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Matthew Lang

Family guy and web developer

A double win to start the week. My ticket at work passed QA, and Annie Mueller is currently on the front page of Hacker News with her post on reading a developer’s tutorial.

Note to self, next time I need something named in my code, I’ll ask Annie. So many great names in there! 😂

Definitely a better day for golf. Watching our club’s junior team play in a regional semifinal at Haggs Castle Golf Club.

It will be a tough day for our younger juniors in the team, but good experience.

And nice to see Drew get a wee up and down on a par 3 as well.

Not a bad day for our junior golf team practicing at Haggs Castle for the Home Nations regional semifinal tomorrow.

A painless email migration to Fastmail

Today, I moved the email for a domain I own from Hey to Fastmail. Lots of factors have been niggling me to do this for the past few months, but the main factor has been cost. I just don’t need to pay that price for an email address associated with a domain.

After a couple of hours, the DNS changes finally propagated through, and the email is now fully switched over. An hour after that, I had transferred the emails from Hey to Fastmail, set up the calendars, and configured the email setup in a similar fashion to Hey, as I quite liked the idea of the Paper Trail and Feed areas for emails.

There are a few things I would like to see in Fastmail, such as a bit more spacing in the user interface. However, for now, I am quite happy with the reduced cost and the fact that the email just works without requiring me to relearn a new user interface.

I still use Hey for my personal email. I’m not quite ready to move this over to Fastmail yet, but I haven’t ruled it out.

I’m pretty happy not really knowing what Apple released yesterday. What products and information I need to know will eventually trickle down to me. It always does.

Tried Todoist again over the last few days. Still can’t get my head round why projects in Todoist don’t have start and end dates.

A small appreciation post to my wife, Jennifer, as we celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary today.

25 years ago, I stood with you at the altar of St Mirin’s Cathedral and said “I do”.

Little did I know that I’d be here 25 years later, wondering where the time has gone. We’ve had so many wonderful memories. Moving into our first home, the births of our two sons, and so many holidays to Canada that I have lost count. Seriously, I think we could be considered residents of Niagara Falls with the amount of time we have spent there! It really has been the most fantastic time.

We have built a wonderful family and home together, and I hope that the next 25 years are just as exciting and wonderful, and create even more memories for us.

Happy Anniversary, gorgeous ❤️

Two people are sitting on a rock ledge with a vast canyon landscape in the background, both wearing casual clothes and sunglasses, each holding a bottle.A family poses together, with the father and child wearing traditional Scottish kilts while the mother holds flowers.A woman and two children are smiling in front of a waterfall, with buildings visible in the background.A woman and a child, both wearing warm clothing, smile while taking a selfie outdoors with trees in the background.A family of four, consisting of two adults and two children, is posing together on a walkway with a scenic view of a waterfall and city skyline in the background.A man in a blue suit and a woman in a red floral dress stand together on a paved area with a scenic background of grass, water, and cloudy skies.A smiling couple wearing winter clothing, including a Green Bay Packers beanie and a black cap, pose for a selfie outdoors.