so incredibly surreal to think about how #xoxofest is over, and so incredibly happy about how many people i finally got to meet in person after years and years of interacting online. FOURTEEN YEARS in one case! how wild is that??? i just love this community. and i just know it’ll live on.
but also if i’m going to write Yet Another Blogging Engine, i need a good name for it (do not say “yabe”)
i’ve had multiple people at #xoxofest tell me how much they like how i’ve built up my website and how they wish they could do something similar and… i think i’m actually feeling inspired to make that possible? i’ve been meaning to make the whole thing customizable and easier to run. is it time???
docker is the ultimate sin. computers were a mistake, yet we made smaller computers in our existing computers. you can’t make that make sense
had an extra dough ball from a pizza night earlier this week and i couldn’t stop thinking about making a breakfast calzone 👀 stuffed it with soft scrambled eggs, american cheese, smoked cheddar, bacon, potatoes, corn, green onions, chives and hot sauce
every so often, TikTok flips me into some kind of A/B test and makes it so most of the videos on my fyp have under 100 views and maybe 3 likes at most. and then TikTok just sucks until they finally put me back on the normal algorithm
the dems keep making seemingly good decisions and i just almost don’t know how to react! i’m excited about Harris, i’m excited about Walz, and the GOP just continues to flounder. we can… actually win this? my brain keeps producing hopium but i’ve forgotten how to process it
i love single sign-on. i love getting logged out of websites multiple times a day. i love getting emails with a link to log in instead of just using my password manager. i love having to get up to grab a physical device that i have to plug into my computer and touch just so i can use a website. i lo
our neighbors have a couple plum trees they aren’t harvesting so we picked a bunch. the wrinkled ones are unbelievably good.
when a car crosses the double yellow line to screech past you and you see this license plate speed off into the distance
it’s raining in PDX. fall is here early. even Kamala say it’s time.
Uh… Rain!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country?
i don’t think we’re fucked. if anything, i think we’re much less fucked. for better or for worse, dems made Biden’s situation unsalvageable. this is an opportunity! Trump’s whole campaign has been planning for a victory against Biden. now he has to contend with a younger, more energetic candidate.
heard some thunder, looked outside, saw a huge bolt of lightning, and then our power immediately went out 😂 thankfully it came back like three minutes later
my employer is hiring for the first time in a while!! we’re looking for:
- a senior ruby/rails engineer: https://linkedin.com/jobs/view/3976887421
- a senior go engineer: https://linkedin.com/jobs/view/3975046284
- a staff frontend engineer with UX expertise: https://linkedin.com/jobs/view/3976878551
come work with me? 🥺
so glad that meta is looking out for us by combatting disinformation where it counts
