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Double Dev

So I’ve been running off of a single MacBook Pro for over a year now but there are two problems with that setup.

Using a single machine requires me to carry the MacBook Pro between home and work every day. Not a huge problem, but if I am going to walk as often as I would like to, it could get more than a little annoying to continually haul a backpack with all of the trimmings up Center Street Hill. If I can eliminate the laptop, I can probably carry a smaller bag.

I also need to spend upwards of 10 to 15 minutes on each end getting the machine setup properly so that I can work. Once again, not a huge deal, but an annoyance. The constant plugging and unplugging on cables is a hassle I wish I did not have.

To try and work around this I spent the evening setting up a new user on my wife’s 2009 MacBook. The idea is to try using this machine as my dev machine while at home an keep the MacBook Pro at work during the main part of the week. The issue will be how well it works for recording our weekly episodes of This One Podcast (shameless self promotion there).

The good part is that web development doesn’t require a ton of computing power outside or compiling dependencies. So far, the MacBook hasn’t burst into flame, so I take that as a good sign.

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Instacast 2.0

My favorite podcast client for iOS just recently received an update to 2.0.

Instacast 2.0

I updated right away and also purchased the $1.99 Instacast Pro (as an in-app purchase) as well. I use it too often not to throw my support behind the developers.

Head on over to the App Store today and pick it up.

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About Star Wars

If you want to listen to hours-upon-hours of people talking about the Original Trilogy, then you owe it to yourself to listen to the following episodes of The Incomparable:

There are two podcast episodes for each movie and some truly excellent commentary on all of the films. My favorite two are definitely #67 and #68 where they cover The Empire Strikes Back (easily the best Star Wars film and just an excellent film in its own right), but you really should listen to all six of them, in order, to get the whole effect.

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Ag Reality

The Star Tribune recently ran an editorial by Susan Hogan titled When political rhetoric trumps child safety. Basically, she is upset about how corporate interests have killed proposed rules to protect children under 16 working as farmhands.

I’m not taking issue with the proposed rules here, but I am taking issue with where she perceives the problem coming from. Here is the problem paragraph for me:

But to abandon the entire safety reform effort because of public outcry from special-interest groups put political gain above children’s well-being, and that should never be the case.

Special interest groups? Those “special interest groups” are mainly family farms and farmers. Those are the people who were going to be hurt the most with these new rules and, rightly by my estimation, felt it as an overreach by the government.

If family farms are special interest groups, then every person is a special interest group. This is just ridiculous and a case of the person completely missing the point.

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Awkward Years

Please go and read “That’s Why You Don’t Have Any Friends” by Joe Peacock. One of the best reads on the web for quite some time.

I can relate to much of what he talked about and I would give the exact same advice to anyone who was dealing with the issues of not “fitting in” during the ridiculous and hyped teen or adolescent years.

Please read it and, like I am planning on doing, take to heart what Joe says because you never know when you are going to need to tell someone that you love those exact same words because they are “weird”.

But weird, is good.