RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ehmatthes/113294437609860819

Eric I don't know if this was intentional but I am often discouraged when I have to write messy exploratory code.

I think it's based on live-coding sessions or coding interviews (I haven't had too many of those) I feel like I have to defend every decision I make or I'm a bad developer.

This has made me try to write the best most performant code possible.

Thank you for reminder that process doesn't have to be pristine and sometimes worrying about the wrong things can make it harder to get things right.

on Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:44:40 +0000 πŸ”—

Responding to Julius' post on their challenges with visa policies

Imagine preparing for months to speak at a prestigious conference or to collaborate on a groundbreaking project abroad, only to have your visa application rejected.

I’ve been following Julius’ work not just in the BPD community.

America’s policies feel greedy. We talk about the expanding the American dream around the world. When people want to come over for a couple weeks to America to share skills and opportunities that make both parties better, we're like but you could give up all your progress in becoming a recognized leader in your own community and country to become an outlaw???

It makes no sense and even when we write letters and do everything we can to show how beneficial it would be to have them with us, it doesn't matter.

At the end of the day, those folks will share their knowledge with those in Europe and (LISTEN UP POLITICIANS) our political adversaries like China. I know this because I'm already being asked to write letters of recommendations for people in Africa to learn and share their leadership skills in those areas already.

When we feel like we're being left behind on the global stage, this will be the reason why.

on Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:28:18 +0000 πŸ”—

Damien and I are back to see what he has done on his own in the last week with Django!

Tune in tomorrow at 12:30 ET.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVgSViFuvx8

Get your timezone conversion at - https://time.is/compare/1230AM_18_Sept_2024_in_Atlanta

on Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:34:27 +0000 πŸ”—

It's hard to get started but also walking a beginner through something can be a challenge.

This week I started the "Learn By Doing" series which follows the "Jay Teaches Better" streams with my friend Damien who wants to build a website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnFH0tgwYR8

We build a django site from nothing to a few routes in about 90 minutes and the hardest parts were truly:

on Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:03:00 -0400 πŸ”—

Trying out ZenMode and Twilight for my NVIM config. I'm not sure I can tell a difference.

When included with Twilight I think it is pretty nice for writing but I definitely like it with writing code as my eyes tend to wander around code a lot.

Toggling on ZenMode

on Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:55:00 -0400 πŸ”—

I made this little video to remind myself that I can use ":r! " to write the output of the command into a document in NVIM.

https://youtube.com/shorts/LkR01hQv1S0?feature=share

on Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:17:00 -0400 πŸ”—

I am now using some tools to make my terminal configs in sync.

Those tools are:

You can see my dotfiles at https://github.com/kjaymiller/.dotfiles.

on Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:23:00 -0400 πŸ”—

Last month I went to London for the Relay 10th anniversary extravaganza.

You can catch the audio replay here.

You can hear my thoughts on being a member of Relay here.

If you want to hear thoughts like this (and the occaisional helpful content) you can check out Conduit

on Sun, 18 Aug 2024 20:00:00 -0400 πŸ”—

TIL: I have some plugin in lazyVIM that is listing my code. The downside is I don't know which plugin it is and if it is black then I have a new problem where the linter and running black . are coming up with different results...

What I have yet to learn is how to fix it...

gif of fez laughing and then crying

on Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:32:00 -0400 πŸ”—

It ain't just me!

I'm hoping to figure out how to get folks that are capable hired all over the world. Many of these folks are more talented than I am but their hometown is the biggest barrier to getting them hired.

πŸ”—

on Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:30:00 -0500 πŸ”—

Ruto refuses to sign the finance bill as is but their Parliament vote was 64% yes. They only need to flip 3-4 people to get a large-enough majority to pass it anyway.

Kenyans, (If it is okay for an American with many Kenyan friends to speak up), keep the pressure on your politicians.

Americans, find some Kenyan folks to learn from and be as loud as you are about your least favorite OLD WHITE DUDE IN CHARGE.

#rejectfinancebill2024

on Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:22:00 -0400 πŸ”—

I've been trusting dependabot more and more and nore I'm using Anthony Shaw's (@tonybaloney@fosstodon.org) Dependabot-bot.

Of course I'm not suggesting that you blindly merge PRs but I'm also being honest that without maintainers, lots of folks are doing this anyway.

