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Working with software is frustrating, and working on software doubly so, because things up and break. Seemingly without warning or cause. One day the software is fine, the next day it flat-out doesn’t work. Even worse, one day it has this one bug or missing feature and the next day the bug is fixed or […]

I’m having a moment where I feel like I’ve got a winning wakeup/morning formula 🎊. Wake up early, around 6:30am. Feed the cats so they don’t barf in protest later. Skim the tweets and feeds for a few minutes while the brain boots up. Write for five, fifteen minutes or so. Organize and think about […]

“’tis better to have known a software bug than to have never had a software at all” Lord Alfred Tennyson, except not Software that never ships never has issues. Draw the line, get it out there. Celebrate a little and recharge your batteries. Now fix the important stuff; it may not even be the bug […]

Dave Rupert, Everything I Know About Remote Work. Me, everything I know about working with remote workers when you’re co-located: Every single meeting has a video link. If one person is remote on a meeting, it’s optimal to have everyone on the video call. Meeting rooms with video equipment are good, but don’t put everyone […]

Left to my own devices, I write in the second person. With apologies to my high school English teachers, I have a justification for this: I’m writing to myself from one, five, ten, twenty years ago. I’m writing a thing on the skill of reading framework code. I try to keep in mind that I […]

You can Graphviz on the web now. Roughly-drawn sketch style, slightly Swiss modernism, or even in the design tool Figma. Mostly enabled by a port of Graphviz to Web Assembly via emscripten. This is one of the futures I was promised.

Austin Kleon recommends skipping the news/social media/blinky lights in the morning. I’ve found this works great for me, and sometimes not! I’m a morning person, so I’ve got that going for me. If I’m already in a groove, have ideas about what to write or code on, and jump in first thing, this advice works […]

The thing which makes blogging difficult is not engagement, analytics, finding just the right theme, curating to a newsletter, managing comments, finding reach after the demise of Google reader, etc. The hardest part is showing up, every day, writing. The hardest part is writing! The second hardest thing is hitting the publish button on a […]