Saturday, March 31, 2018
Weekend alone begins at Flywheel. Ran into Justin Stahl whom I hadn’t seen in years ☕️💻
Playing around with data portability. I’ve given up trying to use iCloud Drive, it works but introduces a host of concerns I don’t want to deal with for these little tools. Instead I’m making it easy to import / export data. Fun side effect is it makes peer-to-peer sharing really easy.
It’s a shame you can’t post files on Facebook or Twitter. Seems like an odd limitation. Dropbox has no doubt benefited from this.
Interval is packed to the gills with laptops today ☕️
Watchin some hoops with some Kansans 🏀
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Ran this morning, felt like a slog but I got through it. Sat for 15. Worked in a very calm Sightglass on Divis until the Yoga wives took over. 🏃🧘♂️☕️
Spent most of the day trying to improve my understanding of file management. I’ve worked with some of these APIs but never felt like I had a complete picture of what was going on. The File Coordinator and File Presenter stuff is interesting but watching some of the talks and reading documentation makes me worry this is Apple’s B team. 💻
Spending time with Jess before she goes to Taipei 🇹🇼
Watching Roseanne, feels like a time-warp, oddly just as relatable now as it was twenty years ago. 📺
Monday, March 26, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- 🚎 33 to the office
☕️ Linea Cafe reading an essay by Boris Groys about the rise of "self-design" in response to the secularization of society. He argues people once behaved to please God rather than society itself, "where religion once was, design emerged." Then he takes a weird transhumanism / fate of the solar system turn.
💻 Improving our logging around push notifications and adding some cleanup methods to discard bad tokens. Development tokens now use the correct APNS endpoint. Also shaved 30 seconds off our build time by building our analytics dashboard and API server in parallel 🤠
Sunday, March 25, 2018
- ☕️ Streamline hackin on Swift stuff
- ☕️ Interval, more Swift
📒 Bought a collection of design essays at City Lights. Not sure it’s any good yet, Benjamin Bratton has a piece in it.
🍽 Zoetrope was perfect, kinda empty and full of old character. Walked around Jackson Square shops afterwards.
🏀 Kansas to the Final Four!
🌳 Walking through Buena Vista listening to Jason Kottke and Gruber talk about the old days of blogging.
Saturday, March 24, 2018
☕️ Sightglass on Divis — reading Pinker dissect language.
🥖 BiRite before it turns into a zoo. Jane banquets are pretty good. Manresa are still #1.
🏃 Kezar three and stairs.
🇺🇸 Marching — It was really somethin’ seeing all those families and their children walk down Market Street today.
🥃 Vesuvio — wrote a bit then wandered up to Fort Mason.
🚌 Taking the 43 home listening to Bruce Sterling’s SXSW 2018 closing remarks.
Friday, March 23, 2018
- 🚗 to the office
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
Wrapped up plugging in data for our analytics dashboard.
- 🥪 Universal Cafe, reading someone’s critique of how not to use Go interfaces
- ☕️ Atlas
- ☕️ Flywheel, preparing for a weekend of side-projects
Thursday, March 22, 2018
- 🏃 Park four; 🧘♂️ 15
- 🚎 33 to the office reading Pinker
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
- 🥪 Universal Cafe
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
Built some data endpoints to power our little dashboard to report system health. Tried to avoid the news because it’s mostly garbage. Grateful for today’s bit of sunshine, and the chicken sandwich at lunch 😋
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
- 🏃♂️ Park four; 🧘♂️ 15
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis, cleaned out inbox and reviewed task lists.
🍜 Namu with Aaron, then ☕️ Sightglass on Divis to clean up project folder so it works better with multiple daemons. Mapped out a dashboard to track system health.
🕹 Free Gold Watch to reset, then 🌳 park walk thinking about friending models.
Just passed Danny Glover walking out of Whole Foods 😳 He was talking on his bluetooth headset lookin too old for this shit.
