: I’m thoroughly impressed with the work at ESASky has done. Go to sky.esa.int/. Lots of smart …
: At Rubin Observatory, I’ve been building a documentation platform that has enabled hundreds of …
: Here’s a great video primer on heat pumps. Using CO2 as a refrigerant and integrating a heat pump …
: My neighbours are about to imminently tear down and rebuild their house. Today I noticed that …
: So happy for Lewis Hamilton to snag that pole position today. Never give up!
: Based on In the Lives of Puppets I named my Mac Studio “Rambo.”
: Finished reading: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune 📚 TJ is a master of creating deeply moving …
: No smoke; Sun’s out; light breeze and 22 degrees. It’s a miracle.
: Never in my life would I imagine a Star Trek episode that involves shoplifting from a Roots in Eaton …
: This is what a snow day looks like if you’re a developer.
: This is a cool dotfiles repo for Mac. I keep dotfiles for unix-y stuff, but hadn’t considered …
: My new Mac Studio arrived! This is my first desktop computer since the 2008-era Mac Pro I had in …
: Hacking push notifications for deliveries on the iPhone My Mac Studio is arriving soon 🎉 and I need to sign for it. The problem is I’m usually working …
: tree.nathanfriend.io is a little website/app that generates an ASCII file tree from indented text …
: I ordered a shed today from a website. It’ll be built to my specifications and installed by skilled …
: The rainbow pride waffles from Planted in Hamilton Ontario are pretty awesome 🌈
: A consistent problem I have with my development workflow is knowing that I did something before, but …
: Here’s what I’m going with: Mac Studio M2 Max (12 core, 38 core GPU) with 2TB storage …
: Between going 100% indie with my software company, my MacBook Pro 2019’s fan’s screaming …
: I have visions of coding and taking Zoom calls from the lakeside. Sign me up!
: Did anyone else get the Ulysses app newsletter on May 31st? I hope it’s a prank because yuck! …
: I’m writing a technical note with GitHub Copilot enabled for the first time and it’ll …
: Thank goodness for Fernando Alonso who might just distract the Formula 1 2023 season from the …
: GitHub is killing it with the new new code view and search. The confluence of GitHub and VS Code is …
: I finally used Python’s Walrus := operator to clean up a hacky situation. Maybe I could be more …
: Finished reading: Crucible of Gold by Naomi Novik 📚It’s kind of an old-school adventure novel. But …
: We finished watching Orphan Black 📺 last week and I just gotta proclaim: wow. Tatiana Maslany played …
: Apparently storm chips are a Newfie thing but they work great for Ontario snow storms too.
: Here’s a maple plywood feature wall I made for my workshop. 🪚 This will be the future home of …
: I created a widget with Up Ahead for the latest Rubin Observatory milestones. It’s happening folks!
: I just got into the beta for Reader by the Readwise folks and just a few minutes in I’m …
: The timeline isn’t settled. The @-mention isn’t settled. Nothing is settled. It’s 2003 again! Robin …
: Inspired by @rosemaryorchard and @heyscottyj on Unnested Folders #90, I figured out how to create a …
: I’m kind of surprised about Amazon Prime’s redesign with black on blue. I’m sure they ran a contrast …
: Finished reading: The Golden Enclaves: A Novel (The Scholomance Book 3) by Naomi Novik 📚 We really …
: Via Mac Power Users #668 I found out you can follow YouTube channels in most RSS services. I’ve …
: November 2022 in review I missed the review for October, but I’m getting back on track. I’m finding these …
: So why do my colleagues often pray whenever I answer their question on Slack? 🙏
: People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use — Andy …
: On the PKM beat, it seems like Apple Books in iOS 16 doesn’t permit exporting a book’s notes and …
: This new Interactive guide to flexbox by Josh Comeau is so good. Hopefully it’ll click in my …
: Currently reading: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚 I’ve slowly been adopting DEVONthink for …
: It’s really cool to see how GitHub Codespaces and science platforms like Rubin’s are all …
: One of the surprising things I’ve learned after moving back to Canada is brokerage fees when …
: Another new-ish gem in the Sphinx ecosystem, sphinxcontrib-mermaid makes it easy to drop Mermaid …
: The Sphinx documentation ecosystem is getting better and better. Latest example: autodoc_pydantic …
: Can I admit something? I haven’t yet given Taylor Swift Midnights a proper spin yet. The whole week …
: September 2022 in review Doing the work September was all about shipping the new system for Rubin Observatory user guides in …
: Embracing the last bits of summer up here.
: I’ve been working on my tool chest this week and installed these two tier tray runners in white oak.
: In retrospect I should have paid more attention to knots when I was roughing out the feet for these …
: I’ve started to use the pydata-sphinx-theme for our next generation of Rubin Observatory …
: August 2022 in review August is an odd month. It’s both the height of summer while also feeling like the end of …
: Seven bees in this one sneeze weed. Our rewilding is working!
: Finished reading: The Book Of M by Peng Shepherd 📚 It felt coincidental to read this right after The …
: A sunrise from a couple weeks ago that I got around to HDR stacking.
: I’m kicking the tires on VS Code for web dev (vim+tmux user since… gosh, when did …
: I nailed together the sides of my tool chest. Used 6d (2 inch) cut nails with 2 mm pilot holes. Lots …
: Finished reading: Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall 📚 I sped-read this over the weekend on …
: Amanda’s purple coneflowers are a hit with the bees.
: Shopping in the lettuce aisle.
: Finished reading: The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Penguin International …
: July 2022 in review This is the first edition of what I intend to be a monthly round-up of the month. I’m doing …
: Strimzi Registry Operator 0.5.0 released for Kafka We just released version 0.5.0 of the Strimzi Registry Operator (see release notes). Strimzi …
: A little father-daughter woodworking moment. 🐱🪚 Emma likes shavings… especially the long …
: TIL you can create Note and warning admonitions in GitHub Flavored Markdown …
: httpie and GitHub Actions I love httpie as an alternative to curl. It feels fresher, and is built for working with …
: The fact is that one of America’s two major political parties appears to be viscerally opposed to …
: Embracing the pyproject.toml future of packaging Python projects with setuptools Last week I worked on a new template for PyPI python projects for SQuaRE, my team at Rubin …
: The Penetanguishene outer harbour last night, dressed up in the setting light.
: Onboarding into a public cloud project: enter your email and credit card info (or have your team …
: Finished reading: The Cartographers: A Novel by Peng Shepherd 📚 I loved this book so much, and am …
: Jira can be rough compared to GitHub issues; but it’s the backbone of Rubin work tracking. I’ve …
: I’ve been reading Architecture Patterns with Python. Every chapter they introduce a new issue, and …
: I’ve been using Pydantic and FastAPI a lot lately and I’m struck at their lack of API …
: Rethinking the social web in 2021 Facebook was fantastic as a college kid: it was just an exclusive club for your an your dorm mates. …