All Posts

On a spur of the moment thing, decided to go out with Emma. Now on a train on the way to Nakameguro. Not sure what we’re going to do when we get there.

Have released my first gem!

Have started using Vim.

I really wanted to like Franz Ferdinand’s ‘Feel the Love Go’. Alas, it sounds like what a machine learning algorithm would generate if you fed it their back catalogue.

I watched the Letterman interview with Obama over the weekend. It was fine—nothing spectacular. Saddest part was being reminded of the gap between 44 and 45.

Wondering whether in testing a Ruby program it’s best/possible to stub a method called within the method you’re testing if you already have unit tests for the called method.

I wondered if maybe a bug was preventing me from seeing Facebook Messenger’s emoji. Nope. Turns out they reverted to the system emoji back in October 2017. That’s a real shame. Messenger’s were easily the best.

I need to find more Micro.blog users to follow outside the U.S. time zones. A bit quiet here in the evenings.

I don’t understand parents of very young kids who have free time. My wife is a stay-at-home mother and there’s still so much for us to do every night that we have a growing backlog of stuff it feels like we’ll never clear.

Bought the Chromecast Audio today and it basically solves my volume problem. I have it plugged into my speakers with all music being cast to it; its volume works independently of the volume of the Home Mini so I can set it to be loud and leave the Chromecast Audio quite soft.

I bought a Google Home Mini. Overall, it’s good but it weirdly has no audio output (so you can’t plug in better speakers) and the volume of the Assistant is ridiculously low. Makes it all but useless as a smart speaker when listening to music.

I’m finding the commitment of YARD’s documentation to spelling it ‘meta-data’ strangely impressive.

The new syntax for my little Ruby type checking method is now (in part) CollectionType<Type,Type,...,Type> where the list of types is a variable length tuple with elements separated by commas. That looks ‘right’ to me.

This is the first time I’ve ever had Internet connectivity on a plane. I’m somewhere over the Pacific Ocean!

First international flight tomorrow with two kids. I’m equal parts apprehension and excitement. Really thankful it’s a direct flight.

Upgrading Armbian on my Orange Pi PC Plus has caused it to freeze somewhere in the boot process. I can’t log in via SSH and it outputs a pink screen to an attached HDMI screen. Very tempted to replace it with a Raspberry Pi.

A little over a month ago, I started developing a set of Ruby scripts for parsing arbitrary feeds. I’ve since become sidetracked implementing a type checking library. There are others out there but sometimes it’s fun to reinvent the wheel.

I stopped checking Twitter a couple of months back after feeling like it was a huge productivity sink. I haven’t regretted the decision. Will Micro.blog be similar? The fact that it feels like it’s about blogging rather than consuming gives me hope.

I’d be more confident in my negative opinion of The Last Jedi if I didn’t seem to be surrounded by a mass of whiny nerds.

Call me shallow but I created a paid Micro.blog account purely because of the new icon.