I think I finally have an instance where I have to crimp the end of my own Ethernet cable and I’ve been avoiding this for decades and I don’t want to.

Season 2 of Rings of Power is significantly better. Also, Sauron is just another man who won’t go to therapy.

“Heal Yourself.”

I’m exactly the kind of person that feels compelled to stop and solve every one of the 8th grade math questions that goes viral these days.

I hate this about me.

Having friends who want to talk about movies with you is the best. Can we just canonize this as a love language?

An accurate depiction of my experience of the debate.

It’s frustrating that Tim Walz is about to get killed for saying “Expanding the risk pool is critical to affordability” turning this into “supporting and individual mandate” (ooh scary words). Meawhile, Vance is trying to rewrite history and give Trump credit for being blocked by congress.

Whatever Apple did to notifications in Sonoma, and we know it is very little, somehow, they are worse.

I saw someone on the internet call him “Kelly Brims” and that is now his name forever.

Oh no, today we rapidly came upon the part of the year where it starts to feel like it’s much later than it is because it’s getting dark so much earlier.

Home alone, no car, little food, random desire for baked pasta. I must admit, I love radiatori.

TIL: Definitely do not forget to run analyze after upgrading major versions of PostgreSQL.

I have an expensive OLED TV and an expensive AppleTV and still there are scenes in S2E1 of Rings of Power that are far too dark to make out a damn thing. What are we doing, people?

(Also this show remains way more expensive than good)

PostgreSQL major releases always spark joy.

Holy crap, the new NIST password standards are good?

The best thing about Bad Monkey is how the characters believably care about each other and act in ways that are consistent with their own morality.

Classic combo— get your flu/covid shots, work late, stay up reading late, wake up feeling like a bus hit you.

One thing that’s interesting to watch with high profile rewrites that are struggling— so often, there are usage patterns that rely on non-decisions made by a developer. When rewriting software and coming across poorly defined behavior, the impulse is often correctly to make a decision that fits some kind of logic of how things should operate so that they are predictable and consistent.

The problem is, predictable and consistent existed before— by happenstance. Now you come to learn that your mental model of the application (as the developer) is different than your users, but you have no way to capture how things worked in that “undefined” state. It was, by nature, an anti-design.

A huge part of software change management involves being clear how the application models the domain. How do we think about these concepts? How can we teach people the appropriate amount to lead them to “pits of success”. Preferably, how do we make using the application just “feel right” without having to do a ton of work expressing our intent and design?

All domain models are wrong, and therein lies our challenge.

“Don’t Repeat Yourself” is often taught and shared, but I find it to be not that useful and often wrong. The aphorisms about programming I find myself revisiting are:

First make it easy (warning: this could be hard), then make the easy change.

And

Make it run, make it right, make it fast.

What common advice do you find unhelpful? Which bits do you find yourself often citing and coming back to in your own work?

The new Trips feature in Photos is killer.

I don’t love either of these pictures, but they tell an interesting story. The first one came up as “On This Day” five years ago– back before I knew about my keratoconus and was still using glasses. So grabbed another shot of me today. You can see the aging, and, I hope, the weight loss.

The best neighbors are the neighbors who will split your Taharka Bros order so you only get 4 pints you’ll eat in a week instead of 8.

The Walrus Fundamental Ambient might be the best dollar value guitar pedal ever made.

A blogger whose voice I had missed suddenly started showing up in my RSS again and I’m so glad I refused to remove the feed and that it came back where I’d automatically pick it up.

I always forget how bad device migration is when you have Testflight apps.

The new Apple Watch really feels noticeably thinner. It’s a big deal upgrade.