- 🥃 Alembic drinks with Paul Shen, Ben Hiller and Jess.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Haven’t been sleeping well. Woke up at 4AM and watched this Swift talk by the guy who created Charles.
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
- 🥪 Lunch at home
- ☕️ Andytown at home
Read a lot of documentation today 🧐 View controllers have a lot of state[2].
Monday, March 19, 2018
- 🧘♂️ 15
- 🚎 33 to the office reading about all the lives saved by the Green Revolution.
- ☕️ Linea Cafe
Sweating the small stuff today. Getting close to making another release today. Still dealing with some really annoying UIKit behavior.
- 🌮 El Metate
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
- ☕️ Four Barrel, good post-work work spot
Reading up on the changes to Swift in 4.1 and 4.2. Synthesized Equatable and Hashable conformance is 👌 They also fixed a bug where you could encode an Array of non-conforming objects.
Sunday, March 18, 2018
- ☕️ Andytown at home
👨💻 Worked a little this morning on Precap and some personal tools. Made a batch of granola between breaks.
🏃 Eight to the Cliff House and back. Close to my limit before I’m reminded who I inherited my knees from. Ran into Ella, such a wee city.
- 🥃 Alembic
- 🌶 Padrecito
Saturday, March 17, 2018
- ☕️ Ritual on Haight reading Enlightenment Now!
- 🚌 43 to Marina, more reading
- ☕️ Interval
- 🍜 Ippudo with Jess
- 🎰 Wandering the Mall
Friday, March 16, 2018
- 🧘♂️ 15
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis listening to people enthusiastically discuss their cannabis startups. Sounds like oils work better at scale.
Saving colors instead of distinct themes. Need to read more about color spaces in iOS, encountered some issues with our Color class couldn’t determine HSB values correctly without explicitly being set to the Extended RGB space.
- 🥗 Souvla
- 🦑 Bar Crudo with Jess
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Stories shouldn’t appear as unread in the UI when white-space changes occur. Added some documentation around how our more complicated State methods work so future explorers will spend less time understanding what’s going on. Fixed some other small things in the UI.
- ☕️ Andytown at home
- 🧘♂️ 15
- 🏃♂️ Late four at Kezar ☁️
Made vegan queso with my Vitamix out of pure curiosity — mostly cashews and almonds. Surprisingly good at first then the heaviness of so many nuts kicks in.
Discovered Sketch has a command line tool and started adapting someone’s export script to build a Sketch slices to Xcode Assets.xcassets. Works pretty well so far, need to figure out how to handle the app icon.
- 📽 Last Jedi (finally)
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- ☕️ Andytown at home
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis with Aaron going over polish tasks.
- 🌯 Little Chihuahua
Knocking off todos for Precap. So ready to ship this puppy, mostly because I wanna see how more of my friends spend their time.
- 🥃 Drinks with Jess, Ben Hiller and Keito tonight at Junior.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
Cleaning up our constants for managing colors, fonts and images. Adding a cleaner way to experiment with different color hues. Realizing it’s a bit tricky to arrive at a purely programmatic solution without offering some finer grained adjustments to saturation and brightness in some cases.
- 🐲 Dragon Eats re-reading Joseph Albers
- ☕️ Andytown at home
- 🗣 Long Now Steven Pinker talk, hope I get my usual seat 🤓
- 🥃 Blackbird with my signed copy of Enlightenment Now
Odd thought: I wonder if a public figure has ever prematurely announced their death to glimpse the outpouring. Kinda seems like a waste not to.
Monday, March 12, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- 🧘♂️ 15
- 🚎 33 to the office reading Pinker
- ☕️ Linea
Refined the popovers so the spacing isn’t crazy and they adjust in size. UIPopoverPresentationController is my new friend.
- 🥗 Salumeria
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
Playing around with color themes this afternoon. I think we’re gonna want to subtly change the chrome on the main screen to play nicely with each theme. Having a slight gradient is kinda nice as it makes the text a little more readable towards the top.
Sunday, March 11, 2018
☕️ Sightglass on Divis reading Pinker and resurrecting my little note to self app.
