I just used Hey to block someone from sending me an unsolicited Ruby on Rails job posting.

So, thanks to Basecamp for building: a technology that makes me attractive to recruiters; and a technology I can use to ignore them.

Just started “The Mystic Maze” by Magic Puzzle Company

Today my wife surprised me with ube mochi donuts from Bom Bakeshop! 💕🍩💕

I had fun today helping out the Archive Team with their quick-turnaround project to archive all of Parler. Good to get everything stored off somewhere for future historical analysis before it is shut off for good at midnight. Good riddance.

It’s funny how conservatives want Big Government to step in to prevent natural market forces from sorting out how to run social media platforms.

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I watched ♕ The Queen’s Gambit which is amazing. I rarely play chess, but have fond memories of playing with my father when I was young. The games depicted in the show felt very real. I’m not surprised that Garry Kasparov was involved.

@nytimes This has been bothering me. That’s not time!

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Thanks to all the DevOps teams at large media sites. It’s got to be a huge amount of work to handle all the frantic reloading. Here’s to a high cache hit ratio!

Patience.

Checking out nb, a pretty cool tool for keeping notes on the command line and syncing them between machines.

I’m reading How do the COVID-19 vaccines work? by @fancycomma

Just hit my 1000th test run for pg_search over at Travis CI. Hope it passes! 🤞

Voting! The line at the Holiday Inn in Travis County is short right now. About 10 minutes.

Anytime I read a news article that mentions the “novel coronavirus”, it makes me want to point out that this coronavirus sure isn’t novel anymore! Better to call it SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, or simply “the coronavirus”.

I just released version 2.3.4 of pg_search.

• Fix issue when setting various options directly on the PgSearch module while running with a threaded web server, such as Puma. (Anton Rieder)

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Always Be Closing (browser tabs) ❌

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At Jester King brewery 🍻

I enjoyed Jason Snell’s write-up about the Power Mac G5, which was my first Mac back in 2005.