Got a run in today before it got too smoky. This is one of my favorite runs because it hugs the Alameda ridge and has some great views. 🏃

My new wristband came! 🏀🔥❤️

Legendary. 🐶

Finally made it out to Adelsheim today to pick up my CJ McCollum wine. One for now, one for later! 🍷

My new home screen - iOS 14

After two weeks off because of smoke, this one was TOUGH especially the last mile. 🏃🤕

Monster!

Just a short “maintenance” run 🏃 today. Too much going on to go for a long one.

To make the play-in, the Blazers 🏀 need to win their last game OR 2 of the following teams to lose: Grizzlies, Spurs, Suns. If they win their next game, they only need to win 1 play-in game. If they lose, they need to win 2. Unless all 3 of those teams lose. Nutso!!! 🤪

Damian Lillard. That is all everyone else can sit down. 🏀🔥🏀🔥

Rocking my new WNBA 🏀 shirt today!

Took a day off yesterday so decided to hit it hard tonight. Was able to get my 8 mile pace under 10 mins/mile. My headlamp ran out of power around mile 6 though so the last two were a little scary in the dark. 😳😳😳 🏃🌜🔥

There is very little in the sports world that is more difficult or gut wrenching than being a Portland Trailblazers fan. Also, I got to be a virtual fan today! 🏀🏀🏀

Finally hit one of my goals which is a sub-hour 10k! 🏃🔥

A grand day out for Olive

This is the largest spider I have ever seen not in a zoo. This was in our basement… 😱😱😱

Currently reading: The Auobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X 📚

At 96 degrees I wasn’t going to make it for a long run so I did a couple mile sprints. Best one was 7:40 which is a PR but still short of my interim 7:30 goal. I can’t believe I ran a 5:50 in high school. That’s not coming back! Getting old sucks. 🏃🔥🏃🔥

The old Portland Coliseum 🏀

Omelette time!

Outside of Ionescu, the NY Liberty are awful 🏀

New PR for my 10k. Would have been even faster except my last mile I was dragging badly. 🏃

Pandemic home haircut #2 is in the books…

The WNBA🏀 kicked off last week with a couple really great games. Seeing Ionescu’s debut as well as Stewie back on the court was really exciting. This week, I’m looking forward to the MIN/SEA game on Tues, and the NY/DAL game on Wednesday.

Blazers scrimmage in the basement. 🏀🔥🏀🔥

New 4 mile PR. Sub-9 minute average. Very happy with progress this week.

The WNBA is back!!! 🏀🔥🏀🔥

So sleepy…

I was a guest on Time Table with @manton today where we discussed the new version of Sunlit!

timetable.manton.org/2020/07/2…

Another Rorschach test. I see a light/door at the end of a tunnel.

My run today is a Rorschach test. What do you see?

iPad -> Air -> MBP

Pretty sure my 15 year old could write a script to detect bots better than the engineers at Twitter apparently.

During the pandemic, we’ve been doing a family book club. Our latest selection was sold out at Powell’s and on Amazon so we are all reading on Kindle’s and iPads at the moment!

This is amazing.

• I will update this post with artist credits once I figure out where it came from.

Go Blazers! 🔥🔥🔥🏀🏀🏀

Strawberry season is upon us!

Olive has been hard at work on something new for you all!!!

Out for a walk!

Working remotely requires preparation. I’ve posted some of my thoughts/observations from having done it for 10+ years. 
jonathanhays.me/2020/03/2…

With so many people considering working from home, I’ve been blogging about how we operate remotely at Silverpine. You can check out my latest entries at jonathanhays.me And if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. I’m happy to help folks make this transition.

With all the Corona virus news, I’ve had more people ask me about working remote than usual.

jonathanhays.me/2020/03/0…

An analysis of what it SHOULD have taken to build the Iowa Caucus app: jonathanhays.me/2020/02/0…

Truth

Challenger Princess Diana 9/11 Michael Jackson Kobe

I will vividly remember where I was when I heard about them.

Seven Secret Benefits of Remote Work Revealed! jonathanhays.me/2020/01/2…

Time, Relativity and Distributed Companies - jonathanhays.me/2020/01/1…

Continuing my thoughts on Silverpine being a distributed company: wp.me/p3nknl-bN

Tools for a Distributed Software Agency jonathanhays.me/2020/01/0…

My daughter’s magazine won a national award from Columbia University. Help support them because they are awesome, amazing kids that are making the world a better place:

www.snap-raise.com/v2/fundra…

Helping my daughter study for a high school biology quiz and keep coming across these inane types of passages in her textbook. Not only is this not even a fact (just a generalization) it is written so poorly as to be totally sleep inducing.

Went on a beautiful hike at Beacon Rock State Park.

What color is this shoe?

Moscow Mitch

Took a tapas cooking class today. It was 🔥🔥🔥

Pod Save America live!!!

What’s the oldest app on your iPhone?

Incredibly powerful video. I cried the day it happened and it still makes me cry. No one should ever think this is normal or ok. twitter.com/sandyhook…

I’m waiting for the day when the tinfoil-hat-wearing MAGA guy at the Republican convention realizes that there’s a 1% guy standing next to him. #grabmypopcorn

I totally agree with Jason Snell here. I could care less about the camera on the iPhone. www.tomsguide.com/opinion/w…

Sugarpine

Wow. I had never heard of Pat Tillman until today. Make sure to read the “Aftermath and legacy” section: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_…

Current status:

Phil Schiller talking about camera resolutions and neural networks processing images for the new iPhone camera has a lot of the same feels as Intel talking about CPU speeds in the 90’s: a lot of tech talk that consumers don’t care about.

I’ve also never fired anyone over Twitter. The clown show continues. What a joke.

I have had many different leadership roles in different companies and organizations in my life. I have never, ever threatened to fire someone, especially not for saying something contradictory to their boss. What a clown factory.

Waiting for Ben Folds. Gotta love Oregon outdoor concerts…

Charles Petzold

Why they let a train through downtown Portland at rush hour is totally beyond my comprehension.

Today I learned that Jeremy Renner has his own app for super fans… 😱🤯🤪

Today I got to take a behind the scenes tour of the Portland Timbers’ stadium!

Just had to drop one of our laptops off at the Apple Store for the battery recall. I can’t believe they will have it for one to two weeks and not offer a loaner or compensation. That’s pretty crappy customer service for a $4k machine.

