A.J. Hekman

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Software Engineer, Rubyist, Consultant

Book recs: Drive, Essentialism, Thinking in Systems, Secrets of Consulting

Enjoyer of sci-fi & fantasy(books&movies), video games, music, cats

#ruby, #rails, #TDD
#GRR, #cats

GitHubhttps://github.com/ajhekman
I can't figure out how to put the coffee beans in my new grinder.
OH: “What is it about DNS that people find so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.”

Here's a little advanced computer tip for you all on a Friday, definitely not based on recent personal experience.

If you have plugged in a cable, and it does not work, ensure that the end of the cable that you have plugged in is part of the same cable as the other end of the cable. This can really make a difference.

Yours bemusedly,

Neil

Ruby isn't dying, it is already dead. So is every other language. Rejoice, you have been liberated! You no longer write Ruby for The Man, but yourself! Reclaim the means of production as the means of amusement! Ruby was created to make you happy, not the machine. Wrest back your joy!

Pandoc in the browser, with a friendly interface. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer:

https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html

#pandoc #wasm

Pandoc in the browser

Surreal moment listening to NPR this morning; an ad for NBC news.
While hiking in Karijini I found the IRL version of the IT infrastructure meme

I’ll keep posting this until I find a great person to come be my manager: the Monterey bay aquarium is looking for its next VP of Technology!

https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/MON1023MBAF/JobBoard/84cdbbe5-6ebd-4432-86f2-05e6fcf67a82/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=596cd7c4-65af-4380-abbc-ecc0cc357a91

#GetFediHired #California #jobs

If Apple still had courage they would've opened the keynote with this. @atpfm