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Claude's Busy Schedule

Claude just said, “Due to time constraints and the large number of tests that need updating, let me create a simple helper that creates an area and...

Prompt hacking = phone phreaking?

I can’t help but notice how similar prompt injection attacks are to phone phreaking. Both rely on the control signal being on the same medium/condu...

StartupCincy 2025

I’m locked in for StartupCincy week this year. I really appreciate the people in this community, and it’s a really inspiring week. Who am I going t...

Proposed New Software Development Law

It's 2025, how is git-flow still in the wild? The half-life of ideas with clearly better alternatives is so long. (Not trying to @ anyone, fwiw... just genuinely surprised when I peek outside my bubble and see things I thought were gone)

It's Monday, so it's time to play the weekly game of "will Zoom work when I try to join a meeting?" How is videoconferencing getting worse over time?

It’s Monday, so it’s time to play the weekly game of “will Zoom work when I try to join a meeting?” How is videoconferencing getting worse over tim...

There’s a reason for this: https://lnkd.in/gwf4v7xM

There’s a reason for this: https://lnkd.in/gwf4v7xM

Sometimes Claude just can't take a hint.

Sometimes Claude just can’t take a hint.

Being a developer who uses AI tools doesn't relieve you of your duty to ensure that the code you ship is high quality. Today, Claude tried to automatically grant admin status to users and even enshrined it into a test. It was hidden in a PR with a few hundred lines of code change, and it would have been easier to let those eyes glaze over and just click merge. But there's a reason you're sitting in your seat. Don't abdicate your authority.

Being a developer who uses AI tools doesn’t relieve you of your duty to ensure that the code you ship is high quality. Today, Claude tried to autom...

I'm becoming an author. I find that I'm writing down my thoughts, ideas, perspective, and rationale a lot more than I used to, because I know it will be read. Sometimes by people, other times by a computer that will use it for content that will be read by other people. It's interesting how powerful it is to know that your words will be seen and incorporated into outcomes you can't guess at yet.

I’m becoming an author. I find that I’m writing down my thoughts, ideas, perspective, and rationale a lot more than I used to, because I know it wi...

My time and my experience from 2025, shared freely with you.

My time and my experience from 2025, shared freely with you.

These LLM code generation graphs have been making the rounds: https://lnkd.in/gGtdPt7f. I've used Claude Code the most with Elixir, Ruby, and C#. They all score relatively high in pass percentage (higher than Python, Go or JS, for example) in the charts. I haven't dug in to understand these results and what they represent well, but it has me wondering if this is one of the reasons I am having such a positive experience with LLM tools and yet I regularly talk to people who continue to have poor experiences with them overall. Just an off the cuff Friday thought.

These LLM code generation graphs have been making the rounds: https://lnkd.in/gGtdPt7f I’ve used Claude Code the most with Elixir, Ruby, and C#. Th...

File this one under "you don't know unless you ask".

File this one under “you don’t know unless you ask”.

All the things that used to matter in software delivery matter even more now. That has been one of the most fun realizations this year. If your process was lightweight before, you can move faster now with LLM tooling. If your processes held you back before, they will hold you back more than ever. Same for tests (or lack thereof), team education and cohesiveness, revenue insights, you name it. We have just given ourselves a faster vehicle. If we’re already moving in the right direction, we get there much faster. If everyone’s steering in a different direction… we’ll hit the wall faster and sooner than ever.

All the things that used to matter in software delivery matter even more now. That has been one of the most fun realizations this year. If your pro...

I'm trying one of the most optimistic AI-first mini projects I can think of. Visual layout of items on an x,y translated grid on top of an overlay, with bi-directional updating of the form fields to represent those objects. I move a thing on the visual editor, it updates the form fields. I update the form fields, it updates the preview UI. It's one of those things I know I can build, I know there are tools for already that you have to shoehorn your app into, and it has a ton of hidden complexity. Claude is struggling, but with a lot of nudges it's getting there in about a quarter of the time I would going it the traditional way, and it's fully integrated into the app I'm building instead of being an obviously bolted on library. (And of course we have tests and lots of edge case handling, because this is a production feature and not a prototype). This historically "grindy" feature is *almost* fun.

I’m trying one of the most optimistic AI-first mini projects I can think of. Visual layout of items on an x,y translated grid on top of an overlay,...

Friday PDF productivity hack (a day late): if you need to review the contents of a giant PDF file but Claude is complaining about it being too large, you don't necessarily have to go full-on RAG for it. A lot of times you can get by with the poppler pdftotext tool and just convert the PDF to text and let Claude handle it that way.

Friday PDF productivity hack (a day late): if you need to review the contents of a giant PDF file but Claude is complaining about it being too larg...

Siri's transcription is just unbearably bad at this point. I'm not looking to switch to android, but I have run out of patience with the disparity between what I see other tools capable of and what Siri produces.

Fun Friday "Try This". Give Claude Code or Cursor access to playwright-mcp and pull a PR branch down and ask it to validate the functionality in the PR matches the description. It's starting to crush that task. It can drive a browser and experimentally validate or invalidate the workflow.

Fun Friday “Try This”. Give Claude Code or Cursor access to playwright-mcp and pull a PR branch down and ask it to validate the functionality in th...

Does Claude write higher quality code from my prompts than I would without AI? If I’m being intellectually honest, I think I have to say yes here with an asterisk.

Does Claude write higher quality code from my prompts than I would without AI? If I’m being intellectually honest, I think I have to say yes here w...

Pulse check.

Pulse check.

The last few days, Claude Code has gone off the rails a few times. It's trying to solve a problem and when I ask it to reproduce in a failing test first, it gets frustrated and makes a whole deep state, ghost test runner and suite in the tmp directory. Like it's all, "you fools and your tests that won't run, I'll make my own better tests in my own place and way, and you'll never be the wiser!

The last few days, Claude Code has gone off the rails a few times. It’s trying to solve a problem and when I ask it to reproduce in a failing test ...

I'm going through an exercise to fine tune an LLM with some of my own preferences, and it's actually turning into a journey of self-discovery. The things you have to manifest into concrete words from assumptions and intrinsic, ingrained thoughts and behaviors are akin to writing a playbook for life from your own perspective. It's a lot of work!

I’m going through an exercise to fine tune an LLM with some of my own preferences, and it’s actually turning into a journey of self-discovery. The ...

Chatting with my first fine tuned (LoRA) Local LLM. 2025 is wild.

Chatting with my first fine tuned (LoRA) Local LLM. 2025 is wild.

