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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
—Albert Einstein
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Each time you write a page, you are a writer. Each time you practice the violin, you are a musician. Each time you start a workout, you are an athlete. Each time you encourage your employees, you are a leader.
—Atomic Habits
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
—David McCullough
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We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.
—Warren Zevon
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TIL the From HTTP request header. Now used for crawlers, it was originally intended for allow human users to supply their email address to the server. Innocent times.
📚 Finished reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong, in one day. ETags, anyone?
💻 Checked the micro.blog logs, and the cert “expired” at 10:06 a.m. (EST), so the site was down for almost 2 hours. Previously.
💻 Site was down for a few minutes (that I know of) due to an expired cert error. I checked the server and my cert was not expired. I rebooted nginx and it’s working again. 🤷
📚 Started reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong. Published in 2000, it’s still a good refresher, although distressingly it omits status code 418.
🍿 I watched Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles last night. It’s so aggressively naturalistic, I had to sink in, but I found paying attention throughout well worth it.
🍿 Watched David Cronenberg’s The Brood from 1979. I wanted to like it more. Someday.
🐈 Laurie and Rocco. #cat #cats
📚 Started reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot.
📚 Finished reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. What a precisely rendered master crafted gut punch. Loved it.
📚 Started reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats.
📚 Finished reading: The Mythical Man-Month, by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. I liked the insights into managing software, and the time traveling to the computing industry circa 1975–1995. Took me 1 month and 6 days.
🎵 I found Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach thrifting in Providence. First time I’ve heard it, and can recommend to all the #synthnerds #music.
📷 🐈 To celebrate adding images to my blog’s micro posts, here’s a #photo of Wiz on a rug.
Started Adam Wade’s storytelling class this past weekend and really loving it. He’s a raw, compelling, caring guy, and I’m really inspired by my classmates.
📝 Back in the saddle writing my music comedy about The Traveling Wilburys Solving Crime novella. At the moment, it’s all about getting the first two chapters right. #amWriting