Matthew Lang

I love Michael Wade’s reason for using a fountain pen.

Thoughts flow more smoothly and there is an artistic aspect to the handwritten page.

— Return to Old School by Michael Wade

This morning, I received a nice little haul from Field Notes. A few items I saw in a recent sale.

I’m always hesitant about using AI tools while coding, but I have found one good use for AI while coding: naming things. I’m terrible at naming things.

This week, though, I’ve been using Copilot to see if I can improve on the names of the objects and methods I have. I’ve had good results so far.

I like the new Journal feature by 37signals included in their Hey product. I’ll explore this for a few weeks as I’m also trying Apple’s Journal app instead of Day One.

I used the word “huzzah” without thinking during stand-up this morning. I think I might just go with it and use it more often.

Turn your phone into a dumb phone.

I love this, and I will definitely try some aspects of it. However, I can’t say if I’ll go the whole way and do everything in this video. If you prefer to read, there’s also a web page with instructions.

I replaced the plastic castors on my Ikea office chair with rollerblade-style castors. The difference is like night and day, and the new castors are better for our new wooden flooring in the office. My only gripe is that the office isn’t long enough to see how fast my chair can go!

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to break out of my comfort zone and build a new Rails application using the latest Rails 7.2 release, which uses a dev container for the development environment. I’m also going to look at using the Zed text editor instead of VS Code.

Just finished watching The Marvels on Disney+. Thoroughly enjoyed it! A refreshing change from the MCU I thought. 🍿

Hat-tip to Jamie Thingelstad for his blog. I’ve been reviewing it over the last couple of days, and he’s done so much with it. There’s so much here that I would like to do on my own blog.

I finally feel like I’m starting to turn a corner with this lurgy thing. I’ll make sure I rest up over the weekend, hoping that by next week, it will be completely gone.

I have a couple of errands to run this morning, including holiday haircuts for myself and the boys. After that, it’s back home for some brunch. I’m also going to crack open the Dailymuse app to continue working on a new feature for it. Yeah, even on holiday, I’m still writing code.

I am almost ready to migrate Dailymuse from Heroku to Hatchbox. Once migrated, Dailymuse will start receiving some much-needed updates on both the front and back end. The core feature will remain the same, but I will add a few additional features.

Spent tonight refereeing our last junior semi-final match at the golf club. Looking forward to finals day to see all our finalists play again.

Jen timed picking up these new caramel crunch biscuits from Aldi perfectly. #mbaug

Our Japanese maple in the back garden is starting to change colour. A change of seasons is upon us. #mbaug

Michael Wade reminds us of the important things.

Second day on the new job.

Another day of online courses, health and safety training and getting myself up to speed with the organisation.

God, I miss freelancing.

Great night for some golf with my boy.

It’s good to see the Ghost team steadily adding features to my favourite blogging platform. One such addition is the vast library of Unsplash images, which is now available from the Ghost editor.

Wanted: A folder in the iOS Photos app that deletes photos older than 30 days.

Safari beach balling when I open up a client’s repo on Github. It’s gonna be one of them days.

Quit Safari. Start Safari. Github page opens. groan

Pinterest acquires Instapaper. I really hope Pinterest allow Instapaper to run as is.

Great, now I’m mechanical keyboard shopping. #geeklife