Also as a contingency I'm only autoapproving the updates from the main dependencies and not their dependencies.

Also not auto publishing releases and all releases are tested before a publish will go through.

on Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:00:00 -0800 πŸ”—

I'm really excited to see the results of the interview that I did with #TheNewStack.

It turned out great! Even gave some good shoutouts to some communities we're heavily invested in!

https://thenewstack.io/black-python-devs-a-new-affinity-group-with-a-global-reach/

on Fri, 31 May 2024 08:28:00 +0000 πŸ”—

I hope folks in the US remember this #MemorialDay, Since 9/11 - more service members and veterans die by suicide than combat every year.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009846329/military-suicides-deaths-mental-health-crisis

I'm a veteran and I struggle with depression and PTSD. I lost one of my brothers-in-arms and groomsmen to drug abuse and suicide. There isn't a week that goes by where I don't think of him; today I write this through tears of guilt.

Do the simple thing ask a service-member how they're doing and how is their mental health.

Me in my military days as a Private First Class

on Mon, 27 May 2024 20:47:10 +0000 πŸ”—

Best of luck to Black Python Devs founding member @felipedemorais_ on his #PyConUS workshop starting in a few minutes!

Wakanda Forever

on Wed, 15 May 2024 16:42:07 +0000 πŸ”—

Nigerian Students learning Python! Join Black Python Devs today to receive one of our 75 free tickets for Pycon Nigeria later in July! More information at - https://blackpythondevs.com/2024-05-03-pycon_ng_2024/]

Black Python Devs x PyCon Nigeria

on Tue, 14 May 2024 20:34:36 +0000 πŸ”—

Been playing Rusty's retirement and I just wish I had steam on my work computer so I can stay engaged with work (and my crops).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666510/Rustys_Retirement/

on Tue, 14 May 2024 17:47:52 +0000 πŸ”—

I had a blast on stream today with Jason Lengstorf.

It seems that FastAPI is rather intuitive for Javascript users. I would definitely encourage others to dive right in!

on Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:35:38 +0000 πŸ”—

Folks in Black Python Devs this month have been crushing it. Tomorrow (Friday 1 Feb 2024), we'll be sharing a selection of some of the accomplishments shared from our community's members in our first newsletter post.

Sign up for a (currently) monthly recap from our community and support our members.

https://buttondown.email/black-python-devs

on Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:51:01 +0000 πŸ”—

I missed an important point on my short yesterday!

I mentioned that you can convert tasks in a single GitHub issue into their own issue.

Closing that issue also marks that task as complete!

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ri-zdSoQ0Pg?feature=share

on Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:27:29 +0000 πŸ”—

I was able to get my first PyPI publishing workflow using the trusted publishers workflow really easy...

I'm a fan of good docs so I'll just share their link instead of creating another one.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/security-hardening-your-deployments/configuring-openid-connect-in-pypi

One minor thing I that got me is that your repo name is case-sensative so if you're having issues check repo casing.

on Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:01:05 +0000 πŸ”—

This extension means that I never have to manually open a bunch of files that match a pattern again!

Check out Open Multiple Files

https://youtube.com/shorts/EPDg24VAF0Q

on Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:41:13 +0000 πŸ”—

My talk from Refactr.Tech is now live on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee1DhKMJ_Kg

Listening back I feel like I was a little aggressive, however I'm super happy with the overall vibe of the talk.

I definitely hope to give the talk again in the future.

on Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:19:11 +0000 πŸ”—

Building projects you don't think anyone uses is way more fun when you have so many people helping! Render Engine had 5 new contributors this month.

Should out to:

I hope to continue improving Render Engine and start providing more examples of be being used in different ways

on Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:23:25 +0000 πŸ”—

create a pre-release for your project using the gh cli

gh release create <VERSION> --generate-notes -p

the release version of this command is without the p.

on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 02:05:35 +0000 πŸ”—

Reminder that if you're deploying an app with a cli... if you want to be able to python -m call that app... You'll need to add a __main__.py to your project.

on Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:50:27 +0000 πŸ”—

I wrote a little about my US Conference City Diversity Metric. You can find it on the Black Python Devs Blog - https://blackpythondevs.github.io/2023-11-11-what-is-the-us-conference-city-diversity-metric/

on Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:05:55 +0000 πŸ”—

The last interview in this DjangoCon perspectives, I sat down in Panda Studios with @AutomationPanda and we talked a bit about the benefits of the conference local to you and the feelings of Keynoting for your hometown crowd!

https://youtu.be/HEC3K2wwJcw

on Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:11:27 +0000 πŸ”—

In this interview, I chat with my amazing friend Felipe de Morais, CoFounder of AfroPython.