Copilot could muddle, cursor could carve, but Claude code can mold. It's making a 15-year-old app with all of the barnacles feel more like putty.

The most important senior dev skills to build right now are a quick trigger finger to stop Claude, and the ability to read and grok copious amounts of code and keep the full mental model in view. Claude, Copilot, all of them, they're just bad at it still. But if you can limit WIP, review quickly, and learn to make yourself the smallest bottleneck possible, you can build ridiculous levels of production-quality features in a short amount of time. I just built what would have taken 3 weeks last year in about 2.5 work days. It's just incredible. Full test suite, continuous delivery, PII field level encryption, authentication and authorization, the works.

The most important senior dev skills to build right now are a quick trigger finger to stop Claude, and the ability to read and grok copious amounts...

Did google disable their spam filter for a day, or have people figured out a new clever way past it? I'm getting a much higher rate of spam today through the filter today than usual.

Did google disable their spam filter for a day, or have people figured out a new clever way past it? I’m getting a much higher rate of spam today t...

Developer happiness corresponds to developer productivity. It's not about navel gazing and shiny technology, it's about results, unlocking strategy execution, and tech stack core competencies that lead to durable competitive advantage.

Claude Code isn't half bad as a user testing surrogate with the playwright MCP server. It's interesting to see it reason about an app as it tries to accomplish a high level goal and encounters the UX to get it there.

Claude Code isn’t half bad as a user testing surrogate with the playwright MCP server. It’s interesting to see it reason about an app as it tries t...

Claude Code is the daily driver now for a while after Cursor nosedived in performance and skyrocketed in cost for me over the last few weeks. Bonus: not tied to VS Code.

Claude Code is the daily driver now for a while after Cursor nosedived in performance and skyrocketed in cost for me over the last few weeks. Bonus...

Ruby on Rails is flat out enjoyable elegance.

Ruby on Rails is flat out enjoyable elegance.

I hit an interesting inflection point recently. I had to build a fairly simple website that will be maintained by some people without technical software development skills. I reached for the traditional wisdom answer, and set up WordPress. I used an LLM to try to help me get some of the settings correct for what I wanted to do, and it was a pain. Different versions and incompatible plug-ins all merged together to make it a big challenge. I finally gave up, opened cursor, and asked it to build me a website that had a bespoke administrative interface to change the key parts of the website, and I was done with the bulk of the effort in a quarter of the time I had already wasted on WordPress. Not only is the site less constrained than it would've been on WordPress, but the interface that people have to update the important parts is simpler and easier to use. It makes me wonder what the future of that platform is if that doesn't adapt quickly to become more LLM friendly out of the box.

I hit an interesting inflection point recently. I had to build a fairly simple website that will be maintained by some people without technical sof...

Cursor has gotten markedly worse in the last few days. Way more thinking without better results, interrupting itself to make minor course adjustments but now harder to interrupt for major ones, much slower as context builds, and way more code for only a slight bump in quality. And it's burning through money faster (maybe double the rate from my perception?)

Distributed systems are hard. The essential complexity of a distributed system, meaning the lowest complexity that it can possibly have, is still very high. The internet is a distributed system.

Distributed systems are hard. The essential complexity of a distributed system, meaning the lowest complexity that it can possibly have, is still v...

Cursor is a protyping beast.

Cursor is a protyping beast.

Wow. Building real-time features into a Phoenix application using Cursor is incredible.

Wow. Building real-time features into a Phoenix application using Cursor is incredible.

Is phoenix.new the pivotal moment where elixir and phoenix take their well deserved spots among the top-tier build-with-AI languages? I’ve been mostly trying to ignore the one shot stuff, but it’s been hard to ignore Chris McCord as he’s been posting what he’s been doing the last few months. I don’t say this as a “you should check it out“ thing, but rather as a “who has checked this thing out and wants to talk about it?”

Is phoenix.new the pivotal moment where elixir and phoenix take their well deserved spots among the top-tier build-with-AI languages? I’ve been mos...

AI-generated content tastes like preservatives.

AI-generated content tastes like preservatives.

I just thought to myself that maybe it’s time for another chrome extension that’s “cloud to butt” except for AI. But it wouldn’t be very fun. All the websites would just be “butt butt butt prompt butt butt butt agentic butt”

I just thought to myself that maybe it’s time for another chrome extension that’s “cloud to butt” except for AI. But it wouldn’t be very fun. All t...

In addition to fear, one of the reasons I was slow to adopt AI tools is that it opens up a brand new frontier where ethical boundaries have not been fully established. The principles apply, but the practical application is still in flux. My MBA concentration was values-based leadership, and it’s an area of my professional career that I take seriously. Thanks to Professor Fiorelli and the Williams College of business at Xavier, I had the chance to study firsthand the devastation that ethical lapses in leadership can cause. This is a concern that I continue to have. It pains me to see AI used to further dark UX patterns, fraud, and scams. It’s also part of why you don’t see me hyping AI silver bullets on this platform. Instead, I talk in experiments and hypotheses and practical experience, because I don’t want to misrepresent myself or Launch Scout. Everyone in this industry is still figuring this out. Anyone who tells you otherwise deserves some extra scrutiny.

In addition to fear, one of the reasons I was slow to adopt AI tools is that it opens up a brand new frontier where ethical boundaries have not bee...

My biggest take away from #cincyaiweek is that people are hungry for depth and experience with regard to AI. We are collectively ready to move beyond hype. That has been driving the Launch Scout team all year. we’ve dug way beyond the surface and I want to share and learn with others who want the same.

My biggest take away from #cincyaiweek is that people are hungry for depth and experience with regard to AI. We are collectively ready to move beyo...

LLMs are chaos monkeys in the tightest feedback loop of the software development process.

LLMs are chaos monkeys in the tightest feedback loop of the software development process.

Need a SarcAIsm Emoji

I need a special emoji to represent sarcAIsm, aka when I’m joking about doing something that shouldn’t be done with AI tools. Nobody knows what’s g...

I think what I want is to pair or mob on the orchestration of LLM tools. We've limited ourselves to projecting a new kind of work onto our old plane of working, and it's making us sad. I don't want to stare at a chat window and watch Claude have all the fun. I want to be in an immersive world with my colleagues, moving together to conduct an orchestra of tools while experiencing the joy of collaborating with humans in the work, synchronously.

I think what I want is to pair or mob on the orchestration of LLM tools. We’ve limited ourselves to projecting a new kind of work onto our old plan...

AI doesn’t create enough good friction to be a good pair.

AI doesn’t create enough good friction to be a good pair.

