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I had Unmark’d Kyle Slattery’s post on his company site (which I think is rather good looking; here is why) regarding why his company uses Ruby on Rails. It is a good post. Notice this bit: It’s easy to get caught up in the newest trend, and there are lots of great technologies being developed, but at the end…
IFTTT is taking almost an hour to publish my posts to Twitter and Facebook. I’m looking forward to leaving it behind soon.
I’m reading reports of the iPhone SE being in low supply. I know when I picked up mine I had to call three, and drive to two, locations before I found one. And I ended up with a color I hadn’t originally intended (though I like it now). I don’t know if Apple was caught off guard by…
Would I have begun work on Barley 2 in November of last year if I had fully known the amount of work it would be to complete it? Maybe not. But I’m glad I didn’t know and I’m glad I didn’t chicken out. https://cdevroe.com/media/audio/e7.mp3 Download MP3
Congratulations to Space X. I'm glad you never gave up.
Barn in black and white
Shot rather poorly at ball last night. It was probably too cold.
It must be monsoon season.
Jim Dalrymple: I hate failure, and this was a failure for me. I will learn from it and focus my attention back on The Loop website, where it belongs. I’m sorry to the subscribers of the magazine, and hope you enjoy the upcoming issues I have prepared for you. We’ve all failed. We have an idea, or an…
Stripe has had best-of-breed API documentation for the last several years. They’ve just made it even better with a “quickstart tour” that works wonderfully. Anyone documenting an API should look very closely at what Stripe has done. Much of their success is very likely due to them caring about their docs. /via John Collison on Twitter.
Anna Pickard on Ev’s blog about Slack’s release notes: That means if something was a massive pain in the peach, or made people’s lives just a little worse, we don’t splatter it with jokes and pretty words to try and hide it. We say sorry, thank people for their continued patience, and let them know we’re working hard,…
Queued up a few blog posts since I was behind a bit.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, on LinkedIn: Each of us are part of our economies and our societies. Long-term growth is directly related to our ability to make our climate more sustainable, our economies more viable and our societies more equitable. Those changes can only happen if we ask ourselves two questions: What difference is our business making?…
This video is absolutely mind-blowing. Everything about this was science fiction a few years ago. In fact, the video looks fake while you watch it because you can’t believe this is happening on Earth. And now with some regularity. Watching this video makes me think that I’ll be alive when people (perhaps even with their kids) will take…
Wearing my Millenium Falcon tee.
Our early spring has felt more like winter than winter did.
How did I just now come across Mogwai?
Back Bay, Sandbridge, VA October 2015
Putting in a long day today. Hustle!
Power out at home. Not to be denied our productive day Kyle and I have moved to Panera Bread.
Ice, snow, wind, and brilliant blue skies. One last push as winter is tilting south into the Southern Hemisphere.
Woke up at 6:45a and built an import tool for Barley 1 users to migrate to Barley 2. I thought this was going to be a herculean task but I ended up finishing in under 3 hours and 61 lines of code. A good reminder that sometimes I worry about things being tougher than they really will be.
The Model 3 looks like an amazing car and it is an equally amazing achievement. Congrats Tesla. Interesting to note: they brought in 115 million dollars in downpayments and have over 4 billion dollars committed. Not bad for a single day. No wonder Apple wants a peice of this pie.
The greatest living bearded blogger, Jim Dalrymple, on The Loop: I still think it’s going to make for an incredible upgrade for those iPhone 5s users, but I also think it’s going to appeal to some current iPhone 6 users. A lot of people upgraded to the newest design for the technology, and of course, to have the…