Dave

Where are all the squirrels today?! I need training data!

Starting to collect training data for a squirrel scaring program I put together this morning.

If it works, it should blare metal super loud whenever a squirrel gets on to our bird feeder. 🐿️🤘

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: now

What now? dinosaurseateverybody.com/now

Gung Hay Fat Tuesday!

Update: I'm still in the "Wait! How do I do this common thing that's been a part of muscle memory for years on this new layout?! I guess I better update my layout again..." stage.

New keyboard day! I’m excited to feel like I’ve forgotten how to type!

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Powered By Postwave

I recently migrated the blog on my site over to Postwave (a blogging library I wrote). It's really nice to use a tool that works EXACTLY the way you want it to! dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/powered...

Done Is Better Than Perfect - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Done is better than perfect: dontbreakprod.com/posts/done-i...

I think builders often overestimate the appeal of building things and underestimate the appeal of not owning things that aren't part of your core business.

No matter how much I clean my desk, there's always a cat on it.

Code Is A Habitat For Bugs - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Code is a habitat for bugs: dontbreakprod.com/posts/code-i...

I kind of forgot that I own daveschwantes.com (it just redirects to dinosaurseateverybody.com)

Oh good. I just bought a new keyboard. ⌨️ 💸

Fail Productively - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

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Postwave 0.1.5 released! postwave.blog/posts/postwa...

Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Fine, I'll Do It Myself

New post about my adventures in self-hosting: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/fine-il...

Seniority Is Clarity Not Cleverness - Don't Break Prod Don't Break Prod provides bite-sized pieces of career advice for software engineers.

Clarity over cleverness: dontbreakprod.com/posts/senior...

And dinosaurseateverybody.com is moved now!

Now dontbreakprod.com and evilbrain.band (mostly...) are moved over too! Plus I'm hosting my own analytics now.

... I bought another domain.

dontbreakprod.com/feed

dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/rss.xml

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I should probably buy another domain for this little project...

I just started playing with @coolify.io in an effort to handle more of my own hosting (without having to actually do much real dev ops), so far it's pretty cool. I got postwave.blog fully moved over last night!

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Dinosaurs Eat Everybody :: Postwave

I wrote a bit about Postwave, the blog engine I built: dinosaurseateverybody.com/blog/postwave

My new bari sax just showed up! It is huge and awesome! 🎷

Aaaaand all of a sudden I'm doing a bunch of saxophone repair work. Tonight I used shellac and a small torch to reattach a key pad on my tenor and I just ordered a kit to re-cork the neck. I guess it was due for some love. 🎷

Just 🤘. That's it.

I’d be happy to chat about the tricky details around automated grocery ordering (I used to work at Instacart)