Vibe coding is a back of the napkin sketch. Treat it like it's anything more and you'll quickly find that you built a house out of tissue paper. I'm not trashing vibe coding, because sketching and prototyping is super important and valuable. Just keep in mind that it's only a picture of the thing. It's not *the thing*.

Pairing Culture with AI

Launch Scout traditionally has a pairing culture. We value high bandwidth collaboration and all the learning and fulfillment that comes along with ...

Beyond Prompts: Lighting the Runway

LLM prompts aren’t enough. If you want to get the best results out of your tools, you have to light up the runway so they can’t do anything but nai...

Aider and Local LLMs

I got Aider (AI coding friend), LM Studio (local llm manager/interface), and devstral small (a small, self-hostable coding aware LLM) running on my...

Exploring Local LLM Models

I have been trying out some of the newer local, targeted LLM models to see what the state of the art in “offline AI” looks like. Anyone else in my ...

Claude Desktop MCP Server Setup

Today I’m working through setting up Claude Desktop to use an MCP Server to control a browser and pull information real-time from some of the inter...

Did you know you can teach AI to speak your company's language?

Did you know you can teach AI to speak your company’s language?

Soundcore Hearing Test Innovation

Soundcore introduced a hearing test in their 40i noise cancellation/transparency product. It tweaks the EQ to account for your perception of differ...

Gaining AI Tool Proficiency is Humbling

Gaining proficiency in AI tools is humbling. I pride myself on being a scrappy problem-solving kind of person, but the necessary amount of continuo...

Let's meet up! I would like to compare notes with anyone leading a team of developers using (or thinking about using AI). I want to have as many conversations about it as I can, because we're in a high potential but generally low-information/experience point in the industry and there's a lot to be learned from each other. Reply with "meet" or DM me if you're interested and I'll send a calendly link (also happy to buy you a coffee if you're in the Cincinnati area).

Let’s meet up! I would like to compare notes with anyone leading a team of developers using (or thinking about using AI). I want to have as many co...

AI Changed My Eye for Code

AI has done something to my eye for code. I find myself caring less about how the code looks, but I care even more about how the overall design and...

Local LLMs are going to be a real thing.

Local LLMs are going to be a real thing.

This is a super-interesting inside look at some of what our team is thinking and doing with technology, (Pythonx and AI tools in this case). I'm curious if you find this interesting and would like more of this kind of thing.

This is a super-interesting inside look at some of what our team is thinking and doing with technology, (Pythonx and AI tools in this case). I’m cu...

The biggest shortcoming of every AI coding/assistant tool I've seen is the inability of the tool to incorporate feedback from when I take the wheel back for a course correction. I have to go all in on chat or take full control and then try desperately to get it to invalidate its internal cache and line of thought. I really want it to be able to see that I've made a change and then use that as feedback for the next actions we take together.

The biggest shortcoming of every AI coding/assistant tool I’ve seen is the inability of the tool to incorporate feedback from when I take the wheel...

94% Test Coverage with LLMs

Web devs are running out of legitimate reasons for why there isn’t a comprehensive and automated test suite in the app that trigger on every PR… 😅

Cincinnati Computer Reuse Finds

One of the things that makes Cincinnati Computer Reuse special to me is being able to find an esoteric piece of hardware, buy it, get it home only ...

AI is Stone Soup

AI is stone soup. It’s not what makes the meal or creates anything meaningful by itself. Oftentimes in my recent experiences, it’s merely a sociolo...

Team Push-to-Main

Converting Claude to TDD

I think I’ve converted Claude 3.7 to be a proponent of TDD.

AI Without Tests Creates Tech Debt

If you’re using generative AI tools to write software and you’re not including automated tests with good coverage for new features in your cod...

Cursor Makes Characterization Tests Easy

Wonderful Cursor benefit: it’s almost free to add characterization tests to untested code. It’s never been easier to implement the important parts ...

Simple Custom ETL for Business Intelligence

Here’s a simple and super effective approach that only took a couple of weeks to initially implement and is helping me today to understand the metr...

Cursor and Ultrawide Monitors

Agentic AI and BEAM Parallels

Interesting parallels between the focus on agentic AI and how the BEAM works.

(Leading) questions of the day:

(Leading) questions of the day:

Pragmatic AI Approach Article

Feeling a little left behind with all the hyped or deeply-technical AI posts on here? I wrote an article for you: https://lnkd.in/gxPrDWqQ

AI Tools, a Pragmatic Approach (Part 1)

Originally published on Launch Scout’s blog

Design Patterns Still Matter

AI-Free Day of the Week

Leading question 😜: which day of the week do you turn off all your AI buddies to exercise your brain/tech muscles to counteract the brain rot that ...

Learning Preferences for Technical Content

What is your favorite way to learn and connect about technical things? I’ve been thinking about my own habits recently, and I realized that while I...

Excel Power User Stories

In the last two weeks, 3 different people have told me about some crazy-sophisticated things they’re doing with Excel and some glue code. What is t...

Iterative Shipping and Stubbornness

For me, two of the biggest things that have converged and shaped me as a developer: learning to ship everything I do in the smallest form possible ...

Safewave Safety Solution

Safewave is solving an important problem. This can help people who otherwise might miss important notifications to avoid emergencies and stay safer.

Anyone have luck with getting the auto-email 2FA disabled on an @X account? I have the password, and I was a delegated admin (removed when that became a Pro feature). Now the code is being sent to a throwaway email address that no one can access. Support requests seem to be going…

Anyone have luck with getting the auto-email 2FA disabled on an @X account? I have the password, and I was a delegated admin (removed when that bec...

MomentumDevCon 2024

I’m at #MomentumDevCon! Who do I just need to see here today?

Digital Archiving Hobby

Kind of off-the-wall, but I’ve slowly acquired tools to archive data off old media (5.25” and 3.5” floppies using a flux reader, audio cassette tap...

BOLD 19 Leadership Program Complete

Today I attended the final session for Leadership Council for Nonprofits BOLD 19 cohort. It’s been a very informative and helpful training program ...

Unsolved Easy Problems

What is a problem you encounter frequently that makes you think, “this should be easy, why is it so hard that nobody has solved it yet?”

Continuous Improvement Over Project Management

My operations management class taught two discrete methods of measuring and improving: traditional project management, and continuous improvement. ...

MBA Year One Reflections

Coming up on a year since my graduation from Xavier with an MBA, here’s some takeaways:

Me, to myself: get over it, people are going to use "ask" as a noun instead of "request" and it's okay for language and vernacular to evolve that way. Also me: uggggghghhhhhhhghghhhhhhhhh

Meetup facilitators/organizers: have you or anyone you know successfully migrated completely away from meetup dot com to another platform (Eventbrite, LinkedIn, etc)?

