Previously.

Two more promising apps:

I’m a big fan of noise and music apps and podcasts for focus and sleep. Dark Noise 3 is a great one that was new to me. Especially its Green Noise sound is very soothing to me.

Sequel 2 is probably the first media tracking app, that I am actually using (for a few weeks at least). It’s easy to use and has just the right amount of bells and whistles. This works better for me than, say, Trakt.tv, because I don’t need nor want the social network aspect and I do want to track more than just one type of media.

Forward. (Sequel 2)

Great Episode of @clockwise@relayfm.social. The message of trying to stay even keeled, working for better legislation instead of engaging in shouting matches, understanding that you can’t change what has already happened (you can only work with it), not only works for AI but also for climate change.

Had the weirdest stress dream last night: I dreamt that I agreed to buy one kind of computer for my new job, but then bought another. The rest of the dream consisted of me trying to hide this fact (I am 100% remote) from my coworkers and higher ups.

It’s always surprising to me, even though it shouldn’t anymore: Pretty thorny coding project problem because a dependency update/runtime configuration conflict led to an edge case relatively deep in the stack. Tests that never failed, failed all of a sudden with unclear Errors, nobody in the team knew anything and even the internet was pretty unhelpful.

Programming is a lesson in patience and perseverance sometimes.

Music

Previously

On the one hand I’m baffled that Apple Music doesn’t have a dedicated “Rock” radio channel.

On the other hand I have never listened to so much Country music in my life before coming back to Apple Music.

Yeeha! 🤠

I am more and more of the opinion that relying on semantic versioning conventions (e.g. using "module": "^1.2.3", in your package.json) is a bad idea. A convention is not a guarantee. Something like Renovate is safer, especially in combination with a good test suite.

Blog

Yesterday I tried to write three different blog posts about three different half baked ideas and published none. I aborted them one after another after being dissatisfied with their individual messages. Too much hot take, not enough general validity.

I swear: Someday I will write a blog post again.

DailyDogo

Alt for today’s DailyDogo (she has been such a good girl, with her mom on a business trip for three weeks and whatnot…)