Features I like and don’t like in vehicles.

We flew to Austin with my sibling and their partner this past weekend for my sister’s college graduation. Incredible obstacles were overcome while family drama threatened to drown us in a torrent of angry messages. We saw my niece and dear old friends, and…

Needed to check the van—a daily task—and I was feeling pretty down about things this morning, so I went out for a walk. I put on Big Thief and strolled down the street towards the lake. On my way, I passed a couple moving out, bravely crossing the road with…

Absolutely loving Magic Fig’s debut EP. Psychedelic rock with sick synth action and subtleties abound.
Bandcamp / Songlink
Via New Commute

Received my DONOTREPLY.CARDS stickers this week and busted out the Nikon D3300 to photograph their fresh adherence to the laptop. And wow, taking good photos of reflective surfaces is incredibly difficult. I diffused my light as much as I could but it wasn’t…

Went to a Code & Coffee meetup yesterday and had fun. There were a lot of new graduates there and it took a while to get through introductions, but everyone had something cool to share and I learned things.
The building it was held in had an exposed concrete…

I promised progress updates on my form handler project when progress appeared, and appeared it has! And I have a newfound appreciation for unit testing.
The project name is now fohago, which stands for form handler written in Go. Great name, I know. I’m pronouncing…

On Monday we went to the Ryerson Conservation Area to look for cicadas. This year is a big deal because two broods are tunneling to the surface at the same time, with Brood XIII emerging in the Chicago area after 17 years underground.
After we stepped out…

The above screenshot from Mailhog is an email sent by my form handler as the result of a form submission 🎉
This means multiple things are working:
the HTML form posted to the endpoint /hello123 fohago matched /hello123 to the form ID hello123 in the configuration…

Went to bookclub last night. It’s a secret music venue within walking distance that you’d pass right on by if you didn’t know what to look for. One of the smallest venues I’ve ever been to, truly a hole in the wall place. Bought a cool sticker to put on the…

Excited about the news of a new Age of Mythology game in development from the same people who worked on Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition. I loved playing as the Norse in the original AoM, and thoroughly enjoyed the campaigns of both the base game and…

When I last wrote about my form handler project, I had gotten the basic features working: take a form submission and send me an email. This made me so excited that I stopped working on it for the last three weeks. Today I picked it back up again and made…

After three months of searching, I started work at my first job in Chicago this past week! I’m on a network deployment team doing hardware setup and wireless signal strength heat mapping, which is fun because networking is a special interest of mine. While…

Here’s some links I enjoyed in the last few weeks and some music to peruse them to.
Up first in music we’ve got a single from London bass thumpers Dog Race, titled “It’s the Squeeze”. Flowery spoken word overlays borderline grunge, and there’s some neat distortion…

Watched Inside Out 2 at Alamo Drafthouse this weekend. It feels weird going to the Texas theater chain in Chicago, but it’s been my favorite for years and I love that I can still watch movies there. At this point it’s tough for me to get excited about watching…

Longlegs is a comedic drama about an autistic FBI investigator revisiting her childhood trauma.
Nicolas Cage plays a religious schizophrenic dollmaker—an exact description of my own mother.
Does the dollmaker make the dolls? No, he shuffles doll parts around…