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 …
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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 …
Ubuntu second monitor after sleep bug pictures
StackExchange doesn’t to my knowledge allow pictures in comments, so I’ll post my pictures here in case someone else has more time to reproduce and debug this issue. Original question (please post any comments there): https://askubuntu.com/questions/495997/how-to-properly-restart-unity Original state when I resumed my 2015 Macbook Pro with Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and all updates applied from sleep …
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I pledge my life to Christ
To my future self or anyone interested, I do not know if God is my savior because I do not know if I want to be saved. If I am one of the 144,000: And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could …
Pledge 1%: A new model for corporate philanthropy
Awesome post by Scott Farquhar. If I ever do find myself in the fortunate situation of being in a small startup again, it’s definitely something I will be personally advocating for: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/corporate-philanthropy-pledge-1-percent
Time up for the great Australian property dream?
I use the AFR iPad app for the free stories, because I choose not to pay for such luxuries as newspapers until I can afford my own dwelling (so ironic that it is my understanding that the AFR is owned by Fairfax media who also owns the Domain group). Today brings a good piece from …
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Can We Talk? It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission
Good general advice: https://www.themuse.com/advice/can-we-talk-how-to-confront-someone-at-work I am consistently surprised how awesome things tend to be for me, and as far as possible I always go straight to the source and cut to the chase in the interests of maximising everyone’s time. In other words, I assume the wonderful quote from Grace Hopper: It’s easier to ask …
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Rust + Node = Neon looks quite promising
Neon has come across my radar a few times. Today I started following it’s really awesome Getting Started guide. If you have a spare half hour, there’s also the following really cool video on what it might all mean for upcoming systems programmers (source):
Peter Johannes Schmidt 