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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
βAlbert Einstein
Notes
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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.
βAtomic Habits
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
βDavid McCullough
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We love to buy books because we believe weβre buying the time to read them.
βWarren 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.
π Finished reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong, in one day. ETags, anyone?
π» 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.
π» 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. π€·
π Started reading: HTTP Pocket Reference by Clinton Wong. Published in 2000, it’s still a good refresher, although distressingly it omits status code 418.
πΏ 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.
πΏ Watched David Cronenberg’s The Brood from 1979. I wanted to like it more. Someday.
π Laurie and Rocco. #cat #cats

π Started reading: Middlemarch by George Eliot.
π Finished reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats. What a precisely rendered master crafted gut punch. Loved it.
π Started reading: First Love, by Joyce Carol Oats.
π 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 1975β1995. Took me 1 month and 6 days.
π΅ I found Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach thrifting in Providence. First time I’ve heard it, and can recommend to all the #synthnerds #music.

π· π 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.
π 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