🚶♂️ Walked home thinking how crazy good nature is at message passing. We’re basically just a bunch of decoders/encoders.
🚶♂️ Long walk through GG Park catching up with my mom over the phone. I wanted her to try Instagram so she would see my photos but she was so against it because she didn’t want to share stuff. Got me thinking about designing for consumers, making them feel comfortable just consuming and alleviating the pressure to share.
🎙 Listening to the TED Radio Hour — apparently we’re not so good at decoding emotions. MTT’s talk was a good one in full.
Saturday, March 10, 2018
- ☕️ Stanza on Haight reading Pinker
- 🌪 Cleaning and doing laundry
- ☕️ Réveille on Steiner
- 🥣 Earthen — bought a blanket from a Chicago artist who digitizes her paintings and has blankets made.
- 🧥 MAC — Had a fun chat with the owner and bought a jacket by a UK designer who uses comfortable Japanese fabrics.
- 🇫🇷 Monsieur Benjamin
- 📽 Darkest Hour
Friday, March 9, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- 🧘♂️ 15
- 🚇 N to Church
- ☕️ Four Barrel on Valencia
Started working on this new transition stuff then got sidetracked reading more about UIPresentationController. Popover Presentation Controller is pretty nice, didn't realize it worked on iPhone.
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A pretty good overview of primarily using a subclass of a PC to achieve a custom transition
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WWDC 2017 talk on advanced animations was also pretty good. He kind of skirts the issue of being a transitioning delegate in his demo.
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🥪 Salumeria
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☕️ Sightglass on Divis
Song Exploder episode on The Daily theme was fun. I like how unashamed audio engineers are about their influences.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
- ☕️ Wooden
Learned more about property animators and how they don’t work well with the current presentation controller API. The best solution to animate a dimming view alongside a view transition is to thread the animator down to the presentation controller and add an animation block. Works but feels broken, I’m hoping they’ll address this at WWDC.
Also got scroll views working alongside the pan gesture that powers the transition.
Nice thing about all this is I’m left with a nice separation of concerns: 1) a Transitioning Delegate managing the ceremony of adhering to all the protocols and delegates which is largely reusable and 2) a Transition Driver where the animations and gestures are take place.
- ☕️ Stanza
- 🍣 Gus’s
This trend of daily wrap-up podcasts is pretty good. I’ve been religiously listening to NYT’s Daily and the new Techmeme Ride Home. It’s only a matter of time before someone does a Talk Soup podcast about podcasts.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- 🧘♂️ 15
- ☕️ Stumptown at home reading Eric Evans
Changed our Launch Screen to show some placeholder UI to make it seem like the app is loading quicker. Kinda surprised by what you can’t do in this file.
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
Went pretty deep into UIViewPropertyAnimator today. Took me a while but after picking apart this example and watching a WWDC talk, I think I understand what’s going on.
- 🍗 Sparrow with Jess
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
- 🧘♂️ 15
- 🚎 33 to the office reading Pinker
- ☕️ Linea
Fixing small Precap bugs with server-side sync and filtering out empty stories from the feed. Our unseen stories notification should be working again.
🌵 Distracted by the world of Yuto Yamasaki after visiting Playmountain during lunch.
- 🌯 Gus’s
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
I think I fixed our image caching, forgot to set Cache-Control max-age on our HTTP responses. Alternatively we could use URLCache directly and ignore headers.
- 🚎💨 Packed 33 home listening to Andrew Bird
Monday, March 5, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- 🧘♂️ 15
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis reading Pinker
- 💻 Capital One Cafe — you can always tell when a company run by Gen X-ers is trying to attract Millennials. Just listen to the music.
- 🍽 Taddich
Sunday, March 4, 2018
- ☕️ Stumptown at home
Got my little podcasts app to a point where it’s actually useful. Using a concurrent map from the latest Swift Talk to speed up RSS parsing and cribbing a lot of UI from Things.
