Twitter: 2013-12-31 Tue 06:52

Today’s smoothie experiment was not a success.

Twitter: 2013-12-31 Tue 08:20

Time zones and holidays combine for vicarious thrills.

Twitter: 2013-12-31 Tue 08:51

“@OvidPerl: Putting breathalyzers on computers would save a lot of grief.” And cripple many startups. I’m in.

Twitter: 2013-12-31 Tue 09:55

Thanks to the Wayback machine & my privileged Web site-owning status, I can track when Paul Graham’s words started to bug me. Huzzah?

Twitter: 2013-12-31 Tue 11:20

We’re 17 minutes into the weekly status meeting. None of my coworkers are in the building. Maybe there’s no meeting today.

Guys?

Twitter: 2013-12-31 Tue 15:25

Apparently I could write a book on Perl, but only if every variable name was “poop.”

Twitter: 2013-12-31 Tue 18:03

So far this chat with @dbrady is the most entertaining conversation I’ve had about Perl in a while:

https://twitter.com/dbrady/status/417765532063268864

Twitter: 2013-12-30 Mon 10:04

mutter grumble perl bash curse grumble config javascript complain grumble moan ops ruby groan whine #code2013

Twitter: 2013-12-30 Mon 10:06

I’m hoping for more grumble mutter and less complain whine RT @rabid_haruspex: @brianwisti second verse, same as the first?

Twitter: 2013-12-30 Mon 11:28

Remembered I had a HN account. Logged in. Saw nothing worth commenting on. Closed tab. Snarked on Twitter.

Twitter: 2013-12-30 Mon 12:30

Listening to Moby. Perfect for those “I am beset by melancholy yet I must dance” days.

Twitter: 2013-12-30 Mon 14:23

Sometimes I look at the words I make and realize I’m five years old with gray hair and stubble. This pleases me. Also, poop.

Twitter: 2013-12-30 Mon 14:26

I would like to like this library code, but it is stubborn and lacking in social graces.

Twitter: 2013-12-29 Sun 12:56

My coding challenge for today: not writing any code. Instead I will spend the day with my wife.

Twitter: 2013-12-29 Sun 17:56

Thank you Twitter for letting me sound informed about sports in meatspace.

Twitter: 2013-12-29 Sun 20:53

“@CuteOverload: A shark photobomb? Seriously?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/family-photo-captures-shark-lurking-just-feet-from-family-200736440.html

https://twitter.com/CuteOverload/status/417483653233401856/photo/1

” would be cooler if Beyonce was in it too.

Twitter: 2013-12-29 Sun 20:56

At a restaurant. Saw a large spider settling down for the hunt. If anybody sits in that booth there will be screaming.

Twitter: 2013-12-28 Sat 00:47

I wrote some code. It served no purpose. Just making sense of how to use the yeoman tool. It was fun. I can sleep now.

Twitter: 2013-12-28 Sat 12:28

I slept for eight hours, then exercised. My body is confused.

Twitter: 2013-12-28 Sat 20:04

At Teavana, feeling superior to people not here.

Twitter: 2013-12-28 Sat 20:48

I spent five hours sitting at a desk all day. So glad to be home where I can write code all night.

I need a treadmill desk.

Twitter: 2013-12-27 Fri 12:06

My urge to throw the code away and start over in Perl is denied by the fact that this is a JavaScript single page app. Curses.

Twitter: 2013-12-27 Fri 16:09

Wasn’t interested in Emacs until I found out 24 has an official package manager. That seems to be my guide for “worth using.”

Twitter: 2013-12-27 Fri 16:18

“@rjbs: I write my code in Perl because it’s so authentic.” I am guilty of this.

Twitter: 2013-12-27 Fri 18:03

I have that confidence in the face of uncertainty you can only get from a lifetime of uncertainty. And coffee. Lots of coffee.

Twitter: 2013-12-27 Fri 18:33

Just realized I used important brain cells on the opinion of a man who tells boys that if they work to death they’ll win a lottery.

Twitter: 2013-12-27 Fri 20:50

My wife tells me that a can of almonds does not count as dinner. I may as well believe her. She’s been right about the other stuff.

Twitter: 2013-12-27 Fri 20:54

Away time is good. RT @ChamonixTR: a little update from a blogger who has fallen off the face of the planet hehe

http://ow.ly/s6Itu

Twitter: 2013-12-26 Thu 19:59

We are watching Oldboy (the original). It is a ballet of violence.

Twitter: 2013-12-25 Wed 09:32

Giving the best Christmas present I know how: cleaning the place up while my wife is at work.

Twitter: 2013-12-25 Wed 10:33

I bet Christmas cards will be cheap now.

Twitter: 2013-12-25 Wed 15:28

Thought I’d try nostalgia & listen to lots of music I like ten years ago. Mostly I just feel depressed and old. Nostalgia sucks.

Twitter: 2013-12-25 Wed 21:43

Cornish game hens, sweet potatoes, squash, apple stuffing, raspberry pie. I did good today.

Twitter: 2013-12-24 Tue 06:47

Had toothbrush and toothpaste in hand. Spent ten seconds trying to remember why.

Twitter: 2013-12-24 Tue 12:17

I read HN comments & now all programming seems like self-indulgent pointlessness & I want to burn things. Thanks a lot @steveklabnik ^_^

Twitter: 2013-12-24 Tue 16:46

I don’t want to be confronted by my dead business partner, but I think the consumption-intensive aspects of Christmas are a bit of a humbug.

Twitter: 2013-12-23 Mon 07:26

Remembered that I do not need to water the dry flower arrangement.

Twitter: 2013-12-23 Mon 08:06

Maybe I like solstice too much. Briefly forgot about Christmas.

Twitter: 2013-12-23 Mon 08:15

Wind knocked over my coffee. I need a 16 ounce sippy cup.

Twitter: 2013-12-23 Mon 15:02

Years of Web MVC have badly dented my understanding of models. Working on that now.

Twitter: 2013-12-22 Sun 15:14

Had a few minutes for coding, spent it on Twitter instead. Damn. Off to laundry.

Twitter: 2013-12-22 Sun 20:24

‘=’ & ‘@’ sigils in Angular directive definitions push my idea that JavaScript is another Perl. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Twitter: 2013-12-22 Sun 20:43

Now I shall listen to 90s music and make vegan chocolate chip cream cheese brownies. But first, my flannel.

Twitter: 2013-12-22 Sun 21:04

I like this quote: “Open source is everywhere. Now it’s time to take it to the next level and make the world a better place.” #Linux2013

Twitter: 2013-12-22 Sun 21:12

So, you know. The reactions cover a spectrum ^_^

Twitter: 2013-12-22 Sun 21:56

Nearly used “herb & chives” cream cheese for my cream cheese brownies. Sometimes I forget that food comes in flavors.