Royal Gorge Route Railroad. Incredible views, good lunch. Makes me want to re-read From the River to the Sea which covered a lot of building the track here.
Pikes Peak from Garden of the Gods. For “horizon”, day 14 of the Micro.blog photo challenge.
Enjoyed Colorado this week. Heading back to Texas today... Going to miss my new morning routine of walking to the coffee shop with a view of the mountains in the background.
2023-03-15
Great milestone as Kottke.org hits 25 years. Jason writes about the early days:
The updates on weblogs & diaries were smaller but more frequent than on other personal sites — their velocity felt different, exhilarating.
2023-03-15
I was reviewing a GitHub pull request today for a potential upcoming feature and was struck by how well it represents my workflow with Micro.blog for major new features. Start with some basic structure for the code, add more pieces, then fix bugs and polish it up. Screenshot:
Did not finish: Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Just couldn't get into it. Might try to pick it up again some other time in print instead of audiobook. 📚
2023-03-15
Finished reading: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A short, great read. 📚
2023-03-16
Last day on the road as we make our way through a rainy highway 287 in the middle of nowhere.
I've been a software developer for about 30 years and ChatGPT is the first technology that I can barely comprehend. Still feels like magic. 🪄
2023-03-16
Long day. Drove into hail somewhere before Denton, then through a thunderstorm between Waco and Austin. It started with lightning playing in the clouds and then the downpour was on us, destroying visibility as we crept down the highway with our hazard lights on. Kind of a Texas-sized welcome home.
2023-03-17
Captured a little video of the lightning on the other side of the storm back at home.
We're enabling ActivityPub for everyone now, not just recent users. This is needed so that you can fully migrate followers away from Micro.blog if you want to in the future. It will cause email notifications for some folks who haven't used Micro.blog in years, but I think it's the best way forward.
2023-03-17
Playing with FeedLand reminds me that Micro.blog doesn't have OPML export. The reason is because some people might have private-ish RSS feeds that power their account. This is rare but I wanted to be careful about exposing the URLs. Need to first add OPML that only includes obviously-public feeds.
2023-03-17
Listening to U2's Songs of Surrender. I think I was expecting a kind of "Taylor's Version"-style re-recording, but it's more a new take like you'd hear at a concert. Love this. 🎵
2023-03-19
Spurs eliminated from the playoffs early this year, but you couldn't tell by watching the 2nd half of this Hawks/Spurs game. So fun to watch. 🏀
2023-03-19