🏃 Park four listening to the latest TED Radio Hour
🍿 Oscar party at Aaron’s. Just now realizing Aaron made chili and cornbread and I didn’t try any!!!
Saturday, March 3, 2018
- 🍳 Reverie
- ☕️ Stanza on Haight
A bit of cleaning at home and watched the fried chicken episode of Ugly Delicious.
- ☕️ Streamline
- 🥃 White Cap
- 🥟 Dumpling Kitchen
- 📽 Lady Bird
- 📽 Three Billboards…
Friday, March 2, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- ☕️ Stumptown at home
Working at Aaron’s to get out a new build of Precap.
- 🐷 Brenda’s Meat & Three
- ☕️ The Mill
New build is out and you won’t see this unless you’ve upgraded because we made a bunch of backwards incompatible changes to the API 😜
- 🥃 Devil’s Acre with Dru Sellers, an old Kansas friend, and Travis if we’re lucky
- 💻 Hyatt Regency
Thursday, March 1, 2018
- ☕️ Ritual on Haight
Going to write a blog post on this percent driven interactive transition stuff because it’s so unclear how to use it alongside custom view transitions. The sticky bit is knowing when you’re in an interactive transition and adjusting the animation curves so everything movies in sync with your finger.
- 💇♂️ J.P. Kempt
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
- 🦆 Zazie!
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- 🚎 33 to the office reading Pinker
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
Merging in timezone stuff this morning. Then I’m going to fix the weird transition that happens when you swipe the story feed away. Itching to make a new build so we can invite another small batch of people. I’ve always found that’s a good way to inject some excitement 💉
- 🌯 Guss’s
- ☕️ Sightglass round 2
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
- 🏃 Park run with Beethoven’s 109
- 🚎 33 to the office reading Pinker
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th — ran into Travis
- 🍚 Farmhouse with Travis
- ☕️ Atlas
Almost finished this timezone stuff. Need to write some tests to build up the confidence to merge in the changes.
Someone should do a documentary on indie app developers similar to the one about game developers. It’s always been a lifestyle that’s intrigued me. We don’t seem to celebrate the Basecamps and Pinboards as much.
Monday, February 26, 2018
🏃 Park four 🚎 33 to the office reading Pinker ☕️ Linea
Adding timezone support to Precap so the 4AM cutoff works at the appropriate local time for people.
🥪 Rhea’s Deli — finally met Rhea, talked about his aioli recipe. First thing his neighbor chef taught him before opening the deli.
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
- 🎟 Long Now talk with Michael Frachetti
Sunday, February 25, 2018
☕️ Sightglass on Divis fiddling with Swift stuff.
Took the car out to Palo Alto to visit Don and Zach at Zombierunner. Miss those guys. Bought a new pair of running shoes and some laces that won’t come untied.
Did some research on blenders and bought a Vitamix. Haven’t been much of a blender type but I wanna give it a try. Need more fresh fruits and veggies in my diet.
Drove home listening to TED Radio Hour episode on Confronting Stigma.
Wandered around some Outer Sunset shops looking for interesting bowls. Didn’t find any 😕
Made an ice cream-like substance with frozen banana, blueberries and mango. Currently it’s the most expensive ice cream I’ve ever made 🤑
Saturday, February 24, 2018
☕️ Sightglass on Divis working on a little SQLite store for Swift. Walked home listening to a More Perfect episode where they dissected the 2nd amendment and the history of the NRA.
🕹 Zelda while Jess worked.
🚶♂️ Did another Detour about Haight-Ashbury. Peter Coyote continues to be one of my favorite narrators. Didn’t realize he went deep into Zen.
🥠 Peoples was really good, best homestyle Chinese I’ve had here.
🥒🥕🌶🍄 Spent the rest of the evening pickling and listening to Selected Shorts on KQED.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
- 🏃 Park run, saw the Coast Guard chopper chillin in the baseball field.
- ☕️ Four Barrel reading a proposal by Russ Cox to add package versioning to Go.
