Released code at work this week which was a huge refactor that had (🤞) no noticeable changes to the existing application.

I managed to maneuver my way into a desk with its back to the wall, so I could spend as much time as possible surfing the internet or teaching myself computer programming.

It stood out because I did the same thing at my last biotech job. We had a week where my team was in-between offices, and rather than our usual dedicated bullpen space, we all had to squeeze into a conference room. Which sounds awful, but I’d get in early and grab the head of the conference room table. That seat, with a wall behind me, was the only time I’d ever had a space “to myself” at that job, and I spent the entire week running JavaScript files in Firefox to learn how the 

How do they know the load limit on bridges?

Weeknotes for the week ending August 8, 2021

[^1]:Nor the worst: I once rode too far for the shape I was in, and my right quad stopped working. I had a fully functional bike but couldn’t physically pedal it any further, and was a few miles and about a thousand feet of elevation away from my car.
[^2]: Hundreds, easily.
[^3]: Abuse, really.

Weeknotes for the week ending August 1, 2021

Weeknotes for the week ending July 25, 2021

I’ve stopped, for now. Might switch over to one finding one song to appreciate every day. For now, please enjoy this song, which has been stuck in my head all week, thanks to the aforementioned child of mine. I listened to a lot of Michael Bolton as a kid, we took long cars rides every weekend in the Summer, and 

 was one of the very, very few tapes we had. We later picked up a second tape, the 1991 classic… Brian Adam’s 

. Joke Michael Bolton songs couldn’t have a target any better than this elder Millennial.

Weeknotes for the week ending July 18, 2021

But, ok, that’s fine, we were refactoring the app and saving less state in browser storage, and we were going to use localStorage instead because cross-tab communication is easier but haha fuck me right?

I use Safari on a day to day basis because it is fast, but also because there’s no better way to find out what dumb things are broken in Safari that will break your app than seeing it broken in someone else’s app. Oh and forget Google Lighthouse, you want to know if an app is good just open it in Safari and see if you get the “this page is consuming significant energy” warning.

This used up exactly all of the material, and the grass there is now pleasingly geometric so we’re done with that part of the yard.

Wherein I get mad at computers and retreat to my yard.

Weeknotes for the week ending July 11, 2021

Getting a little lazy with this. On the plus side, though, I realized the other day that the 3.5mm jack on my monitor is a line-out, not a line-in, so listening while at my desk got a lot easier. Why did I ever think it was a line-in?

🦅🇺🇸🎆. Or not, we’re just bumming around the house. If we’re lucky we’ll see some fireworks from the back deck.

Weeknotes for the week ending July 4, 2021

As always, I get lazy about listening to new things when I’m doing house projects. There’s always music on, it's just not often anything new.

Weeknotes for the week ending June 27, 2021

Well, “finished”. We still need ~1.5 yards of top soil to make a flower bed, and the light “poles” are a “temporary” solution of zip-tying 2x2s to the chain link fence. As with every time we do a yard project I overestimated how much pea gravel we‘d need, so I‘m trying to figure out a place for what‘s left in the driveway before ordering more stuff to... have dumped on the driveway.

She came up with the same answer for her Mom on Mother’s Day. We eat a side salad with dinner a lot in this household, but I don’t think either of us have ever been like “oh yum yum salad my favorite”.

Weeknotes for the week ending June 20, 2021

I took a break for vacation last week, and apparently forgot to update the last week of May… but now I’m back. 

A little bit of everything, but only some of the time.

Weeknotes for the week ending June 13, 2021

and all of the materials have been sourced, cobblestones (

) for the inside. We debated pea gravel or something else since we moved here, but then our neighbors did pea gravel and it looked really nice so we went for it.

Vacation all I ever wanted, vacation, had to get away.

built with coffee