okcwarrior

I live in Oklahoma City and was super excited to pay my rather decent house off in my mid 30s. The unfortunate part is that my house is in Oklahoma.

We had two hours without power due to rolling blackouts

Austin, TX

Ok, this is a crazy comment, but I have been playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 a lot and almost every piece of land has something, somewhere built on it. Farm, suburb, etc It's depressing but maybe it helps me understand that we are using too much of earth. Do we really need endless farms?

I was educated in Oklahoma in the 80s/90s and this was NOT taught in school at all. I didn't find out about this until I actually moved to Tulsa.

"Error #2 was that there are people all over the earth who are writing tax laws, they do not talk to each other, and they are all INSANE."

He has a very valid point here!

I'm a big fan of this model - I've changed all my work architecture models to C4 and they make sense instantly to other engineers. The plugin for draw.io is really easy to use as well.

Vue.js. I use it exclusively for front end now and have ditched Angular 2/React all together. I even got it approved for use in the very large enterprise I work at (internal apps only of course, but we have a lot of those).

I also embraced messaging for good and was shocked at how easy NServiceBus makes everything regarding AMPQ.

I continued to celebrate .NET Core advancements and use it for all my server side programming.

I also dipped my feet in Scala and really like what I found .. Q1 of 2019 will be Scala heavy at work, then back to .NET Core.

E: Forget, every single project I have is set up in Azure Devops now for build/deployment. It's amazing.

I was telling my coworker the other day to think about how much of our lives we have wasted waiting for status bars to go from 0 to 100%, haha.

I know it's somewhat pricey but datagrip by jetbrains is amazing.

Having VSTS down all day meant I got exactly 0 done today. Completely crazy to me.

My C# MVC Web App is reported as a Javascript app because of the templates I use :0