Unusually cold for Austin and drizzling. Going to go walk the dog and get used to the weather to get ready for my trip later this week to Boston to visit my son:)

Had fun w/ quite a bit of escapist SciFi/Fantasy over Thanksgiving. New Black Company book (!) and blew through @peterclines.bsky.social "God's Junk Drawer". Blast to read for any Gen X kids who loved Land of the Lost on Saturday mornings

"I ain't good looking, baby, but I'm somewhat sweet and kind" Allman Brothers kinda day

@woodruff.dev Sure you already know this, but Fowler just described the patterns he saw being used on projects in the early 2000's and the impact of using them. Not really "ideas" per se so much as a valuable taxonomy

Welcoming Babu Annamalai to JasperFx Software jeremydmiller.com/2025/12/01/w...

#SongOfTheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zy...

My son & I are somehow magically in first place in fantasy football. Not quite as good as a Chiefs winning the Super Bowl season or a Longhorns go to the CFB playoffs, but it's not nothing. My wife's Aggies have been the bright spot

Also Happy Thanksgiving to Americans who work with a lot of companies in the EU & CA and are hopeful it's quiet for them today (and it is so far, and I'm thankful for that!)

Can't believe I've never posted my own list. FWIW: The Empire Strikes Back Star Wars / A New Hope Rogue One The Last Jedi Return of the Jedi The Force Awakens Revenge of the Sith Attack of the Clones The Phantom Menace Solo The Rise of Skywalker

Day 1 of Thanksgiving Break for the little ones. I'm already ready for them to be back in school.

This is so dumb. Error handling, observability, DLQ mechanics, back pressure, circuit breakers, managing the broker, *documentation*. So much crap you don't want to write and manage forever as an undocumented one off tool. Been there, done that, inflicted it on others, inherited from others.

Never gone to any effort to listen to anything else by Frank Turner, but happen to like this one album and love the #SongOfTheDay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf5O...

I think from here on out I will never criticize any public OSS project who's at least made a real effort for how their documentation content is organized. It's *hard* to organize docs in a way that helps lead readers to exactly what they need as the tooling gets bigger.

And also, I'm old enough that I remember when markdown wasn't yet a quasi standard and you authored technical web pages sometimes in raw HTML. Shudder.

Doing a little bit of technical writing today. Dunno the complete counts over the years, but besides Wikipedia articles (duh), I think the sources I've linked to the most are: * Various Marten Fowler posts * The EIP book * The original C2 Wiki

Love just about everything this guy has ever done, but I think this one is my wife's favorite: #SongOfTheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrCM...

Bear w/ me on this story. JasperFx Software was funded using the proceeds from my sisters and I selling the part of our family farm that we inherited from our late grandparents. My uncle negotiated the sale to a nearby farming clan and basically hard balled them a per acre price for it that was...

Feels very on the nose that Larry Summers, he of the Epstein emails, was on the OpenAI board

Cut myself today picking up a pop top the wrong way. Going to be an aggravating morning typing w/ bandaids on a couple fingers

Might be a duplicate #SongOfTheDay, but it's a great working soundtrack when you're in the mood for gentler music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz9B...

Started the new Black Company book this week. Having trouble with Lady suddenly being a sweet Aunt character. Cool to have a sequel to the main sequence after all these years. Easily one of my all time favorite fantasy series even though it can be bleak sometimes

"Bullshit Pickleball" made me laugh

I really do try to prioritize Critter Stack issues for new clients, but one of those today just got this reaction: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Th... (it would be a great improvement, just going to take some thought)

Really wish I'd have seen Guy Clark live when he was still around. This album was my introduction to him. #SongOfTheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhe3...

*I* worry about being accessible as much as possible for my clients just in case, and I'm not in charge of anything that would ever be life threatening.

Random #SongOfTheDay, but I like this kind of thing for coding sometimes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsQj...

Recording a podcast next week maybe on transitioning from MediatR (or any mediator tool really) to Wolverine. Any requests or suggestions for us to cover?

Not to stir up a fight, but I still like the "Van Haggar" incarnation of Van Halen. I think maybe it's easier if you just think of Van Halen as two separate bands who just happened to have the same name and just enjoy each for what they were.

I did try to read a Wall Street Journal article today about a GOP alternative to the ACA. Nothing but expanding HSA's and maybe some new tax cuts. Pure pre-Trump Republican ideology.

Don't think this old classic needs any justification as the #SongOfTheDay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3i...

I'm still adamant that you can get better results and much simpler code just using Wolverine.HTTP endpoints than you can with any kind of "Wolverine as MediatR" usage. Emulating MediatR just junks up your code IMO.

For any Austin folks, I'm sitting on the patio at Mozart's on a crazily beautiful day, latte in hand. I've got every single thing I need to be as productive as possible except for ambition.

I'm perfectly okay with a "walk and chew gum at the same time" approach

Woot! Wolverine passed 2 million downloads on Nuget today. I was admittedly frustrated about how long it took to hit the 1M milestone, but the adoption has trended up a lot this year and we're doing well now.

Released the inevitable new .NET release versions of Marten 8.15 and Wolverine 5.2 (w/ some other stuff) today: github.com/JasperFx/wol...

My son & I won by .10 points in fantasy this week. So our players got 1 more yard from scrimmage

Good on her. Never can make up my mind about Slotkin and whether she's helpful or more of a problem

I've hardly ever heard much from Pat Green except for this one album that's just fantastic top to bottom (if you like TX alt country anyway): For Austin folks, saw him at Carlos & Charlie's when I first moved to Austin in '00 #SongOfTheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJvn...

My days of not being able to make a diagram with Excalidraw that looks professional have definitely come to a middle

Narrator: it did not completely solve the issues, there's more effort to go, but hopefully we're on the right track. Software is frustrating sometimes

The simple joy of remembering a band you love but haven't listened to in ages: #SongOfTheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=5127...

🛠️ If your team has issues to work through: We do an exercise at offsites called Elephants, Tigers & Paper Tigers. - Elephants are things that the group isn’t talking about but needs to - Tigers are things threatening the team, risks - Paper tigers are things that seem like risks, but aren’t

Just helped JasperFx's biggest client (who de facto paid for this work:)) utilize the new testing support to make a nastily complex automated test running between two applications work consistently even in the face of so much asynchronous behavior. I'm a happy camper this morning.

Yet another Critter Stack live stream today: youtube.com/live/XQ4UbLg... Little bit more on vertical slices, then a look at the latest test automation helpers for the Critter Stack

The Critter Stack Gets Even Better at Testing jeremydmiller.com/2025/11/05/c... #marten #wolverine

We're doing another Critter Stack live stream tomorrow to finish off the "vertical slice" discussion and I'll also show off some cool new test automation helpers for both Marten & Wolverine: youtube.com/live/XQ4UbLg...

I just published new Nugets for both Wolverine and Marten late this afternoon. 14-15 contributors total and both releases only cover work from the past couple weeks at most!

Weird little milestone today. Just had GitHub issue/PR/discussion #4000 roll through in Marten today. Marten has definitely been the single biggest, longest running project I've ever had a significant part of.

See: "Schadenfreude": pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.

I was going to work an hour last night to "finish" a combined Marten & Wolverine release. Glad I didn't bother trying last night because that "just gonna knock this out" work that was left looks like it's going to take all day today