The controversy with Hanna Thomas’ post on Medium about Agile and Feminism exactly illustrates the mission of Micro.blog: twitter.com/hannathom…

Happy Olive!

Why does Voldemort not have a nose? #showerthoughts

Sometimes I like to go to the math section of Powell’s and find the most obtuse applied mathematics book I can find, open it and say things like “Oh they just got that all wrong!” just to see how people around me react. 🤪

To me, being a parent often feels like an eternal cycle of yin and yang: my daughter watched The Notorious RBG and now wants to go into politics; my son just watched all 5 seasons of Silicon Valley and now wants to be an engineer…

This is a bit of a long shot, but if anyone knows any C# devs looking for an awesome wfh/remote position, please contact me. It’s a perm position with full benefits, etc. Only catch is that they need to occasionally be able to go onsite to a client in the Portland metro area.

Economic policies can change, but the things that can’t be undone are the things that will be remembered by history. This one will be in the tragedy column.

www.latimes.com/world-nat…

Mood

Nola!

Today is the 40th anniversary of The Muppet Movie. I dare you to listen all the way through Rainbow Connection and not break out singing along with Kermit! I certainly couldn’t!!!

www.npr.org/2019/07/2…

Land of plenty

Got some cool new stickers!

Futuristic communication pod.

The boy learned how to drive Grandpa’s tractor yesterday. He really enjoyed it.

Visited the Oregon Country Fair. What a trip!

I continue to be very concerned that Swift keeps becoming increasingly unreadable to people unfamiliar with the language. Watching my son learn it has been incredibly eye opening.

I now know why Santa is sad!

Following @manton’s announcement earlier, Snippets has been updated to support the new Tagmoji category list.

I feel like my coffee filters are being a bit passive aggressive…

After the end of the OKC/POR series this year, I never would have thought I would find myself feeling sorry for Westbrook, but here we are… 🏀

I got an award!

The Blazers starting 5 at the beginning of the season: 1. Dame 2. CJ 3. Hood 4. Collins 5. Whiteside

Starting 5 at the end of the season (I hope): 1. Dame 2. CJ 3. Hood 4. Whiteside 5. Nurkic That’s a pretty tight starting 5!

And Bazemore and Collins coming in off the bench!

The Sacramento Kings 🏀 have a security robot…

Beautiful ride over the Santa Cruz boardwalk.

Dinner on the boardwalk in Santa Cruz. Yes. Mustard. The correct topping.

Current status: 😱

The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles

I’ve never even heard of this kind of PlayStation controller before. I assume it was for the game of Life?

Coit Tower

Congratulations to the Raptors! Happy for them, but I still find Kawhi to be incredibly difficult to root for. So, yay VanFleet! 🏀

Any chance someone is able to translate this for me? I found it in a very old family chest.

Programmer fuel!

The boy has been working and saving and slowly buying parts for his first computer and tonight the final part arrived and he was able to put it all together!

Current status…

Ready and waiting. #wwdc

The baristas at AltConf are heroes. #wwdc

Standing in line for AltConf!

You all rock! I promise this will be the last chart update I post, but THE MASTER PLAN IS WORKING! He just asked me what he could work on next!!! So grateful to everyone who bought a copy.

You all are incredibly awesome! He has been excitedly checking the charts all day. If anyone else wants in on the good karma, here’s the link again:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodle-guess/id324489047?mt=8

Woohoo!!!

You are all so awesome! He is going to be so psyched!!!

My 14 year old decided to learn Swift by rewriting the app I wrote to learn iPhone development. I’m trying to get a bunch of downloads so he wants to keep doing this. If anyone is feeling 99 cents of generosity: itunes.apple.com/us/app/do…

Trying a new type of notebook: Zequenz. So far I’m enjoying it. Not sure if it will replace my Leuchtterms but this one is definitely a contender!

This is your brain on drugs. 😎
(Just testing a video fix…)

I found this really neat macaron shop in Seattle.

My 17 year old daughter informed us today that she is taking all colleges in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Ohio off of her potential visit list. She says she wouldn’t feel safe there.

My family does not like my waffle.io socks…

Blazers can’t get any respect. 🏀

I cannot describe the Blazers fever that has gripped this city. On Sunday after the epic game 7, I had a great conversation with a random older lady who resembled my mom at the meat counter at the store. She was totally excited. It’s made everyone just a little more pleasant. 🏀

Fall Creek Falls in the Gorge

The best game I have ever been to. Full stop. Damian Lillard is and will be the greatest Blazer of all time. 🏀

Snippets 0.0.8 has been released: a minor update that adds support for the poster url when publishing videos. The Cocoapod has been updated as well.

github.com/microdotb…

TIL that CorelDRAW is still a thing. I had no idea.

Me when I tell my kids they’ve had enough screen time…

Blazers win!!! 🏀

Portland fans are the best. Seriously. 🏀

🏀☕️

Vancouver Lake Regatta

Vespas!

Enjoy…

I learned today, that releasing lots of things at once is very hard. We’ve had Micro.blog video support brewing for a while now, and we thought we had tested things well, but there’s nothing like hitting production to test your assumptions! Bug fix releases are on the way!

The Austin Central Library is absolutely amazing.

Last night, we put the finishing touches on a BIG THING that we’ll be launching tomorrow.! Very excited… I hope you like it.

W00t! An app we (Silverpine) built for a client is now live in the App Store!!!!

www.linkedin.com/feed/upda…

#launchday

Salt Lick

🙏 Nurkic 🏀

March Madness is a Silverpine company event.

Snippets framework 0.5.0 is now out, which includes a complete reference implementation of the Micro.blog JSON API.

If you’ve ever wanted to build your own app, feel free to steal this one!!!

github.com/microdotb…

Amazon’s HQ1 in Seattle.

Write your own Micro.blog client with only a little code! Or modify the sample app! iOS - CHECK! OSX - CHECK! tvOS - CHECK!

SnippetsFramework version 0.0.3 has just been released: github.com/microdotb…

or

pod ‘SnippetsFramework’

I highly recommend downloading your Facebook archive. One file you will find inside is:

advertisers_who_uploaded_a_contact_list_with_your_information.html

This is a very surprising and alarming file, but definitely worth examining. Also, you really should shut down your account…

UUSwift 0.0.12 now released to the wild!

• New Date interfaces
• Support for HTTP forms
• Bug fixes

github.com/SilverPin…

Taking the boys to the movie. Very excited!!!

