2023-01-12: Extremely curious to see if this post via micro dot blog makes it over to Twitter given their read …

2023-01-11: Woot, finally have the battery replacement scheduled for my Bolt next week. I am excited to have a) …

2023-01-11: Whoever got Github to automate re-pointing chained PR requests to the proper branch after the …

2023-01-08: This is probably only slightly less implausible than the conversation which actually happpened. …

2023-01-08: I love when I get a letter informing me a service with my personal information was breached, and to …

2023-01-07: A lot I read about COVID is lamenting the slow uptake of the bivalent vaccine, and I’m …

2023-01-07: I enjoyed Katie Porter’s reading material, but I enjoy both the general joke and the complete …

2023-01-06: Via @iosdevweekly@iosdev.space, Couple neat tricks from @peterfriese@iosdev.space on how to better …

2023-01-06: I’m slightly terrified by the implication here that meat-based popcorn exists.

2023-01-05: Lawd. Today was three Mondays in a trenchcoat, and it can go back to the hellmouth from whence it …

2023-01-04: Love to spend four hours troubleshooting CI and still not have the faintest idea of what you’ve done …

2023-01-02: Totes ready to head back to work tomorrow!`* * - The preceding statement has received Five …

2023-01-02: Cool, now do literally everyone twitter.com/JoeBiden/…

2022-12-31: 2022 was a very mixed bag for me, but tonight I’m just happy to be home safe with my wife and our …

2022-12-29: June: Did something to my elbow August: Finally got an ortho appointment to get referred to PT …

2022-12-28: Well that went unexpectedly well. I caught an hour earlier flight back to Madison and get to be in …

2022-12-28: Three very sad-looking Southwest planes parked on the tarmac at BDL, waiting for crews to show up. …

2022-12-26: OK, I did at least figure out how to upgrade PHP to something that’s not EOL’d, but …

2022-12-26: OK, I think it’s time for me to find a new host, Media Temple isn’t even keeping PHP up …

2022-12-25: Extremely fuck Greg Abbott and whichever of his cronies organized dropping off three buses of …

2022-12-25: Made it to my cousin’s house just before 2am. I’m so tired I’m pretty sure I hallucinated Santa on …

2022-12-24: Pilots flying my plane from ATL to BDL (Hartford CT) were apparently about an hour and a half late …

2022-12-24: Been in the ATL airport for about a half hour and already seen two decent-sized floods that appear …

2022-12-23: I have taught @ajoelthomas@twitter.com well.

2022-12-23: I realize today is Festivus and not Thanksgiving, but boy am I thankful I’m not in Madison right now …

2022-12-22: Bonus nerd points to our hotel that rented a couple giant telescopes so people could see the nebula …

2022-12-22: Nephew, pointing at his grandma (my stepmom): Ella esta la jefa. Stepbrother: Don’t call my mother a …

2022-12-21: I didn’t even upgrade my phone this year and still managed to catch Orion hand-held last night. …

2022-12-20: OH at dinner: “I consider myself a fairly tolerant person, except when people are being a bunch of …

2022-12-19: Like, I know better than to try to keep them from getting drunk. I am drunk. But like, I’ve been so …

2022-12-19: Trying to keep my high school-to-grad school aged nieces and nephews from getting completely …

2022-12-18: I’ve been posting everything to both the bird site and the extinct elephant forebear site with micro …

2022-12-18: “When should we sneak this out?” “On a Sunday during overtime of the most tense World Cup final in …

2022-12-18: You know Delta serves the American South when the safety video has to clarify that chewing tobacco …

2022-12-18: Oh win, I thought I was gonna miss the World Cup final being in the air, but instead I’m gonna get …

2022-12-16: Huge family gatherings can be overwhelming for me, but I’m gonna have to keep my whining to a …

2022-12-15: There are 3 kinds of winter drivers in the Midwest: People who drive appropriately for the …

2022-12-14: PSA: If you want some of the weird laser stuff I sell shipped before the holidays, please order by …

2022-12-13: Very belated link to my slides from #ServerSideSwift - Glad to see the folks at …

2022-12-13: Swift Package Manager: You absolutely cannot have a dependency that points to a commit or branch if …

2022-12-12: Omg yes please xoxo.zone/@numist/1…

2022-12-11: What kind of jackasses DDoS SpeakerDeck? Boo on them, #hugops to the SD folks! …

2022-12-11: At Heathrow to head back to the US. At least, I think I am.

