The Greenpath theme from Hollow Knight is some seriously good music.

I see that the company North Spore is offering a $2500 mycology scholarship for graduating HS, undergrad, or grad students northspore.com/pages/north-...

Is there a sports happening now or something?

Now that Halloween is over, it's time to start asking the serious questions like "what should we eat for thanksgiving?" and "what should we eat for Christmas?"

Should I go trick-or-treating with the kid who likes trick-or-treating or stay home and play Hollow Knight with the kid who doesn't like trick-or-treating?

The web has long self-selected easy options over good ones. With the rise of LLMs, I believe this is even going to be more pronounced, and it will make deep research skills *more* valuable. 1/4

I've always found Domain-Driven Design to be awkward with web apps, and I think the main reason is that it is often more difficult to maintain large aggregates, separate write models from read models, etc. when most objects last only for the one HTTP request. It makes more sense for stateful apps.

Sounds like Amazon may be divesting from games in this round of layoffs. If you’re a talented engineering leader and are interested in Apple re-investing in games: DM me!

I have always wanted to get into game development, but I know I wouldn't be able to stick with it unless I had a sense of accountability to finish what I started. Are there any good beginner gamedev communities out there?

My wife took on some extra child care responsibilities today, and it was so nice to have some time to myself. I even got to bake three things: mozzarella and pesto monkey bread, beignets, and pizza.

I really hate AI slop

Here's a side project I'm picturing: A personal finance system based on double-entry bookkeeping (like GNUCash) that uses TigerBeetle and SQLite running completely locally.

Bakers can't be choux-sy

I just realized the my favorite video games all start with "H"! - Hollow Knight - Hades - Half-Life - HStardew Valley

Dinner tonight: muffaletta sandwich with homemade olive salad.

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

After finding the Farseer Trilogy a bit slow-paced for my taste, I almost did not continue with the Liveship Traders books. Am I glad I did though! I just finished "Mad Ship," and I'm about the start Ship of Destiny. These books are fantastic, and they get me much more than the Farseer Trilogy did.

Database companies are all in the pocket of BIGINT.

After spending the bulk of my past two weeks using Claude and Claude Code, I have to admit that they make some simple, repetitive tasks a bit easier (especially since I'm a very slow typer), but they also didn't improve my overall productivity much. Also, I kind of hate the feel of using them.

Metroidvania > Open World

I just closed over 100 tabs open in one VSCode Window.

I just saw an article titled "Windows or DragonflyBSD - What are the differences?" I'm like, my brother, who do you think your audience is?

I would love a VSC-based project management system where I can create tasks as Markdown files that are stored in Git that follow certain templates and have project management assets stored alongside my code. Internet, does such a thing exist?

I can hardly believe it, but as of today, I have two teenagers in the house!

I made the mistake of watching The Amazing Digital Circus, and now I'm on a YouTube fan theories/lore rabbit trail.

When people successfully vibe code a database, compiler, operating system, or high performance game, that's when I'll be interested.

Unpopular opinion: Jira is pretty good, actually.

I love me a good Gantt chart.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Time for a rewatch of K-Pop Demon Hunters. This time with the kids 😁

Days since I last built a compiler: 0

I've been doing calisthenics for the past couple of months, and I just hit 10 clean pull-ups for the first time in my life! It's a good feeling.

11YO: I just finished this book! I didn't *read* all of it though.

14. Evangelicalism is best understood not as a theological movement as such, but more a direct marketing strategy that got out of hand.

pro tip: listen to good music on good headphones.

Okay, so I just watched K-pop Demon Hunters, and... It was fantastic! Great animation, amazing music. I don't usually rewatch movies, but I'll be watching this one again for sure!

I could never have believed that some of the Christians I have worshiped with, broken bread with, prayed with, wept and rejoiced with, could be as hard-hearted as they've shown themselves to be this year.

There is something magical about an AI coding assistant writing code in a DSL you designed.

legacy of verticality (please choose your favorite)

I didn't think Fi has to be De.

Does anybody else have a "shadow calendar" at work? You know, one that has your actual meetings, not the official one where half the meetings don't happen, and an additional few pop up each day?

Today's goal: combining the logic from three data integration Lambda functions into a single new function, and setting up a shadow deployment.

If you have been involved in the launch of a data governance program, I'd love to hear your perspective on what went well and what you'd do differently. Specifically, how did you ensure that the business saw the program as valuable and worthy of ongoing investment? #dataBS #DataEngineering

I have had a tab with the Wardley Mapping ebook open in my browser for well over a year, and I think it's finally time I dig in!

I am really loving using Hex for BI, but the lack of an API or other simple way to extract metadata means more manual work for my data analysts to document which tables and columns were used in which data product. As little as I am a fan of Looker, LookML was fantastic for introspection.

Please, I'm begging you - use IPv6!

Currently reading: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

Some days, I just want to go at and start a luddite commune. Who's with me?