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Rewatch time in preparation for S5 on Boxing Day 🎉 Watched: Shoresy S1E1, Never Lose Again 🍿

I still quote this movie probably once a week. Endlessly rewatchable. The Little Movie That Couldn’t: Mallrats Turns 30 - The Ringer

Recent reads: 

I got really into rock biographies recently - here’s the ones I’ve read over the last couple of months. Reach out if you’ve got any recommendations!

RIP 2024 (2024-2024): 

It’s that time again.

Via Death Generator. I can see this being useful for many, many shitposting needs.

Sitting around on a Sunday afternoon, I saw a new post from Derek Sivers and decided to check out his /now page again. Which led to wandering through nownownow again. Which led me to Wes Bos' uses.tech. And then to spending some time updating my own /now page and adding my own /uses page. And then …

Pretty footnotes using Littlefoot: 

I’m a fan of footnotes, generally.

Toby Nieboer @tcn33@mastodon.social Oh, hello! Nice to see you. You’re here because at some point in the future I have sent you the link to this toot. Look at the date this was posted. Everything that has happened since I wrote this, including the thing that prompted me to send you here: WE TOLD …

Changes: 

There have been a few changes around here…

It's on!: 

It’s all happening!

RIP 2021 (2021-2021): 

Not much happened this year, so this will be brief.

I lived in Boulder and Denver for quite a while. The more time that goes by, the more I miss it.

Work setup for late 2021: 

I did this earlier this year, but things have changed quite a bit since then.

SSH client_loop fix: 

I had a weird issue today after a recent macOS upgrade.

Work setup for 2021: 

I’ve been working from home full-time for three years as of today. While it’s not perfect, my setup has come a long way since then – originally I had a tiny 60cm x 100cm (24" x 40") desk wedged between my bed and a window. Nowadays I have a separate office, which helps a lot …

Blog 4.0: 

^{I love you, Dr Zaius!}

Deja vu all over again: 

^{This seems awfully familiar…}

RIP 2020 (2020-2020): 

Die in a grease fire, you utter bastard of a year.

Thought experiment: 

Recently I was thinking about my career goals, and one of them is that somewhere in the next few years I’d like to build a recruitment function from scratch within a small to medium business. I had a think about a few things I’d put in place if I were to do that today.

Finally got some work! I’m helping out A Cloud Guru with some technical and non-technical roles, via Crew Talent Agency. Thanks to Simon for the opportunity ❤️

Light at the end of the tunnel: 

Melbourne has been under some form of restrictions for the past 183 days, claimed by some to be the most restrictive in the world. (Personally I think this is being a bit dramatic, but it’s likely not far off the truth.) Since August 2nd, we’ve been limited to a 5km radius from our homes with very …

2020 so far: 

^{An accurate representation of this year}

Remote control: 

So you’re suddenly working from home.

Cat++: 

Our temporary acquisition of a cat has become decidedly less temporary. Say hello to Ginger ❤️

I decided to blow things up and start again, so I’ve moved everything across from my old WordPress.com blog to here. It’s a static site powered by Hexo, so it’s pretty darn fast, and it’s hosted at Netlify. Here’s a photo of the cat we found on the roof of the construction site next door. We’re …

RIP 2019 (2019-2019): 

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Colorado: 

^Pre-rafting

SOON.

Prompted by this article, I am drinking a gallon (3.96L) of water per day. No superpowers yet. I am drinking a lot less coffee though, which is surprising.

The new Ruby AU site launched today, and it is very pretty. Congrats to the committee on completing a long process of renewal (a process that began about three years ago, if I remember correctly) and thanks to Deming Factor for the fantastic design.

RIP 2018 (2018-2018): 

It seems like just a year ago we welcomed you into our lives 😭

Meetups: 

Meetups are a pretty key feature of working in a distributed company. They’re how you get to really know your colleagues, how you build a culture, and how you build and sustain relationships with people who are otherwise just text on a screen.

WCUS 2018: 

WordCamp US in Nashville was super fun. Met a whole lot of cool developers, customers and fellow Automatticians.

The Hot tenders at Prince’s. Verdict: Prince’s. They were both excellent hot chicken, but as a piece of fried chicken Prince’s was better.

The Damn Hot tenders at Hattie B’s.

Nashville sunset.

Awooooo 🐺: 

Rails Camps are one of my favourite things, which explains why this most recent one was my seventh in three-ish years, and the second I’ve co-organised. There’s just something about getting away from civilisation, spending some time with good humans, hacking away on a project, and playing Werewolf …

You know what’s weird? Watching humans sleep is creepy, but watching cats sleep isn’t 🤔

Recent travels: 

MEL-LAX-MCO-DEN-LAX-MEL-BNE-MEL. (Not all at once.)

Listen to this and you’ll be able to say “oh yeah, I was into her before she got famous”.

I’ve been shopping around for a new travel bag, and I’d pretty much decided on the Tortuga Setout Backpack… then I read this article and was definitely sold: Tortuga’s team is distributed, meaning that everyone sets their own hours and chooses where to live and work. In effect, that means that as …

To paraphrase this article, it’s far less likely that future society will be reading my tweets to gain insight into who I was, than it is that some asshole will trawl through my Twitter feed to find some tweet where I sounded like a jerk. So I’ve deleted about 63,000 tweets, leaving only the last 12 …

Sunday afternoon: 

Welcome. Make yourself comfortable.