2022-12-10: Working on my scientific thesis that Burratta balls at Italian restaurants increase linearly in size …

2022-12-10: Good fight from England there. And I think I managed to nail the “very excited about the game, not …

2022-12-10: In case anyone wondered how loud it got in a London pub during that Kane pk #WorldCup

2022-12-10: A feature Swift should absolutely steal from Kotlin hachyderm.io/@holly/10…

2022-12-10: Woot, it worked. Thanks @manton!

2022-12-10: Sounds like accessibility crossposting is back up at micro dot blog…let’s find out! (If there’s no …

2022-12-10: Trying to find a pub where people care enough about the World Cup that watching the game will be …

2022-12-09: Dave Verwer with a very accurate take on how to run a successful open source project …

2022-12-09: Mikaela (@mikaela__caron) talking about using fly.io to deploy a Vapor server #ServerSideSwift

2022-12-09: “Swift NIO is a bit of a Swiss Army Chainsaw: Very powerful, but quite easy to get cut.” - @Lukasaoz …

2022-12-09: Time for some #ServerSideSwift! Tim was not kidding when he told me I didn’t need to worry about …

2022-12-09: Nice of the Brits to welcome me back

2022-12-08: Please do not get in the elevator if you are being attacked by birds

2022-12-08: London’s ugly Christmas sweater/jumper game is extremely strong.

2022-12-08: Long overdue good news twitter.com/POTUS/sta…

2022-12-07: Man it was a good day. Also, this is going to hurt tomorrow.

2022-12-07: Snuck over to Paris for lunch. Amis + fromage = 😍😍😍

2022-12-06: Wot’s all this then

2022-12-05: Flight from ORD to LHR, take 2: The 5 Hours Later Edition. Wish us luck getting across the pond in …

2022-12-05: I’ll take “things you absolutely do not want to see on an international flight” for 200, Alex.

2022-12-05: Dear England: Can you please clarify if I will still be bombarded in all dimensions by Christmas …

2022-12-05: Extremely excited to be headed to #ServerSideSwift. If you’re in London or its environs this week, …

2022-12-05: Leaving dreary, cloudy, dark Madison to head to checks notes London.

2022-12-04: If you have a cat that loses its tiny mind for catnip, check out this fundraiser for Madison Cat …

2022-12-04: Goals in your teens: I want to be a rock star! Goals in your forties: Man, I cannot wait until we …

2022-12-02: I’m clearly missing something on iOS 16’s SwiftUI NavigationStack: Why on earth can …

2022-12-02: Turning on automatic screen lock on your laptop

2022-12-02: It is Toaster Oven Chestnut season, and WOW I should have started putting a wee bit of water in with …

2022-11-29: If you were wondering how the Adderall shortage is going, there’s now a nationwide shortage of my …

2022-11-29: If you, like me, are annoyed that XCUI’s waitForExistence(timeout:) literally waits the length …

2022-11-28: Shower thought this morning: Why does Swift Package Manager consider packages pointing at tags …

2022-11-27: Kids seem glad to have us home. (Not pictured: Hank repeatedly trying to shove himself between …

2022-11-27: Five Guys review or your most flaming friend’s Grindr profile?

2022-11-27: On one hand, it’s great to see so many more EVs on the road this year than the last 2.5 years we’ve …

2022-11-26: This troll got so close to a properly palindromic insult.