The Blazers continue to be terrible on the road which doesn’t bode well for 8 out of the next 9 games on the road coming up. 🏀😞

Today I learned that the Github Desktop app doesn’t support submodules. Are you serious?!?? #devworldissues

One of the highlights of my trip was sitting in a bar with @manton watching my Blazers 🏀 play with queso and a margarita in front of me…

If the universe is more or less an infinite sphere in shape, would future space travel refer to different areas as quadrants like in Star Trek? Would cubed mapping be efficient for a spherical domain? #notenoughcoffeetoday

Or like this @jeffmueller?

Like this @jeffmueller?

Oh Austin, I have missed you…

In Portland, we used to have bears in our parks. Not zoos. Parks.

Here are a couple more images from the anti-war protest in Portland in 1932.

It turns out that Portland has always had protests. This one is an anti-war protest from 1932.

Free Micro.blog app idea: AppleTV Micro.blog app that shows the Podcast discover feed and lets you play directly from there.

UINavigationController is one of the absolute worst design paradigms in UIKit. There are so many different ways it could have been implemented.

Super Blood Wolf Moon is my indie band name.

If you use Xcode, have a touchbar, and haven’t discovered this preference setting, I highly recommend adding Xcode to it!

I get messages.

Straight up racism. As the father of a teen boy, I cannot tell you how unbelievably angry this makes me at the parents of these young men. mashable.com/article/t…

In case you missed it, we released Snippets: an open source micro-blogging API today: github.com/microdotb…

It supports iOS, OSX and tvOS, and I really hope people will tinker with it and make something unexpected! (Yes, tvOS! The sample app has a tvOS target!!!)

UUSwift 0.0.11 with support for tvOS is now available: github.com/SilverPin…

I found the Mastermind game I made in my x86 Assembly class. It still works!!!

One of my favorite programming books of all time.

New 0.0.5 release - UUSwift now supports both Mac and iOS github.com/SilverPin…

Found this cleaning my office today…

Happy New Year!!!

The fourth Magi that no one ever talks about…

Blazers win. Fewsh! 🏀

Doncic hits a “touch” 3 with 0.6 left to force overtime! Woah!!! 🏀

Blazers up 88-80 after 3. My 100 point chicken nuggets seem to be well within reach… 🏀

Deandre has a better ft shooting percentage this game than Nurkic… 🏀

Halftime. Blazers have managed to create a 10 point buffer. Nurkic is currently working on a triple double with 8, 10 and 5. Doncic is showing he’s a pretty big liability on defense. Hopefully the Blazers continue to exploit it. 🏀

The Blazers appear to have just realized that if they can move Deandre to the other side of the key, they can drive at will on the offside. 🏀

Seth Curry just stole the ball and instead of taking it in hard to the rim for a layin, he pulled up and drained a 3. Gutsy. 🏀

First quarter is over and it has largely been an uneventful 12 minutes. Blazers down 25-27. 🏀

Refs not liking Deandre. Just hit him with a lane violation on a free throw. 🏀

Chief just posterized Doncic! 🏀

The Dallas Mavericks resemble the team of middle school boys I used to coach going through their warmups. They are definitely not taking themselves too seriously. 🏀

It appears that JJ Barea has likely exchanged his soul in order to stop the aging process… 🏀

🤦‍♂️

Pioneer Courthouse Square

Thrilled to see my daughter on the local news last night. Make no mistake about it: this upcoming generation has a fight in them that we’ve never seen.

youtu.be/7H6JdJHwp…

I’m going to save this for the next time a client insists on implementing logging in with a password because they want the most secure mechanism:

twitter.com/equiman/s…

UUSwift is now available on Cocoapods and Carthage!

github.com/SilverPin…

Settings that are this hidden border on criminal…

This is definitely cool and magic-like

I now fully comprehend “dongle hell”

Dragon Age 4 trailer. I am done for the day.

Make sure to check out the latest 1.4 release of the Micro.blog iOS app that dropped today. Among other things, it now supports zooming on images and autocomplete for usernames! I’m pretty proud of this release.

I just successfully created and submitted my first CocoaPod podspec! Huzzah!!! UUSwift is alive!!!!!

The tree is up and the pug is exhausted…

Our society works best when our economic policies converge wealth towards the mean. Right now, in almost every country, wealth is unbalanced and the imbalance seems to be getting worse with every political upheaval that we read about in the news. I believe more than anything, this wealth disparity is the cause for things like Trump, Bolsonaro and Brexit: people would rather flip over the table and hope for something new rather than continue to sit with people they feel are actively working against them.…

This is so amazing. I needed to see something like this today: www.instagram.com/p/BqxYUDW…

I think the horrible Sunlit crashing bug has been slayed! What an ordeal!!!

My son has been learning Swift and it’s been interesting seeing what he struggles with.

Texas politics have been messed up for a long time. I remember seeing this one when I lived in Austin: www.youtube.com/watch

My texts from this morning.

Why yes, I DID want to snake my bathtub at 11 at night! Thank you universe!!!

Thinking of both of my grandfathers today. Thank you veterans.

This seems like a very arbitrary and unnecessary limitation of Interface Builder, particularly when building content for a scrollview.

“Gather round children and listen to a tale of when the devices in your pocket had neither gps nor wifi…”

Under construction. Do not tarry.

This is a test of the emergency broadcast network. This is only a test.

When I was in second grade, I asked my grandma what the Golden Rule meant. (For those of you who knew her, you’ll totally recognize her style here.) She asked me to pretend that I was going to die and come back as a totally random person in a random place. She made sure I knew that I might come back as white or black or male or female or rich or poor or any other person that exists in the world.…

If you read this report and are still cool with our healthcare system, you are one sick bastard. In a study of over 9 million people diagnosed with cancer, over 50% will lose their home and/or declare bankruptcy. doi.org/10.1016/j…

Oregon is so beautiful.

I am currently cat sitting for my sister-in-law. She’s actually a really sweet animal. The cat, I mean…

What a terrible display of lemons. We can do better!!!

I just found out that it’s #nationalpugday

I’m not crying! I just got some dust in my eye… m.youtube.com/watch

This might take a while…

Cleaning out my office a little today and came across this. Did people actually pay money to call the tip hotline? That’s like $1.50 with inflation!

