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Olive’s face tells you that she didn’t enjoy having her blood drawn. However, she tried to cheer herself up by wearing her sparkly pink bandage like an 80s leg warmer.

October 6th, 2019

“In this modern era of web development, we don’t really need a heavy-handed reset, or even a reset at all, because CSS browser compatibility issues are much less likely than they were.” hankchizljaw.com/wrote/…

October 4th, 2019

A combination of being busy at work, a weekend vacation and the return of a couple of twice-weekly podcasts (The Totally Football Show & My Dad Wrote a Porno) means that September is the first month this year where I haven’t finished an audiobook.

October 1st, 2019

Alongside 1364 other people from 99 different countries I became a US citizen today. It was genuinely heartwarming (particularly in contrast to the depressing news cycle) to see so many people from all over the world celebrate the milestone with their friends and family.

September 24th, 2019

Olive learns to swim

September 15th, 2019

Glamping

September 13th, 2019

What I Read in August 2019 📚

I read two books in August:

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy ★★★★☆
Quit Like a Millionaire by Kristy Shen ★★★★☆

You can also follow what I’m reading on Goodreads.

Reading

September 1st, 2019

Fish

August 25th, 2019

“Browsers have standardized their CSS loading behavior, so a dedicated script like loadCSS is…no longer necessary…we can achieve the effect of loading CSS asynchronously with a…line of HTML.” filamentgroup.com/…

August 14th, 2019

“Support for natively lazy-loading images and iframes is coming to the web…use the new loading attribute to lazy-load resources without the need to write custom lazy-loading code or use a separate JavaScript library.” web.dev/…

August 12th, 2019

Foggy when we started the hike. Sunny by the time we finished.

August 11th, 2019

What I Read in July 2019 📚

I read six books in July:

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo ★★★☆☆
The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited by Clint McElroy ★★★★★
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick ★★★★☆
Beekeeping by Andrew Forrest ★★★☆☆
The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore ★★★★★
The Four Pillars of Investing by William J. Bernstein ★★★☆☆

You can also follow what I’m reading on Goodreads.

Reading

August 1st, 2019

A few changes have resulted in updates to my home screen: running the iOS 13 beta and returning to stock apps like Reminders, moving from Dropbox to iCloud for file storage, and my return to Twitter

Home Screen

July 29th, 2019

We haven’t seen any critters in the backyard recently, aside from a gopher. We suspect that the coyotes in the neighborhood are the reason why. So it was actually kind of nice to see this possum under the deck.

July 22nd, 2019

We’ll see if I will remain active on Twitter. I will say that my experience over the last week has ranged from good to not so fun, but unfollowing people and particularly disabling retweets has made a big difference. At this point I’m cautious, but hopeful.

July 8th, 2019

The way that I will be posting to Twitter has changed. My tweets will now originate on my own site and are syndicated/cross-posted to Twitter. I am still active on Micro.blog and I hope to make my Twitter experience feel more like the community there.

July 8th, 2019

18 months after unfollowing everyone and deleting all of my tweets I returned to Twitter a week ago 😬 I’ve spent the last week following people and then being aggressive about disabling retweets or just unfollowing people who for me are too frequently negative or outraged.

July 8th, 2019