2022-11-25: The best way to get me to subscribe to your service is to have Siri misinterpret what I said and …

2022-11-25: Hey Internet: I’ve got a 20% off sale going until the end of November on my silly lasered …

2022-11-24: One of the kids confused the microwave and the toaster oven, so if you ever wondered how long you …

2022-11-24: It’s not like convincing a platform like Twitter to make a foundational change would require any …

2022-11-24: Ran across some folks in Edina who may have been a bit too optimistic about the thanksgiving …

2022-11-23: “Forks are not swords!” “What? Of course they are!” Gonna be an interesting few days.

2022-11-22: Electrify America is basically gonna get DDoSed tomorrow from a bunch of people taking their first …

2022-11-21: I wonder how many people are going to tell him that he should bootstrap their code by running rm -rf …

2022-11-21: I am extremely late to this particular lesbian party but daaaaaaaaaaaaamn D’Arcy Carden in …

2022-11-20: I think Tootbot might be afoot mastodon.social/@paul@tap…

2022-11-20: The suspect in the Colorado Springs shooting apparently was in a multi-hour standoff with police …

2022-11-20: I brought some of my grandma’s “everyday china” back from Atlanta. Trying to figure out whether I …

2022-11-18: For reference, I am 65 inches tall. (For people who use the metric system: 66in ≈ 168 cm) …

2022-11-17: Welp. I’m also @designatednerd on micro dot blog and mastodon dot social when the bird site finally …

2022-11-17: Was making a grocery list today and autocarrot decided that instead of “lemon”, I meant “Lenin”. …

2022-11-15: Someone couldn’t bear to be left out of Giant Grifter Meltdown week …

2022-11-15: Hope everyone who was shitting on @EricFrohnhoefer for not keeping his criticism private sees that …

2022-11-15: This guy is a complete professional for lasting as long as he did before cracking up. …

2022-11-12: Headed home with a decent chunk of the archive to digitize. As always when I head home from Atlanta, …

2022-11-11: My stepmom was watching CNBC and I discovered that @caseynewton has street cred. Looking forward to …

2022-11-11: Happy Veterans’ Day! Please enjoy this picture of my dad from when he was one of the oldest guys in …

2022-11-10: Also, day 1 record of Oldest Located Item in the Archive is a 1948 middle school band concert …

2022-11-10: Dad and stepmom are moving to a smaller place, so I’m helping dad clean out his, uh, archives. …

2022-11-09: My dad offered to pick me up if the cab line was too long. I was like dad, I am here on your …

2022-11-09: Finally made it to Atlanta. Unsurprisingly 12:30 am on Thursday morning is as quiet as I’ve ever …

2022-11-09: New plane showed up, they cleaned it, we boarded, they need to print off one piece of paper for the …

2022-11-09: iOS folk would be well advised to trip over themselves to hire Tamar. twitter.com/tamarshma…

2022-11-09: Well the one good thing about having a 3+ hour delay at an airport like Madison is that we’re now …

2022-11-09: Me, a United mega-frequent flyer: Hm I guess I should take Delta to Atlanta because it’s a direct …

2022-11-08: The dumbest part of this is that we ran into this at Apollo but I had completely memory-holed it and …

2022-11-08: Woof. To save everyone the trouble I had: If you get a the manifest is missing a Swift tools version …

2022-11-08: *heard. I’m not paying anyone for editing. Get off my lawn.

2022-11-08: 🇺🇸 Reminder for late voters: If you’re in line when the polls close, in most (if not all) places, …

2022-11-08: I know they’re there for good reason, but the “No discussion of politics in the polling place!” …

2022-11-08: Eat shit, Ron Johnson and Tim Michaels.

2022-11-08: I hope the server isn’t too…flaky. 😎 twitter.com/KrauseFx/…

2022-11-07: The Midwest: if you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes.

2022-11-07: Trying out micro.blog crossposting to Twitter and Mastodon. I gotta admit, I underestimated how …