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- Emailed to make sure camp stuff is in order.Comments
- Called some flooring guys.
- Emailed a vermiculite removal guy.
- Recorded and filtered some summer jam vocals.
- Client C work.
- Made dinner.
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- Did some bank stuff.Comments
- Got groceries.
- Client C work.
- A tiny bit of Client B work.
- Picked up, dropped off.
- Emailed some friends back.
- Went to the music programming group. Some new people peeked in. I got saving/loading and really wonky undo happening in my flooding app.
It was a pretty good day!
I had been putting off what to do about the salary-displaying company with I had done four interviews with. I ended up not saying anything for a week and figured I'd have to say something tomorrow, but they emailed this evening to say they were passing. Case closed! -
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Both the labyrinths and the overworld can now be randomized in the original Zelda. I may have to run Wine and actually try this out now.Comments
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Another example of self-reinforcing bias: I thought, hey, Game Programming Patterns is a good book! (Which it very well might actually be.)Comments
But I thought that because the first 33 pages is all stuff I’ve already thought of and used in my previous 7DRL attempts. It’s a lot like when interviewers think a candidate that solves a problem in exactly the way that the interviewer would is better than a candidate that solves it in a different way. -
When we leave this place, one of the many things I won’t miss is people opening and shutting the building’s front door (which unfortunately, you can hear from every apartment) ten times in ten minutes.Comments
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The guy went to his first drop-off birthday party yesterday. (I didn’t know it was a drop-off party. I just noticed everyone dropping off, so I asked the guy if he wanted me to leave and come back.)Comments
It went OK! He had fun. Though I guess a smaller kid punched him? But that would have happened even if I was there the whole time.
I still do not know what to do about a smaller kid punching you. You shouldn’t wreck ‘em, and I do not know what the party maintaining grown-ups would do about someone else’s small kid punching someone. -
New Small Findings about the chorus riff from Hell Awaits. (I did one unplugged and was going to leave it, but it sounded so unrepresentative that I unpacked my guitar interface and redid it.Comments
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Once again, I woke up way earlier than I wanted because a neighbor was doing some kind of wall-rattling tinkering (?). But it's still way better than getting up and desperately checking home sales and rental listings.Comments
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- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.Comments
- Started trying to plan the guy's summer. There's a lot to fill.
- Called and emailed to cancel our rental. Really relieved we found a place before we had to sign a lease.
- Wrote some lyrics for my summer jam. It took a while.
- Coordinated interviews and references.
- Started summer planning; a little late.
- Rerecorded podcast because it felt weird to have Slayer riffs played without any distortion.
- Client C work.
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30 push-ups.Comments
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Aaaand the Roe v. Wade “well there it is” happened earlier today. Which you probably already know.Comments
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- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.Comments
- Called the state about a possible mistake. Called eye doctor about getting my exam results.
- Client C work.
- Read some background on games in Python and JS.
- Started prioritizing and estimating home improvements.
- Made dinner.
- Added bass to my summer jam. Decided to cut some vocals that weren't working.
- Got rid of some books.
- Recorded a podcast. I listened back to some of it, and I did screw up some of it, but I currently have a moratorium going on redoing podcasts. Sorry! -
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By exactly the 6-3 margin you'd expect, the Supreme Court today threw out a New York law that required people to prove to police why they'd need to carry a concealed weapon, saying everybody has the right to carry guns. Well, there it is.Comments
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John Williams is going to stop doing film scores.Comments
When Williams began (his first feature film score was 1958's “Daddy-O”), the cinematic tradition of grand, orchestral scores was beginning to lose out to pop soundtracks.
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State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz of Jamaica Plain today ended her campaign for governor.Comments
A bit of a bummer. Her primary opponent, Maura Healey, is a bit "free market/pro-business" on things like health care and housing, even though she's strong on discrimination issues. -
34-minute run, 14 pull-ups.Comments
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On Leaving Mapbox After 12 YearsComments
I wasn't at any company for twelve years, but I do know what this kind of investor-pressure corporate swerve feels like:Over the next few years, Mapbox tried to find success in a variety of industries: journalism, social media, travel, etc. We never hit numbers that were big enough for our investors. In the process, we abandoned our focus on Open Source and Open data. Then, as is the case with many mapping companies, Mapbox shifted focus to the auto industry. My fear of loss of control fully materialized at this point. I’m a lifelong bicycle commuter, and I think cars are unequivocally bad. They ruin cities, contribute to environmental decline (even electric cars!) and kill people. It’s hard not to be ashamed that I helped build a company whose mission is now to make new cars more appealing.
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- Dropped off, picked up, dropped off.Comments
- Interviewed.
- Paid some bills.
- Called to delay the signing of our backup lease.
- Went to eye doctor.
- Read through legal document.
- Emailed about a school tour.
- Tried out products from companies I'm interviewing with.
Dag, I gotta make sure I get client work in during the first half of the day.