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Biannual Notes?

This is the best I can do, I guess

  • Ah, yes. Continuing my trend of very infrequent updates, I see.
  • Some life updates: we bought a house in the suburbs. We (well, I) hated it. We sold that house. We bought a new house in Richmond and are much happier. I got a new job, back workin’ as a lowly individual contributor, and that also makes me much happier. Management ain’t for me, it turns out. New gig’s at Ride with GPS. We visited Taiwan. I met my in-laws, two nieces and one nephew for the first time.
  • Been watching a bunch of Halloweeny movies. Standouts: 10 Cloverfield Lane, Oddity, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
  • Speaking of frightening… this damn election is in 4 days. Hold onto your butts…
  • Some schmucks stole our Prius’s catalytic converter. We had been just sharing that one car, and I’m committed to fixing it myself, so we needed a functional set of wheels. I’d been wanting to acquire a Chevy Bolt for a while, so this gave me an excuse. So.. we now own a sweet-ass Chevy Bolt, and I could’nt be happier with the thing. It’s a massive upgrade over the Prius, plus there’s no risk of catalytic converter theft!
  • Jess and I ran in a goofy Halloween 10 Mile race on the Capital Trail last week. I’m still recovering from a rough go of bronchitis, so it was a slow one. But one of those “in hindsight it was fun” things.

Page refreshes with morphing in Turbo 8

Watch as Jorge Manrubia Díez uses Turbo 8 to make a responsive UI in a Rails app.

Good grief. The way Turbo 8 is shaping up is really impressive. It really does feel like another giant step forward for Rails productivity. Also really wild just how simple the DOM diffing technique is—how have none of us thought about doing this since pjax’s inception in, what? 2011?


Not a good time of year to be named Sam



50 Years of Hip-Hop

50 Years of Hip-Hop Samples 1973-2023. This thing is really well done.

Voice of Kemosabe

Kemosabe’s a hedgehog. And he’s got a voice like an angel


New cat name just dropped: Catalie Portman.



Purple Burglar Alarm

Some Scots can’t say “Pulple Burglar Alarm”

GWAR Destroys Tiny Desk Concert

The band of Intergalactic Monsters. Tiny Desk Concert. Solid.

I've heard of a walkie talkie, but this is ridiculous

Anyone in the market for a $3,000 backpack that follows you and, oh, is also a smart speaker?

How Do I Draw a Pair of Buttocks

The internet was just a funner place in 2014

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