Bubbles
Latest Posts
As a software engineer, how well do you have to understand your own codebase? My guess is that people who work on small codebases with low-turnover teams (say, Redis or games like The Witness) would say “obviously you have to understand...
I'm reasonably satisfied with the back and sides of this guitar having carved, bent, and assembled them, even after acknowledging that the outcome is some way short of perfect. It's a prototype, I tell myself!I'd been steeling myself for...
To Manuel's dismay1, who originally coded this website, I updated the /reading page with Codex. I wanted to play around with the new GPT-5.6 models and went ham with Sol. They're better than their predecessors, but I still believe coding...
Getting access to emails, Slack. And my first Jira ticket. Onboarding continues I got access to most tools this week, including email, Slack (ah, I've missed Slack), QA environments, Mural, Jira and Confluence. I even have a ticket on...
My Layout Design Process proves, again and again, that its structure and process provide a useful and reflective journey for my customer - producing a result, that in the end, gets to the heart of the project they want to realise...This...
Personal Relatively quiet week for me as I mostly focused on getting back to exercising which has been going well. I occupied my days with reading and taking evening naps which is making me feel old in a way I haven’t felt before 😄....
I'm continuing a look at some scans of Magic Kingdom scans from 1982. They're pretty nice, though some are a bit darker than I'd like. In this case it gives the photos an interesting quality, or at least I think so.We'll start with two...
If you'd wondered about the lack of posts in the last fortnight I hope you assumed (correctly) that I was on a summer holiday - rather than having another hissy fit and ceasing blogging.While I was away there some bits and pieces being...
A few years ago my fascination with hurdy gurdies went as far as ordering one. From there things only got worse. Delivery went well, but the climate around here (north of the Arctic circle, land-locked: no humidity to speak of)...
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.” I love this quote from James Clear because it hurts me in all the right ways. At my worst, I feel like my daily patterns are at war with my grand plans. When I’m fighting a...
Emacs has had a spell-checker for a very long time. In fact, I’ve been using ispell-word for at least several years now, as I have mentioned for example here. However, I’ve only used Flyspell mode once, over two decades ago, when I tried...
As a longtime member of Disney's D23 Club, I've had the opportunity over the years to attend some fun advance preview screenings of Disney films.Those experiences have included TANGLED (2010) on the Disney Studios lot and CINDERELLA...
“One of the most powerful cognitive enhancers, with broad and increasingly well-documented effects, is rarely emphasized in these discussions: the ability to read,” he says. An unexpected finding: Reading and face recognition One of the...
Got up at 9.30a.m. Still a cold wind and a few showers. The gang came for tea. Dot very good to play out with Jane. Too cold. Went for a drink at night.