I’m blogging later than usual because during my normal blogging times I was either out in the workshop turning things on the lathe, baking Christmas cookies, writing Christmas cards, making natural Christmas decorations, or at a Christmas party. All good things. ‘Tis the season.
This year we had Emily at Fox Burrow DesignsArchived Link, a local artist, design our cards. Last year it was Kate at Happy Places.
The Christmas party in Lake Peekskill, hosted by our friends Jeremy and Marie, included live music and caroling. That’s Amanda on the flute, Jeremy on the piano, and Detra (who you might recognize from HONY) singing in the background.
I spent a couple evenings in the workshop this week making things. First some dreidels for Hanukkah gifts (see also), then some ornaments and a dry vase. A little helper came to visit.
It is really nice to get back out in the shop and make things again. Trying to make it a regular thing.
I’ve pretty much switched to the Arc browser now. I’m still getting my pins set up and a few work tools figured out, but it is a huge improvement over any other browsers I’ve used, except maybe for the web browser on Palm’s webOS. (That Palm Pre was by far the coolest phone I’ve owned.) See also.
We’ve been going to the library with Charlie every couple weeks to pick out new books. He loves picking some himself and insists on carrying them back to the car. In addition to the cars and construction vehicles, he loves Madeline. Très bien!
Some books he’s been enjoying:
- Madeline’s Christmas (which he calls Magawine Christmas)
- Construction Site on Christmas Night
- Construction Vehicle ABCs (which he calls Excavator Dump Truck Book)
- Cars Go
I’m not done with it yet, but Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is a prime candidate for the best book I’ve read this year.
State of the Word looks like it went well today. I’m curious to see how the community responds to the Data Liberation focus. I played a small part in getting some things ready for that behind the scenes. More to come on that front later. I’m excited about this focus, as migrations are a big chunk of my job and better tooling would be a huge help. I’d love the end user to be able to migrate everything on their own without calling in our team!
The Interactivity API is also pretty cool. I love how fast the demo site is.
I’m also in love with the Playground project. I wish the blueprint.json convention there would make its way to regular WP installs. I’d love to send someone a json file to include with a blank WP install and have everything installed and generated in a matter of seconds.
I’m glad Matt mentioned the Friends plugin. I use it here!
I better get to bed. Toddlers wake up early. Thankfully Charlie started grinding our coffee for us in the morning!
This week last year:
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