The gap between usable and good is immense

Still have some automation and image generation to do, but I think I nailed my OG image! Again, all html and css because that's the best I can do when it comes to images.

I'm way too tired. OG images, clean-up, minor bug fixes, some perf updates, and more will have to wait for the weekend. But I have more than enough done to deploy. So consider this a sneak peek while I get some more of those final touches in place and do a write-up! georgerodier.com

I'm way too tired. OG images, clean-up, minor bug fixes, some perf updates, and more will have to wait for the weekend. But I have more than enough done to deploy. So consider this a sneak peek while I get some more of those final touches in place and do a write-up! georgerodier.com

I just created a favicon image. I have no image/photoshop/design skills. But I realized what I can do is write some html and css, take a screenshot, and then resize the image. So that's exactly what I did. Not perfect, but definitely gets the job done and is in theme with the rest of the site.

Sick kids and restless nights pushed this to the absolute deadline, but I should be able to get initial release out tonight and write up sometime next week!

Dan was one of the best Philly writers. This sucks. Fuck cancer

We’re still figuring out how to incorporate AI into our day-to-day. The risk with “AI-ifying everything” is that we strip away the parts of work people actually enjoy. The good news: this is solvable. Here’s my take on where we are in the AI adoption journey: www.modernleader.is/p/what-happe...

@calendar.city is now publishing events to the Atmosphere! It's awesome to see the events I'm trying to amplify already published on @smokesignal.events; I hope this helps people find the stuff they're interested in 🙂

Back on my cooking shenanigans with a pad kra pao inspired dish

My paternity leave ends on Friday (it went by way too fast), but I am hoping to get an initial version released before my return to work. Currently have one more page to style and then getting RSS and OG images in place!

Once I’m done my site, I really want to write an article about Ai (LLM) driven development and where my head is currently at and it’s a lot this and where we need to improve as developers. So much software is mid these days and it’s not the result of Ai (though Ai isn’t making it any better).

I wanted to work on my website today, but I stumbled across this one and haven't been able to escape. The web is weird and beautiful and I love it!

i’m talking w @jason.energy about all things atproto! what do you guys want to see highlighted from our community? feb 19, 9:30am PST, on @codetv.dev

Write ups about solving particular engineering problems are some of my favorite types of articles. This one is excellent!

My favorite line in this article is “You cannot replace institutional knowledge with headcount.” Invest in growing that institutional knowledge amongst your employees rather than throw more bodies at every problem.

A group of high school and middle age kids were going door to door offering their services to shovel for the upcoming snow storm this weekend. I have two young kids, a back I want to protect, and no desire to shovel. So you bet your ass, I respected their hustle!

here's my hot take q1 career advice: get pretty good at something. raise your floor so even your worst efforts are decent. then stop caring about your career because you can do a day's worth of work in a few hours and then you can prepare a nice risotto or frolic gaily towards a springtime horizon.

With every day that passes, I’m more and more tempted to build a Linux computer where I can self serve small apps just for me. Will probably do some other things with it as well, but the itch is real.

You know who has starter packs already? @bsky.app 😏 Here's one I am maintaining for folks who write content for developers! go.bsky.app/AnM2t7r

Our industry loves to create problems in the name of innovation only to turn around and sell you a solution to the problem we just created.

Excited to see your newsletter return to my inbox, @jonathanyeong.com! This part definitely resonates with me (and led me to starting mine up this year as too)

Wrote about how I like understanding code (featuring my dog playing with a balloon) eieio.games/blog/will-ai...

I'm officially a curmudgeon. Here's a rant about the Shadcn component library and how over-complicated its radio buttons are: paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shad... (Inspired by this week's work frustrations lol) #WebDev #CSS #HTML #JavaScript

Potentially 🌶️ programming take to start the week: we have enough (too many?) programming languages. In addition, while language authors should work on std libs, security patches, defects, and performance, new syntax features are almost always a waste of time.

Co-sign! For the longest time I wanted to create a newsletter but couldn’t figure out what to do with it. When I started it up this year, I’m just writing for myself, being consistent, having fun, and hopefully evolving with time! georgerodier.com/subscribe/

Tonight I cooked up a new recipe - spicy miso udon with ginger-gochujang chicken. And yup, it was absolutely made better with MSG!

My 1Password yearly invoice came today. I literally said to myself “that’s it?” thinking I paid more for it than I actually do. It’s been a couple years now since I’ve started using a password protection app, but easily one of the best value subscriptions.

This is what excites me about ATProto and why I’m excited to eventually dive in and make it a focus of learning more. Also @danabra.mov is one of the best tech writers so whatever he writes is always worth a read, because you’ll learn something new!

formats over apps

I’m not a designer, which means I’ve been constantly modifying the html and CSS as I’m tweaking things. Which means the CSS has quickly become messy and lacks great organization. But it feels handcrafted and authentic and I love this for me!

So I just started working on this. The existing site is an Astro site that I’m updating. Previously I had a couple layouts and components. But when I’m starting with something new I find it much easier to write all the html in one file from scratch and then break it up later if it makes sense.

Shit... I have an idea on how to redesign my site and I can’t get it out of my head.

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Go to personalsit.es Hit the “go to a random site link” Enjoy

Ok so the twist at the end of the first episode of this season kinda explains how he ended up in another situation. This could be a mess, but it’s also Idris Elba so I’m intrigued.

I don’t know how someone can find themselves in some ridiculous hijacking situation more than once, but I’m excited to find out!

Look, I used to be in team smash burger camp (especially Oklahoma style smashed burgers with all those onions). But I’ve recently been doing a reverse sear on high quality blends (filet, brisket, top round), and I’m on squarely on team thick and juicy.

I think any mandate focused on how the outcome is achieved rather than the outcome itself misses the point. When I think of any tooling mandate, I’m reminded of this passage from Accelerate:

I’m currently on a curry kick. Tonight, I made a spicy beef and potato curry. If you have any favorite recipes, please share!

I've been using nvim (with tmux) as my daily ide for a while now. I just changed my caps lock key to be ctrl instead. And honestly, what took me so long?

I definitely don’t need another side project, but who is working on the ATProto app for email (newsletters, automation, etc)?

Leadership needs to stop indexing on simple to gather metrics. Humans are complicated and if leadership want to measure productivity. They should spend the extra effort to build more complex metrics.

Would you look at that, for the second week in a row I have a newsletter lined up. This Monday I’ll be writing about running, routines, doing hard things, and compounding wins.

Just signed up for my race of the year - a 5k in March. Let’s go!

I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit recently. In the last month, I had one glass of wine on New Years with family. I’m not actively avoiding alcohol and still enjoy it on occasion, but I also don’t NEED it and have been drinking significantly less than I used to.

If you’re going to have an LLM produce any code, please, please, please use solid engineering practices AND review every line thoroughly

I definitely don’t need another side project, but who is working on the ATProto app for email (newsletters, automation, etc)?

Would you look at that, for the second week in a row I have a newsletter lined up. This Monday I’ll be writing about running, routines, doing hard things, and compounding wins.

I’m at the age where I get irrationally excited by picking the correct size container to fit all my leftovers.