Tom's thoughts

So I felt like 1 week was too short of an interval, but maybe 3 weeks is too long? We’ll keep fiddling until we can get it right. But also, I’ve been completely sucked into Satisfactory: I started playing it as a filler for our regular board game night with some friends and become absorbed…

We have a Yoto player, and we love it. It’s a great device and is perfect for when the kiddo wakes up before anyone else and you want to keep them in their room. They sell lots of genuinely great cards on their website (I highly recommend the Brain Bots series), and if you’re willing…

Halloween is nearly upon us. We’ve been doing sleep therapy with the kid, which made me realize just how much I was using him as an alarm clock. I will need a better way of getting up in the mornings now. Been making some fall cocktails, which have turned out really good. The above is…

Did some fun stuff this past week. I made my favorite fall dessert, a caramel apple cake: https://cookingbythebook.com/cookbook-reviews/caramel-apple-cake-baked-explorations/ I made them as cupcakes because that makes them easier to share at work etc. Delicious as always, even if I screwed up the frosting a tad. Photo I made caramel! It turned out a little too…

Another week down. This past week I shocked even myself in that it took me <15 minutes to stand up a Bluesky instance and hook it in to their protocol. We truly are in a golden age of self hosting. You can find me @tom.bluesky.bananastorm.com though I’m still not sure how much I’ll use it.…

Going to try to do something different here with a quick weekly notes post. Photo It’s fall and the weather is wonderful. I’ve been enjoying some walks with the kiddo and it’s a great way to wind down after work. What I’ve been reading I’ve not read as much stuff of late, but a few…

So we’re going to go down a little rabbit hole regarding groovy string interpolation which I found odd enough to want to write up. First, some basics. Groovy uses string interpolation syntax similar to bash, which looks like this: Pretty straightforward, with a few interesting bits. First, you may have noted that we used both…

My kid loves audio books and stories. We got him a Yoto player, which has little NFC cards that point to audiobooks/playlists and it’s been amazing. Whenever we do a long (or even not so long) family drive we put on an audio book and he’s happy as can be watching the scenery and listening.…