Me: find a ruby meetup near Cincinnati meetup(dot)com: ... Me: please, it's the one I help organize. Just load it right up thanks meetup(dot)com: here's a sewing meetup in Louisville... we good? Me: no we are not good meetup(dot)com: cool, so can I use your hard drive?

The world is held together by zip ties. If you look closely enough, they are everywhere. What did we do before zip ties?

Bingo! #gigcityelixir2023 @GigCityElixir (Also *ran* the bridge, thanked a sponsor and now promoted gig city on social 🥳)

Kimberly Erni's Inspiring Talks

If you want a pick-me-up and to have hope for the future of the field of software engineering, go watch a Kimberly Erni talk. There’s so much optim...

I’m excited for this talk!! Also, can you tell from this short video clip why it’s so much fun working with Andrew? Because it’s so much fun working with Andrew.

If you deal with plantar fasciitis and have tried things with little success (stretches, rest), consider taping at night. I’ve tried for a year to get relief, and I finally tried gently KT taping one foot last night as a test. Immediate relief. I can’t believe I waited this long.

MBA Graduation

News! It’s official enough for me to talk about it at this point:

I always just figured I'd be a stormtrooper, moisture farmer, or low level rebel mechanic if I were in the universe. Have we considered that the lightsaber needed a tune up and I pulled the unlucky jira support ticket for it? I guess I'm saying, I'm just happy to be here.

I always just figured I’d be a stormtrooper, moisture farmer, or low level rebel mechanic if I were in the universe. Have we considered that the li...

Leadership Without Manipulation

I don’t often talk publicly about my thoughts around leadership. Here’s something that’s been on my mind recently as I get ready to graduate in a f...

I didn’t guess that the thing to push me away from checking Twitter would be all the inane, incessant posts about LLMs and conjecturing about *the future*. I thought it’d be that other thing.

What is the hardest thing about web development that you thought ought to be easier?

A very belated but heartfelt happy birthday to you, @redrapids! I hope it was wonderful!

Does your team have automated accessibility checks in your CI builds? Is this something that you wish you had, or that you have upcoming milestones around? We have a goal of integrating it into new projects and finding gaps in our favorite frameworks that we are planning to fill.

A trend I have noticed the last year of speaking at technical conferences. Post pandemic conferences are running on budgets with narrow margins. Room proctors, recording equipment, and other speaker amenities are rare to find. 1/2

Who's been looking at the impressive capabilities of Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Nx and/or Bumblebee and getting ready to build something big on it?

I spent a few days switching a mess of js build tools in a long-running Rails app we have to webpack before seeing that Rails has sunsetted support for webpacker. The conversion instead to import maps and *no JS build tool* took 3 hours and works perfectly. Rails + Hotwire ftw.

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Hide LinkedIn News Script

If you’re looking for a quick mental health win, feel free to add this to your greasemonkey-style script for LinkedIn (it hides LinkedIn News, whic...

Hey Columbus Ruby friends! I’m getting ready to talk tonight at ColumbusRB at the cover my meds office about real-time apps with Rails and Hotwire. 6:30!

Anyone else make speedy engine noises whenever you run an internet speed test? Just me?

People seem really excited about netlify for hosting statically generated sites (among other things). The cost model is per committer per month, where other platforms are essentially a flat $3-$10/month for the same site. Netlify is like 25x more for us. What am I missing?

CodeMash Talk Results

Thanks for having me to speak about designing real time web applications, #codemash! Here are the results of the interactive polls during the talk....

If they ever remodeled and removed Disapproving Gorilla, I’m certain the next @codemash's schedule would include a memorial service.

Hey @codemash friends! I’m here and ready for the ~~brake pads~~ software conference!

Friends Discussing Important Topics

Several of my dear friends and colleagues talking about a really important topic. What more could I ask for?!

CodeMash Drone Memory

I totally forgot that it was the CoverMyMeds booth that I won a drone from at #codemash like 8-ish years ago. I repaired some things on it over the...

Joining Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

I just joined the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. Happy to support the ongoing efforts of that community and the BEAM community at large. https://erle...

Columbus Ruby Meetup

I’ll be in Columbus mid-January to speak at the #ruby meetup about real-time apps. Any of my friends here have office space for me to work out of f...

I'll be in Columbus mid-January to speak at the #ruby meetup about real-time apps. Any of my friends here have office space for me to work out of for the day on Monday the 16th from mid-morning on?

Innovation Through Difficult Times

Big tech company reductions are front-and-center. But alongside cost and spending controls during challenging economic times, companies and individ...

Party Photos

Is that a plant growing out of my plate? Am I getting ready to fight someone? Pretending to have a Lego minifig hand?

Seen on fly.io's login page:

Seen on fly.io’s login page:

ChatGPT: Yeah, But Should We?

Livebook for Business Intelligence

Is anyone in my connections using Livebook for BI? I’m getting good insights out of my work in it, and I’m thinking about the process of sharing t...

Sparkbox Apprenticeship Program

The goal… was to make the industry better.” I love Rob Tarr’s words and Sparkbox’s actions around their apprenticeship program. I’ve got a lot resp...

This was a fun (and a bit unnerving) talk to give! I walked up to give the talk with code that just didn't quite work how I knew it should from our work in past meetups. But the wisdom of the Ruby mob helped push it across at the end. What a great group!

This was a fun (and a bit unnerving) talk to give! I walked up to give the talk with code that just didn’t quite work how I knew it should from our...

What's an interesting domain or application that you've used Elixir for or seen Elixir used in recently?

Rocket Dog makes an appearance! ❤️

Livebook Linear Algebra Adventures

Continuing on in my recent Elixir #livebook adventures… I used #Nx linear algebra functions to solve a system of equations to find the equilibrium ...

Continuing on in my recent #livebook adventures... I used #Nx linear algebra functions to solve a system of equations to find the equilibrium point in an economics supply and demand problem in the same class.

Interactive Polls at Conference Talks

The most surprising and valuable thing I’ve introduced since speaking at conferences again is interactive polls. Here are the results of the most r...

Thanks for the last-minute CodeBEAM ticket, @teller and @thetimmorgan! I got to see my colleagues' talks (@ektastrophe, @lessthanseventy, Parker Rueve, and Katelynn Burns) virtually, and it was a wonderful surprise to be able to support them in real-time.

Livebook for Economics Research

I used #livebook in #elixir over the weekend to model an economics problem for my graduate business class. I used VegaLite charting and dynamically...

