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  • Office invasion!

    Chickens in office

    ianmjones
    August 26, 2018
    Microblog
  • Just found the Two-Bit History blog, and found myself saving pretty much every post to Instapaper.

    Two-Bit History

    Its Timeline page is a great idea.

    Timeline

    Nice one @TwoBitHistory!

    @TwoBitHistory

    ianmjones
    August 25, 2018
    Microblog
  • As a family we have now also watched MiB3. My wife says that was her favourite as it fills in some of the back story, but Abi and I still think it's narrowly beaten by the original as our favourite.

    ianmjones
    August 22, 2018
    Microblog
  • Every weekend we settle down to watch a family friendly movie that Abi hasn't seen yet. We watched Men in Black one and two back to back last night, so good, just great fun movies. Abi's favourite bit? The talking pug of course!

    ianmjones
    August 18, 2018
    Microblog
  • The RustyElm microcast is now available via Apple Podcasts and any other podcast app that uses the iTunes Podcast directory!

    RustyElm in Apple Podcasts

    ianmjones
    August 16, 2018
    Microblog
  • Apple’s Podcast Connect is working again, yay!

    Screenshot of iTunes Connect with rustyelm podcast submitted

    ianmjones
    August 16, 2018
    Microblog
  • Umm … oh dear, I … umm … just listened to my … umm … new microcast episode, and I umm … did a lot of … umm … umms, sorry!

    RustyElm 2018-08-13: Alright, Let's Do This!

    ianmjones
    August 13, 2018
    Microblog
  • Alright, Let’s Do This!

    • Why I decided to go ahead with this microcast
    • Positive feedback on first episode
    • Publicly accountable
    • Have wanted to do a podcast for years!
    • Inspired by many others, recently including:
    • Timetable by Manton Reece

    Timetable

    Manton Reece

    • Build Your SaaS by Jon Buda & Justin Jackson

    Build Your SaaS

    Jon Buda

    Justin Jackson

    • The Art of Product Podcast by Ben Orenstein & Derrick Reimer

    The Art of Product Podcast

    Ben Orenstein

    Derrick Reimer

    • Q from @thisizkp: Learning both Rust & Elm?
    • Totally new to Rust

    @thisizkp

    • Smattering of Elm a couple of years ago
    • Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm

    Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm

    • WP Cron Pixie

    WP Cron Pixie

    • Progress update:
    • Reading The Rust Programming Language book

    The Rust Programming Language

    • Just finished Chapter 10: Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes

    Chapter 10: Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes

    • Familiar with concepts of Generics & Traits, but Lifetimes (especially annotating them) will take some getting used too
    • Yay for compilers! 😉
    • Moving on to Chapter 11: Writing Automated Tests

    Chapter 11: Writing Automated Tests

    • Expect to use tests quite a bit in project, less than with PHP though
    • Yay for compilers! 😉
    • Have a basic “Hello World” Rust app using Rocket web framework running

    Rocket

    • Found old skeleton page navigation test for project written in Elm
    • Won’t use it
    • May nick a few ideas though
    • What’s the project?
    • Not telling … yet!

    Micro.blog: @ianmjones

    Twitter: @ianmjones

    ianmjones
    August 13, 2018
    Podcast
  • Listening to @cheesemaker on Micro Monday just now made me wonder when I first started blogging.

    @cheesemaker

    Micro Monday

    Turns out it was February 2002, via the now defunct CityDesk desktop application. In that first blog post I make mention of having been building some now long lost CMS of my own, I don't even remember that!

    My first CityDesk article in February 2002

    CityDesk

    ianmjones
    August 11, 2018
    Microblog
  • Decisions, decisions!

    Hello, my name is Ian Jones, and this is my very first microcast.

    I’m feverishly trying to learn Rust and brush up on Elm so that I can build a project with those two programming languages.

    Rust

    Elm

    It occurs to me that it might be worthwhile trying to record my fumbling progress in the form of a microcast.

    It would be very ad-hoc, no schedule, very much a journal for myself.

    It’ll initially cover how I get on with learning Rust as I plan to build out a basic backend for the product first, then build out a basic frontend in Elm and iterate on both from there.

    There will likely be rumination on the actual product idea too.

    So I wonder, would anyone else be interested in listening, or should I just keep this journal to myself?

    Decisions, decisions! 🤔

    Micro.blog: @ianmjones

    Twitter: @ianmjones

    ianmjones
    August 9, 2018
    Podcast
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