Happened to wake up ten minutes before the Nobel Peace Prize announcement. Perdictions: Dona Trump will not win, the United States will declare war on Norway.

Pretty funny that Obsidian makes you type out the “Quit without saving” Vim command to enable Vim mode. I love it but this is the first knowledge test I’ve taken to toggle a setting.

“Abstract” is the academic term for TLDR.

Doubling down on my Vim usage lately, getting to know some of the dot motions really feels like a superpower. I hate to say I’ve drunk the Kool-aid but I think I’m getting there.

My daughter found two monarch caterpillars on our milkweed plants which has kicked off an amazing journey.

Its wild how much they eat and also how fast they grow.

Finished reading: A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern 📚

I liked this book a lot, and I like Ardern a lot. I know she’s not overly popular in New Zealand, but all the negative review’s I’ve read center on mask mandates and required vaccinations which I have no issues with. I’d be curious to hear from come Kiwis on about this.

Apparently Netanyahu is telling residents of Gaza to “leave now”. Sorry, but where the hell are they supposed to go? They’ve been blocked from leaving for 20 years.

I work from home, in the basement; my 1 year old cries whenever I go downstairs. My wife has to stand with her at the top of the stairs and they wave me down as I go. It feels like leaving for the office but like 10 times a day.

Is learning Vim actually faster if you then spend multiple hours a week tweaking your Neovim config?

From the morning walk.

Finally took the plunge and decided to start paying for Micro.one… Very good chance I will upgrade to the full service soon.

Before sending that email to hundreds of thosuands of customers… ask yourself, is announcing “we now have dark mode” broadcast worthy?

Experience has shown that if you put out a bug bounty your server will be hit repeatedly with requests to /wp_admin for the rest of eternity.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Not to rush Christmas, but I think I’ll try my hand at Advent of Code this year. It will be a good chance to play around with Rust.

I’m 33 years old and I only learned how to spell “doesn’t” this year. Getting enough practice where I almost spell it right the first time. (I think I used to default to dosen’t).

Why Cybertruck when you could Cyberduck ! I think I’ve been using Cyberduck for 100% of my FTP needs for at least 15 years. Such a rock solid piece of software.

SQL is the way, SQL is always the way! I killed myself for hours this morning trying to query/clean some data in Rails, started writing raw SQL and had it sorted in 30 minutes!

Apparently I destroyed my fingerprint while climbing over the weekend- my MBP fingerprint no longer seems to work. It’s a small feature but very missed when it doesn’t work.

Morning Jog in Guelph. Rainy days like yesterday are perfect!