On Laws of Nature, Excel and Word - Nitor
Every piece of enterprise software eventually evolves into either reading or writing Excel files.
In my nearly 30 years of enterprise software development, I can confirm this law has held true in 100% of the projects I’ve ever worked on.
Maybe it’s just me, but the Micro.blog web servers seem to be a bit snappier lately. I’m liking it…
Had a lunch date with my wife today at a place we haven’t been to in 15 or 20 years that overlooks the pier. Then we walked the pier afterwards. It was an enjoyable afternoon with my bestie. I’m a lucky guy.
I’ve been going to a local shoe store for more than 25 years that has a “spin the wheel for a free pair of shoes” game. In all those years, I’ve never won a free pair… Until today. Score!
Changes for a mnml update are nearly complete and may drop by the weekend.
I also have some great ideas in the works for my next Micro.blog theme…
My youngest turns 28 today. As each year passes, it gets harder and harder to fathom the actual number.
I’m doing localization work on mnml this week. If you’d like to contribute by translating some strings, contact me using the “Email” link in the footer. I could take the Google Translate route, but I just don’t trust it enough.
A small/moderate earthquake in SoCal this morning (5.2, located in 📍Julian, CA). It’s a reminder that the big one is long overdue… 🫨
I got a great start to a macOS browser cache management app worked up this weekend. This one’s the new passion project to get more familiar with SwiftUI.
Tax checks mailed. 😩👋🏻💸💸💸
I always get the brew update and brew upgrade commands backwards. To me, “update” should be updating packages, and “upgrade” should be installing the latest version of brew.
I vibe coded a mini-cms for LAMP stack with Cursor last night and a little this morning. While not the cleanest or securest of code, it got the job done. I can create posts in Markdown and they render as HTML. All code was generated solely by prompt. A fun distraction to see what the app could do.
I knew as soon as I launched OmniFocus 3 that I’d have to see if v4 was as good or better. Of course it is and I’ll have to drop the $75 USD for an upgrade. Good Mac apps would make me really poor if I weren’t careful.
After listening to @canion and @martinfeld talk about Andrew’s appearance on the Omni Show on Hemispheric Views Ep. 134 this morning, I remembered I had an OF Pro 3 license. So I downloaded the Mac & iOS versions to use for work projects. I used to be a huge OF nerd. Not sure why I strayed…
Taking my first foray into vim. Don’t ask why. I like to torture myself sometimes…
It looks like the RV will be in the shop for our early May trip as well, so we’ve rescheduled and booked a hotel in Palm Springs for that weekend instead. Early May is the perfect time to visit “The Springs.”
WTAF, Apple??? If I delete a stupid app like Playground from my phone, don’t reinstall it, please… Jeez. 🙄
I finished reading Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers today. I’m starting it over again tomorrow, reading an entry every day or two and making notes on it. There’s no rush to get through the book this time around. I plan to take it slow and really think about what I’m getting from what I’ve read.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
It’s been a while since my last Weeklog post, so it’s time to summarize recent events in another one. A lot more happened than I realized at first.
Wearing my Micro.blog tee at work today and a coworker asked me what it was about. Had the opportunity to share and answer questions for about 10 minutes. Maybe she’ll sign up…