- 🗣 Ran into Kevin Hiscott, caught up and talked shop a bit. Sounds like Apple is rethinking some of its development patterns.
- 🗣 Ran into Joey Flynn, grabbing coffee on Monday.
At the office. Pushed some server changes to consolidate our push/pull endpoints into one sync endpoint for Precap.
- 🥪 Salumeria
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
- 🏃♂️ Park four
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
- 🥗 Souvla
- ☕️ Back to Sightglass with Aaron
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
- 🤢 Drank too much with the Kansans last night
- ☕️ Linea
Fixed a bunch of landscape mode issues in Precap. viewWillTransition is pretty nice, wonder how that’s gonna work when you can run iPhone apps on the desktop. Does it just get called repeatedly or are their specific sizes or is there a ghosted view while resizing like iPad?
- 🍛 Bon, Nene with Relay crew
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
Monday, February 19, 2018
- 🏃 Andytown four — met Jess for a ’spro
- 🚋 N home reading Scott Alexander’s five year predictions.
- ☕️ Sightglass on 7th with Travis
- 🥗 Vive la tarte
- ☕️ Sextant
Sunday, February 18, 2018
- ☕️ Streamline
- 💻 Interval
Built a Tinder-like swiper for my flash card tool. Easier than I thought.
Found a used copy of Language Instinct at Readers Bookstore — love encountering other people’s markings and highlights in books.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
- 🍳 Ramsay eggs
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
- 📖 Arthur Koestler
- 🏃 Ocean five
Made a cool little demo of a Go framework running inside a Swift app handling RSS parsing for my little podcast app. Works in the simulator but won’t compile to a device because gobind doesn’t generate bitcode 🤦♂️
- ☕️ Cafe Cole
- 🥩 Cookin steak and potatoes
- 🎤 Chris Rock on Netflix
Friday, February 16, 2018
- 🏃 Park four with Brian Eno’s Lux
- ☕️ Stumptown shot at home
Helping the Relay guys with desktop designs. Really preferring Github Issues over talking in person in this case. Being forced to type out a proposal and see its flaws before sending is nice.
Aesop hand soap is such a bathroom game changer.
- 💻 Streamline
Thursday, February 15, 2018
- ☕️ Linea
In the office today working on some Relay desktop tasks.
- 🥪 Wise Sons with Landon
- ☕️ Sightglass
Merged in a basic reactions implementation for Preacp. Lots of room for polish and improvement but nice to have something working for now.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
- ☕️ Ritual on Haight
Precap: Almost ready to merge in a basic reactions implementation. Also close to finishing reminders. GitHub’s Pull Request / Issue workflow has never made sense to me.
- 🏃 Late run to Ocean Beach
- ☕️ Trouble
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
- 🏃 Park run
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
Going deep on the UserNotifications framework. We should be able to use local push for scheduling reminders and notifying about unseen content.
- 🥗 Souvla
Monday, February 12, 2018
- 📺 Watch the Obamas get their portraits
- 🏃 Park four
- 🚎 33 to work reading a 2001 Cory Doctorow post on Metacrap
- ☕️ Linea
- ☕️ Sightglass with Justin
- 🍗 Alma Cocina with Relay crew
- ☕️ Philz (so caffeinated)
Sunday, February 11, 2018
- ☕️ Ritual on Haight reading John Gall
- 🍳 Ramsay scramble
Got the basic interactions working for my flash card app. Algorithm is in place, just need to make a custom collection view layout and it should be at a point where I can begin using it.
- ☕️ Streamline
- 🥃 White Cap
It’s usable, need to sort by calculated scores, allow editing and make a set of text sizes.
- 🌬🚶♂️ Ocean Beach
I wonder if commercial architects are facing the question, “is this interior ’gramable?” 🤔
Saturday, February 10, 2018
- ☕️ Matching Half
📓 Researching spaced repetition algorithms. Looks like SM-2 is what most flash card apps tend to use.
