This little corner of my website is where I collect things from the everyday goings-on in my life. It’s a chronicle, exhibit, and junk-drawer all at once. I have not had a social media profile in quite a few years now, so this part of my website fills a similiar purpose to what those places did for me in years past.
I spent all morning writing about some of the programming that I did last week. It was great to collect my thoughts, but all I have to show for it is a jumbled mess of words at this point. It’s going to take quite a bit more work to get it to a point where I’d want to put my name on it.
Writing is hard.
That flight went by faster than any other international flight I’ve been on because I hacked on a natural language parser for about five hours of it.
Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode
This is going to come in handy for me soon.
I went on a side quest last week and didn’t work on my website very much. But now I’m ready to pick things back up and get things in order for my upcoming trip next week. Lately, I’ve had so much fun making software for myself, or for just me and anoter. It’s been soul-cleansing after six years in the corporate software world.
I have been doing a lot of creative coding and general building lately, and I feel like part of my soul has finally returned to me.
I have really enjoyed getting into Elixir again and having the BEAM virtual machine available.
Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
…pay attention to what you celebrate publicly. If every shout-out in your team channel is for the big, complex project, that’s what people will optimize for.