I know they’re effective for a lot of people, but I wish more organized tutorial sites were not screencast based. For me personally a 45 minute screencast is just not a very efficient way for me to absorb information.
I know they’re effective for a lot of people, but I wish more organized tutorial sites were not screencast based. For me personally a 45 minute screencast is just not a very efficient way for me to absorb information.
The reason I’m very serious about things like automated testing and CI is that if I am going to take money to store people’s content, it has to be as bulletproof as can be. I don’t want to give anyone a reason not to trust me.
I did it! GitHub CI is set up for running tests and linting. It’s like I’m a real indie developer, albeit one who has no way to make any money and wants to find a full-time job.
I managed to get down to business and work on my own project today for a few hours like it was my job. I’m proud of myself for that.
The USB Pre 2 costs over $1000 these days, which is probably way more than most people should spend considering some really amazing interfaces have come out in the 2-300 range in the last two years, however, it absolutely has the best level meter on the market at any price.
Wow. Setting up GitHub actions for CI with Rails is about 1000x easier if you use Postgres instead of MySQL.
I learned just now that you can have GitHub CI block merging a PR if code coverage goes down. I know automated coverage tools are not perfect, since they can’t judge the quality of a test, but I may still try it.
My instinct that $5 for a software product is a lot of money is almost absolutely a result of my having primarily sold software on the iOS App Store. I’m also going to do yearly pricing with a good discount, of course.
We need an indie standard for associating posts together as a thread if it doesn’t exist already and I’m missing it.
I have zero desire for Linefeed to copy Micro.blog. That’s been a conscious decision from the start. There will inevitably be overlap, but my goal is to show how things on the open web can interact and complement each other. My hope is people see enough value to use both.
One thing I really enjoy about Linefeed is how fast it is. It’s a testament to my incredible engineering talent since, previously, it was believed impossible for a Rails app to be fast (kidding). Really though, I think this is critical to keep if and when it grows.
If you write Ruby and avoided RubyMine because it’s a big ugly heavy Java app, you should get over it. It does so much for you that nothing else does, or can. RubyMine for big projects and BBEdit for scripts is a great combination. I write safer code faster with it.
🚨 The startup I’ve been working at had to let me go for reasons out of everyone’s control. Please get in touch if you’re looking to hire a fantastic iOS and Mac developer and quite a good Rails developer to boot. Fifteen years of professional experience, former Apple. Chill hang.
If you don’t want to be on social media which isn’t run by a sociopath and isn’t a Chinese surveillance platform it is becoming real slim pickings.
I kind of don’t care what Elon does with Twitter. I just think he sucks and don’t want to use something he controls.
My Logitech MX Vertical has been a bit jittery over Bluetooth, so I tried switching to using the dongle nubbin. So much better. This also has the benefit that it won’t be connected to my computer unless I’m plugged into my Thunderbolt dock.
When living in Silicon Valley if I met people working at different companies and they talked about why they liked their jobs it was:
Google: Creating and contributing to exciting new technology. Apple: Working on things people used and found valuable. Facebook: Money.
I’ve gotten great feedback about Linefeed from really smart people that I respect. I’m extremely fortunate to know the people I do.
Had to go by the Oregon Convention Center. It’s too bad WWDC can’t be held here, because it’s such a better venue than San Jose.
A Shure SM58 really is a great mic and probably would work better for a lot of people buying an RE20 or SM7B that don’t know how to EQ and don’t have minimum USBPre 2 quality pres. Cloudlifters are sort of snake oil in that if you need one, you probably are using the wrong mic.
Working on this podcast idea for the last few days, one part I’m really enjoying is recording the ambient sounds I’m using for background layering. It could be cool to record various natural places around Oregon and publish them on Insight Timer as meditations.
I’ve been thinking about this song lately, so I did a quick recording of it. Maybe other people would like it too. soundcloud.com/fisherman…
It turns out not starting my day by drinking black coffee on an empty stomach may help with the stomach pain I’ve been experiencing. How bizarre.
It may not be everyone’s style, but I really do think Portland — especially the east side and North Portland — is one of the most beautiful places.
Went to my blog and say I had nearly 3000 visitors today. I guess my blog post about nil in Objective-C popped up on Hacker News. I’m not complaining, but is it weird one of my first reactions is to get a little nervous when that happens?