I need to order myself a stack of books. Not the Kindle kind, the physical kind.
Fixie Friday - P&B Greyhound
Recommendations for a OS X SQL Server client? Anything that helps me manage all the objects in the database, not just tables.
Like Buses
Kickstarter campaigns are like buses. Nothing for ages then two come along at the same time. This time it's the YNOT Magnetic Keychain.
Christmas Holiday Tradition?
Black Friday does not mean shopping; it means we watch the first Christmas movies of the year - Die Hard, followed immediately by Die Hard II - and start with the sounds of the Christmas season. This schedule will provide four solid weeks of Christmas music - plenty of time to become tired of the stuff.
— Exactly when... by Cultural Offering
What a fantastic Christmas tradition! Starting the Christmas holiday season with a real Christmas movie.
The previous staging environment was used to test different branches, but it became a block. Review apps were added to alleviate this.
The plan is to reserve the staging environment for pushes from the master branch. Once tested (again) it can then be pushed to production.
Half the battle of this has been helping the client decide how best to use multiple environments for the deployment process.
For the #sqlserver folks. Is there any advantages to using decimals as your primary key rather than an int? Just curious.
Developers can handle the multiple environments well enough with the command line, but its not for everyone.
Almost there with getting a client setup on @heroku’s pipeline feature. Review apps are set up. Just to decide on automatic deploys or not.
Spent an hour using @careteditor tonight. Nice features that make it stand out from other Markdown editors.
I’ve downloaded and installed Firefox Developer Edition out of curiosity. Just wondering if it offers something extra.
Is there any advantage to using Firefox Developer Edition over Firefox or any other browser?
Your Ideal Week
Suddenly, everything was dark, and I realized that I was in bed and it was time to face another day in my fledgling business where I had way too much to do and way too many people expecting me to deliver work.
— What you need to build your ideal week by Curtis McHale
My week feels a lot like this at the moment. 16 hour days with no room for anything but the occasional refuelling session and a few minutes with the kids before they go to bed. Hardly the life I had in mind when I started freelancing. Things need to start changing.
Kickstarted: The Baron Fig Squire Pen
I haven't backed anything on Kickstarter yet. I missed the Baron Fig notebook and the Bullet Journal. I'm not going to miss the Squire pen.
Looks like I’m not worthy to be testing @github’s new repo design. Guess I’ll just have to wait then.
I could do with a suite of tests right about now.
Another friendly customer experience from the staff at the Braehead Apple Store.
No Words
During times like this I tend to reserve commenting on social media. As NB puts it, "some days there were no words".
Planned Basic Income For All in Finland
In its final version, the basic income would replace other benefits people currently receive, and would therefore be rather high, as indicated by Kela’s Research Department Director Olli Kangas. It is considered that all Finnish citizens would be paid an untaxed benefit sum free of charge by the government, 800 euros a month in the final version, 550 euros monthly in the model’s pilot phase.
— Basic income: how Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide project in the EU by Finland Politics
It will be very interesting to follow if this is a success.
Fixie Friday - RAW Santafixie Team
via FGGT
Catching up with some podcasts on @OvercastFM this morning. Great to so many of the features in the iOS app also in the web app.
Read a few articles about people being able to switch to iPad Pro from their current laptop. Think it might be a while before I can do that.
I’m using an MBP just now but I reckon I could move down to a new MacBook. iPad Pro as a main dev machine might be a stretch though.