Felipe shares how both Brazilian and US Python communities can learn from one another what it means to see folks that look like you on the stage and around the conference.

https://youtu.be/SY4qxQQM0V4

on Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:57:22 +0000 πŸ”—

In this interview, I talk with Ryan Cheley who flew across the country to give his first conference talk about contributing to the Django Project for the first time.

Ryan gave a great talk about success, failure, more failure, and more success.

https://youtu.be/WkeRI7LkBeY

on Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:47:17 +0000 πŸ”—

The second video from the perspectives of #DjangoConUS, I interview Peter Baumgartner, founder of long-time sponsor Lincoln Loop.

We talk about some of the benefits from the sponsor perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRuTYj3g_9E

on Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:59:14 +0000 πŸ”—

I'm happy to begin sharing some of the perspectives of some folks that I interviewed at #DjangoConUS.

Let's start with the Django Software Foundation President Chaim Kirby who has a fantastic announcement about his plans for next year!! Check it out on the #PythonCommunityNews Youtube Channel!

https://youtu.be/NhVEGqPvoI4

on Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:47:00 +0000 πŸ”—

I had a wonderful time at #DjangoConUS. I'm hoping they'll consider Raleigh again and I would love to learn more about this very underrated city.

Black Python Devs at the Ice Cream Social

on Sat, 21 Oct 2023 18:22:21 +0000 πŸ”—

My mania is in full swing and I've been creating a bunch of things. So instead of copy/pasting like I've been doing... I made this cookiecutter template for faster project scaffolding.

on Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:59:03 +0000 πŸ”—

Been thinking about a lot about how I can take a more "Ghibli" approach to the things that I work on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnKY-5TqOM

on Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:33:59 +0000 πŸ”—

ArjanCode's video on what's coming to 3.12 has me so pumped!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udHmeAmOlbI

on Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:19:40 +0000 πŸ”—

I've been working with Mario Munoz to get render-engine ready for it's next stable with initial support for theming and slightly improved docs!

Thanks for your help Mario!

on Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:19:39 +0000 πŸ”—

Join Kathy and I for a fun day to celebrate RelayFM raising $275,000 for St. Jude this year!

We'll be playing Baldur's Gate 3 on my YouTube channel at 1pm ET/10am PT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6sG9YQtP8

on Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:09:37 +0000 πŸ”—

Hoping to make my website more accessible by adding some automated testing. Luckily one of my favorite coworkers gave an amazing talk on this earlier this (I've been putting it off)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-4Qa6PSomM

on Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:52:35 +0000 πŸ”—

I have this idea to add a setting that can add my git branch name to the title bar of my @code editor window.

It needs 20 upvotes to get on the roadmap.

If you sometimes forget what branch you're on and would like a subtle reminder, give it an upvote

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/187956

VS Code Feature Request

on Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:16:00 -0800 πŸ”—

I had such a great time hanging with Dawn on the Python Pulse | GitHub Extensions Show and Tell.

on Fri, 14 Jul 2023 23:43:04 -0800 πŸ”—

It doesn't happened a lot so I'm still excited when it does. I got a PR accepted into cookiecutter!

https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter/pull/1874

It's wierd that I advocate for open source and yet I don't contribute to others' projects as much as I should.

on Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:03:18 +0000 πŸ”—

This new setting in VS Code allows you to auto-add f-strings

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ds6LG_N0Irw

on Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:18:50 +0000 πŸ”—

Made my first custom arrow with a little wiggle wiggle. This was the tutorial I used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUzBfGBz8TQ

Here's the final little animation

Hand-drawn arrow

on Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:25:35 +0000 πŸ”—

Happy I got to demo my SSG at @SanDiegoPython.

