For the typewriter fans out there… this one is being used as decoration in the hallway of the hotel where I’m staying.
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Years of editing both source code and prose have made my eyes exquisitely sensitive to mistakes in syntax and grammar. Reading this NIH FOA feels like an assault on my eyes.
Holy cow. The performance hit of Mojave on spinning disks is real.
Dinner of champions.
Breakfast of champions.
O’Reilly presents a cogent synthesis of many issues in the world of technology that keep me up at night. I’d call this essential reading: Tim O’Reilly’s argument against Reid Hoffman’s “Blitzscaling” — Quartz
Testing from Sunlit 2.3.2 beta (248)
Digging Deep
Yesterday I dug through the soil of my back yard, tracing the tendrils of poison ivy roots to turn back that pesky plant’s intrusion on our sandbox play area.
Today, I turned back time in my head, distilling my entire career into an NIH biographical sketch.
I am unsure which effort has left me more exhausted.
Open Sorcerer
I crystallize dreams
into a lattice of code;
their energy pulls me forward.
But dreams will not be restrained.
I set them free.
Their potential is confined
only by the imagination of others.
Hello, world!
Q: Another blog? Does the world really need another blog?
A: A blog is a place for your voice to have a home online. I’ve had a voice on twitter for quite a while, but occasionally I’ve got more to say.
Q: Okay, fine, but why now?
A: It’s all about the donuts.
Q: How long are you going to continue with the fake FAQ?
A: Made-up FAQs are the worst, huh? I’m guessing you want me to write something more interesting.
Q: Yes.
A. That’s not a question. Gotcha!
Q: You call that an answer?
A: Touché.