Had a great first day at RBQ Conf (a local Austin Ruby conference)
On to day two…
I’ve been doing a lot more AI Agent coding lately. My pair programming experience comes in quite handy, especially around proactively monitoring what the agent is doing and knowing when to step in and retake control.
But another thing that I appreciate is the ability to flip the usual roles and have the AI Agent “navigate” what we are doing, while I actually perform the tasks. If I’m typing/copying/pasting the code, shell commands, etc., then I am able to give them my full attention and code review. And the AI Agent is won’t be able to trick me into doing something very stupid or dangerous (most of the time!).
Hanging out at the XO Ruby Austin conference today. I’ve run into a lot of old faces and some new ones as well. It’s great to see the Ruby community and how welcoming it has always been.
Kitty Cohen’s happy hour all day Monday-Wednesday this summer
Downtown Austin
I like a coffee shop that plays classic rave music.
At Civil Goat Coffee in Austin, TX.
🎵 LFO - “To the Limit (Peel Session)"
This silly game is more fun than I expected. I’m a big Picross/nonogram fan.
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Downloading the new Season 2 games for my Playdate and experiencing an unexpected color coincidence.
Wow, jj is an impressive tool for going beyond Git for version control. I’m going to try to incorporate it into my daily workflow right away.
Just went to my first EFF-Austin meetup. @manton spoke about micro.blog and we all had a lot of great conversations about social networks past, present, and future.
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing.
I grew up in Oklahoma City, and felt the blast that day from 15 miles away at my middle school.
On the 10th anniversary, in 2005, I wrote a short article about my personal experience.
Feast of the Seven Fishes at L’Oca d’Oro. 🐟
I definitely recommend a pour of their house Amaro Campanella to pair with dessert.
Just switched to mise (from asdf) and liking it so far.
🧩 Puzzle #439
🤔 15 guesses
⏱️ 2m 30s
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.
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.
DNA is an acid that is made up of bases. 🤔
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
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!