I feel there is a trust you give certain companies that if they send you a notification then its likely important: Like for instance you Apple Wallet or TMobile carrier. Unfortunately it is seen as a way to push advertisements in your face. I try to avoid any advertisement. I have not had cable tv for 20 years and pay for all the ad free plans on anything I consume.
Switching to micro.blog. The 1 dollar a month plan is to nice to pass up, especially to play around with. So redirecting mrd.dev to micro.blog.
The canary knife is a cheap tool that I use everyday. Previously I had several very sharp, reasonably nice knifes that I used to cut open boxes and break them down. This ranged anywhere from a CRKT to actual box cutter knives. None of them have been as useful as this one. I have had this knife for 6 months now. The Canary will tear through boxes with ease, cut tape and while magically being unable to cut you.
Trying to blog more often and the easiest thing to do are these short reviews. Today its the Espro French Press, I have used the P3/P7 for roughly 9 years. Along with my grinder and kettle it is the most used tool in my kitchen. Every morning I make a pot of french press, is pot the right word? and everyone morning that double walled basket keeps almost all the grounds out.
Long ago in the early 2000s, I spent a fair amount of time reading comics and stories. Questionable Content, Penny Arcade and others all fall into this category. One that will jump in my brain and require a nostalgic dopamine kick is the story of marvelous bob. Sadly it only exists in wayback machine, the writer Michael Buonauro committed suicide in 2004, though the story is mostly done. This story sticks with me because it cuts the fat and joy out what a super hero is.
Went to the eminence ren faire and loved this A A Ron name. The grilled cheese was good but needed something to elevate it!
A bit of background I currently am involved in 3 campaigns that each virtually meets 2-3 times a month. Pre pandemic I had one group that met in person but when the pandemic started we transitioned to virtual. This turned out to be a boon for our playing schedule. Getting everyone together in one place was difficult, but getting everyone to log in at the same time is an order of magnitude easier.
Ten years ago I was an emacs guy, but since then I haven’t used a command line text editor daily. If I log into a remote machine I will usually use nano to make any small edits. After doing some code pairing with someone using Neovim I decided to give it a try. My setup is based around golang development and trying to get the closest I can to my GoLand setup.
I have been at Grafana for roughly 2 months and so far its been a fantastic learning opportunity. For the past 15 years of my career I have worked in large scale enterprise to enterprise solutions doing closed work in the dotnet ecosystem. At Grafana I am working on an open source project Grafana Agent, in Golang with nary a SQL database in sight. It is fantastic to put it mildly.
New job with Grafana that will require me to use a new language, Go. Granted I played with Go about 4 years ago but that wasn’t really a deep dive. Instead I am taking the month between my old job and new to do a deep dive into Go! Really excited about both the new job and learning a new language. I have picked up pieces here and there but the last language I really tried to learn was Typescript and I was only fair at doing that.
Why? I wanted to play with Time Series for a role I am interviewing for, and I wanted to do it by using a lot of common constructs and building it myself. There is no way this is production ready, nor is it bulletproof in anyway. Its for fun! You can find all the code at the github here. Some hardcoded paths exist, be forewared. Concepts I read a bit about Time Series and knew a few things:
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Found my way to LA Grange roasters for some fancy coffee
I have had the Air for a little less than a week. To sum it up in one quick statement, The best computer I have ever used. Now for a longer explanation. I bought the lowest end 13.3” Macbook Air. I debated over a 256gb i7 version but wanted to limit myself some. Sounds odd, but I wanted to limit myself somewhat. I had been drooling over an Air for a year now but couldn’t pull the trigger with a Core 2 Duo, that all changed when the Sandy Bridge came out.
The AKA Viking, an open bolt, pneumatic electro. That basically describes the Viking and to be honest almost every other electro on the market. In this world of dozens of high class electros each marker tries to differentiate themselves with some attribute or some selling point above the others, the matrix and it’s low recoil low pressure spooling design. The Angel with simply put class and breed. Impulse and its attractive price.