We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
🧩 Puzzle #439
🤔 15 guesses
⏱️ 2m 30s
At Matt’s El Rancho for the first time. Long overdue. Small Bob + shared the beef fajitas. Mexican martini. Perfect. No notes. 🍸🍹
It’s the weekend
After 2½ years, I’ve released a small update to pg_search. Version 2.3.7 adds support for Active Record 7.2 and various other small changes.
I’ll probably release another version soon to add support for composite primary keys, a new Active Record 7.2 feature.
I’m in Dubai 🇦🇪 for a quick layover on my way to Bangalore 🇮🇳 for a work trip.
Dubai has a silent airport. There are no announcements. But I did just hear a muezzin call playing for the daily dhuhr prayer.
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
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DNA is an acid that is made up of bases. 🤔
Looks like we just traded my favorite player! I’ll miss telling everyone about how good Nick Lima’s throw-in is. Thanks and good luck in New England! ⚽️🟩⬛️
New England Revolution acquire Nick Lima from Austin FC | MLSSoccer.com
For my birthday, Vanessa got me a CD that I’ve been wanting for a long time. I came across it years ago and regretted not grabbing a copy. Yes, that is the cat cartoon character better known from his appearance on Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract”. 🐱 🎤
Had a great time seeing the Flaming Lips last week.
They played two sets: the first being a full play-through of their excellent 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
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RIP Molly Holzschlag. We are all forever indebted.
I’ve finally decided to look into Elixir. I know I will love it! I have started doing the Elixir Koans
But the yak-shaving has already taken over. I haven’t even completed the first koan yet. Instead, I have:
But I’m having fun! And I will have some free time next week to dig deeper into all of these things.
Bram created vim which is a terminal-based text editor so good that it comes preinstalled on every Mac and nearly every server. I use it everyday.
Austin FC never seems to get a break when it comes to these “extracurricular” cups. Let’s hope they can get a couple weeks rest and come back strong to finish out the MLS season! ⚽️ 🟩 ⬛️
Finally got my Playdate! Played some Casual Birder at Kerbey Lane Café last night while waiting for friends. 🎮 👾
Today at work we are using the PostGIS function ST_MakeValid.
I propose a new alias to this function called ST_NoWhammies.
Hanging out with Dolly Parton at the Aristocrat Lounge
Gowalla!
One of the many entertaining things about the extremely slow process for getting repaid for my long lost Mt. Gox Bitcoin holdings is the continued use of the original Mt. Gox logo, unchanged since the Web 2.0 era.
You know it’s a new year when a change to how you handle time in your tests that you wrote eleven months ago starts breaking your build.
Twitter Sucks is now live again, after migrating it from Heroku’s discontinued free plan to Fly.io.
In the last thirteen years of running Twitter Sucks, I can’t imagine worse timing for extended downtime. At least it’s over now!
I was watching a YouTube video about Baby Jessica (after listening to the excellent You’re Wrong About podcast), and I found this:
The editors accidentally exposed that they used a random YouTube video for B roll footage. Here’s the original video for comparison