I used #livebook in #elixir over the weekend to model an economics problem for my graduate business class. I used VegaLite charting and dynamically generated markdown to show data and analysis together. It’s a powerful tool for research! #myelixirstatus

Cincinnati Ruby Brigade: Real-time Rails

I’ll be speaking next week at the Cincinnati Ruby Brigade meetup. Let’s Ride the Rails in Real-time by talking about design considerations and addi...

I'll be speaking next week at the Cincinnati Ruby Brigade meetup. Come on out to talk (soft) real-time web app dev and design. I'd love if you can join in person, and remote is also available.

Gig City Elixir Plans

I’m planning to attend Gig City Elixir and taking as many people with me as I can! Stay tuned to Groxio for more details on this!

This was a blast to give at @connect_js. Thank you for having me and thank you everyone who attended the talk! If you attended, I’d really appreciate a DM or reply with session feedback!

Talk Feedback Request

If you attended my talk, THANK YOU! Please give me feedback about the content and delivery. And please reach out to talk with me if you have questi...

I loved your talk today, @davydog187! Would you present (remotely) to the @OhioElixir meetup in an upcoming month?

I got to see a preview of this talk, and Katelynn is going to inspire you if you attend!

It's a very productive way to develop web apps, and LiveView is an industry changer. The closest thing I can relate its transformational power to in web history was the discovery of XMLHTTPRequest and async calls that fundamentally changed how we build web apps.

It’s a very productive way to develop web apps, and LiveView is an industry changer. The closest thing I can relate its transformational power to i...

Connect.Tech Atlanta

Hey, everyone! I’ll be in Atlanta at the Connect.Tech conference November 8th and 9th to talk about Designing Real-time Web Applications (https://l...

Show Me the Code

One recurring piece of feedback for me from the conference talk on designing real-time web apps was “show me the code”. The talk is focused on empa...

Momentum Dev Con Talk Results

Thank you everyone who attended our #momentumdevcon talk this morning! Here are the results of the interactive polls during the talk. Katie Pohlman...

Here's a li'l peek at a slide from our real-time web application talk. We've embedded #LiveView mini-apps within our talk slides, so giving interactive examples of problems and solutions will be _inside the presentation_. It's going to be awesome!

Here’s a li’l peek at a slide from our real-time web application talk. We’ve embedded #LiveView mini-apps within our marp.app talk slides, so givin...

Here's a li'l peek at at slide from our real-time web application talk. We've embedded #LiveView mini-apps within our talk slides, so giving interactive examples of problems and solutions will be _inside the presentation_. It's going to be awesome!

Here’s a li’l peek at at slide from our real-time web application talk. We’ve embedded #LiveView mini-apps within our marp.app talk slides, so givi...

iframes are amazing

Momentum Dev Con Talk Prep

I’m hard at work getting ready for the Designing Real-time Web Applications talk next week at Momentum Dev Con in Cincinnati! It’s not too late to ...

I have a few conference talks coming up, and among them is... #CodeMash 2023!

I have a few conference talks coming up, and among them is… #CodeMash 2023!

I got 99 problems because a modal solved one

Just hanging out at TQL Stadium for the Cincinnati Best Places to Work awards. Call me Ted Lasso.

Just hanging out at TQL Stadium for the Cincinnati Best Places to Work awards. Call me Ted Lasso.

ElixirConf and Noggin Day

One of the highlights for me at ElixirConf was getting to hang out with the fine folks at Binary Noggin, and specifically with Amos King. Amos and ...

What a great bundle of some of the best technical writing out there about Elixir! Do I know anyone (who knows anyone) who might need financial assistance to obtain these books? (DM me, please)

What a great bundle of some of the best technical writing out there about Elixir! humblebundle.com/books/elixir-p…

I’m here and I have the swag! Very excited for the conference this year!

This one got a LOL 🤣

What a fun talk that was to give!

Maybe we should have had @elixirconf in Vegas… they’ve got everything! Even the Oregon Trail branded lazy river!

I just got a sneak peek at our custom @teamlaunchscout @ElixirConf t-shirt design, and I'm pretty jacked up excited about it. #myelixirstatus

Do I know anyone (or know anyone who knows anyone) who has an old 8088/286/386 IBM PC compatible 5.25" floppy drive? Or even a whole working computer? I'm deep down a very strange, very on-brand personal project.

I have too many projects and needed a break last night, so I found the 8086tiny project and created an IBM PC clone from one of my Raspberry Pi computers. At lunch I installed MS-DOS 3.3 and upgraded to 6.0 from some old floppy disks. The experience is as nostalgic as I’d hoped.

We used this just last Friday to defer an important but non-urgent decision on a project. So valuable!

Last Responsible Moment

As a colleague and I were talking on Friday about an important architectural decision that was upcoming, we felt the typical pressure to make the r...

NervesConf was a blast last year, and it looks like it’ll repeat the awesome this year too. This one’s close to my heart.

I missed the previous iteration of ElixirConf in Colorado, so I'm especially excited to attend this year with the Launch Scout team!

It's no secret I'm a fan of Zack and in awe of the work he's doing in #elixirlang. Here's an interview he graciously gave about his apprenticeship experience.

Rebrand Story

Peel back the curtain and read about the story of our rebrand! A ton of work went into this, and the design team did a great job carrying the effor...

LinkedIn Doom and Gloom

Is there an easy way to turn off the LinkedIn steady drip of doom and gloom news? It feels like LinkedIn wants me to become a pessimist, but there’...

Pool Chemistry and Team Balance

My family moved into a new house (actually we bought my parents’ house) last year. When we did that we also got a large, inground pool! I’ve become...

Sharing Gratitude More Often

This is a gentle reminder to me to tell people what I’m constantly thinking but not often sharing out loud. Thank you, Joe.

Fixing Things and Solving Challenges

If you know me, you know that I like a challenge. You also know that I hate throwing away engineered products. I love the challenge of fixing them ...

I've seen the preview of this just now, and it's going to be a really interesting talk! It has my brain spinning with ideas.

This will be top notch, I’m certain!

So proud and excited to see some first time aspiring speakers too!

Just getting home from @empexco MTN, and I'll have more to share here and from @teamlaunchscout later. But for now, I'm exhausted! Thank you to @sprsmpl and everyone else who made this wonderful conference happen in Salt Lake City! #myelixirstatus

Can you guess which one I put on the list?

I'm going to EMPEX MTN! Will I see you there?

I’m going to EMPEX MTN! Will I see you there?

