– The Home Alone 2: Lost In New York Children’s Hospital is… St. Anne’s – Enemy of the State (hardly a Christmas film…but it has a surprising number of moments)… has a young Jack Black playing Fiedler and saying “McClean, Baltimore, between Hood and St. Anne’s“ – I visited St Anne’s Strathfield while I lived …
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A hardwood bench
Goal: A bench to sit on; to replace an unsafe, falling apart and badly rusted garden swing.
Coronavirus: [Not a] Black Swan of 2020
I agree with Damien Klassen here: I object to the term black swan … for me a black swan is something that is not only unlikely, but [is an event] you never even thought could possibly happen, whereas this has been an event for weeks now … I think it’s an event that has been …
The Remote Leader’s Guide to Managing a Team
Via Angel.co: https://www.matthewbarby.com/remote-leadership/ Thoroughly agree with things like how precise communication needs to be (and how easy it is to mess up which can require much patience and forgiveness) having been fortunate to be in a globally distributed team with no timezone overlap at MongoDB (Australia, New York, Berlin), an Australia-Vietnam team at Adam & …
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6 things I loved about the most impressive resume I’ve ever seen—based on 20 years of hiring
Thank you Gary Burnison. Hopefully it helps you if stumbled across my blog and you find yourself like me today, looking to get hired. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/26/most-impressive-resume-ever-based-on-20-years-of-hiring-and-interviewing.html I can’t live up to all of this, though it’s good enough advice I remembered and was able to dig it up, and will apply what I can. I most …
Battlestar Galactica Corners
For the BSG corners on my about me picture, inspired by this codepen, in Firefox I used the CSS clip-path (MDN), disabled the body background image of chrome://global/skin/media/imagedoc-darknoise.png, screenshotted it then used the macOS Preview magic tool to cut out the background to get the clear alpha. clip-path: polygon( 20% 0, 80% 0, 100% 15%, …
Migrating to WordPress.com
Some years, life is less kind to us. It’s a little harder to justify spending AUD $150 every year just for hosting (excluding domains and email) as our currency keeps falling against the USD, so cutting that closer to AUD $90 and picking up mobile support overall seems like a win. Please accept my apologies …
Thank you Guido, Julie, Mariatta!
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. Last Friday was one of those special moments that’s a little bigger than a tweet. Thank you to Guido van Rossum and Mariatta for reviewing and merging my PR on PEP 484. For context, it was also inspired by Julie Pagano: It’s Dangerous to Go Alone: Battling the …
Sneak Peek: Beyond React 16
Very cool ideas. They might even take us to a world without hard-coded debounce values which could be really awesome: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/01/sneak-peek-beyond-react-16.html
Trello > JIRA for visual people
At Mathspace, I used and loved Trello. I think it’s because a huge portion of the human brain is involved with vision. For an example of how visual and visceral Trello is, please see: https://trello.com/c/ZOYwCYQM/1605-label-names-on-card-fronts At MongoDB, I need to use JIRA. It does the job. I now know why Atlassian, makers of JIRA bought …
Peter Johannes Schmidt 