J.C. Holder @jcholder@toot.thoughtworks.com

Glad I decided to participate in #Looptober. It's a good excuse to noodle around with your own music-making tools.

Playing around with my Pocket Operators once again. Feels good.

Thinking about adopting a dog.

Better to have your tests running green than to have your CFO's face turning green.

Stream games to a GameBoy Advance from a Raspberry Pi: https://github.com/rodri042/gba-remote-play

You know what Zoom needs? Hot-swappable profile images. I want an "AFK" (away from keyboard) image to distinguish my absence from me being off-camera.

How is Finder (macOS) using twice as much RAM on this MacBook than Chrome?

Also, where are the end-to-end guides for Tauri? I can find setup guides but haven't found a complete example with a useful app. Am I expected to buy the book first?

Who here has tried Tauri (https://tauri.studio/) for app development?

Bitcoin myths: immutability, decentralisation, and the cult of "21 million"

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2021/06/27/bitcoin-myths-immutability-decentralisation-and-the-cult-of-21-million/

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The insights and observations from this article can apply to many, many other technologies. Does that AI tech you keep hearing about ring too many of the same alarm bells?

Update: The deploy was a success.

Planning to push some changes to production today. Wish me luck!

Thinking of attaching my webcam to my wall (via an adjustable arm) in order to avoid table shakes.

Dang but I really love my current project assignment.

It's infrastructure as code, not infrastructure as configuration. - said in anger at too many .yml files

What's the most popular cross-platform tool for mobile dev? Is it React-Native?

My team's project is live in a clinic and I couldn't be happier for it.

Goodness gracious! My team here at ThoughtWorks won an award. (I'll be able to say more later.)

How many of your meetings are contributing to the very lack of progress/productivity that were the impetus for those very meetings?

Normalize looking away from one's camera during Zoom calls except when talking towards it.

Otherwise calls make every attendee feel like they're performing public speaking (a common phobia) even when they're silent (which feels like you're choking on one's presentation). All of this can occur without any conscious awareness on the part of the attendees.