Current soundtrack: “The Endless River” by Pink Floyd: rd.io/x/QV7o_SISjx4/

Parenting win: today my daughter told me “I want to kick your tushie.”

Finally saw “Let the Right One In” tonight — incredibly eerie, chilling, entrancing. Recommended if you can handle it.

★★★★☆

Had some kvass for the first time tonight, courtesy of a new friend in White Plains. It’s like drinking sparkling rye bread. Yeah, really.

If you’re building software on a Mac, don’t ever end local hostnames with `.local`: stackoverflow.com/a/17982964/7012

Friends! I started last week as a developer at @thinkful — I’m super-psyched to be working with this fantastic team to reinvent education!

This V8 swapped 1970 MGB GT has a great look. Super cool! bringatrailer.com/2014/11/05/425…

Saw a great Filipino film last night: On the Job. Intense, gripping, provocative. Very well made. Violent!

rottentomatoes.com/m/on_the_job/

What’s the deal with software that requires certain files to have “file” in their name? E.g. Makefile, Procfile, Dockerfile. Seems silly.

I just marked “The inexplicable rise of open floor plans in tech companies – thoughts from the red planet – thoughts from the red planet” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/c68pooqz

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “Schema evolution in Avro, Protocol Buffers and Thrift” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/nsbfmeoz

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “https://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out-the-cto-role-at-stripe” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/cahwlu7p

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “The Problem With Positive Thinking” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/tpgaqpdw

(Originally published on App.net.)

Baltimore friends: please join me in supporting JQ Baltimore’s fundraising campaign — it might get matched! jewcer.com/jqbaltimore שבת שלום!

Just pre-ordered the @zenpencils book — I hope I can handle such a concentrated dose of inspiration! zenpencils.com/book/

Posted 23 new photos to Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avi4now/

(Originally published on App.net.)

Loving the new OK Go album Hungry Ghosts: rd.io/x/QV7o_SIWnzU/

I just marked “Do It Anyway” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/36r0zqzh

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “What it took for Elon Musk’s SpaceX to disrupt Boeing, leapfrog NASA, and become a serious space company” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/2xnkuhgb

(Originally published on App.net.)

Just placed a $200 order for CFLs and LEDs. I love energy efficiency!

Really enjoyed @skamille’s talk tonight at @papers_we_love! Thanks so much to everyone involved!

I love buying software directly from independent developers, but I cringe every time I get redirected to Paypal… ugh.

More non-profits should send out calendars to donors rather than newsletters; a good calendar will get put up, keep the org front of mind.

Just signed up to be a monthly supporter of @Wikipedia — happy to have the opportunity!

/via @kottke, thanks!

Once again waiting in line for an iPhone outside an  store before it opens. Feeling unsettled in my privileged & conspicuous materialism.

I just marked “The Future of Apache Storm: Secure, Highly-Available, Multi-Tenant” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/xlfo8965

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “bitmonkey” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/vggjlfd4

(Originally published on App.net.)

This John Oliver piece on the Kafkaesque phenomenon of civil forfeiture in the US is amazing: youtu.be/3kEpZWGgJks

/via @DrugPolicyNews

Model year 2015 is not a good one for US fans of manual trans full-size wagons. They’re just about gone from these shores.

Just removed the OpenID delegation links from my site. Ah well, it was a nice try. Onward! #BackToPasswordsForNow

Over the weekend I finished Ann Leckie’s fantastic SF novel Ancillary Justice — very refreshing! annleckie.com /ht @drdrang thanks!

Help make it happen for CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap igg.me/p/code-debuggi… #indiegogo via @stevenbjohnson

I just joined 414 donors giving a dollar a day to amazing nonprofits! #dollaraday dollaraday.co

Sound advice from my Geico adjuster: “next time your car rolls off a lift, don’t drive it home!”

Great day in the city today: meetings, meetups, lunch with @siguy — I could get used to unemployment!

I just marked “Pay People to Cook at Home” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/xoeybie4

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “bitmonkey” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/vggjlfd4

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “Why we should believe the dreamers — and not the experts” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/62njqszs

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “To be a peaceaholic: A new year’s resolution” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/59g5jeao

(Originally published on App.net.)

Bye STL! An excellent time as usual. Expanded my brain prodigiously at #strangeloop then a relaxing weekend to recover. +1 will visit again.

I just marked “HTTP API” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/ihjmhoe1

(Originally published on App.net.)

I just marked “The Log: an epic software engineering article” as a favorite in Readability. http://www.readability.com/articles/j0n7mhvl

(Originally published on App.net.)

Dear world, I’m excited to be looking for opportunities to design and write software that makes a positive difference — please get in touch!

“The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics” — an excellent essay on the current state of video game mechanics. acko.net/blog/the-cargo…

If anyone at #strangeloop wants to help me out hacking on a Swift app tonight for a bit, I’d be grateful! I have no idea what I’m doing.

Anyone have an iPhone 5 sitting around that they want to get rid of? I lost my 5S and my backup phone is a 4 and it’s dog slow.

Trying to build a little iOS app with Swift and it seems that the iOS platform/SDK has no promises, futures, or other async control flow?

This is the coffee shop I stopped by in this morning in STL, Mud Art & Coffee #strangeloop http://t.co/01nrCnY80p

Just saw a pop-up ad on my new (used) TV — couldn’t disable that crap fast enough. cnet.com/how-to/turn-of…

Still can’t go wrong with KEXP: http://t.co/gcQocnvHfH