Nate! @nate@frogmob.life

Hey, you!

Yeah, you. The one reading this.

You're pretty cool!

Anyway. Just wanted to say that. Later!

I'm starting a small #WriteFreely community. For now it's invite only. Read my announcement post and if this sounds like something you'd like to participate in let me know!

https://writerfriends.space/yllwbi0mgj

#writing

Amy and Rory Pond made a board game???

https://www.apegames.com/portfolio/petrichor/

Somebody needs to file a JIRA ticket. Low priority.

This seems like a good time to get back into Doctor Who. I could use some optimistic alien escapism.

I haven't been writing much fiction lately, but my journal is getting a lot more love than normal. #amwriting.

Trying to find the balance between "I need to know what's going on!" and "Everything terrifies me!"

My present system is "I can check social media once a day, and one news site, once per day". So far it seems like this meets both sides of the equation.

I realize I'm an introvert and also have a big family, so staying home is easier on me. But is it that hard, really? I've been connecting with my friends digitally and feel like that's been a really good answer. I do understand that it's not the same for extroverts, that face time is important to that mindset, and I really feel for people who are suffering harder in this time. We'll get through this!

Aaaaaaaand an earthquake this morning. This is good. This is fine.

Pretty sure that 1.) I have covid-19 and 2.) I’m almost recovered from it. I still can’t get tested, I’m still not a high enough risk. I’ve been quarantined in my home by choice for 8 days now, since symptoms started. Hopefully I’ll be fully better in less than six days.

I'm making my "Painless" books free for the time being.

https://write.as/natedickson/free-learning-for-the-duration

#painless_vim #painless_git #painless_tmux

Boosts welcome.

For the record I’m willing to believe this is COVID, and I’m willing to believe it’s influenza. Either way I’m staying put until it blows over.

Mercifully my wife seems to have a much milder case and my kids have all thus far shown mild symptoms that cleared in 24 hours, or have shown no symptoms.

Thankfully I have lots of sick time and I am well situated to work from home when I feel well enough to do so. Self imposed home quarantine heads into day four.

Fever: ✅

Cough: ✅

Shortness of breath: Not really. (I’ve never paid much attention to how much air I can move but I can still breathe really deep, I guess? Seems deep.)

Have I been in contact with a person who has been in a hotspot country? No.

So even though I meet two criteria, I can’t be tested because I don’t meet three. There aren’t enough tests available.

I feel like nobody ever teaches the most important #vim shortcut:

pressing 'Esc' somewhere between 4 and 12 times to get out of whatever convoluted pile of sub-messes you have gotten into and back into actually normal normal mode.

Let's all tell new stories! [POST]

https://write.as/natedickson/thats-enough-nostalgia-thanks

#nostalgia_is_a_drug #amwriting

After a moderately long hiatus, Painless Git is nearing completion! My third (and hopefully last; these take a lot out of me) tech training book, Painless Git is the distillation of everything I've learned over the course of helping teams move to and use git over the past seven years.

If you would like a review copy for your blog DM me! I'm also open to providing copies for drawings/giveaways.

Boosts also welcome!

https://leanpub.com/painless_git/

#git #indiewriters #Painless_git #ShamelessPlug

My ten year old Mac Mini has finally given up the ghost. At this point it was basically relegated to being the computer the kids would use for homework if all the other computers are taken.

I replaced it with a Raspberry Pi 4 and if anything it seems to be a little faster than the Ancient One it's replacing.

I’m not exactly hiding in the basement from my in-laws but they have been in my house for 12 hours now and they aren’t in the basement so there’s that.