Sunday, December 29, 2024
January 2025 is going to be a time for doing nothing. No new projects. No new clients. No learning paths. The only thing I will be doing, is strengthening my willpower. Willpower is an exhaustible resource. I will develop the muscle so that I can set myself up for success in 2025. Small steps and small wins add up over time to huge changes. Small wins and changes over time can be hard to track.
Animal Well is a 10/10 game
it’s pure madness. go deep into the well. learn to speak bunny code 🐰🐇
goty for me
top 5 all time for me too probably
Hitting a wall isn’t failure - it’s a signal to adjust your approach to challenges.
Been developing with cursor ai editor a lot in the last couple of weeks and have thoughts - the tool is amazing, they’ve done an excellent job. cursor is good. ai is, fine? the ai pit of death is all too real. the plateau of death also very real. ai seems best suited to me for rubber ducking
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Home labs are a great place to learn and tinker with systems. I love it because I get to wear my systems administrator hat. I’ve been doing a lot of application development lately as well as tinkering with various build & deployment tools for those applications. The best way, in my opinion, is docker. It’s just so good, you can package up all of the tools and configurations into a distributable unit, using an open standard.
Choose one camera.
Choose one lens.
Choose one software.
Choose one subject.
Explore within the boundaries of limitation
It’s a trance pants kinda day
Discovering mix tapes, dj mixes, promos, is difficult for some reason, so I am reaching way back in the bag for some oldies and classics
I don’t normally use this word, but this track is fire. On rotation since it was released. JID might have the best verse, which is rare on Eminem features. Regardless, both killed it.
Darktable is a sharp knife.
Gotta learn how to not cut yourself :D
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
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One of the key shifts in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is moving from a doing mode to a being mode. Or to say it another way; moving from trying to fix or control everything to accepting things as they are in the moment.
If there is any lesson to take from this program it is that.
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
By reading less I have actually been reading more. Something I learned about myself this year is that, while I love reading, I would speed through a book just to get it done. I was not allowing myself to enjoy the words on the page. I wasn’t immersing in the world. I wasn’t participating in the world building. I wasn’t learning the lessons the book was trying to teach me.
DHH was right (again) -> world.hey.com/dhh/autom…
Super timely Marcus Aurelius quote popped up in the discover feed:
Thanks to gregmorris.co.uk/2024/10/0… for sharing
you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Thursday, September 26, 2024 →
Cant stop thinking about building something with NextJS so I guess i just have to do that. Feeling a bit of a hyperfocus brewing on this as a new shiny toy and dopamine source so just gonna lean into that and learn this shit 🤓
wow…
Matt Mullenweg needs to step down. What a disgrace
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I too also like Makefiles. Love that consistent tooling and dev interface on projects :)
Friday, September 20, 2024
The creator of WordPress throwing shade at other companies because they are not contributing back enough is a bad look. To make his point, Mullenweg compared the Five For the Future contributions from Automattic and WP Engine, a competitor of similar size. Automattic contributes 3,786 hours per week, while WP Engine contributes just 47. 40 hours a week contributing back to an open source project seems pretty good. I mean, wtf is this comparison in the first place, Automattic is the governing company for WordPress.
Saturday, September 14, 2024 →
morning jogging music 🎧
I am working with WordPress a lot more. And so that has me thinking about WordPress a lot more. One thing I cannot shake is how messy the platform feels. And how poor of a developer experience that WordPress provides. It could be better.
I watched this video from Pantheon Developer Advocate, and thought it was interesting. I can feel the frustration - Is more Gutenberg the future of WordPress?
This article also nicely illustrates the state of WordPress developer experience - Modern WordPress - Yikes! Yikes indeed. It’s rough.
Wrapping WordPress with your own tooling helps quite a bit!
Anyways, just generally disappointed with WordPress, Gutenberg, “Full Site Editing”, and all things related to modern WordPress. I like React, and think they could do something really interesting with block based development in WordPress, but the current state is just, meh.
My boring regular-ass take about Linux adoption is this: it aint for everyone and that’s totally fine.
Why don’t more people use it? Let’s be honest, Linux asks way more of you than MacOS or Windows does. That’s a tall barrier to entry for many people.
I use MacOS, because I don’t want to think about my OS any more than I have to. But I run Linux on every server I touch, because I don’t want to have to think about my servers any more than I have to :P
I dunno, maybe next year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop