Edward Loveall @edwardloveall@mastodon.technology

Fun projects I've worked on:

A #webring: https://hotlinewebring.club
The Rouge website: http://rouge.jneen.net
A book on #dns and domain names: https://domainnamesanitybook.com/
A site to track GitHub PRs: http://pullfeed.co
#processing sketches: https://github.com/edwardloveall/processing-sketches
A macOS #screensaver: https://github.com/edwardloveall/colorclocksaver
Lightning Talk on #supercollider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzspylL9Bh0
Ligthning Talk on #dwarffortress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QoH2B_huUU

The only thing worse than unsolicited advice is following up on unsolicited advice.

The existence of booting into safe mode on macOS implies that normally we boot into unsafe mode

A real web search but also, a meme

I've been collecting #pixelart pieces for a while: https://www.notion.so/lovalski/349e9a0d44694e9aae46e99017ae6647?v=d25373508a12496184a1908cf5dc2504

@adam Hello! I just tried to visit https://podcastindex.org/ and I get a cloudflare error. Your api sign up page appears to work though. Figured you'd want to know 🙂

Meme-y title, great post: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-3-hours-of-conversation-saved-a-company-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars

And the final #sql post tackling a step-by-step explanation of GROUP BY

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/understanding-sql-group-by

This is something I struggled with a lot early on and I'm excited to share my mental model.

My second #sql blog post is up with a mental model for understanding JOINs.

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/understanding-sql-join

Sorry for the self-promo, but I'm particularly proud of these.

The article even has some helpful illustrations that even respond to Dark Mode™ via the power of SVG

I wrote a 3-part blog series on #sql. It's about getting back to the basics and reinforcing your mental model of things like SELECT, WHERE, JOIN, and GROUP BY.

Part 1 out today!

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/understanding-sql-basics

One small reason why 2020 was a wild year is that Trent Reznor scored a Disney movie.

I have decided that Dodie's musical aesthetic should be called "Whisper Anthem"

https://song.link/t/163229756

Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry

https://chriskiehl.com/article/thoughts-after-6-years