Matt Trask

A little overkill for zoom but I appreciate the hustle

Vacillate between goals and systems.

Start with a directional goal. What systems could do that? But you learn while you execute, so the goal might change, as might the system.

Etc..

ah man I appreciate it!

when you don't know what to do... try this. YouTube video by The Ash Files

I get a "5 things I am interested in" email from the guy behind ugmonk, and the latest email had a video from an account called "The Ash Files".

The narration was calm, the visuals paired perfectly, and the message hit me like a brick.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy1a...

A FedEx truck on the sidewalk in east Nashville, where there are perfectly good roads all around it.

I wasn’t aware sidewalks could double as a fedex loading zone. I guess you can do anything in a truck these days.

#nashville

ah gotcha - crowd source that kind of thing. Thats doable.

yea thats an interesting idea. Would require parsing through all the CMs stances, which could be time consuming.

for example if I cared about blocking the boring tunnel, I could see which CMs are doing their hardest to make a dent there?

that would be a fun project to build while I am still funemployed for the next few days. it could be expanded to city services too.

I DM'd you because its easier than going back and forth like this.

I also deleted it. So I think we can call it even, no?

it was a hot take said in a moment of frustration.

Well if yall don’t do livewire work but host the docs then that’s how these types of things happen. It’s unfortunate and I’m sorry for the mistake but seeing the docs on the official Laravel domain made me assume yall did v4 which is anything but the usual pleasantish Laravel experience

230+ conversations with engineers about technical debt, legacy code, and the stuff nobody wants to talk about.

I send the highlights (and the stuff that doesn't make it to air) in the @maintainable.fm newsletter. No spam. No filler.

maintainable.fm/newsletter/

Intro to the Northside Tavern Documentary YouTube video by Hal Jacobs

I stumbled on a documentary about the legendary Northside Tavern in Atlanta and the memories came flooding back. What an epic place. #atlanta #blues

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZcd...

thats the problem with our government - they have very little recourse being in the minority of a two party system. It's also been seen that the current administration doesn't really care what congress does or doesn't do.

Ngl id buy that track jacket. It’s sick.

I’m proud owner of a hard hat. Oh the places I’m gonna go now.

ah yea, great find! Gonna add so many to my RSS reader

jigsaw from tighten made it easy and then i had Claude do the front end because I’m not great at that. Pretty happy with how it turned out

Advice I love | Matthew Trask Bits and pieces of advice I've picked up over the years.

one of my goals this year is to write more. My friend David Stanley helped inspire this first post.

#softwareengineering #blogging #softwaredevelopers

www.matthewtrask.com/blog/advice-...

a woman says she just wants a bathtub and a long extension cord .. ALT: a woman says she just wants a bathtub and a long extension cord ..

Yay another overpriced place that most people here can’t afford. So cool.

Have you seen Zen? It’s the spiritual successor to Arc.

It’s both the shortest month and the longest month.

There are two types of people in a coworking space: the ones who can live with a laptop and some headphones; and the ones who need their entire office setup with them at all times. They are not the same.

#coworking

for what it's worth when I was in Portland back in 2024, I went to that pizza place and it was pretty damn good. I tried to go back a few days later and their oven had broke. I was legit sad.

anything can be the public square - we dont have to tolerate a shitty platform.

substack ain’t it I mean

You’re writing about Christian nationalism and Nazis on a platform that is totally ok with Nazis and Christian nationalists using it. Subtract ain’t it.