I've shared a lot of pictures of my apartment, but I haven't spent a whole lot of time talking about how automated this place is. I put a lot of work into automating it and thought I'd do a writeup. We're up to two HomePod Classics, four HomePod Minis, multiple Macs, and several dozen iPods.…
Today I'm going to share twenty years of context on the web. We'll talk about how the web evolved into what we have today, and why it makes building web applications so hard in 2021.…
The movie is the canonical version of Hamilton; a permanent time capsule of the show in its prime. Anything else is a new interpretation of the source material.…
Whats ES6? What about ESNext? TC39? ECMA? Transpilers? There's an entire ecosystem around shipping new-ish JavaScript to older browsers and how we decide what features get added to JavaScript in the first place. Let's dive in.…
The show was A Celebration of Cole Porter or 90 minutes of Harry Connick Jr performing the works of Cole Porter. Porter was a famous musician in the 30s and 40s and is most known for his works on broadway including Anything Goes.…
On December 2nd I saw the headline Woman Interrupts ‘Slave Play’ Q&A To Complain The Show Is ‘Racist Against White People’. Fortunately, I had tickets for December 3rd. Slave Play is intense, it's hard to watch, and no one can seem to agree if it "bluntly confronts the…
The Great Society primarily focuses on his interactions with the Civil Rights movement and entering Vietnam.…
This show was stupid, it was kitschy, it was quirky, it was fun. Don't get me wrong, this show was not a mastery of the art of musical theater, but it's great for what it is.…
Cyrano is a revival of a 1973 musical based on a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand, taking place in 1640s France. There's a love triangle involving Cyrano, Roxanne, and a dimwit third character. Honestly, it felt more like a Shakespeare knockoff than anything else.…
A Bright Room Called Day takes place in 1932-33 Berlin. It concerns a group of friends during the fall of the Weimar Republic. These friends are communists, and political activists.…