Bleacher Report on Dwight Howard: “The addition of Howard feels like when a failing sitcom sloppily shoehorns a baby into the picture. It’s a classic last-gasp effort to mask staleness and stay relevant before the audience loses interest.” 🏀

Had a great time at the Portland Greek festival last night. You have to convert your cash into “talents” to purchase things. My favorite were the loukomades!

Special Seahawks edition Snickers.

My kid is a nut.

Swift’s utter inability to convert between a CGFloat and a Double is one of the most infuriating things about the language on a day-to-day basis. Grrrrrrr……

Have we reached peak Slack? Check out this list: standuply.com/slack-cha…

Blazers Fan Fest 2018 🏀
Let’s get this season started!!!

The NBA preseason starts today and I couldn’t be more ready for it! I really need a distraction after the past couple weeks.

Last week, we launched a beautiful new update for the De Las Mias app. It’s always a great feeling to put something out in the world that is focused on helping people! If you have an Android device, check it out here: play.google.com/store/app…

Reorganized my home screen.

So far Mojave is running well. Dark mode is pretty jarring at the moment though because so many apps and sites haven’t been updated to support it. Not sure if I will keep it.

Today, I actually used the Pythagorean Theorem for my job, finally proving both my children wrong.

This is the most amazing video I have seen in a long time. Make sure to watch to the end: www.youtube.com/watch

Does anybody who follows me have experience with SceneKit? After using applyTorque, the vector on my node is unchanged. I am SO confused. I can SEE that the node has rotated.

Now that the new Shortcuts app is out, I will take this moment to remind everyone that the Sunlit and Micro.blog URL schemes are documented here: help.micro.blog/2018/url-…

After 4 days with no hot water, I can finally shower at home again! Our hot water heater began leaking on Thursday evening. Glad to have that drama over. It makes me really feel for the folks in Puerto Rico that had no water at all. I can’t even imagine. 😞

I’ve been doing a lot of ARKit and SceneKit work this past month and while I think the technology is cool and impressive, I’m struggling to see how it would be actually useful in an app.

This Storm/Mystics game 2 is phenomenal. Great basketball.

This is me, don’t type in anything too embarrassing. Wait, you’re typing that in? KITT!

Found my seat a little early but still excited!!!

Played ball with my normal group this morning. I didn’t see any Nike swooshes ripped off of gear. I wish people would stop giving voice to the crazies. Just let them show up in their ugly ass Reebok’s and get laughed out if the gym.

Tips for Tina

Fixed a scrolling performance issue on Sunlit last night and learned a little bit about “disk” access on iOS in relation to background threads. The moral of the story is that background disk access should be serial, not concurrent!

Phone calls are indicators of an inefficient system.

Just some casual sexism in the gift card section.

First regatta for the boy. This rowing thing is sort of fun!

First WNBA game. Stewie with the opening tip!

Sometimes your software requires the QA team to get out a hot iron!

I’m very excited about the new taco 🌮 place moving into the neighborhood!

Longest gondola suspension in the world.

First time zip-lining!

Lions Gate Bridge

My breakfast at Jamin Vancouver. This is their take on “pigs in a blanket”

Lions Gate Bridge

Snow Cups

UBC is gorgeous

A quick stop for dumplings…

Have I mentioned how much I love this time of year?

My grandfather’s lighter from his WW2 tour in India.

I love this time of year.

You need to watch Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette” on Netflix. Watch until the very end. Truly amazing.

Watching a little of the Trailblazers’ first summer league game. Simons and Trent looking surprisingly good.

Happy Independence Day!

Jon is an engineer who has an email address and can not get the email

Write your author bio using predictive text. Use your phone to type “[Your Name] is a [poet/novelist/writer/etc] who” and keep pressing the middle button until it makes a bio.

(Meme imported from Twitter…)

It is not possible to drive to South America from the U.S. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darién_Gap

Lots of folks at the Micro.blog meetup after a long day of IndieWebCamp!!!

@manton presenting Micro.blog to the IndieWeb Summit

Really glad y’all got to see the Sunlit preview finally. I’m pretty excited and pleased with how it turned out.

Newport, OR

@traci happy birthday!!!!

Looking for thoughts/options/opinions on SAT prep classes. Have any you want to share?

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I had a craving tonight…

I wish she was in my district. I prefer voting for real life heroes.

www.youtube.com/watch

To follow up on my Twitter dumpster fire comment of yesterday, if Twitter can’t prevent the abuse of a minor (she’s 14) then it probably shouldn’t be in business: mashable.com/2018/06/1…

If you come to Portland, make sure to notice the small rings on the sidewalks. They actually have a bit of history: alamedahistory.org/2018/06/1…

Good grief. I wandered over to Twitter for a few minutes and was quickly reminded how much of a dumpster fire it is. I have no idea why people bother with it anymore. Total waste of time.

I wish Apple had decided that edit boxes that automatically scroll into view was more important than a new language. That’s the kind of thing that would make me more productive.

So the day that Net Neutrality ends, Netflix goes down system wide. Coincidence?

Very sad today about Anthony Bourdain.

Great turnout for the Micro.blog meet up!

“I am looking for a Multi-platform developer who would be interested in getting in on the ground level of an innovative app development company.”

🤪🤪🤪

Getting ready to find a spot to watch the WWDC keynote. I’m very curious about what will be unveiled.

Twin Peaks

So long Portland.

When the children ask how the world descended into oblivion, I will simply hand them this…

I’m not sure that everyone really understands the ramifications of Apple opening up NFC (assuming the rumor is true.)

Portland people: anyone recognize this restroom?

“The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.”

- Thomas Campbell

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Bumblebee

LeBron. That is all. 🏀

Finally getting to see Infinity War! Let’s do this!!!

Never change NextDoor…

Sleeping bugg

Had my first “unfollow” experience here. The nice thing is that no one will ever know who.

Had my first “unfollow” experience here. The nice thing is that no one will ever know who.

I know it’s been 21 years, but am I the only one that is creeped out that a man convicted of sexual assault is the voice of TNT during the NBA playoffs? 🏀

Does ANYONE on the Swift team care about readability? Every new iteration on the language feels like a hostile action towards maintainability

Does ANYONE on the Swift team care about readability? Every new iteration on the language feels like a hostile action towards maintainability.

Just watched Bright and was very pleasantly surprised. All the critics panned it, but this graphic sort of sums it up for me.

TFW LinkedIn suggests you congratulate someone on 10 years in their position and you realize they passed away a couple years ago.