I'm excited to see old friends and make new ones in a few weeks, and I'm really excited about the talks this year! Should I live tweet the talks from the @teamlaunchscout account like I did during ElixirConf US last year?

I’m excited to see old friends and make new ones in a few weeks, and I’m really excited about the talks this year! Should I live tweet the talks fr...

Looking forward to this!

We can see each other there!

It's really exciting to see the branding work of the @teamlaunchscout team in physical space!

In Elixir, makes it so simple to stand up a fake server for testing handling API integrations. I make the actual call with Postman once, grab the result, and drop it into a fake with some sugar to help with client failure handling.

In Elixir, hexdocs.pm/plug/Plug.Rout… makes it so simple to stand up a fake server for testing handling API integrations. I make the actual call wi...

What's your favorite online or minimal setup REPL/interactive learning tool for Elixir?

My fellow Americans, if you elect me as your benevolent dictator, I promise to do two things immediately to improve your quality of life: 1) alarm clock and doorbell noises in commercials will be punishable by dog barking squad 2) I will resign immediately after 1

Are you a software engineer with a heart for mentoring? Maybe you're on a product delivery team, wishing that you could spend more time helping your team members to grow while keeping your code and delivery skills sharp... We're looking for you!

Are you a software engineer with a heart for mentoring? Maybe you’re on a product delivery team, wishing that you could spend more time helping you...

Who is an Elixir developer that you know that is passionate about helping other (especially newer) developers to grow with practices, patterns, and knowledge?

Excellent talk by @superchris! Mediocre live tweet thread by yours truly!

I got to see the preview of this talk. It’s a must-see for anyone grappling with how to integrate LiveView with problems best solved in the browser with custom web components.

New LiveView feature: client side DOM change API that is “DOM patch aware” (future server side renders don’t overwrite those client side actions). Pretty neat solution and removes need for common uses of falling back to alpine.js! #ElixirConf2021

I'm loving these stack-a-ribbon #PiecesOfFlair. I may need to get more tomorrow... how many is enough?

One trend I am watching with concern is the quickness of Elixir developers to reach for complex tools and solutions preemptively. My advice: just because it worked for someone else and ended up as a bullet point in a talk slide deck doesn't mean you need it too. #elixirconf2021

I can't quantify this statistically, but I believe that the #elixirlang community and companies who use it have an outsized positive influence on peoples' lives, providing critical software services and infrastructure to improve the connection and quality of life for others.

I can’t quantify this statistically, but I believe that the #elixirlang community and companies who use it have an outsized positive influence on p...

This was also something I've encountered. From solving the longest road problem in Catan (with @Heflinao!) to building my first Elixir CRUD app years ago, it has always and continues to astound me with its speed and forgiveness of my iterative learning style. #elixirconf2021

This was also something I’ve encountered. From solving the longest road problem in Catan (with @Heflinao!) to building my first Elixir CRUD app yea...

Hey everyone! I'm doing a twitter takeover of the @teamgaslight account for the next couple of days while I'm at @ElixirConf! Catch me at the conference!

Seven years ago today I took a leap and joined @teamgaslight. If you’ve heard me talk about those early days, you’ve heard words like experiment and “permission to fail”. You see, I wasn’t sure I could hang with the group of talented and creative folks. 1/

Machine Learning and Elixir

There’s some fascinating and fantastic work going on with machine learning and Elixir!

Verifying myself: I am timmecklem on . aXuXyErZ1HccVcAPGMQTkEaTvexAm94eBXDh /

Cincinnati Ruby Brigade: Characterization Tests

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Windows and Elixir—An Unexpected Joy

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3 Legged Stool Podcast

Haley Moore and I were guests on the 3 Legged Stool Podcast! As usual with any conversation I have with Haley, I left reinvigorated. It reminded me...

.@superchris just casually mentioned in an all-hands that he thinks more than half of our current development team came through the apprenticeship program. I just checked and he's right! Apprenticeship works.

Phoenix and LiveView Productivity

I’m really appreciating the laser-focused simplicity that Phoenix and LiveView afford in just getting work done. Reminds me of the days before heav...

It's so great to see this used already! We're pretty excited about Hacktoberfest and pushing it further!

Fireside chats with Gaslight's Tim Mecklem

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.@choosedeerfield could we get crosswalk lights at Innovation Way / Socialville Fosters on the bridge side? There’s no respect for pedestrians trying to get from East of 71 to Kingswood park and it doesn’t feel safe for me and my children.

I'm relieved-when-I-spot-a-floater-and-look-and-it-is-a-real-piece-of-dust-that-caught-my-eye years old.

Here’s a snapshot of the #lonestar20 conference venue. It was such a cool theater with in seat ordering during the conference sessions!

Thank you for an excellent conference, @LonestarElixir! Great speakers, great venue, and wonderful hospitality! #Lonestarelixir20

I’ll be there and I’m excited to catch up with my Elixir friends!

I wish every company valued sustainability and user maintainability as much as @Baratza. They not only sell parts, but they support their users with videos and encouragement.

Know a kid who wants to know more about technology, learning about how things work, and making stuff? Good news! Kid’s Tech Day is back at Gaslight on December 7th!

So excited about the winning #phoenixphrenzy entry that @kayserzl, @rheubach, and @dscottwiggins put together. You took a simple one liner idea and turned it into an engaging social game, and you highlighted the power of Phoenix LiveViews to deliver interactive apps. So cool!

I’m incredibly impressed and proud of the work that @kayserzl and @rheubach have done leading a massive #phoenixphrenzy effort. I can’t wait to share with you what they’ve done!

We have a couple of teams coming available at Gaslight. Want to see what it’s like to work with us? DM me and I’ll facilitate a free story mapping session, pair with you on solving a problem, or we can just grab coffee and I will lend a listening ear.

#ThisIsNotABrick

Someone has the Christmas Spirit

Matthew was so proud to read all of Hop on Pop to me. He only needed help with “Constantinople” and “Timbuktu” :)

Fitz’s bottling company and restaurant!

We stopped at Lincoln’s Home and Museum in Springfield, IL on the way home from a long weekend trip. Such a cool (and free) National Park!

A stop at The Magic House in St. Louis!

The infamous arch, representing the westward expansion of the United States. The tram ride to the top was great. We met a nice woman from Alabama whose husband refused to go up 😄

We had all sorts of claustrophobic and acrophobic fun at City Museum in St. Louis. I was skeptical about it but I’d totally go back, if only to find my poor kneecaps on that catwalk.

Today I’m thankful for grandpa and the influence he had on my life and with my family. I miss you, grandpa.

Reading Calvin and Hobbes with no less than *4* tigers beside her!

