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Matthew Lang

Family guy and web developer

Cold in Ohio

I love Ohio but it is cold. It is Ivan-Denisovich cold. It’s Jack-Nicholson-at-the-end-of-The-Shining cold; indoor-cat-who-became-outdoor-cat-glaring-at-me-from-his-blanket-in-the-garage cold. Never-warm cold. Feet-cold cold. Permanently-hunched-sholders cold. Kurt-Russell-in-The-Thing cold. It is colder than Robert Frost stopping by the woods on a snowy evening - he would not have stopped in this cold.

— That Cold by Kurt Harden

Thankfully Paisley in Scotland doesn't even come close to being this cold. I don't envy my fellow North American bloggers in times like this. The cold weather can get very wearing.

Can’t decide if that was thunder or the wind I just heard. Bloody loud whatever it was.

Are Trolls Attracted To Videos?

No spot comes close to YouTube when it comes to the number of dumb and vicious remarks in its comments section. Even bland videos, ones without an ounce of controversy, are ripped.

— Mean Magnet by Michael Wade

I'm just wondering if video is easier to consume than actually spending the time to read something and let it sink in. I suspect many of the comments on YouTube are simple knee-jerk reactions to each video.

Always wary about pre-empting the need for a gem when using Rails. More inclined to leave using a gem until I absolutely need it.

Is OS X running on an iPad going to be a thing then? I would love to see it happen.

Spent most of the day looking at Wordpress as a CMS for a local school. Like what I’ve seen so far.

Search for deeper understanding of approaches to programming that seem strange or incorrect to you. Don’t look for wrongness in what someone else is doing or what you’re thinking.
— Programming Advice for a Younger Me by Adam Keys

One of my biggest problems in my career has definitely been a lack of confidence in the code that I wrote.

40 rules for managing clients including this one:

Working weekends for clients: I’ll do it once if there’s a genuine emergency but, unless you pay me obscenely well for your inefficiency, I won’t do it twice. Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

— 40 essential rules for client management by Bad Language

I'll be pinning this list up somewhere I can see it every day.