This has truly made my day: www.oregonlive.com/dining/in…

l/t: Do any Micro.blog users use Windows as their primary desktop OS? (Asking for a friend…)

Do any of you all use Windows as your primary desktop OS? (Asking for a friend…)

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Weber State is beautiful. I had no idea.

Very bummed about a Blazers sweep. Going to be some soul-searching in the offseason.

2018 Nike Hoop Summit

This is a trip: vimeo.com/259989412

2018 Hays Family March Madness Final Standings: Lucy - 93 Brendan - 50 Jon - 50 Tiffany - 47

This is fascinating: blog.appfigures.com/ios-devel…

Does anyone else feel like WCSession should be WKSession? #watchkitproblems

Truth.

www.sbnation.com/2018/4/5/…

I love what Allen Pike (@apike) has created at Steamclock, so when he posted about his cheese problems I felt compelled to jump into action! For your cheesy pleasure, I give you FREE CHEESE!

Saw a KATU camera truck parked in my neighborhood today and laughed at it. #sinclairsucks

Holy crap. Have you seen this?

content.jwplatform.com/previews/…

We just finished Wild Wild Country and all I can say is wow. What a crazy, crazy story.

Cleaning the garage, I found this blast from my past…

From the Fox News “Science” section.

We (Silverpine) are looking to grow our engineering team. We’re small but mighty. If you are a mobile developer and want the freedom of working from anywhere, shoot me an email to jon@silverpinesoftware.com

Latest home screen

Time to be a patriot and make the America you want to live in. Let’s do this!

www.gofundme.com/z3eeaq-th…

www.oregonlive.com/pacific-n…

We need to do better. This is sad and depressing.

Source: Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey

It’s March Madness and I’m in heaven. If you need me, send me a text…

To hear such joy of living in his words brings tears to my eyes. “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”

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So much going on in the world today, and this is the main story on Fox News? Unbelievable.

Representing my Blazers even though they weren’t playing. (DAL vs HOU)

If you’re on the Sunlit Beta, you might be interested in this page: help.micro.blog/2018/url-…

Reason #148 why I hate Swift:

This:

for i in sizeToCopy..<length

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Reason #326 why I hate Swift:

Which one of these is not like the other?

Java - string.length() Obj-C - [string length] C# - string.Length Perl - length($string) Ruby - string.length Fortran - LEN(STRING) Pascal - length(string) Python - len(string) Swift - string.count

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I’ve been obsessively listening to the entire back catalog of How I Built This on NPR. It’s so, so good.

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We discovered a new suspension bridge at Short Sands!

Two months in and I still hate Face ID. It is slow and terribly inaccurate. I really miss the fingerprint sensor.

Did you know that John Stockton holds the career record for both assists AND steals? At 3265 steals, he absolutely crushed the record. The next closest player only has 2684. 🏀

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It’s not often that we can publicly talk about what Silverpine is working on, so I’m stoked to be able to say that the new De Las Mias app/platform is going live today! It’s a gorgeous app for Android to help people live healthier lives. The founders, Sada and Ana are two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet and they really have a passion for helping the Latina community. We are very excited for them!

Did you know that Bruce Willis (yes THE Bruce Willis) had a top 100 single in 1987? And Eddie Murphy had a top 10 single in 1986?

I think Chris Paul is the best pure 2-way point guard in the league, but he’s also a jackass. 🏀

Watching the Blazers/Rockets 🏀 game. Amazed by how lame Houston fans are. There are so many empty seats. Even court side seats are empty! I would understand maybe if The Rockets were terrible but they’re pretty great this year.

I setup a new Eero system today. It’s difficult to tell if things are actually better, but so far it’s been smooth.

To set the record straight, people in Oregon are NOT freaking out about pumping our own gas. That’s just lazy reporting.

I had to get the teens up at 9 today so that tomorrow’s 6:30 wake up won’t feel as harsh. It will still feel harsh…

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Today I learned that 24-Hour Fitness does not actually mean what I thought it meant…

Today I learned that 24-Hour Fitness does not actually mean what I thought it meant…

The gym is remarkably empty on Christmas Eve. I just wanted to play basketball so I could eat with a little less guilt! 😜

The EBNF for Swift is on drugs. Requiring brackets after an if statement (while good coding practice) is a total crapping of the bed syntax-wise.

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The dude about to kill Net Neutrality thinks a very dumb video will get you on his side

Wow. This was in Alabama.

Via WaPo.

Absolutely fascinating exit poll numbers via WaPo.

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I finally reached my breaking point tonight. Deleted Facebook and Twitter off my phone. It’s just poison for my soul. My posts will still be cross posted from my blog but I won’t see replies.

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iOS 11 on the iPhone X is half baked and awkward. So many things are HARDER on this device. Force quitting apps, control center access, etc. I’m really hoping iOS 12 fixes it.

Got my X yesterday. Impressions so far: - Amazing camera! - Gorgeous display - Gesture navigation is a big step backwards from the home button - Face ID works but is slower and more effort for me to unlock my phone. Not a fan. - I really like the casing. Smooth but enough grip

I’m listening to Christmas music today. Come at me. I dare you.

A little coffee inspiration for your morning:

www.thekitchn.com/how-to-or…

A little morning coffee inspiration: www.thekitchn.com/how-to-or…

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To all my friends who work at Nike, please hire me to be your VP of women’s basketball shoes. Your current one isn’t doing so well.

Sometimes I wonder if the male half of our species has actually diverged into two different subspecies because I can only wonder who the hell would do all this crap? These guys are disgusting and there seems to be so many of them. I just don’t get it.

The Subaru Baja is the ugliest, most pointless car ever built. There can be no argument here.

The Knicks are 6-4 and the Thunder are 4-5. Just going to leave that there. #meloeffect

To hold a public office, there should be a base requirement for oratory ability, commensurate with the level of the office.

Well, November is here, and you know what that means……….time to sign the kids up for summer camps! (Not even joking)

It’s November, which means only one thing…time to register the kids for summer camps!

Happy Halloween everybody!

Well, it looks like Lighthouse (lighthouseapp.com) has died a mysterious, unknown death. Anyone have a lightweight bug tracking tool they like?

Just finished the Making Oprah podcast. Exceptional. I really miss her…

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Anyone want to guess why the standings are sorted like this? (I know the answer and it’s FASCINATING)

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Really looking forward to Release Notes in Chicago this week!

So we pulled out of the Paris agreement. We are pulling out of UNESCO, and now we might even pull out of Puerto Rico?

When I was 15, my friend Brian Sims (who was older than me by a few months) got his license. He picked me up, and we cruised the streets of Tillamook, just the two of us. We listened to Free Fallin’ over and over as we drove gleefully around town, marveling at our newfound freedom.

Rest in peace, Tom.

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I made the most delicious grilled burger tonight: - 1 lb hamburger, 10% fat - ½ tsp Worcester sauce - 1 egg - Panko bread crumbs - salt and pepper

Topped with Tillamook cheddar, grilled onions, fresh tomato and pickles

Sorry no picture. I couldn’t put it down to snap one.

As a follow up to my previous post, I heartily submit that _ is one of the worst programming syntax symbols I’ve ever seen. Total garbage.

In my opinion, programming languages that don’t make readability a priority are garbage. For my developer friends, I present some awesome Swift:

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Does anyone have a recommendation for Bluetooth speakers that I can connect to with my MacBook and listen to in my office?

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Caleb Swannigan killed it in summer league. Looking forward to watching him develop this year.

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Disneyland Day 3 Overview: 1. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride 2. Thunder Mountain RR 3. Splash Mountain 4. Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Star Tours 6. Mickey’s House (Toon Town) 7. Pinnochio’s Daring Journey 8. Space Mountain 9. California Screamin’ 10. Grizzly River Run 11. Soaring 12. Guardians of the Galaxy 13. California Screamin’ 14. Splash Mountain 15. Thunder Mountain RR 16. Teacups 17. Matterhorn 18. Astroblasters 19. Star Tours 20. Astro Orbiters 21. Peter Pan

Disneyland Day 2 Overview: 1. California Screamin’ (x2) 2. Mickey’s Fun Wheel 3. Silly Symphony Swings 4. Radiator Springs 5. California Screamin’ (x2) 6. Soaring 7. Guardians of the Galaxy

Disneyland Day 1 Overview: 1. Matterhorn 2. Star Tours 3. Space Mountain 4. River Cruise 5. Haunted Mansion 6. Indiana Jones 7. Splash Mountain 8. Thunder Mountain RR 9. Enchanted Tiki Room 10. Pirates of the Caribbean 11. Teacups 12. Small World 13. Winnie the Pooh

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Disneyland Day 1: 1. Matterhorn 2. Star Tours 3. Space Mountain 4. River Cruise 5. Haunted Mansion 6. Indiana Jones 7. Splash Mountain 8. Thunder Mountain RR 9. Monorail 10. Enchanted Tiki Room 11. Pirates of the Caribbean 12. Teacups 13. Small World 14. Winnie the Pooh

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Rodeo drive. Welcome to Beverly Hills. (Cue Weezer…)

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Reading Nextdoor complaints the day after the Fourth of July is a beautiful schadenfreude.

A nice writeup by Manton on the new Sunlit: www.manton.org/2017/06/p…

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I just sat for 5 minutes swiping to delete all my cached safari pages on my iPhone. I don’t know why. It just felt cathartic.

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For her health class, Lucy had to make a healthy breakfast for the family. She made a pretty good asparagus frittata!

On top of the mountain again…

Safe journeys to all the WWDC folks traveling this weekend!

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Does anyone have a good way to store/sort test phones? Trying to organize my office.

…and Release Notes ticket purchased.

I’ve been thinking about resurrecting the Sunlit app again. App.net is dead, but long live Micro.blog…

I am so tired of the rain. I’m a native Oregonian, but this winter has seen a ridiculous amount of precipitation. On days like this, I really miss Austin.

Excited to see the Blazers tonight in what could be the final game of the season.…

It has been raining in Portland for what feels like 6 months straight. I am so ready for a little bit of sun.

Really looking forward to @manton’s Micro.blog launch! Trying to get everything configure on my blogs in preparation.

Where will this post showup? Posting from the web.

Trying another (third) test post.

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Pool sharks… #tbt

Canada you so silly!

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High tea at the Empress

High tea at the Empress

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My bedroom in the 80’s featuring my cousin Jimmy.

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Throwback to Mac Court. Circa 1992. And those were the LONG shorts… #cheesemakers

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I actually met Nong today!

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My home for the weekend.

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Grouplove at the Roseland. I’m getting too old for this…

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Do they even have these any more?

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Best.Sign.Ever.

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The wild chickens of Makawao

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Luau!

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Vacation has begun…

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Finally landed in Maui.

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My great-great-grandfather died in a mine accident.

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Went and visited grandma and grandpa on the way home from dropping B off at camp.

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Let there be no doubt.

Let there be no doubt.

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Capitol Building dome closeup. George Washington as deity.

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The Reverend Jason Lee - representing Oregon in the Capitol statue collection.

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The Jefferson Memorial and a fascinating quote that our founding fathers never intended for the Constitution to remain static.

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Daenerys gave me this to eat today.

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MLKJ

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Beautiful evening in DC. #nofilter

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Just dropped Lucy off for her first high school basketball practice. I’m pretty nervous for her. #grantgenerals

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My Grandfather’s Purple Heart #memorialday

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Great article on Joey Crawford:

thelab.bleacherreport.com/regrets-h…

All right, so everything is finally installed/setup correctly. I’m following the basic guides at the official site and I now have my first Rails app! It’s not very exciting but going to localhost:3000 on my computer now gets you this:

#rubyquest

I spoke too soon. It started failing because mysql wasn’t installed, however, trying to gem install mysql2 was throwing errors. The fix was to use Homebrew again and do:

brew install mysql

And then, after that, the gem install would work. (Did I mention this is arcane?)

#rubyquest

After fixing the issue with rbenv, things are going much more smoothly.

RubyGems is now installed. Trying to get Rails installed using Bundler.

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Ok, I guess you have to read the fine print on rbenv. You have to do this arcane rbenv init which displays a command that you need to paste into your ~/.bash_profile and then after doing that, reopen the shell. This is amazingly arcane.

#rubyquest

 

So to install Ruby, I had to:

1. Install Brew package/app manager so that I could
2. Install rbenv so that I could
3. Install Ruby 2.2.2

Now I just have to install Rails…

#rubyquest

Well, Homebrew started throwing errors when I tried to update it with a “brew update” command. I had to uninstall it and reinstall it and now it seems happy. (I sincerely hope I didn’t break Cocoapods.) But, I did get rbenv installed!