I’m learning the hammered dulcimer:

Come! Hang out tonight!

It me!

Hey #ElixirConf2018 peeps! Awesome @teamgaslight designer Bailey Miller and I are presenting a talk on usability for realtime apps tomorrow at 11 in the Grand Ballroom. We'd love for you to join!

Congratulations @_AlexGaribay! Can’t wait to see you there!

If creating quality print deliverables is your jam, then this is the event for you. Join us at Gaslight for an awesome event on digital printing put together by @HP! Free food and drinks! Space is limited, so RSVP here:

Hey @ReidNEvans, your talk today at #momentumdevcon was great. You delivered technical information with a sharp wit and sometimes subtle, laugh-out-loud humor. Thanks for coming and sharing your knowledge in Cincinnati.

I'm really excited to teach "Less-Pain Embedded Systems with Elixir and Nerves" with @ferggo at @ElixirConf in September 2018. Registration is open at . I hope to see you there! #myelixirstatus #elixirconf

Jon Egeland is talking Crystal tonight at @cincinnatirb. Watch the livestream here: I'm so impressed with Jon and the work he's done with Crystal and his language on top of it, Myst.

Periodic reminder that I'm much more active on than here.

"Make a game in every conversation to see if you can get them to talk more than you." - Mark Moore

For the first time in several years, I'm coming off a @teamgaslight client project. If you need a dedicated consulting and development team to build your vision (that could include me), let's talk.

#myelixirstatus looking for stories of people using Elixir to change the world. Send 'em my way (and please retweet)!

Thanks for the blinken lights @ferggo !

Threw together a @NervesProject badge wearable to show my live blood glucose throughout #codemash #t1d (I feel like I should apologize for having such a predictably normal bg in the video)

It's CodeMash week! Since I'm presenting on Friday at 11, I've got a cgm going that's pushing data to the internet using Elixir and @NervesProject. See my blood glucose live at . I just ate candy -- mmm! See if you can spot the spike in my graph.

It’s CodeMash week! Since I’m presenting on Friday at 11, I’ve got a cgm going that’s pushing data to the internet using Elixir and @NervesProject.

In 2017 I was on my feet:

Creating a Nerves Application with Windows and WSL: via @YouTube

I added a video to a @YouTube playlist Creating a Nerves Application with Windows and WSL

Want to develop a @NervesProject app on Windows 10 + WSL? I'll be streaming a walkthrough on tonight at 9pm EST of the obstacles I encountered and how I resolved them.

Nostalgia

I miss being able to relax on the couch comfortably.

The rivalry continues (even if we are a little out of practice)

Very excited to learn that a coffee shop near my house sells @DeeperRootsDRC now!

Getting things ready for the @cincyelixir meetup #packetradio

At tomorrow's @CincyElixir meetup I'll demo some cool packet radio stuff with Nerves and we'll play a secret message game with the hardware.

Feeling stuck with OTP design in the last two weeks. I need to do things with autodetecting hardware that doesn't seem to have easy answers.

Went for a run today and found out my foot is still recovering :(

Me: "Make sure mom puts that in Evernote." H: "What's an ever note?" A: "A note that lasts forever." H (walking away): "very funny..."

I am incredibly honored to announce that I’ll be keynoting at Lonestar ElixirConf in February. You can register at

I saw a young girl walking with her grandma down our street and she stopped to look at our roses. I cut her one and stripped the thorns.

I’ve attended Codemash for years. This year, for the first time, I’ll be a speaker. I’m very excited!

Struggling to hire developers? Interested in becoming a developer and not sure how to start? Join at 6:00 EDT!

Had the honor of meeting Dana Lewis and Scott Leibrand while out in Seattle for ElixirConf…

I wonder if the hackers will set up a credit freeze form for me to fill out too so they know to not share my hacked Equifax data.

I wish I could send a bill to the credit agencies for making me jump through terrible UX hoops to freeze a credit report I don't want.

What is the opportunity cost for a new iPhone? What's the most valuable thing I could do with that amount of money?

Hey @backblaze, I have an nfs remote filesystem that's on the ignore list, but the backup utility is still trying to include it.

Loved reminiscing about my favorite ICD-10 codes with @joelbyler yesterday. Injury due to kayak fire (followup visit) of course.

Watch @kgautreaux's ElixirConf talk. Just do it. It's a lesson in healthcare, usability, empathy, and public speaking all in one.

Back in Cincinnati after #ElixirConf2017. Great experience and Ohio was well represented!

#ElixirConf2017 attendees, I still have some clear-backed Nerves stickers that look great on a Mac laptop. Let me know if you want one!

Here's my talk at ElixirConf 2017: . It's been such a great week so far and an exciting experience!

Had the honor of meeting (and being introduced by!) Bruce Tate. Bruce influenced the trajectory…

TFW you have to do a little reverse engineering on a binary protocol the day before a talk about it. 😰

It has been brought to my attention that the topic of my #ElixirConf2017 T1D talk may make it seem that I am super smart or something. /1

Only fitting to force push to master when addressing a timezone (time traveling) issue.

TFW you travel to another timezone to give a conference talk and realize your code wasn't 100% ready for time travel.

Hot take: pie cooling on a windowsill

#ElixirConf2017 peeps, if you want a sweet #builtwithnerves sticker come ask me about my blood glucose.(I'm the one wearing the sticker)

I'll be running a continuous glucose monitor loop with an app #builtwithnerves all week. Come ask me about it!

I'm at @ElixirConf helping w/@NervesProject training. I'd love to meet you! I'm the one flailing excitedly about T1D and tiny computers.

"Hardware people cover your ears" - @fhunleth while describing transistors

Just got a compliment on how I interact with my kids and yeah that's going to come back to bite me somehow.

I'm looking forward to meeting people and giving a talk at @elixirconf. I'm also really going to miss my @teamgaslight friends this week.

I'm restless and unsettled today. Time for a run.

The loop has been closed.

A dozen or so lines of code away from the first #T1D closed loop running in the Elixir…

So I says to myself, "Self, the only way you're ever going to learn Elixir is to build a pancreas with it."

Thanks for showing up to the @ElixirConf preview talks by @st23am and me at @teamgaslight. I hope it was entertaining and informative!

I'm planning to stream part of the hardware demo for my ElixirConf presentation tonight at 8 EDT.

Sometimes I actually feel the pain I see in people's eyes.

Look at this amazing event! Come to it! @superchris is doing some amazing things with apprenticeship:

No surprise: Coke Zero Sugar is not as good as Coke Zero was. It's all fizz and no taste.

