’t need aggregation at all. 🤦
At least I learnt about Apache Flink.
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Only two more days of work left to go before the Christmas break. It’s only a week long, but it will still be welcomed.
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I try to be careful about future-proofing the code I write, but I just did a weird thing when choosing the type of clock to use for seeding a random number generator in a throwaway script.
I could have chosen to use nanoseconds or milliseconds since the Unix epoch. If I chose nanoseconds, the timestamp would only be good to use until some time in 2262. Milliseconds give me a timestamp that is useful until the year 292,001,970, give or take a millennia.
I chose to use milliseconds. 🤪
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Still Off Twitter
A little while ago, I stopped using Twitter on a daily basis as the continuous barrage of news was getting me down. Six weeks after doing so, I wrote a post about it. Those six weeks have now become six months, and I can say I’m still off Twitter and have no immediate intention of going back. My anxiety levels dropped since getting off1, and although they’ve not completely gone, the baseline has remained low with occasional spikes that soon subside. Continue reading →
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I’ve been doing a lot of investigation work for my day job recently, looking for and evaluating tools and services to see if they can be useful with the system we’re building. And the more time I spend doing this, the more I appreciate tools and services that offer a great developer experience.
It’s not the only criteria I used: something that doesn’t do what we need it to do will just not be considered. But when the decision comes down to two options that both do almost everything we need; the service with the better documentation and getting started guides will win out in the end.
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Finished reading: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau 📚
Shout-out to @jasraj for the recommendation on his excellent list of resources for indie writers.
