One minute you're trying to figure out what bars are still open at 2am, the next you're gardening while listening to podcasts. And it's awesome.

Aaaaand I just spent a bunch of time today composing original background music for my kid's talent show video. Which, I'm sure, was absolutely necessary.

Doing a little spring cleaning and taking a look at my recurring subscriptions. I'm not sure I want to know how much I'm spending on domains every year...

I wrote about how much easier it's becoming to build impractical things! dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/its-nev...

Because I'm currently on-call I have the sound up on my phone (normally totally silent). This thing makes weird noises all the time!

My episode of @overcommitted.dev just came out! I had a blast talking to @brittanyellich.com about mentoring, working in a way that makes you happy, and probably AI (because everything is about AI now, right?). Check it out: overcommitted.dev/run-toward-s...

"if you're just talking to chatbots to get answers, you're looking at question answering in too utilitarian of a way" @dorkrawk.bsky.social on why ai tools can't replace actually talking to your coworkers. episode just released this week!

Last week the urge to find a new video game overtook me. I landed on Cult of the Lamb and I'm almost disturbed by how much I'm enjoying it.

Eileen: "I'm going to make chicken soup tonight. Can you get it started by boiling the chicken in water, chop up some veggies, add them, and then season it?" Me: "You're not making soup! You're trying to vibe cook soup!"

I prefer my coffee shop coffee in a paper cup rather than my own reusable mug. I know this makes me a bad person, but there's nothing I can do about it. ☕

Coding agents are pretty great for projects where my first assessment is that they'd be more trouble than they're worth.

Consider Hofstadter's Law when making estimates: dontbreakprod.com/posts/things...

"Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something" - Jake the Dog dontbreakprod.com/posts/dont-b...

Ok! Next week I'm going to teach a bunch of elementary school kids about binary numbers and Boolean operators!

Starting to collect training data for a squirrel scaring program I put together this morning. If it works, it should blare metal super loud whenever a squirrel gets on to our bird feeder. 🐿️🤘

What now? dinosaurseateverybody.com/now

Gung Hay Fat Tuesday!

New keyboard day! I’m excited to feel like I’ve forgotten how to type!

I recently migrated the blog on my site over to Postwave (a blogging library I wrote). It's really nice to use a tool that works EXACTLY the way you want it to! dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/powered...

Done is better than perfect: dontbreakprod.com/posts/done-i...

No matter how much I clean my desk, there's always a cat on it.

Code is a habitat for bugs: dontbreakprod.com/posts/code-i...

I kind of forgot that I own daveschwantes.com (it just redirects to dinosaurseateverybody.com)

Oh good. I just bought a new keyboard. ⌨️ 💸

Fail productively: dontbreakprod.com/posts/fail-p...

Postwave 0.1.5 released! postwave.blog/posts/postwa...

New post about my adventures in self-hosting: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/fine-il...

Clarity over cleverness: dontbreakprod.com/posts/senior...

... ... ... ... ... I should probably buy another domain for this little project...

I just started playing with @coolify.io in an effort to handle more of my own hosting (without having to actually do much real dev ops), so far it's pretty cool. I got postwave.blog fully moved over last night!

Habits Beat Motivation dontbreakprod.com/posts/habits...

I wrote a bit about Postwave, the blog engine I built: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/postwave

My new bari sax just showed up! It is huge and awesome! 🎷

Aaaaand all of a sudden I'm doing a bunch of saxophone repair work. Tonight I used shellac and a small torch to reattach a key pad on my tenor and I just ordered a kit to re-cork the neck. I guess it was due for some love. 🎷

Hmm... AI gives much worse advice about Elixir compared to Ruby, Go, or TypeScript. Volume of training data seems to matter a lot.

Remember, careers have both direction and speed. dontbreakprod.com/posts/match-...

I haven't done any TypeScript outside of React projects at work, so I wasn't sure what the workflow for "just write a small program to run in the terminal" would be. I ended up just using Bun ( bun.com ) and everything was really smooth!

Alright! It's Advent of Code ( adventofcode.com ) season! 🎄 Maybe TypeScript this year?

My 4 year old recently got me into that Fallout Boy record about Spiderman that came out a few years ago.

Do not underestimate the power of caring about others in a way that makes them care about you. dontbreakprod.com/posts/build-...

As an engineer it's not what you do, but what your work does: dontbreakprod.com/posts/show-t...

Just what the world needs, another software engineer pontificating about AI! dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/random-...

New post about not using a phone for everything: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/just-us...

π-thon www.python.org/downloads/re...

Reaching for increased effort or pushed timeline is often a crutch to avoid the important work of prioritization. Prioritize Ruthlessly: dontbreakprod.com/posts/priori...

My ability to get sucked into things like Cookie Clicker ( orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ ) is probably one of my biggest failings as a human.

Ok, I'm trying out @dev.to for posting about some tech things. I just wrote something about Postwave: dev.to/dorkrawk/int...

I finally put together a site (and example implementation) for the blog engine I've been working on, Postwave. It's ready for people to start playing around with. Check it out at postwave.blog

Find good problems: dontbreakprod.com/posts/find-g...

Lately I've had the strong urge to work on small tech/programming projects that nobody is likely to care about but me.