The great thing about preparing for a talk is that it gets me out of introspecting too much. ... Ugh. Nevermind.

is released, supporting all necessary commands for looping in Elixir!

I work with smart people:

I'm a guest on the most recent Changelog podcast: . We talked about #t1d, #elixir, @NervesProject, and @ElixirConf!

Functional, minimal config screen on embedded web server! #myelixirstatis #t1d #nervesproject

Added a web server (Phoenix) to my pancreas during lunchtime (in under an hour). #myelixirstatus #nervesproject #t1d

I've never seen un-naturally decaffeinated tea. I'm okay with that.

Waited all day for my app to crash and reproduce a failure that never came. Such frustrating success failure.

How is it possible that Google Hangouts chooses the most important moment in a meeting to boot you to the login screen, every single time.

I'm wondering about meaningful ways to visualize an algorithm that decodes binary data into insulin pump events. Anyone have ideas? /1

There's way too much information to decode the pancreas. You get used to it, though. Your brain…

Pulling Date and Time from Insulin Pump: via @YouTube

I'm looking for a "Slice of Radio" or other SRF module from the now defunct @wirelessthings. If you have one, reply or DM me please!

I'm fixing a fidget spinner with a soldering iron. This is me now. #dadlife

Tonight: Check out at 8:30 EDT. I'll code on project that talks to an insulin pump in @elixirlang w/ @NervesProject.

"....the moment we stop giving, our hearts go dark." - Luke Smallbone of @4kingandcountry

I just remotely upgraded a device's @NervesProject firmware over VPN+SSH in less than a minute NBD. Whoa. #myelixirstatus #nerves

This week I did something entirely new. I had a continuous glucose monitor inserted under my…

The size of the prototype for my #elixirconf talk is shrinking

Talk is cheap, and smooth talk can be dangerously manipulative. Want to be an influential person? Serve people. Speak without talking.

I set a goal to run 100 miles in a month. I finished a day early!

21 days into a 100 miles in 30 days challenge and I'm slightly ahead of schedule. I can do this!…

Anyone ever actually try to pull the Homer-Simpson-backing-into-a-shrub move? It's a great way to end up as a human band-aid.

Throwback to when Matthew learned to catch a fish and dab at the same time #lovebeingadad…

Stepping on the sun

Ending a busy day with a new release of nerves_system_rpi0. I love serving the community! #myelixirstatus

I get to deliver software that provides value alongside amazing people at @teamgaslight. If you need what we do, I'd love to talk.

So @katibest took a great pic of me on a day when I felt most unappealing. How does she do it?!

I'm excited to announce that I'm giving a talk at @ElixirConf on "Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves". #myelixirstatus

I picked the dog with no personality & all the patience. She loves Amanda. Amanda picked the punk pup. He has been my fiercely loyal friend.

TIL you can carry a pack 'n play onto a Metro bus and only two people give you funny looks.

Today I described myself as a grumpy optimist. The more I think about it, the more it fits.

Tried Kopi Luwak. Here's my thoughts in the form of facial expressions.

Life is short I want to live it well. One life, one story to tell. -Switchfoot

Generosity matters most when we think we have nothing to spare.

Solving Big Problems on Tiny Computers

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People are strange. I'm people too.

The confidence I have as a consultant hasn't come from learning everything. Now I just know that I'll eventually ask the right question.

TIL the video ads on the @amazon Fire TV Home don't respect the Parental Control settings. I guess shirtless man ad is there to stay. 😡

Thanks @CincyBell for making things right by fixing the underground cable that was cut and moving up the Fioptics install date.

"Life is a race we run, so run 'til the race is won." Meaningful lyrics by @4kingandcountry

.@cincybell Fioptics cable burial crew cut my Spectrum coaxial cable. Called OUPS and left. Is this how it's supposed to work?

Nerves Video! How to connect to iex on the Pi Zero over USB (and build a custom Nerves system along the way):

The "Scott's Tot's" Office episode makes me so uncomfortable every time I watch it. More than all of season 1 combined.

Made peanut butter cookies. Thought of grandma. Miss her. Makes me want peanut butter cookies. Good thing I made peanut butter cookies.

If you were planning to come see my talk at the Cincy IoT meetup tonight, it's been canceled by the venue. Working to reschedule.

Watch a fantastic Design Week talk about agile design by @pkananen, @ryanaarthur, @kspohlman and @haleyrbmoore:

People who know me know: I'm not happy all the time. I just think negativity is overrepresented and I have hope. I accept bad to enjoy good.

Lasagna is my favorite corrugated noodle.

Excited about the absurdity of my latest purchase

JIRA's principal outcome is supporting institutional procrastination.

I have grown significantly as a developer and consultant at Gaslight. Join me! Let's build great things together!

Twitter is great for when I want to say something important but hide it behind a permanent spelling error.

I made a thing.

Sometimes this blood is for bleedin'

Doing the yearly call with Time Warner Cable to lower my bill. Looking forward to having a better option. This teeth pulling exercise sucks.

If someone showed me proof that I could live a longer, happier life by overanalyzing things less often, I'd have to think about it.

This is our view right now #onthefield

Getting ready to go down on the field!

Excited to be the Kroger Family of the Match tonight for @fccincinnati! Catching a bite before the game.

Are see through tennis shoes a thing?

One of my nightmares just became reality. Rode all the way downtown with a spider in my shoe. A spider. In my shoe.

Hey @MapMyRun *I'm* giving *you* my hr and cadence data, and you want to charge me just to look at it. It's out of touch with reality.

I've run 305 kilometers and we're ~30% through the year. Quick back of the napkin extrapolation and... Death by MAXIMUM OVERCARB in July.

Just applied a pain relieving gel with capsaicin. So yeah, I guess you could say I'm hot stuff. But seriously, it burns. Send help.

Paradox: when I run alone, I am not lonely. When I run with others, I feel alone.

TIL If you accidentally train for a half marathon during Cincy winter, you'll probably accidentally sign up for the #RunFlyingPig Half too.

That time the wind gusted so hard it knocked one leg into the other and almost tripped me on a run.

The "Turkish Get Up" seems like one of those things insiders invent so they can tell you how you're doing it wrong.

I just signed up for free #iot #builderkit hardware from @GetStructure. Get yours at

Had a fun time with building a "security system" tonight. Kickstarter forthcoming.

The longer a software project lives, the closer the output resembles #puppymonkeybaby.

Losing My Temper

Several years ago I earned a leadership role on a small product development team in a large company. I had served as a member of the team up to tha...

What It's Like to Be a New Gaslight Developer

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