I am removing iPods from my house. It's a general effort to move away from having constant listening in every room. Yeah, there are still the cell phones and iPads, but chipping away at what's listening reduces the attack surface and the set of things I have to remove if things go sideways.
I also love playing music though the house. Music in the bedroom is nice while I'm reading. Music in the office provides a nice background when I'm working. Music in the kitchen while preparing and eating meals complements the food.
I have Home Assistant and a lot of ZigBee devices from Ikea.
Plastics was a thing in It's a Wonderful Life.
Plastics was a thing in The Graduate.
And for my generation, it was computers and the Internet. Just as jet engines and plastics led to world transformation, over the past 50 years, computers have fundamentally changed the way humans live and interact.
And just as plastics made many things in our world safer (okay there are also huge safety costs associated with plastics) and created entirely new categories of products, computers have fundamentally changed how humans communicate and go about their days.
The absolute price of housing has been increasing since the 1980s.
There are a lot of reasons for it, but declining interest rates are a key cause of increasing housing prices.
For the United States, our estimates for the period from 1970 to the end of 1999 suggest that a 100 basis-point fall in the nominal short-term rate, accompanied by an equivalent fall in the real short-term rate, generated a 5 percentage point rise in real house prices, relative to baseline, after three years
So it makes sense that people are apoplectic over inflation, but I suspect the underlying cause is...
I've never been super-keen on doing development on Windows machines.
With WSL aka Windows Subsystem for Linux, there's the possibility of developing on a Windows machine with Windows apps... but with all the Linux goodness.
WSL 2 is the new-to-2020 version that uses the native Linux filesystem (very fast) and has a bunch of other goodies that makes the Windows 10/Linux integration really nice.
I've also been working on Mesa X... a re-imagination of spreadsheets written in Rust (for the server) and TypeScript (front end).
Here's my development setup.
First, you have to install WSL 2 on your Win10 machine.
On November 17th, 1991, I started coding a spreadsheet for NeXT called Mesa.
I was a 27 year old, law school graduate and I wanted to write some cool software. I started a company, Athena Design, to publish Mesa.
Well, technically, I founded Athena Design to create an application store for NeXT software because in 1989, the only way to distribute software for NeXT boxes was via optical media and the media itself cost more than $100 per disc... but I digress.
Mesa became a "thing". Mesa beat out the incumbent spreadsheets from Lotus and Informix.
I owned a 2018 Tesla Model S 75D from May 2018 through March 2019. I purchased a 2019 Jaguar I-Pace First Edition in March 2019. This post is my thoughts comparing the two.
In all important categories, the first year I-Pace is better than the Tesla Model S, which has been shipping for 6 years.
However, with the velocity of change in the industry, lease, don't buy, an EV. And the I-Pace is the right luxury EV to lease.
If you're going to drive a luxury car, build quality and material quality distinguish cars from the EVs that provide basic transportation.
I'm seriously considering Full Time Employment mainly because one of my clients wants to convert me to FTE and I love working with the client. But, I want to understand what opportunities are available. So, I've been doing a fair bit of interviewing.
Most of the interviews have at least some component of "whiteboard coding." "Whiteboard coding" is where the interviewer presents a problem and asks the interviewee to write code that solves the problem or implements to algorithm on a whiteboard.
Let's step back and look at the purpose of and constraints around interviewing.
I've been buying and trying to use a number of Windows 10 machines. In the past year, I've bought a Yoga 910, ThinkPad T460p, and a Surface Pro 4 i7. I can't live with any of these machines like I live with my iPad or my Mac.
It's mostly the little things.
The Windows machines just seem to lose their wireless device. Once every week or two, I'll open the machine and the machine won't be able to find its wireless device. I have to reboot the device. I live in my apps (browser tabs, LastPass, IntelliJ, etc.) for long periods of time. If I have to reboot, I have to re-enter passwords, recreate REPL sessions, etc. It's a real productivity killer.