The Dependables
The biggest problem I run into with my side projects is keeping dependencies up to date. I’ll not maintain a site for months and then when I come back to do a small update, I’ll discover something along the way that has been deprecated. It results in more time being spent on updating the dependency than it does to do the actual update I want to perform. This latest one, much like it ha...
Comments Were a Mistake
George Carlin said “People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people.” I enjoy what people have to say. I hate hearing what bots have to say. And the problem on many platforms is that it’s near impossible to tell the difference. I used to have comments enabled on this site but since the rise of Twitter, useful comments from actual people declined quickly and useles...
Subversive
“The most subversive thing you can do right now is blog.” That was a thought I had and considered just posting that line. As I tend to do, I analyze it. “Most? Really? There are most certainly other things that are more subversive. We’re just talking about blogging here.” I over-analyzed it. It’s true, though. I quickly talked myself out of the blog post idea. Then I saw...
The Best Tools
Growing up, my mom didn’t have much money. As such, pursuing hobbies meant making due with what she could afford. Hockey gear was second hand and a few seasons out of date. My bike was a rust gold 3-speed that was neither the racing or BMX bike that I desired. I had skis that were a cross between racing and traditional, and not really good at either, all the while wearing jogging pants and an...
Snook Dreams of the Web
A number of year ago, I watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Here is a man that has devoted his life to creating the best sushi in the world. I admire someone so dedicated to the task. Jiro sought out the best fish and the best rice and refined his process. New employees spend years working on just a single aspect of the sushi-making process. Maybe with some clichéd inevitability—and not unlike so ...
Here Comes the Sun
It’s been a long, cold winter. Most winters have included some travel that have allowed me to escape the winter doldrums. It’s not that I specifically tried to escape but it was always a nice break. The winter of 2021 was the first time where, due to lockdowns, I really noticed the effects of sticking around all winter. It gets a bit claustrophobic. This particular winter, I had thoug...
Roundabout
I have many memories from when I was a child of road trips with my mom. We lived in Calgary and would head off in whatever direction. Maybe to Drumheller, where I’d indulge in my love of dinosaurs and gawk at hoodoos. Or towards Banff, into the Rocky Mountains. My mom said I always made a fantastic road trip companion as I usually fell asleep along the way. When I wasn’t sleeping, I was do...
Blogging Queue and Eh
I’ve been enjoying blogs a lot more, especially as a way of staying connected and up to date with friends, a slew of which have been tagging each other to write up their answers to some blogging questions. Susan tagged me and thus, here’s my entry. Why did you start blogging in the first place? I started getting into developing web sites professionally in 1999 and would write down so...