#rubyquest

The project I’m going to hack on requires Ruby 2.2.2. Manton, recommends using rbenv to manage Ruby versions so I guess I’ll try and install that.

#rubyquest

Ok, turns out Ruby 2.0 comes installed on OS X. Also, it turns out that Homebrew (a supposedly good package manager for Ruby) is already installed as well. Maybe it came with Cocoapods?

#rubyquest

I’ve decided to bite the bullet and learn Ruby and Rails. I am instantly overwhelmed by the complexity. Gah!

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Golden State fans are a whiny bunch.

For those of you asking, I posted my “30 days of coffee” retrospective including a short list of recommendations.

jonathanhays.me/2016/05/1…

#pdxcoffeehunt

This is the most frightening video I have ever seen:

www.smartwaiver.com/w/56280fb…

“Practice is over, but as is customary in Portland, the majority of the team is still on the floor working…”

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Well, I didn’t get WWDC tickets this year but as a consolation I did get MINECON tickets. I’ll be there with Brendan so it should be fun.

This is a fun distraction if you’ve ever had to name a child:

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If you like board games, check out this kick starter from some awesome folks here in Portland! It’s called Sol:Last Days of a Star and looks pretty rad.

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This is important. I really must attend: www.oregonhumane.org/get-invol…

We must never forget...

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I had hoped to gush over the waffles and coffee at Elevated, but right before we ordered their waffle maker died. The kids and I were very disappointed. I still enjoyed their coffee, but we wanted waffles! This was coffee shop #30. I’ll do a final review next week. #pdxcoffeehunt…

I am officially in love with the Kenton neighborhood. In addition to the wonderful Prince Coffee, you can also count Posie’s (8208 N Denver Ave) among the great cafes located there (and they even serve Ristretto!) #pdxcoffeehunt…

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I’ve been to the Case Study on Sandy, but not to the one on Alberta (1422 NE Alberta) and I have to say the one on Alberta is far superior. It has good coffee and a fantastic loft seating area. I could definitely come back here to work. #pdxcoffeehunt…

Located right next to PCC (740 N Killingsworth St) this is clearly a college hangout. The interior is spacious and the coffee reasonable. I did feel a little out of place not being of college going age, but if I was back in school, I could see myself coming here. #pdxcoffeehunt…

The only good thing I have to say about the J Cafe is that the coffee didn’t make me sick like it did at Gold Rush. The rapidly renovating Lloyd district is clearly ready for a good coffee shop to come in. #pdxcoffeehunt…

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I’m traveling this week, so the 30 day challenge will pause for a few days, however, I did manage to try a “new to me” coffee shop in the PDX airport. It’s about what you would expect for airport coffee although I will add it’s worse here than the Starbucks. #pdxcoffeehunt…

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I’ve driven by this shop (1465 NE Prescott St) a few times but never had the occasion to stop in. Today, I rectified that, and was reminded how much I dislike trendy, cookie cutter coffee shops with bitter, oily coffee. Do you really need 5 pour overs ready to go? #pdxcoffeehunt…

I was a bit more adventuresome today and tried the coffee shop inside my local Whole Foods. They do have a lot of great seating and wifi, but boy howdy is their coffee terrible! #pdxcoffeehunt…

I had been putting this one off for a while because I was pretty sure it was going to be a good coffee shop, and I was thankfully right. Great seating, good coffee, friendly baristas. I will definitely be back (1507 N Rosa Parks Way.) #pdxcoffeehunt…

My greatest hope for iOS 10 is that I won’t have to write code any more to move UITextFields and UITextViews on screen when the keyboard appears.

So I shouldn’t like this place, but it somehow captures the neighborhood coffee shop vibe in a way most others don’t. Located at 435 NE Rosa Parks Way, it’s definitely off the beaten path, and with decent seating and good coffee it felt very comfortable to me. #pdxcoffeehunt…

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Blend is my new gold standard for coffee shops: Great coffee (choice of Stumptown or Coava), Lots of seating both indoor and out Outlets at almost every seat Super clean Quiet Located at 2710 N Killingsworth, I just wish it was closer to my house! #pdxcoffeehunt…

Working at Heart today which has been on my list to try for a long time. Great seating and location (2211 E Burnside) to work. My only complaint is the coffee which has an oilier, bitter flavor similar to Coava. I do not understand the bitter coffee movement. #pdxcoffeehunt…

Got to spend a decent amount of time working here today. Good Trailhead coffee, wonderful open space for working. I liked it a lot. Cup and Bar is one of the few good coffee shops on MLK (118 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.) #pdxcoffeehunt…

I could watch this all day:

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Had a busy Sunday so found this little whole in the wall (pun intended…) The staff behind the counter were very friendly and the coffee was pretty good. I don’t know why these shops insist on using cloth seating which just collects food and stains though. #pdxcoffeehunt…

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Oregon Zoo

I didn’t have a lot of time today, so I ducked into Spielman Bagels (2200 NE Broadway St) and tried their latte. The coffee was a little sweet but pretty good overall. The interior had tons of room and looked like a great place to work in the future. #pdxcoffeehunt…

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Mount St. Helens

I just tried using a “bot” to schedule lunch with my dad. The end is near…

Hidden next to Tamale Boy at 1760 NE Dekum, today’s stop reminds me why I’m doing this #pdxcoffeehunt. Bassotto is an absolute gem of a coffee shop disguised as a Gelato place. Great coffee. Awesome environment. Wonderful people behind the counter. Love. Love. Love.…

Feb 29th: You are part of invitation Wave 1. We are currently serving Wave 1. If your wave is currently being served, you will soon receive your invitation to purchase via our private online store. April 15th: Still waiting……

Located next to the delicious Russel St. BBQ, I have often been curious about Goldrush. I am curious no more. The coffee was decent, but the interior was down right filthy. I likely won’t be back. Can you make out the “Internet cafe” services in the picture? #pdxcoffeehunt…

If you’re a basketball fan, then you will likely remember April 13th 2016 for quite some time: -Kobe scores 60 in his final game -Curry breaks the 400 barrier for 3’s in a single season -Warriors break the 95-96 Bulls record with 73 wins

There are surprisingly only 2 coffee shops in the Mississippi district:Locale and Fresh Pot; this one being a bit rough around the edges. Serving Stumptown (Peets?) it had plenty of seating, and despite feeling a bit grimy the atmosphere was generally pleasant. #pdxcoffeehunt…

