Nate! @nate@frogmob.life

I case modded my backpack. #raspberryPi #timbuk2 #adafruit

Solid tip from my data warehousing professor. #lifehacks

Oh dang! I just remembered it! Well, parts of it. Which are now safely captured in my #fieldNotes "everyday carry" notebook. My muse has accepted my apology, apparently.

#seriously #writeItDown

"Oh man, this is a great idea for an article! I should write it down! Nah, it's late, I'm tired, and I'll 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 remember this tomorrow."
--Me, last night, right before I lost that great idea forever. #writeItDown

Just set up a pi-hole server on my network a day or two ago. On average it’s blocking 30% of DNS requests. I knew ads were getting out of hand but this is outrageous. #raspberryPi #pi-hole #awesome

I'd say that my use of the browser's address bar is:
40% going to a site
40% searching for something
20% Using search suggestions to correct spelling errors that are so bad my normal spell checker gave up.

"This is a good place for that thing! I'll definitely remember that I put that thing here!"
--Me, the last time I ever saw that thing.

Welcome to March, where every day is a game of jacket roulette. Will you bid too low and freeze when a freak windstorm blows in? Or will you guess too high and have to carry a down parka home in subtropical sunshine?

This chapter of my #dataWarehousing text covers degenerate dimensions and durable, supernatural keys. I can't tell if we're reporting on sales or playing Luigi's Mansion.

I just discovered that the Linnaean family name for roly-poly bugs is "Armadillidiidae", which is the best word in any language.

I've been a programmer long enough that the word "pearl" looks misspelled. #perl

𝗠𝗲: Okay, this is a mockup, it looks like a real program but it only does two things, and it breaks if you type the number 5 in any text box.

𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: Excellent so we can start using this right now?

𝗠𝗲: What? No, this is just to give you an idea of what we're trying to accomplish, and to get some feedback on the design.

𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: Right but it's basically done, though, isn't it?

𝗠𝗲: 🙄

#softwareDevelopment

In the wake of #Oracle announcing that #Java licenses will now cost money, Amazon is offering a no-cost drop in replacement for the JDK.

So, I like the idea of not giving Oracle money, but this is just trading one capricious corporate overlord for another. Seems like the right move is to go to the OpenJDK, or just...stop writing in Java.

Still, if leaving Java isn't an option yet but might be soon, this could be a good stopgap.
https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

I’ve always thought of Genesis as the sonic equivalent of the color beige. But my friend just introduced me to their album “Selling England by the Pound” and it’s good stuff! Some solidly weird #progRock from the depths of the 70s.

Decided to see what’s up on Birdsite and FB after some time away.

FB featured a very pregnant goat and drummer jokes.

Birdsite was mostly ads.

That was about all I could take. Might finally be time to shut down those accounts.