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.…