on Sat, 17 Jun 2023 18:26:17 +0000 πŸ”—

Our goal is to help the Python community make informed decisions in this year's @thepsf election. This video breaks down what the PSF does (and does) do.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JSFWSM5Fm9Y

on Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:41:30 +0000 πŸ”—

Slowly trying to get back into making YT Shorts - I found out that VS @Code profiles now allow you to select a base language with some settings, snippets and extensions.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JSFWSM5Fm9Y

on Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:04:55 +0000 πŸ”—

I'm looking forward to chatting with the person they hire for all things @pycommunitynews related -

https://pythonsoftwarefoundation.applytojob.com/apply/2omzo2TR1D/Community-Communications-Manager

on Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:56:33 +0000 πŸ”—

The PyCon 2023 Videos are now live on YouTube

on Sat, 03 Jun 2023 17:25:48 +0000 πŸ”—

And we're live! We're talking about @thepsf board elections and more in today's live stream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uVquySTpiw

on Fri, 02 Jun 2023 21:38:41 +0000 πŸ”—

All this content around creating opengraph social card and then when I move all the images to azure to speed up the process, I end up not changing my endpoint in the template. πŸ€¦πŸΎβ€β™‚οΈ

Let's try this link again - https://kjaymiller.com/blog/storing-my-opengraph-social-cards-in-azure.html

on Sat, 20 May 2023 14:07:41 +0000 πŸ”—

The first of #PyCon US tutorials from the Microsoft Booth is live and it was our most popular!

Check out @automationpanda talk about #Playwright with Python!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wykd5OWSDQ

on Fri, 19 May 2023 16:50:13 +0000 πŸ”—

I really like that I can see my blog publishing via GH Actions without ever leaving VS Code now with the new GH Actions Extension 😎

gh actions extension

on Fri, 19 May 2023 05:56:58 +0000 πŸ”—

Jacob is an amazing human that ceases to amaze me. I hope to one day be in a position where I can begin planning a life where I can be a benefit to more than myself and immediate family

https://jacobian.org/2023/may/15/giving-it-all-away/

on Mon, 15 May 2023 23:58:08 +0000 πŸ”—

Looking at Micro.blog for cross-posting. If this works as expected, this post should be on all the socials that micro.blog enables cross posting on, including itself and my website.

Disclosure: micro.blog is a current sponsor

on Mon, 15 May 2023 18:31:00 -0400 πŸ”—

Another great interview from @pycon for you to check out! Trey Hunner has an amazing gem for people attending conferences. It involves a deck of cards and your hotel lobby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzuXmzhFJ6Y

on Thu, 11 May 2023 10:19:36 -0700 πŸ”—

Did you know that 76% of PyCon attendees were there for the first time.

I was so happy that Aseda asked what I was doing and kindly agreed to do a super quick interview about her first trip to PyCon US and how it compares to other events she's attended.

https://youtu.be/89_JZUGoZJ8

on Wed, 10 May 2023 05:53:00 -0700 πŸ”—

I took the last couple days of my time at @PyCon to interview some folks. They are all available on the @PyCommunity News YouTube channel. Today I want to highlight my conversation with the author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" @alsweigart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBI7T3PpbHA

on Mon, 08 May 2023 13:21:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Planning a bunch of content with Mustafa

on Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:30:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Thanks to @jonafato for finding an RSS bug in Render-Engine

on Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:13:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Working on my PyCon project with Aaron Wislang

on Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:50:00 -0700 πŸ”—

New Short on creating snippets for VS Codes (Beginner)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/idFhk78BQ6w

on Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:39:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Hey I'm giving a talk about dev containers right after I stopped at the container store this afternoon.

container store

on Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:41:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Testing this will work on wifi.

on Sat, 11 Mar 2023 17:07:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Speaking this weekend and hanging out at SoCal Linux Expo (SCALEx20).

SCALE PROMO

on Wed, 08 Mar 2023 23:09:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Kinda ready for the "not having to be the person talking" stage of my career.

on Sun, 26 Feb 2023 01:09:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Testing Partial Collection Uploads Based on Git Diffs

on Fri, 24 Feb 2023 20:29:00 -0800 πŸ”—

New Gorillaz Album absolutely my favorite since Demon Days! It's so good!

