Andrew Bridges

I took these two photos in Castlewood Canyon today. The midday light was harsh, so I spent my time looking for interesting details in the shadows. The roses above were left on top of a small overlook. I'm not sure who left them or when it happened. The withered flowers

a few photos from our baby shower

I replaced my Rebel T5 with a 6D.

"Oh, standing in a field"

...and he's a sleepy boy.

don't have one — don't want one

some thoughts on lumber prices, technical debt, and scheduling a COVID vaccine

some thoughts on inflation, a new side project, and municipal finance

A short list of things that caught my attention this week: espanso I've used a service called TextExpander for years. It's a simple, but powerful tool for text replacement that works as you type. Example: When I type ;date, TextExpander automatically replaces it with today's date in the format YYYYMMDD.

The 3-2-1 rule for backup means that you should have three copies of your data, the original data plus 2 backups. One of those backups should be off-site. The idea is to protect yourself from a single point of failure. If one or two of those copies disappears, no problem.

a herd of elk in the backyard

a note reminding myself how I host this blog

Here is a short list of things that caught my attention this week :) 10 modern layouts in 1 line of CSS (YouTube) CSS is off-putting. So off-putting that it pushed me away from front end development. It sounds silly, but it's true. I can build an API, a database, or