My husband: puts on shoes -> is ready to run
Me: liquid bandage on heels and merino wool socks to stop blisters, applies sunscreen everywhere, puts on a max support sports bra
We go a 1/4 mile
Dammit I forgot sunglasses.
My closet is full of teeshirts from now-defunct startups. It occurred to me: I'm wearing the skin of dead startups
More Saturday/Sunday commits than I'd like long-term, but here's the visual of being a technical founder. ~2.5k commits in the last year.
You can see where we pivoted last December and then figured out what the heck to build.
I've been installing Java for 25 years now and I'm still pretty sure I'm installing the wrong flavor/version every time.
"Fun" weekend project installing Gerrit -> installing gerrit-oauth-provider -> installing bazel -> installing go...
I'm like a teenage girl staring at her selfies when I'm looking at my PRs. I wrote the unit test, I don't need to keep staring at it thinking about how nicely I named the variables. Programmer narcissism, I guess.
My friend's mom said my friend wasn't a "real engineer" because she "doesn't drive a train." This has been living rent-free in my head for years.
Using timezones other than UTC is like playing a game of telephone where every player adds or subtracts a random amount from the number they heard and the last person has to guess the original number.
I love steam heat. It's like always having a weird neighbor making sounds where you're like "wtf are they doing?"
New blog post: how to sync @stripe transactions to @QuickBooks for free: kchodorow.com/2025/02/03/how…
Sauron gets a bad rap, but you can't scam an honest man. If everyone in Middle Earth had been Tom Bombadil, he would have just given out some rings.