Cracker Island Album Cover

on Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:10:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Testing mobile push to microblog to website.

on Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:27:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Sometimes finding THE solution isn't the answer because we don't always know what THE solution should be. Instead we should justify why a solution that we found is good enough until a better solution arrives...

We talked about this (kinda and also it's opposite) in Conduit Ep 42.

on Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:49:00 -0800 πŸ”—

The best part fixing something is discovering a test you haven't written yet....

on Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:47:00 -0800 πŸ”—

New Video πŸ“Ή: I found this VS Code Extension to run tasks from the side bar. There was a minor issue with it but instead of trying something different, I found the fix and made a video (I also filed an issue and submitted a PR).

https://youtu.be/SV4k1OcqMxA

on Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:49:00 -0800 πŸ”—

New Video πŸ“Ή: I wanted to make a quick video showing how I add posts to micro.blog (Including this little post)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM1f7RIUHPE

on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 21:06:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Writing this as a quick video to show how I'm using Drafts to add posts to my microblog.

On Conduit

on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:10:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Thanks Stephen for the recommendation!

keyboard clean tool

on Mon, 20 Feb 2023 08:35:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Why do we keep belts that are too small. Now I have to hold my pants and a belt.

on Sun, 19 Feb 2023 09:41:00 -0800 πŸ”—

New Video: Django Software Foundation Accepting Applications for New Django Fellow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGu4Bklw3kg

on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:48:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Did some documentation updates for Render Engine. Really enjoying mkdocstrings.

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:25:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Reminder: Not everything you do will traumatize your child... For everything else there is Therapy and you should probably apologize

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:58:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Justification for microwave breakfast. If it's the most important meal of the day, something is better that nothing

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 08:53:47 -0800 πŸ”—

RE: Billboard's 50 Best Rappers. It's not bad. It's not right but it's not bad.

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 04:06:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Back on Things 3. Because,idk, MindNode supported it?

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 04:04:53 -0800 πŸ”—

Check if melatonin + prylosec is just secretly meth

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:49:00 -0800 πŸ”—

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:45:00 -0800 πŸ”—

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:44:00 -0800 πŸ”—

The "Thai" Food was good but the heartburn wasn't 8/10

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:43:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Your blog only supports posts one minute apart. Is a feature not a bug.

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:39:02 -0800 πŸ”—

Don't publish at 3:36 what can wait until 8:00

on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 03:36:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Speaking Tonight at San Diego Python about adding plugin support to Render Engine (coming in the next major update).

https://youtu.be/MvpiCyPpAhM

on Thu, 26 Jan 2023 16:12:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Needing to test my youtube embed plugins, so here is one of my favorite covers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfQHEpf2q8k

on Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:20:00 -0800 πŸ”—

To the person that got me into pluggy You know who you are...

Thank you... Also you've given me a new hammer.

Hammer hitting nail

on Mon, 23 Jan 2023 19:20:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Another wild week of Render Engine Development. I wound up getting Pluggy working in render engine and now even have a plugin for pytailwindcss up and running and started working on another.

on Mon, 23 Jan 2023 04:15:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Another custom parser (probably the last one for now as I need to start working on other things).

Hello, Microblog Parser.

This is how I make these posts (Yes including this one!)

I've also added the README to the Extensions Section of the Render-Engine Discussions. I will hopefully be adding more of the content there.

on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:25:00 -0800 πŸ”—

One of my favorite people I've gotten to meet in the last year. https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2023/01/16/pydev-of-the-week-tim-schilling/

on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 13:27:00 -0800 πŸ”—

In today's mental health corner. I've been feeling some overwhelm as of late and wanted to share a video that helped me a bit. I'll be fine, Just need to defer/drop some things and get back into the groove (hopefully talks on bicep, azd, and devcontainers can help realign my focus).

on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 11:14:00 -0800 πŸ”—

The talk I was most excited about giving didn't get accepted to PyCon US this year. That said I'm excited to be able to submit it to other places like JuneteenthConf and Refactr.Tech!

on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:35:00 -0800 πŸ”—

I'm loving my SSG right now.