- 🏃 Kezar
- ☕️ Réveille on Columbus (8613)
Made progress on my little flash card app. Supporting the full range of SM-2 responses makes it difficult to keep the UI simple, gonna try to narrow it down to four with an emphasis on two. Borrowing heavily from Tinder because it feels like an appropriate interaction.
Kinda want to make a website just for bathroom codes.
- 🍸 Comstock
- 🍝 Tosca
Friday, February 9, 2018
- ☕️ Stumptown at home
Finished converting our custom menu popover to use the view controller transitioning delegate stuff. I think I finally understand this API, still seems like a lot of pieces to make a custom transition but they all make sense.
Going to work on a few small things then try to tackle custom text styles for Precap to see where things could go.
- ☕️ Stanza
- 🥌 Watching Curling 🇨🇭🇳🇴
- ☕️ Linea
Wrestled with a table view scroll position jumping around after pushing another view controller. Seems like the best solution is to cache estimated heights?
- 🍚 Farmhouse with Landon and Levi
- ☕️ Sightglass
Adding reminder notifications along with a way to adjust their time or turn them off. Wish there was an easier way to construct tables with static cells that may hide/show or change size.
- 🥃 Trick Dog with Relay crew. New menus!
- 🍔 Monk’s Kettle with Jess
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- ☕️ Linea
- ☕️ Sightglass — Ran into Aaron Carámbula
Finally had a chance to pick Andy Matuschak’s brain about how he and Michael Nielsen use flash cards for memory recall. Need to read more about spaced repetition and SuperMemo.
- 🥟 Bon Nene with Andy
- ☕️ Sightglass with Aaron
Pair programming session with Aaron to work through his “outbox” idea of keeping drafts in sync for Precap.
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
🏃 Park four with Alessandra Celletti playing Metamorphosis. ☕️ Stumptown shot at home. Gonna finish this custom menu controller for Precap today. Makers Club tonight.
- 🚀 Loving the levity SpaceX brings to risk.
- 🥪 Lunch at Reverie
- ☕️ Stanza on Haight
🥋 Had an “I know kung fu” moment this evening while researching view controller transitioning delegates.
- 🍳 Watching Thomas Keller make eggs on Masterclass.
Monday, February 5, 2018
- 🏃 Park four with Vivaldi’s concerto #10
- ☕️ Linea Cafe
- ☀️ Beautiful day (20 deg back home 🤪)
Rolling a new release of Precap this morning. Preparing for more users this week!
Catching up with Matt Brown to see how my registration flow is fitting into his marketing stuff for Relay.
- 🥪 Stable Cafe
- ☕️ Sightglass on 20th
Working on a light-weight popover for seeing who’s viewed your story. Kinda tricky to show while keyboard is up but it looks like there’s a hack to present from the top-most window without dismissing the keyboard. The App Store gods may not take kindly to this 🤔
Tried to listen to a Sam Harris episode with Eliezer Yudkowsky on the walk home and got bored with the pessimism and absurd thought experiments. Playing with animations now 🤹♂️
Sunday, February 4, 2018
- ☕️ Stumptown at home
- 🌳 Walk through the panhandle
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
- 🥑 Bi-Rite
- 🍪 Wholesome Bakery
- 🕹 Zelda
Saturday, February 3, 2018
- ☕️ Snowbird
- 📖 Pimp by Iceberg Slim
- ☕️ Transit
- 🍽 Presidio Social Club
- 💻 Interval
- 🥃 The Grid—behind Tron door in Coin Op
- 🥩 Gaspar
Thursday, February 1, 2018
🏃 Park four with Shostakovich’s Piano Trio #2. Taking the 33 to work reading an article by Stewart Brand.
- ☕️ Linea — ran into Levi
- ☕️ Sightglass
Hopefully designing the last signup flow for Relay. They leaned in a little too heavily on phone numbers with the last iteration. Going to borrow heavily from Instagram since it’s a good example that supports Facebook, email and phone on both desktop and mobile.
