Often times the best way to clear your mind is to first clear your screen. Just cloe all the windows and apps. Start fresh.

So close to that first internet dollar, courtesy of Stripe

I listen to old conference keynotes while working on RubyVideo. Today I listened to Yukihiro Matz's @RubyConf 2015 keynote and he talks about the lonely operator (&.) introduced in Ruby 2.3. TIL why it's called the "Lonely operator" and I think it's actually quite funny:

The difference between the disabled and enabled states of the Save Changes button in the Gmail settings is essentially imperceptible.

Is this claim about LinkedIn true?

The speakers on the BenQ RD280UA are definitely late 90s laptop grade. Everything else about it is wonderful.

The holidays are just around the corner. HEY please gift us the ability to delete contacts from the Contacts search results. 🎄🎁 🙏

My kids dropped my phone and shattered the screen so I had to upgrade from an iPhone 11 to an iPhone 16 Pro. Can't say it's been a noticeably different or better experience so far.

Thankful that Amazon Web Services Elastic Beanstalk now supports Ruby 3.3.6 #HappyThanksgiving

If UIKit is still a requirement for your app, it turns out Grok is really good at converting SwiftUI code to UIKit. Great way to learn too. Amazed this is free for everyone to use.

It's cool that Apple Podcasts automatically transcribes podcast episodes. But the transcriptions are basically useless without speaker diarization.

Somehow AI Agents as a Service is different from Software as a Service.

Going to sleep at 9PM makes everything else easier.

This is also the case at the $700 price point.

You can use the Basecamp Message Board to communicate and store information. You can only use Confluence to store information. That difference makes all the difference.

Wild that anyone can hire Anthropic 's Claude.

RT if you want day-zero support for OpenAI new open-weights model to run fast on your laptop with MLX.

There was a surprising number of people in cowboy boots at Stripe Sessions this year.

Getting reimbursed for work travel.

I've attended enough Stripe Sessions to have had the pleasure of hearing these two speak.