Less than 100 lines of code to build out a site that uses on RSS to build out a wonderful landing page (while also hosing my blog and a microblog).

https://github.com/kjaymiller/kjaymiller.com/blob/main/routes.py

on Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:28:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Just a reminder of how awesome shortcut detective is. I ran into an issue where I somehow mapped ⌘+w to another shortcut. I remembered this app from Irradiated Software. Still works for Big Sur (At least the intel chip one)

Shortcut Detective in Action

on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Two entries into my zshrc to make editing my two most edited config files easier on me.

``` " Quickly open my zshrc alias zshrc="nvim ~/.zshrc"

" Quickly Open my vimrc ~NOTE: ~/.config/nvim/init.vim is the default location for neovim (nvim) " The default path for your .vimrc is ~/.vimrc

alias vimrc="nvim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim" ```

on Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:11:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Don't know if I'll use tmux in the future again, but I'm sure I'll thank myself for having this tucked away. At least now it's not in my inbox.

https://gist.github.com/MohamedAlaa/2961058

on Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:21:00 -0700 πŸ”—

These notes about how to improve in Hearthstone probably apply in other areas of life:

on Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:14:00 -0700 πŸ”—

@pilotmoon I would love to see pop clip support a "Noguchi" style ordering (Last Used moved to the front) - https://twitter.com/kjaymiller/status/1123282125497585664

Now I'm starting to wish there was a recently used @draftsapp Actions group that does the same thing.

on Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:46:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Testing new cached files allowed

on Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:14:00 -0800 πŸ”—

I posted my first blog post on the Elastic Blog: How to create a video tutorial

on Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:50:00 -0800 πŸ”—

David (A recent guest on the PIT Show) had an excellent conversation with Kourosh Dini about idea management.

It gave me some very NPR Productivity vibes.

on Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:35:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Things I failed at tonight: - Working on Book - Getting Newsletter Post Written - Billable work that I need to finsh to get paid - Finish Scheduling Podcast

Things I did do: - Two Blog Posts - Lot's of Tailwind Changes to site - Couple of good tweets

Can I sleep now?

sleepy duck

on Sun, 08 Nov 2020 23:16:00 -0800 πŸ”—

A new idea for a podcast I'm thinking of of is the AntiProductivity Show (Working Title) where I talk with folks that play with Productivity tools to discover the weaknesses in their systems. It's like a productivity show but honest.

on Sun, 08 Nov 2020 23:10:00 -0800 πŸ”—

I really wish that NvAlt(NvUltra) and Drafts allowed me to set keybindings so I could match them with my NeoVim Keybindings.

My brain always strikes the keys anyway now.

on Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:57:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Moving the blog to tailwind so the site itself will be horrendous for a bit.

on Sun, 25 Oct 2020 08:24:00 -0700 πŸ”—

There are a bunch of great Duck Duck Go Bang Commands! Many that I've gotten used to!

This is an excuse to microblog more but I wanted to share these as a reasource! Let's start with the python list

on Thu, 22 Oct 2020 22:25:00 -0700 πŸ”—

I just published a couple of blog posts on the Render Engine Blog. They show a couple of things that I've been doing with my own builds and projects.

on Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:15:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Update to the Bunch Alfred Package. Moved the calling of bunches to the CLI. Also changed the command from b to bunch (Of course you can always change it back).

Also now using Python to call the ruby package. Because of JSON formatting.

https://github.com/kjaymiller/Bunch_Alfred/releases/tag/2020.08.07

on Fri, 07 Aug 2020 06:06:00 -0700 πŸ”—

I've been working on the next feature for Render Engine – Pagination.

I do think this will be the last feature for a while. I really need to update docs and tests. I ran into many issues with this one.

on Tue, 14 Jul 2020 15:06:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Having fun writing docs for render engine.. Also it has a new home 🏠.

https://render-engine.readthedocs.org

on Mon, 06 Jul 2020 16:31:00 -0700 πŸ”—

You can now support my developer work in PIT through GitHub Sponsors.

Sponsoring my work helps me build more tools I use to help developer creators.

https://github.com/sponsors/kjaymiller

on Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:46:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Because I'm not one to expose myself to the arguments, I release my thoughts about Hey and why I'm just not that impressed. On the PIT Bonus Feed.

To listen join the Productivity in Tech Slack channel 24 Hour invite link

on Sun, 21 Jun 2020 19:39:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Questionable Content Post for 12 Jun 2020

That's also what we call them. I have a long history of dating white girls. Now I'm happily married to one and we have a beautiful little light-skinned girl. I know the people that follow me don't have a problem, but I always feel obligated to let folks know I'm treat black folks that got a problem with that the same wy I do white folks...

on Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:07:00 -0700 πŸ”—

And just like that if you already have the files that you are requesting, the quickstart will skip that step.

on Mon, 08 Jun 2020 21:33:00 -0700 πŸ”—

minor update to render engine. You can now quickly build your setup using render-engine-quickstart.

WARNING this will overwrite any run.py that you have set up.

This should be fixed in some subsequent updates. That and a few other things.

on Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:58:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Been writing more and more because of this. People have mentioned that they have enjoyed getting to know me through my posts.

Well, learn why I do ALL the things I do.

https://kjaymiller.com/in_defense_of_the_black_multi-potentialite

on Sat, 06 Jun 2020 23:19:00 -0700 πŸ”—

While I do transcriptions for podcasters as a part of my business, I wanted to share how I generate my base transcription files using AmazonAWS.

https://github.com/productivity-in-tech/pit-transcription-cli

on Fri, 05 Jun 2020 11:28:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Render Engine v. 2020.5.5 is available with native search functionality. Documentation and blog posts added to task list.

on Thu, 28 May 2020 11:26:00 -0700 πŸ”—

My Netlify build is trying to load my building structure only because my repo has a requirements.txt. No runtime.txt and no build options. I render content locally and have the output be the only thing that Netlify serves.

This started happening yesterday.

on Thu, 28 May 2020 09:55:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Put out a newsletter, they said. It'll be quick, they said.

updates

on Mon, 25 May 2020 23:58:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Funny how you do a newsletter to avoid doing a bonus podcast episode just to do both and about 5 short blog posts all in one sitting..... lol.

on Mon, 25 May 2020 23:50:00 -0700 πŸ”—

Render Engine Minor Update:

I think I finally fixed the [render engine] feed.

Keyword being "think".

Also I've been working on a lot of things so I'll just drop this here. https://kjaymiller.com/projects

on Fri, 22 May 2020 15:00:00 -0700 πŸ”—

filename

I defintely have an issue if this is how I'm naming blog posts...

on Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:02:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Decided to make a little fun project with Python.

It would use pendulum to give a list of times until the next occurance of a date.

Not done yet, but there is some complexity to make it pretty intuitive.

Keep πŸ‘€'s out for it.

on Mon, 02 Mar 2020 16:25:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Just the beggining but I now have a Coffee Page, that I hope to update regularly. β˜•

on Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:05:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Adding todos in my docstrings is a great way to manage things you want to do in your code without you muddying up your project manager.

Of course once you commit to working on them you should really add them to your trusted system.

docstrings

on Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:15:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Personal site is now using Conversation.JS from micro.blog!

I've been a long opponent of comments buts I think the MB community is wonderful (and strongly moderated) so I'm taking that chance.

on Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:07:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Very Cool, but like 2 minutes into it. My head was really tired. Still a great #Ally tool for people that need it. May even use to scroll.

Hawkeye

Hawkeye - Head Control for Mac

on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:33:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Been having woes with YouTube with my clients. I do wish there was an IndieWeb version.

Youtube Studio

on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:08:00 -0800 πŸ”—

I need a brain!! 🧠

brain post

on Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:29:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Not sure which is more important.

choose

on Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:07:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Another test. I will prolly delete these afterwards.

on Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:21:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Testing Mobile Upload. Using Drafts and Shortcuts.

on Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:13:00 -0800 πŸ”—

New Coffee Alert β˜• 🚨 PT's Coffee - Flatlander

PTCoffee1 PTCoffee2

#WhatImDrinking #Coffee

on Wed, 19 Feb 2020 13:16:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Fixed a few issues wiht rss on my static site generator. I expect to be posting posting a lot more now. ^_^

yay-tears

on Wed, 19 Feb 2020 10:10:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Testing 1, 2, 3

on Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:41:00 -0800 πŸ”—

Creating Rules around your life isn't a way to automate your life or make it mundane. In fact it's a way to ensure that you provide yourself the power and time to make the decisions you both want to do and need to do.

It's a way to prevent others (and yourself) from interfering with your plans.

on Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0700 πŸ”—