Glitchy Sandymount Strand
Taken from the number 47 bus on my way into town. :)
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UX Matters
We read left-to-right. We’re trained to click left-first. Worse, the fucking unhappy path is green. I clicked this “unhappy” three times on three orders before I realized their shit. Edit: On second thoughts, this is asshole design. Make it easy for customers to leave negative responses, then use the bogus data to upsell on services.
Clarkian Magic
I live in somebody’s fictional future. Science fiction writers follow a process. First, they decide where their story will be on the spectrum of happiness-utopia or dystopia? Second, they construct a narrative history which links here and there. And finally, the writer exaggerate their made-up tomorrow for dramatic effect. The writer makes sure you know […]
Sietch
The beauty of transience
I’ll be dead some day, dead and gone and left to decompose in a hole in the ground. Everyone has their time. But what’s more beautiful than transience? You have a summer day, and then it’s gone forever. It’ll never be again.
Pretty Stack Overflow-style resource URLs in Rails 5
Stack Overflow uses routes with the format /:id/:title for questions like this one, which I find to be more memorable than simply a terse ID. I’ve decided that I want this for my new project, a rewrite of this blog in Ruby on Rails 5. Small changes to a model and its routes are required […]
The Summer Day
The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and […]
I triggered a tickle fight at 3am
I find nothing to complain about in such a crazy turn of events.
So she took my glasses and called herself a dumb nerd
This is the cross I bear. My niece is the worst. Woe is me. Life is pain.
A (glitchy) Irish country home
Taken from a bus somewhere in Westmeath.
Slieve Gullion and the Mountains of Mourne from Leopardstown
Taken while I leant out my bedroom window, of all places!
The family Grealish
On the occasion of Ella’s religious thingy.
Moate, Co. Westmeath
This was the best of a set of panoramas I captured from the bus as it went through town. More than the rest, this one shows Moate’s character.
Convert PSD to flattened PNG file with Imagemagick
This turned out to be quite useful at work today: for PSD in *.psd; do convert "${PSD}[0]" "${PSD/psd/png}"; done
LinkedIn, distilled
Someone with the job title Recruiter viewed your profile.
The descent to Balscadden Bay
Taken at Howth, Co. Dublin.
At Balscadden Bay
I spent an enjoyable evening in reflection on the beach. :)
Bray moonrise
It was lovely there tonight. <3
Two-thirds sky
Days like today-skies like today, I miss Nevada something fierce.
I met a doctor walking his horse
We chatted together for a while along the road to Glencullen, then went our ways.
Ow, my legs
17km there and back to Glencullen, but by Christ, I had the weather for it.
instasort 4.0
Another year, another version. My growth as a programmer strikes me when I compare previous versions with the latest code. Less code which works better. You may compare the last three versions together on GitHub. #!/usr/bin/env zsh # # Functions # # # Check if Photograph is (Approximately) Square # # While it was originally […]
Avoid N + 1 issues in Ruby on Rails when checking existance
How perfect and clear, hindsight! This was another “oh, duh” moment for me. Stupid means humble means another step closer to enlightenment, so that’s good. In our application a user may favourite content in a manner à la Facebook. When rendering views, the naive way (the Mark way before this post) is to test for […]
Ella and Oisin
Taken at Eyre Square in Galway, May 1 2017.
Some shit you cannot make up
I mean, while David Zindell did make up this shit, I didn’t make up my telling of it. Before you lies a description of the mighty dick of a race of hermaphroditic transhuman seal-people.
Happy early birthday to me
I enjoyed Magic: the Gathering, barbeque and a nightcap finger of whiskey.
Generate all the rotational permutations of a string
This does not generate lexicographic permutations (use Lexicographer for that!); this plucks off one letter from the end and attaches it to the start: rotations = (str) -> Array(str.length).fill(str).map (rotation, index) -> while index-- rotation = rotation[-1..-1] + rotation[0..-2] rotation I liked my solution and wanted to share.
Darren at Walpurgis Night
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Galway, May Day 2017
With the Grealishings
Taken at 56 Central, Galway.