In case nobody told you, but kids are tough on door handles? I'm on repair number five in like five months.
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In case nobody told you, but kids are tough on door handles? I'm on repair number five in like five months.
Andor season 2 burns slowly initially but the plot arcs together so well. The story brings some much needed depth to the rebels and the empire.
Same, took me a minute but the value of being able to see an indexed project just isn't there anymore — nothing a few poignant questions can't clear up.
There are lots of think pieces floating around. Nothing new in here; simply my personal reflections about work right now.
aaron.alaniz.xyz/discipline/
I am in the lobby of a university waiting for my son to present his science fair project and bless the lady who sat down at the empty seated piano and played a flawless Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. What a beautiful reprieve from a wild time in the software industry.
The Fastmail Android app recently started immediately inserting an email back into my inbox after I swipe to delete it. It seems to be unique to deleting and not archive or snooze 🤔
I switched to a Kinesis Advantage2 keyboard and discovered that I type the letter 'c' with my index finger instead of my middle one. How long have I been doing this!? 😅
Great takes and helpful guidance 👏🏼
It does seem like these types of thoughtful reflections on AI will be a new auxiliary to every programmers tool belt like understanding data structure trade-offs.
So glad I finally committed to an e-ink tablet for technical content reading and notes. I went with a Kindle Scribe and readbetter.io to send content — a much more enjoyable experience and I can practice improving my abysmal handwriting.
I was not prepared for how emotional I would get watching my son assemble his first "program" with his Raspberry Pi and Scratch. Completely unguided and offline, he clicked on a tutorial button and just figured it out.
Here's some tangible productivity gains I've found for using AI!
blog.mmckenna.me/microdosing-...
chromecast: 60% of the time it works all the time ✨
I am teaching my son how to play catcher and one new thing I notice catchers doing is showing the target briefly and then placing the glove on the ground. I presume this is so they only catch the ball coming up into the zone as opposed to trying to frame a low pitch. Fascinating!
Trailblaze got some new updates today! There's an official yaml spec defined in the trailblaze-yaml module. The examples will be updated by the end of this week.
There's also new memory tools available so the agent can remember screen state for later assertions.
github.com/block/trailb...
As an Android developer I basically have zero visibility into what is happening in Java beyond JDK 8. I am not sure which came first, but it is nice to see convergence on similar concepts like data classes and records.
I gave Omarchy a try and it has made a ten year old laptop fun again. 💻🖲️
aaron.alaniz.xyz/omarchy-trial/
I always looked forward to showing my kids the Ocarina of Time — the look of satisfaction after completing the first boss battle, priceless ✨
What a timeless game
Shift + Esc — the best OOO feature ever made in Slack
I discovered that my son has been using my debit card pin code as the password to the playground forts at recess. 🔓
From a dev at a large tech company:
“We were only allowed to use GitHub Copilot as an AI IDE. It was OK. But then more and more of us used Cursor on side projects and it was *so much better*
Luckily we have have a dev platform team and we
I just learned about the Savannah Bananas from the @acquiredfm.bsky.social IPL episode — this is so amazing. I love baseball tradition and nostalgia, but this looks so fun.
thesavannahbananas.com
A screenshot of Fastmail's bottom bar configured to show Mail and Calendar
The Fastmail bottom bar I always wanted 🙌🏼
My favorite thing about AI is the spike in motivation to write incredible documentation — previously, the incentives were not so tangible. Now, you have immediate feedback about whether your efforts to document something are useful.
Basically, yes. I use Notion to categorize things like grocery spend from Amex statements.
Yes 👍🏻
I vibed an Amex to Notion tool the past few weekends with Cursor — it's like, so good.
I am enjoying shorter lower stakes blogs — here are my findings using Cursor for Android dev for a week 🚀
aaron.alaniz.xyz/cursor-week/
Bruce delivering a sunny day himself this morning ☀️
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...
Two blogs in a month 🙌🏼 — watch out for feature flag drift in your UI tests.
aaron.alaniz.xyz/rollout-to-u...
