One thing I have a new appreciation for as I finish my Whole30 month of eating very, very specifically, is good espresso. My go-do drink is a cappuccino, and I’ll certainly come back to those, but I’ve found great pleasure in a well-made espresso this month. I’ve enjoyed improving my home espresso craft along the way, too.

/Now: Really happy with how easy the one-click installation of Let’s Encrypt certificates is with Pair Networks! I have some configs to update to take advantage of it, and it’s amazing that this will take longer than actually enabling SSL. 🔐!

Snow day here! Six inches or so of lovely powder overnight and continuing this morning. Alas, I still have to work today.

Taking a walk on a very windy lunchtime.

I keep meaning to post a photo of breakfast at my favorite local joint, the Tourist Home. So, here you go.

Me: plays for many hours I’ve accumulated a good amount of resources and equipment. I had best continue conservatively, not buying more than the absolute necessities so that I can min-max my stats and capabilities for upcoming situations.

goes to work

returns

My kid: Dad I used all our bomb arrows and bought endurance rings with all the spirit orbs. Also I spent most of our rupees for lots of armor and dyed it all blue because it looks so cool and now I look like the blue ninja!

This is good for me.

I’m very not impressed by the font scaling on this new work-issued (Win) laptop. This is Not Good.

Posting via Micropub means I can post from mobile, too!

Thanks to @dgold’s nanopub I am now able to post to the site via micropub clients (more or less — a few loose and rough ends to sort out)! This is quite cool.

Years ago I built a small tool to make summary data from the information contained at Uses This (“A collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done.”). This weekend I got an itch to see if it still works, and, lo and behold, it does! With just one small change to the naming convention in my script that builds the extracted data, I was up and running again, and able to then update the no-doubt-embarrassing R code that creates some summary info of interest.

The last time I wrote a bit about my tiny project, I was looking at text editors at Uses This.

Here’s a snapshot of the current data, comparing top iOS apps now to the list the last time I ran this, in 2012:

Top 20 iOS apps by frequency:

     JAN 2018                       JUNE 2012
     instagram-ios         : 48     instapaper-ios        : 22
     kindle-ios            : 32     instagram-ios         : 17
     tweetbot-ios          : 32     simplenote-ios        : 17
     twitter-ios           : 32     kindle-ios            : 15
     instapaper-ios        : 27     twitter-ios           : 14
     simplenote-ios        : 25     reeder-ios            : 13
     reeder-ios            : 20     tweetie-ios           :  9
     foursquare-ios        : 14     words-with-friends-ios:  9
     paper-ios             : 12     evernote-ios          :  8
     dropbox-ios           : 11     foursquare-ios        :  8
     vsco-cam-ios          : 11     tweetbot-ios          :  7
     words-with-friends-ios: 11     facebook-ios          :  6
     evernote-ios          : 10     flipboard-ios         :  6
     safari-ios            : 10     yelp-ios              :  6
     flipboard-ios         :  9     ego-ios               :  5
     ia-writer-ios         :  9     goodreader-ios        :  5
     procreate-ios         :  9     ia-writer-ios         :  5
     spotify-ios           :  9     safari-ios            :  5
     tweetie-ios           :  9     twitterrific-ios      :  5
     ibooks-ios            :  8     dropbox-ios           :  4

My data and visualization senses have evolved since I last played with this, so maybe I’ll continue to update with some new summary information and plots. There’s a lot of longitudinal info to potentially watch, as well, so stay tuned! And let me know if there’s something in the data you think might be particularly interesting for me to explore deeper.

If you haven’t ever browsed Uses This, or even if it’s just been a while, go check it out. The hundreds and hundreds of interviews and lists there are great fun to explore. If you’re interested, you can find my code and data at github.