Hi. My name is Brian. I write Ruby and Clojure code for a living. Once upon a time I helped write a book (http://www.clojurebook.com/). I have a blog I should update but rarely do (https://cdaddr.com). I immigrated to Canada a few years ago. I'm a cool guy?
I enjoy computers and games and music and art and other normal human activities. Most of all, I like learning new things.
Happy summer solstice. \[T]/
I feel like I got out of the US just in time.
If you ever wonder why people like Go, the ecosystem is the answer: text files and simple command line tools. The language itself makes me barf sometimes but at least I can understand how to start my freaking program.
Currently trying to get IntelliJ Idea to connect Gradle to some test-running framework so I can test my Kotlin. How can anyone live like this? Whenever I dip my toe into huge IDEs and this kind of massively over-engineered ecosystem, I run screaming back to simpler tools.
Finally back in my house, asbestos free. On the bright side: I got a lot of reading this week, because reading was literally all I had to do in hotel rooms. And now I'm learning Kotlin.
I just tried to blow on my buffalo wings. As though that would make them any less spicy!
My house has asbestos, so I have to live in a hotel for a week while they fix it. How's your day?
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Well my home timeline is completely empty, but I might've fixed things otherwise. Now how to fix the damage this caused to my mental health?
Tried to update Mastodon, total disaster ensued. Probably PEBKAC.
Pet peeve in games: slow elevators. If they're hiding load times, OK. Otherwise they're just pointlessly shortening my lifespan. Especially if I have to take the elevator over and over.
In another life, I'd love to have a music theory degree. Music is cool. I'm winging it as best I can with my piano teacher, learning all sorts of interesting things. Learning how things work is basically what I live for.
I feel like I have code at work that'd be a great fit for Rust, but I'm never going to find time to get good at Rust or rewrite it all.
Minimalizing my entire house this weekend. I feel a creative mood coming on soon, and I need my atmosphere to be pleasant.
Becoming a Canadian citizen tomorrow. I'm happy that I get to vote, that international travel will be easier, that I can't be kicked out of the country at random. Still finding it hard to muster up a nationalistic fervor. Canada is cool, so are other places, I don't feel like where I live is part of my identity.
Giant server migration completed. Only 5 hours longer than I expected. That's a load off my shoulders though.
It looks like Matomo (Piwik) will do the job. Thanks for the recommends.
What's a good self-hosted stats tracker for websites? A "how many people are looking at my website and what are the most common referrers/browsers/etc" kind of thing. A more ethical replacement for Google Analytics, in other words. Anyone know a good one?
Currently learning SDL2. There are gaps in my gamedev knowledge that are only going to get filled in by playing around in the mud for a while.
I spent an evening cleaning up my vimrc. Does that count as spring cleaning?