This is great and sad on so many levels:

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If you’re in the Mississippi area and looking for coffee, Locale is probably the best option for you. It’s a fairly small venue, but they (fortunately) serve Heart coffee and the atmosphere is very pleasant. This is definitely one I would revisit in the future. #pdxcoffeehunt  …

I hate tax time. 😭😭😭

This makes me very excited: mashable.com/2016/04/1……

Nestled next to Screen Door at 2327 E Burnside St, Kopi styles itself as an Asian-fusion coffee shop and mostly pulls it off. The menu is eclectic but the coffee is smartly from Water Avenue. While this might not be the cafe for everyone, I quite enjoyed it. #pdxcoffeehunt…

I cut today’s coffee shop visit a little close today because of family commitments, but fortunately, Batter (4425 NE Fremont St) stays open late with breakfasts. If you want a late night breakfast or coffee, this is one of the few places in Portland you can find open. #pdxcoffeehunt…

Today’s cafe was another pleasant surprise. Located in the new “Zipper” building at 2705 NE Sandy Blvd, Seven Virtues has great coffee, homemade syrups and a very pleasant, quiet vibe with a decent amount of seating. I will definitely be spending more time here. #pdxcoffeehunt…

I really wanted to like Bison (3941 NE Cully Blvd) but the coffee was far too bitter for me and the ambiance was a bit too eclectic for my taste. Based on the steady stream of customers, it’s clearly a neighborhood favorite. It’s just not for me. #pdxcoffeehunt…

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One of the best things about this 30 day challenge is discovering new neighborhoods. Today, I fell in love with the Kenton neighborhood and this gem of a coffeeshop that just opened up. #pdxcoffeehunt…

Decent coffee. Fairly good seating and a very good looking food menu. Located at 7201 NE Alisan St, it’s a bit of a drive from my house. Fillmore is a bit further East than most of the coffee shops I generally frequent but overall a nice find. #pdxcoffeehunt…

What UConn and Breanna Stewart have accomplished tonight is amazing and historic almost beyond comprehension.…

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My latte wasn’t bad, and there is quite a bit of seating, but Tiny’s (located at 2031 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd) really feels like a time warp back to the late 90’s at the dawn of the modern Portland coffee shop. #pdxcoffeehunt…

Saint Simon is nestled into a hole in the wall at 2005 NE Broadway. It feels a bit like a carbon copy of other Portland coffee shops: spartan decor, Bake Shop pastries and the all too familiar oily, bitter Coava coffee. The staff were incredibly pleasant, however. #pdxcoffeehunt…

Located at 5027 NE 42nd Ave, the atmosphere at Miss Zumstein is bright and airy with a lot of natural light. While my latte was good, albeit a bit milky, the wonderful looking/smelling baked goods are what will bring me back for a return visit. #pdxcoffeehunt…

Great article about OSU and their challenge against UConn today. Absolutely love this team. espn.go.com/womens-co…

My rules for my #pdxcoffeehunt are simple: - The coffee shop has to be in N/NE PDX - It must be a shop I’ve never been to - I must get a latte at each cafe

Today, Brendan and I checked out a coffee shop that I’ve been curious about for a while. The ambiance was pleasant with a fair amount of seating. My latte was creamy and smooth with just a hint of bitterness. Overall I was pleasantly surprised. #pdxcoffeehunt…

Lucy and I have been following the Beavers the past few seasons. Lucy went down onto the court at the last game we went to and talked to some of the players. Great summary of the team here: www.oregonlive.com/beavers/i…

It turns out that getting a working configuration for cross posting is hard!

I kicked off my 30 day #pdxcoffeehunt with a trip to Cathedral Coffee (7530 N Willamette Blvd.) My latte (made with Tanager coffee) was mediocre and had a bit of an aftertaste, but the space was very comfortable, quiet, had plenty of seating and was overall fantastic for working.…

So glad to be using my new SE. It’s still the most beautiful device Apple has made to date.

Typing this from my new SE. It’s such a beautiful, elegant device. To me this is still the height of Apple’s industrial design.

Sitting on the Tarmac in Chicago. I really detest flying through here. Unfortunately on this trip I had no choice. 😔

I love to see Lisa Leslie on TNT talking basketball with Shaq. She’s so intelligent. Great commentary.

It doesn’t matter how many times I use it, I am continually amazed at the future we live in where you can surf the Internet on an airplane.

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In our family NCAA bracket pool, my wife picked an astounding 6 of 8 of the elite 8. She has won by a landslide and Lucy is NOT happy…

By Grabthar’s Hammer, Galaxy Quest is still a great movie.

I’m thinking that I will keep the coffee shops limited to the East side and I will only try lattes for consistency. #pdxcoffeehunt

Inspired by @manton, I am putting together my own plan for 30 days of coffee shops here in Portland.

My Honda apparently is affected by the airbag recall. I now have a crappy rental from the dealership for THREE months. Ugh.

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I am in the process of reconfiguring all of my social media to be shared across my new microblog: jonhays.me

I ordered my iPhone SE today. I’m very excited for it to arrive next week. I will be sporting the black 64gb unit.

I’m going to try to microblog more. This will hopefully be the first of many posts. If you’re seeing this from a cross post, the source is jonhays.me

Lucy at the dentist.

My phone’s performance has gone to crap since installing 9.0.1. Anybody else seeing this?

Too many things to learn. Not enough time. Gah!

Indi Cowie is so absolutely amazing: vine.co/u/9352589…

I am currently printing 200 pages of documentation for the boy’s Lego Robotics team.

Today’s data point: I pay $800/mo for health insurance for a family of four. My son had his tonsils out and our out of pocket was $4934.

That moment when you awake from your coding coma to realize Pandora is playing crap and you have no idea how long it’s been doing it

I just fixed a bug on a 3GS under iOS 6. Is it beer-thirty yet?

Some days I am just in total despair over the state of youth sports in America.

Why in the world can I not create reminders with Siri?

I really want this: www.massdrop.com/buy/dji-p…

Thinking about having the kids try to publish a small iOS app and flow any funds from it into their (non-existant) college funds.

Even more research that I can get behind: qz.com/465585/ye…

So it turns out that just like on iOS, the first question on Windows Phone is “Are you trying that on the main thread?” whenever you run into bizarro behavior.

Now this is research that I can use: www.vox.com/2014/8/28…

The Cheese stands alone.

The cheese is here.