👍Maximum Derek👍

Not usually, but Chris Cornell hit me hard. I had no connection other than loving his music and everything he did for Seattle musicians in the late 80s and early 90s, but I still think about it.

There’s an old saying in software development: The only thing worse than no optimization is premature optimization.

It can be a true statement (if a bit hyperbolic), but far too many people seem to think it means “don’t worry about performance until the end.”

You should pay attention to code optimization throughout development and take time to solve rough spots periodically. You just have to know that some optimization strategies can become tech dept by gumming up on-going development.

Janeane Garofalo circa Reality Bites.

I like that you can date so many things since the pandemic by BDG’s hair.

Recently it’s been Los Ageless by St. Vincent. I can’t get the steel guitar out of my head.

3 feet + a snickers bar

Or if I feel the need to be rude toward a man: 3 feet + your penis

Bob’s Burgers gets rewatched a lot. We also do a full rewatch of Taskmaster before each new series begins (UK and NZ versions) though that tradition may have to end now that the UK version is nearing 20 series.

There are also a number of UK panel shows that we keep looping through as background noise. Hypothetical, QI, WILTY, selected Buzzcocks episodes, Guessable, Alan Davies: Untitled, Big Fat Quiz, Outsiders.

Oxygen Not Included is the big one for me. It lets me get inventive, which is something my brain needs sometimes.

I would find it irresistible to do, “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Electronics / microcontrollers.

Took just a few months to go from, “I can make a wifi connected weather station for like $20 in components!?” to “oscilloscopes cost how much?”