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I’ve uploaded a few pics from my trip to the beach to zenfolio, starting here. I hadn’t been to the Pine Knoll Shores aquarium since it was upgraded (6?) years ago, and it’s really nice in the off season when it’s not crowded. Someone apparently fed the otters some speed (they’ve got a really nice [...]
Recently I’ve been trying to simplify my electronic music setup so I get a bit less distracted, and also in the process have been replacing some things so it sounds better. Pedal gear is going away in favor of rackable stuff, which makes things a bit less cluttered too. I’ve sort have been chasing a [...]
I lose a fair amount of Starcraft. Usually it’s because I’m saving up for something big and don’t invest in my economy production rate. I’m usually saving up to buy a ultra-high tech Colossus or upgrade my Chargelots, but what you should be doing is building more worker units so I can get that item [...]
It’s easy to write an app and miss database performance until it sneaks up on you, so it’s important to be thinking about performance all the time — fixing it later can be tricky. Recently I had to deal (am dealing with) a scenario where SQL queries against a list of things are of the [...]
Previously I worked at about 3 shops that were using formal capital-S Scrum. While these places have had good aspects and this isn’t a knock at them, I’ve never liked the system itself. I’m now in a position where I believe I’d actually seek to avoid capital-S Scrum in the future. Now that may not [...]
As I posted on the twittersphere, I rediscovered my lost Shure 535 headphones this morning. Before owning the Shure 535′s, I had some Shure 2s, 3s, and 4′s, so I’ve had a long history of using Shure canalphones. I believe the 3s and 4s were replaced to the wires fraying, though the 5′s have detachable/replaceable [...]
Previously I’ve often had the problem of needing to debug a process inside a network application while it interacts with a client application. While I’m not sure there’s a good analog in Perl (where I wanted this pretty badly and had to use lots of logging), at work, we’ve been using epdb, which is pretty [...]
I believe I alluded on the tweetverse that I had a new job, but didn’t post details in public yet. For those that don’t know, I’m now at rPath in Raleigh, and had an absolutely great first week. Awesome folks, office, and very impressive tech stack (and Python!). Lots of potential for world domination. Lots. [...]
I last went to Chicago for a tech conference a couple of years ago, but didn’t have much time to look around. Here’s 50+ pictures from a vacation where I did. New pictures start at #18 in the gallery (click me), and include Millenium Park, the Buckingham Fountain, Sears/Willis Tower’s Skydeck (meh), the Chicago Art [...]
