Jamie Thingelstad

On Tuesday of this week I got to be part of the SPS team ringing the market bell to start the trading day on NASDAQ! It was a ton of fun.

Should add more photos and video to this post.

Been up since 2 AM with son. Doing that “swish cold press coffee under your tongue” trick to get big jolts of caffeine.

Tammy and I just finished watching season 2 of House of Cards. What a great show! I just cannot get enough of Kevin Spacey.

Just learned that you cannot wear two different plaids at the same time. Worth noting.

A while back @Waldyrious posed this question about WikiApiary.

@WikiApiary in the lists of wikis by number of articles https://t.co/dKeb8eowPE, why not show the article count rather than the page count?

— Waldir Pimenta (@waldyrious) March 5, 2014

The full answer is actually found in my talk page on WikiApiary. Articles are a construct that each wiki can manage. MediaWiki tries to create these two classes of content: Pages and Articles. The intent being that pages are in some way less like “content” than articles. The metrics for determining this are configurable, but I’m guessing nearly everyone leaves it at the defaults. I felt that the page concept, just looking at content and not judging if it was better or worse was a simpler way to look at thousands of different wikis.

I really wish there were a Dash Docset for MediaWiki. The directions for creating docsets are pretty straightforward. It also strikes me that using pandoc to do wikitext to html you could convert existing help pages into HTML and make the Docset.

Maybe someone else will read this and think it is a great idea and do it.

Soundtrack for today is the Big Sur playlist Tammy and I creating on one of the most amazing days of the Summer of Love.

OmniFocus is not a bug tracker! Use bug trackers for issues. Don’t put them in OmniFocus, it clutters your GTD system with a lot of noise.

Ridiculously good Myrcenary Double IPA from Odell Brewing! Thanks Andy! 🍺

This is a guide for CTOs and other technology managers responsible for a software engineering organization. The purpose of this checklist is to help the CTO cover the areas of culture, technology and operations in their teams. It is presented in the form of a memo to direct reports.

I’ve got a ton of respect for Rajiv and anyone in a technology leadership role should read this whole article.

Gorgeous Minnesota summer evening.

Neighborhood Badminton. 🏸

Awesome, and true.

If you're too busy to have a weekly review, you really need to have a weekly review.

— John Arundel (@bitfield) May 23, 2014

Tried to get the new WikiApiary Celery bots live tonight but “daemonizing” celeryd got the best of me for tonight.

New Glarus’ Wisconsin Belgian Red is so good. 🍺

Want to live down the street from me? Nice S Mpls home for sale!