Family Bike Ride
We have been trying to get a good family bike ride in each day on the weekends. It was a great day today and Tyler got to get his first ride on his new Weehoo. Tammy discovered the Weehoo really liked it. I’ve pulled the kids in the Chariot (now owned by Thule) as well as the Novara trailer bike. The Weehoo is heads and shoulders over both of them. The trailer bikes always feel like they are pulling my bike to one side. The Chariot was fine but the kids didn’t have a lot of fun.
The Weehoo is a wonderful mix:
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It is a recumbent design so the kid is safe, has a nice seat and a three-point harness.
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Because the kid rides low, the center of gravity is pretty low and it doesn’t tug on the bike.
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The way it attaches to the seat post is well done. It rotates easily and cannot come off.
Tyler loved it. About the only thing that I’m not very impressed with on the Weehoo are the pedal straps. They seem poorly designed and are a pain to get strapped together.
If your looking to go riding with your kid, even when they are still pretty little, give the Weehoo a serious look.
Bike the Border
I helped my Uncle Tim get a new website up and running for Bike the Border, a bike ride in North Dakota that he has started running. Another case where WordPress was able to deliver a really great CMS. In return, he set me up with this really nice jersey.
He’s going to be in the Twin Cities on July 4th and is going to join us for the Twin Cities Bicycling Club Watermelon Ride. We are going to be sporting our matching jerseys! Thanks Uncle Tim!
Tyler and I having our respective Sunday morning screen time.
The weather was absolutely perfect for a day at the Edina Art Fair!
Last Day of School 2014
Mazie was super excited to be done with school for the summer. We have a 4th grader in the house now! The whole neighborhood celebrated as kids ran all over to start the summer off right!
NASDAQ SPS Commerce Market Bell Ceremony
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.
Good morning espresso.
Fun morning with #TeamSPS opening the NASDAQ trading day!
Been up since 2 AM with son. Doing that “swish cold press coffee under your tongue” trick to get big jolts of caffeine.
House of Cards (Season 2)
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.
Why WikiApiary uses pages and not articles
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.
Wanted: Dash Docset for MediaWiki
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.
It’s Big Green Egg time! Waiting for Mike Rock to arrive before opening the Indeed Brewing.
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! 🍺
CTO = Culture. Technology. Operations.
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. 🏸
