Kevin Munc
Oops. I thought this image would be attached to my last post.
Also: “won” is relative. I think I stayed in the third week finals by the skin of my teeth at position 13. 😅
Phew!
The Diamond Tournament was fierce. 😅 Duolingo! Here’s my invite link: invite.duolingo.com/BDHTZTB5C….
I’m excited to play around with this new iOS music-making app.
I think today might be the anniversary of the world’s first web page.
I didn’t carve any pumpkins this year (wife did that solo), but I did bring out the fog machine plus the laser, rotating, and strobing lights —and even the Theremin— for Trick-or-Treat.
Also: I want the Halloween pin. 🎃
Today is our 26th wedding anniversary, and I just realized that our marriage is now older than we were when we got married. 😊
TFW you adjust your schedule, all day, waiting for UPS to deliver your new iPhone 🤗— only for them not to deliver. 👿
Any bets on it coming when I’m out of town?
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day!
I wonder if Flutter Desktop will eventually be able to overtake Electron.
Electron is kinda hated. Dart has a lot of things going for it that JS does not.
Meet Defect
Went to join a Google Meet. Before I even joined, I could hear someone typing away. Clickety-clack! Then, I switched accounts, and asked to join, still hearing the typing. Then I was let in. I could see that the other person was typing, and then they stopped to talk to me – but the typing audio continued. It continues even now!
All of these photos from @manton in DC while I’m in DC makes me understand why I was pretty darn sure I saw him on a rental bike here earlier today. 😂
Listening to an audio book about a childhood hero — and thoroughly enjoying it. 📚
I’d like it if macOS / Apple keyboards had a dedicated, hardware mute/unmute button.
Until they do, I’ll continue to ❤️ Shush.
Well, I’m officially the parent of a high school graduate.
Our son made it through an unusual time to have a senior year. In the fall, he’ll be off to MECA (Maine College of Art), and our daughter will take over the new high school building as a senior.
As a life-long metalhead, it is my serious opinion that one of the heaviest songs ever is In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins.
Side note: I still often think of the groundbreaking-for-its-time Miami Vice pilot episode (which famously used it) when I hear it.
Some programmers write 1,000 lines of code to avoid repeating 4 lines 4 times.
It’s a seductive trap.
The Last 6 Weeks at Work
In a nutshell, as part of a small team, with myself and two other mobile-side developers, following a Shape Up process, we delivered a second mobile application (authentication, search, scheduling, profile, and chat, with automated testing and CI/CD) for iOS and Android, using Flutter, from zero to TestFlight and Google Play internal testing, in six weeks. I’m happy with that.
The Pizza Sauce (Mystery) Thickens!
The two bottles I ordered were delivered yesterday…
…to a city more than two hours north. 😑
Amazon has my correct address for the order. FedEx delivered it elsewhere.
What is going on??
An “on this day” photo feature reminded me of these awesome light sabers my son designed and made out of regular LEGO five years ago.
The Mystery of the Pizza Squeeze
So… This is odd.
I sometimes use a (possibly not very popular) food product called Contadina Pizza Squeeze. I ran out. The grocery seems to have stopped carrying it. I order two bottles from Amazon to use while I ponder either a replacement or doing without going forward. They don’t arrive until next week; they haven’t shipped yet (I just checked).
Today, I find a Walmart bag on my porch with nothing in it besides six bottles of Contadina Pizza Squeeze.
Wut?!
Is this some gift from the universe? Is there another, nearby fan of the now-harder-to-get product whose order was mis-delivered? Has a nerve agent been injected into these bottles? Did a friend overhear the lament at the grocery store and think this would be kind and/or funny? What are the chances? What do I make of this?