Oof, this cold/flu is hitting my family hard, and right before our upcoming move! 🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒
📚Finally finished listening to “The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz” by Erik Larson. I really enjoyed it. A sobering, fascinating read. Give it a go if you enjoy reading about WWII, Churchill, etc.!
“We buy back our time not only with the money we spend, but also with the opportunities we decline.” ~ James Clear
What’s a good word (maybe a German word?) for “that sinking feeling you get as a parent when one of your children starts to get sick and you know it’s only a matter of time before the wave of illness makes its way through the house”?
📚 Just got my copy of “Thinking in Systems: A Primer” by Donella H. Meadows. Excited to read this book!
I’d like to get a copy of “Java: The Complete Reference.” I’m wondering how much of an update/improvement the recently-released 13th edition is over the 12th edition. Any #Java geeks out there who can weigh-in?
One of the saddest, most frustrating things I’ve witnessed in my life: seeing large swaths of American evangelicalism so readily embrace Trumpism and Christian Nationalism. It’s tempting to despair.
This is why micro.blog is the best corner of the internet!
Fellow software engineers: If you were to get laid-off, which books, tips, tools, etc. would be in your “Find-the-next-gig Go Bag”? (I’m thinking along the lines of “Cracking the Coding Interview,” “System Design Interview,” “Designing Data-Intensive Applications,” etc.)
I’ve always been a bit curious about BBEdit, but I use IntelliJ (80%) and VS Code (20%) for my daily work. If you use and love BBEdit, what are your favorite features? Anything that would especially appeal to a backend-focused dev like me?
Nick Saban should start another church.
Make sure to celebrate Epiphany by not participating in an insurrection today!
Can we get cross-posting enabled from micro.blog to omg.lol? :)
Quick! Get all your last “Merry Christmas"es in before Epiphany!
Ants! Behind the Baseboard. Let the home ownership adventures begin!
Where are my fellow #HarborFreight fans? We just bought our first house, are doing some pre-move renovations, and I’m wondering if I should finally buy the Bauer one-handed reciprocating saw I’ve had my eye on for quite some time… What are your favorite buys from Harbor Freight?
I keep seeing ads for fancy earplugs. Are they worth it? As someone who’s pretty easily triggered by background noise (from kids, dogs, etc.), I’m very interested. But are they any better than old fashioned foam earplugs? Have you found any good “throughout the day” earplugs?
If you could wave a magic wand and have Christians in the USA instantly and deeply understand a concept, mental model, biblical theme, theological topic, etc. etc., what would it be?
Good news! We are not alone. Christ has joined us in the far country of darkness and death, to bring us home to God. To bring God home to us. God with us. God for us! Merry Christmas 🎄
For me, the most poignant line in a Christmas song: “Mild He lays His glory by, Born that man no more may die, Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth.”