Matthew @mcg@mastodon.social

Apparently air quality is down here today due to dust from the Saharan desert. You can see the haze from the dust in the air and beautiful sunsets.

Yard work done! Time for a beer and some tunes.

Morning walks

I love walks in the morning, before it’s too hot. Headphones on with some chill music, not too loud so you can still hear the birds. Occasionally you can smell someone cooking a breakfast from the street. Makes you wonder about the people preparing the food.

Drafts 21 brings custom dialogs with HTML/CSS/JS. This is amazing . https://mattgemmell.com/custom-prompts-for-drafts/

Stumbled across, the Browncoats Mixtape and now I really need a Firefly rewatch. It’s been a while. https://mikalkhill.bandcamp.com/album/the-browncoats-mixtape

“Gross Easter Beer”.

It’s a our IPA brewed with dragon fruit , passion fruit, lemons and… marshmallow PEEPS. By Westbrook Brewing.

I was a bit apprehensive to try this one. It’s definitely not gross.

My battery is getting low and it’s getting dark

— Opportunity Rover 💬

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.

– The Doctor 💬

My workday is done when I close the lid on my work MBP. It’s extremely satisfying to close that lid.

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issu... https://braintube.com/2020/05/06/briefly-stated-the.html

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few,... https://braintube.com/2020/05/05/i-have-a.html

I have seen things you people wouldn’t believe. HTML tags nested 14 layers deep off the shoulder of a signature. I watched DOM beams glitter in the dark near the font of Verdana. All these containers will be lost in time, like tears from the CPU. Time to cry.

— DHH 💬

Hi 👋

Folks under lockdown sure love to get out and come watch some newly hatched Mallard ducks. The boredom is real.

This song slaps 😅 https://music.apple.com/us/album/animate/642211626?i=642211703

Pond visitor

Even the geese are social distancing.