Leon Mika · Scour

It’s a good thing that I remembered to bring my umbrella on my walk this evening. It’s an even better thing that I actually had to use it. ☔

A while ago, while walking along a local creek, I saw some people fishing. How quaint , I thought to myself. But I doubt they’ll catch any ...

🔗 Steve Yegge: Software Survival 3.0

Opened Logic Pro for the first time in a while the other day, and started poking through some loops. Came across some clips of the numbers one through ten sp...

Week over, and I think we could say that attempting to integrate the Metro Tunnel in my commute was moderately successful. Not so much for coming home, but f...

This week’s earworm: Tango 3.0 , by Gotan Project. There is a reason for this which I’ll hope yo...

A hijacker walked into a bar, and said to the bartender, “Hi, Jack!” 😝

The windy wind winds the windy windmill.

It takes someone who doesn’t know how to use scrollbars to encourage others not to show scrollbars. 😛

People don’t know what they want, but they do know what they don’t want. Lean into this when gathering requirements. Better to have something the...

One sad aspect about getting old is that things no longer excite you anymore. Looking at options for where to take my career, and after looking at job boards...

One thing I kinda miss about Day One is the ability to print physical books from your entries. They weren’t perfect — I would’ve made different d...

Old network maps that are still on some of the trains running through the Metro Tunnel (how ironic). Recorded for prosperity.

Actually, it might be that one of the services is shutting down before finishing the request. That may explain why the context is being cancelled, and not th...

I can’t for the life of me find why a context is being cancelled. I’m combing through various service calls, checking all the timeouts, and they ...

Over the weekend, curious to know how well it’ll do, I asked ChatGPT to generate some code in UCL , the ...

Tried the commute home and it looks like the gains are negligible.

TIL that the time ball, the thing that drops on New Year’s Eve in New York’s Times Square, was actually a proper form of time-keeping used in nau...

Took the Metro Tunnel to work again today, which I wasn’t completely planning for. But what can I say? It’s a nice commute. Brand spanking new in...

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