Stephen Bowling

A freshly baked pizza with a golden, bubbly cheese topping rests on a cooling rack.

A cheese pizza is baking on a baking steel inside an oven.

A hand holds a slice of pizza with a crispy crust above a plate of the remaining pizza.

I’ve been making pizzas in the home oven with a baking steel this week. 550° for 7 minutes. Results have been great. It’s nice to cook indoors instead of outside in front of an 800° flame in 92° weather.

Hey — thanks for reaching out! Not sure how my handle got to an invalid state, but I pasted my DID and it looks like it’s working now

UI screenshot showing list of checkin-ins on a place

A brief look at check-ins on places and creating instant image previews using web APIs: bwlng.com/2024/07/13/p...

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Screenshot showing a list of places in a mobile browser with sorting toggling between date saved and distance

Added an option in Places to sort by date places were saved. This is useful when you can’t remember the name of a place you saved recently or want to try somewhere new to you. Sorting still defaults to places nearest you.

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Lucky enough to see the Killers put on an amazing show at Tipitina’s. Don’t think there was room for another person on the floor.

Created a page to collect all my posts on Places and describe what it is (an app to keep track of places you’ve been and places you want to go): bwlng.com/places/

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Places can be moved into a section using drag and drop and reordered the same way. Still need to implement optimistic UI to avoid the visual jump that occurs when an item is dropped and the update is handled over the network.

Short screen recording here: bwlng.com/2024/04/21/a...

UI showing a collection of places with sections for Thursday, Friday, and Others. The first section is open and the following sections are collapsed.

Added sections to collections in Places. I find them handy for organizing places in a collection by days when planning a trip, but they can be used for anything — like grouping places by category (e.g. food spots, entertainment, sights, etc.). #BuildInPublic

A note on creating an endpoint for a short-lived JSON Web Token (JWT) for MapKit JS using Remix: bwlng.com/2024/04/12/1...

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Pizzaversary: New York. 96 hours, 14 pizza places, 6 comedy shows, a Broadway play, and an earthquake.

bwlng.com/2024/04/09/2...

Screenshot of code on a webpage where words like `export` are displayed as `èxpört`

Screenshot of a code snippet on a webpage displaying as expected

GitHub and other websites started rendering text with similar but different (weird) characters in my browser.

Tracked it down to monospaced fonts rendering with .SF NS instead of SF Mono. No idea what happened, but deleting SF Mono from /Users/username/Library/Fonts and reinstalling it fixed it.

Just felt this 4.7 magnitude earthquake in NYC. Crews had been jackhammering all morning, so I thought it was construction related until I saw the reports 😅

I’m now @bwlng.com on Bluesky thanks to Micro.blog adding AT Protocol DIDs for hosted blogs.

And, no, I had no clue what a “DID” was until I read that and Googled this.

Places Diary #3: Side Quests — Type-safe SQL queries, migrations, and updating from Remix v1 to v2 (plus ESM and Vite) 😵‍💫 https://bwlng.com/2024/02/25/places-diary-side.html

Places Diary #2: Removing Prisma: https://bwlng.com/2024/02/01/places-diary-an.html

Good day for new music. Zach Bryan, Turnpike Troubadours, and Morgan Wade.

Zach even acknowledges Turnpike on a track:

"“I heard Turnpike’s back together and they’re writing songs”"

Looks like Dr. Dog is back in the studio.. Queuing up Toby’s and Scott’s recent solo albums for the occasion.