Matthew Lang

We upgraded our youngest’s old 7th-generation iPad to a new 10th-generation iPad. I reset the old one, which I now use for reading and surfing. Usually, we re-cycle devices down the way to the boys, but our youngest needed a new one for high school. Happy to take the old one!

Not a bad day so far today. A cooked breakfast, to begin with, played golf with my Dad and then headed home to get a few chores done before the rest of the family gets home. I could do with a few more days like this through the year.

Took the wee guy to the driving range for a session today. Weather has been awful this week for golfing.

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.

Another good day for Ethan on the golf course.

He won the Junior County Champion of Champions this afternoon at Paisley Golf Club.

Closing off the golf season with a couple of trophies, well done big yin!

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!

Procreate’s stand on AI​ should be applauded.

We’re here for the humans. We’re not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community.​ ​

​I’m glad to see that companies like Procreate still recognise the danger of AI in their products. AI has it’s uses, but it doesn’t need to be everywhere. ​

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. 🍿

Drew starting high school today!

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 migrated a few more images from my old blog to the Micro.blog, so my photos page looks better. I also added a now page and uses page.

Michael Wade reminds us about keeping a “Not Doing List”.

Common “Not Doing” projects involve physical exercise, connecting with old friends, volunteering for good causes, and writing thank you notes.

Great. Taken hold by the lurgy today.

I miss Twitter’s lists feature when I’m on Micro.blog, Instagram, and Threads. On Twitter, I had lists for a handful of topics that I looked at daily, such as the NFL, notebooks, people, and web development. It was nice to scroll through related content and change to something else.

Defaulting to Firefox as my browser again. I have noticed there’s better integration with the 1Password extension than there was in Safari. I always found 1Password’s extension inconsistent in Safari, and it usually took a while to appear and populate any form.

After a nightmare week in the Lang household, we were relieved to end on a high note with Ethan winning the Junior Club Championship at Fereneze Golf Club. Well done Ethan!

Big yin all set for today’s Junior Club Championship at Fereneze Golf Club. Weather is looking good and a lot better than last years downpour.

Do quests, not goals.

I came across this link on Hacker News this morning. Is this simply a switch to focus on the process instead of the outcome? I don’t know, but I do like the idea of changing goals to quests.

Also, on Hacker News, hat-tip to this comment.