- 🍚 Farmhouse with Manik and Landon
- ☕️ Sightglass (again)
Critiqued some web marketing materials Matt Brown put together for Relay team.
Talked through some problems Raphael was facing using Kubernetes CronJobs. Sounds like there might an issue with cloudsqlproxy not running in time for your program to execute, thus failing when it can’t connect.
- 🥃 Alembic with Travis
- 🥃 Horsefeather
- 🕹 Emporium (Aladdin’s Castle on roids)
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
- ☕️ Four Barrel with Insomniac City
- 🤧 Rough day of sinuses yesterday and this morning
Made some improvements to the Precap onboarding experience. A little behind on some design work I owe the Relay team so going to give them attention tomorrow.
- ☕️ Trouble
Feeling better, went for a run. Now waiting for the magic that is Amazon Fresh 🧞♂️
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
🏃 Park four with Bach’s violin sonata #1, no better way to start the morning.
☕️ Sightglass on Divis with Minsky’s Society of Mind.
Precap: Spending some time testing our minimal new user experience, iPad experience and seeing how things behave on a simulated slow connection.
🥗 Souvla watching this really interesting talk on Xi by Ralph Levien. Makes me more interested in the idea of Go (or Rust in his case) cores that use JSON as a transport between the core and native language.
🤧 Retreating home to sneeze in peace
Monday, January 29, 2018
- 🏃 Park run
- ☕️ Linea
- 👨💻 In the office today
Precap: Adding a way for people to send us feedback. Easiest approach is email but that’s boring and no one will check it so I’m going to make a Slack webhook and send feedback to our channel.
- 🥪 Salumeria
- ☕️ Sightglass
Binge-watching the remaining episodes of Mr Robot season 3. It took an unexpectedly uplifting turn.
Sunday, January 28, 2018
- ☕️ Neighbors Corner
- 🍚 Farmhouse
- 🏃 Twin Peaks
Saturday, January 27, 2018
- ☕️ Ritual on Haight
- 📖 Insomniac City
- 🥑 Padrecito
- ☕️ Contrabrand on Larkin
- 🍷 Social Study
- 🍜 Hinodeya Ramen
Messing around with gomobile (again) instead of trying to wrap a C library in Swift. It still doesn’t support all types but if you think of the framework like a web service (bytes in / bytes out) it kinda works.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Late run, not feeling great. I think whatever bug is going around is slowly trying to takeover.
Learned a bit about how to work with C libraries in Swift.
Precap: Attempting to incorporate Google’s UUID package so we’re generating v4 UUIDs and not relying on MySQL to generate them. Also hoping to finish an improvement to the push token store so development builds receive pushes.
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Park run this morning, already at 75 miles for the year 💪
Relay: Made good progress on a basic design for the web version yesterday. Landon and Levi are excited. Still a few interactions to iron out.
Precap: Today I need to alter the API a bit so clients can update past stories using Aaron’s client-side merging. I’d also like to get a few tests written to ensure the story endpoints are behaving as expected. Tests are kinda like the unpaid intern of software development.
- ☕️ Stanza on Haight
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Early run through the Park before heading into the office.
- ☕️ La Marais
- 📖 Act of Creation
- 🥟 Bon Nene with Manik
Mocking up a basic desktop version of Relay so the guys have something to work from. Missing UIKit already 😩
Monday, January 22, 2018
Coffee with Aaron at Sightglass this morning. Looking forward to more people on Precap.
Late run through the Park before totally dominating an ant infestation 🐜🤺 Kinda fun watching them try to regroup as I disrupted their pheromone trails. Now I’m fascinated by ant behavior 🔍
- ☕️ Wooden
- 🍗 RT Rotisserie
Charles C. Mann talk tonight at SF Jazz.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Lazy morning trying to find the best Bach Partitas recording.
