The other day I finished reading: It doesn't have to be crazy at work 📚. Great book and am going to carry much of this forward to what I do every day.

Two years ago I left my full time job, working for "the man". The year after was incredibly difficult. I'm thankful that mid this year things have started to look much better. Looking forward to the next year of my adventures.

Re-installed fish shell, after a few months of using bash. What a difference already! Love it so much. This, coupled with Oh-My-Fish, makes a great combo.

The amount of times online and offsite back up has saved me: 0. The amount of times Time Machine has saved me the past years, including my family (Hey Mom!): billion times.

Rewrote my About page. Less "blah blah blah", more "hey, this is me". Hoping to make more changes, especially with wording, around the whole site in the next few weeks.

Writing my next blog post that I've been thinking about for a whole week...

Some of John Gruber's posts are really resonating with me this week.

I was looking for really great Christmas jumpers yesterday at the mall. No dice 🥺. They're all dark (colour wise) and not very joyful. Need to find a place online.

So... I'm using Sequel Pro for a lot of database stuff... however the site only shows you a release build from years ago. Frustrating. So now I found that there are test releases, which you can find here: https://sequelpro.com/test-builds

I've been using my laptop on battery power... all day! I mean... 7 - 8 hours and most of it was coding related. That's pretty cool!

Working on a Ruby on Rails project at the moment... falling in love with the simplicity of Ruby again! Inspired to get into it way more now.

I went through 1Password last week and logged into every service I could find that I'm not using, followed by trying to delete my account with said service. Some were easy to delete, some you had to email and some are just a right pain. I thank the companies that make everything a breeze!

I'm working on a few things to get ready for the new year... that includes planning a new code challenge (well, coming back to another one), perhaps even two, consolidating outgoings with things I use for work purpose (online stuff) and a general declutter of how I'll go about my day to day client work. I'll write about it more this week.

I go to the gym 3 - 5 days a week now. I stopped tracking my activity on the watch. I turned off any reminders about standing up or the nudging of "Hey, you can STILL do it!". At the end of the day it is how I feel that is the most important metric. If I feel good, then that's a win in my eyes.

"Please rate our support" - I get this a lot... but honestly... why track this metric? Knowing that your customers are happy by word of mouth and receiving no complaints... I'm sure that is all you really need.

"Touchdown confirmed"... congratulations NASA!

Gluon build 20181124.2 is coming your way. Fixes issues with seemingly endless images loading in the image modal (1 image ~ 17 images, ha!). Also added experimental swipe to close, so drag that image down and it will close the modal.

And now that I posted a big blog post about Image Modals... I find a bug which basically just loads the same image over and over again. Hot fix in a moment! Will be build (20181124.2).