- 🍳 Le Marais
- 👓 Oliver People’s — new specs ordered
- ☕️ Beacon Coffee — walking break
- 🥃 Comstock — trying the 🐙 corndogs because Jess is skeptical
Saturday, January 20, 2018
- ☕️ Ritual on Haight
- 📖 Art of Computer Programming
- 🏃 to the ocean
- 🚗 Palo Alto
- 🥙 Oren’s
- ☕️ Backyard Coffee Co.
- 🚗 Home blasting Max Richter
- 🍺 Social Study
- 🎞 Call Me By Your Name
Friday, January 19, 2018
Felt so good to run this morning. Worked out of the office on some new server endpoints for Precap so we can manage diffing and merging on the clients.
Anxious to finish listening to this interview with Kevin Kelly tonight.
- 🥃 True Laurel with Relay crew
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Working from home finishing up some force-upgrade stuff I started last night. Cranky because I couldn’t run this morning, hopefully the skies will clear a bit this afternoon. Headed to Stanza to work more on Precap ☕️👨💻
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Foggy park run before hopping on the 33 to Linea. Working out of the office today on Precap. Meeting with Manik later to prioritize design needs.
- 🥪 Universal Cafe
- ☕️ Sightglass
Long walk from Mission to Hayes. Caught the 7 home, felt like a sardine.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
Fixed issue with Precap registration. Replaced Universal Links callback with custom schema and using the new SFAuthenticationSession.
- ☕️ Sightglass on Divis
Made a big list of todos to burn down before giving Precap to more people.
Monday, January 15, 2018
- 🏃 Five to the ocean
- ☕️ Trouble
Being a tourist in Fisherman’s Warf before walking to Fort Mason with Jess.
- 🧜♀️ Snack at Blue Mermaid
- ☕️ Interval 📖
Friday, January 12, 2018
- 🏃 Park run through the fog
- ☕️ Linea Cafe
Burning down Precap tasks wishing Things was multiplayer.
- 🥗 Salumeria to-go
- ☕️ Sightglass
Thursday, January 11, 2018
- 🏃 Park run
Caught up on some writing at home. Planned a better approach to using K8s CronJob. Gonna use busybox to ping a URL on the main process. Simplifies the build process and config.
- ☕️ Working at Sightglass on Divis
- 🥗 Souvla late lunch
- 🍸 Alembic
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
- 🏃 Park four, missing the sun
Goal today is to have notifications for unseen content working. Need to research Go APNS packages to see if there’s anything new and setup a Kubernetes CronJob to execute the notif.
- ☕️ Laundré
This episode on Kubernetes usability and the discussion about many small clusters vs one mega clusters is interesting. Sounds like Google is in favor of the former.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
🏃 Park four
😐 Getting back in the habit of using Things for task management. So far I forgot to pay my license registration on-time because I forgot to add it to Things
🤹♂️ In the office today working on Precap this morning and talking with Manik this afternoon to get a sense for what Relay needs from me. Meeting David Kjelkerud for coffee at Sightglass.
Monday, January 8, 2018
🏃 Rainy park four
Gonna help Relay team with some design needs today. First day back in the office
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Snowbird with Jess this morning. Reading Bookchin wax about unmediated forms of social relations.
- ☕️ Réveille
Wrestled with Kubernetes to gain a better understanding of Ingress and NodePorts. Posted a complete setup on Github which is what I use to manage my personal podcast aggregator.
- 🎩 Amazon Fresh is magic
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Stocked the kitchen this morning and spent a good part of the day watching Adam Savage’s YouTube channel, Tested. His “one day builds” are so fun, never thought building a tape dispenser could be so enthralling.
Ran four miles encircling four parks.
Reading about an attempt to bring American football to China.
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
- ☕️ Espresso and bit of writing at home
Yesterday while wondering around downtown I stumbled on a Homegrown. One of my favorite Seattle lunch spots. Gonna go there for lunch.
- 🎈 Tonight, birthday dinner with Jess and Travis at Rich Table
Monday, January 1, 2018
- 🏃 Park four
Reading David Halberstam’s biography of Bill Belichick.
- ☕️ Réveille
- 🍸 Vesuvio