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The Find 🐟

While cleaning out the garage, I found my 9 wt. rod that I have had since the 1990s. I’ve mostly used this rod for fishing the fall bass blitz in Montauk and it has never seen any action in the Pacific Ocean. We moved to LA and it got stashed in the garage at some point during the unpacking and was neglected ever since. I needed to grease the ancient 30 year old reel I had and fix the drag adjustment spring on it and then I could hit the beach. I hadn’t really put much thought into fishing locally in Santa Monica until the pandemic. In California, we’re pretty spoiled with options. We could be looking at the snow capped Sierras 🏔️in the distance while fishing the Upper Owens OR heading out to Catalina and chasing yellowtails. During the pandemic, we started meeting friends at the beach on Mondays - late afternoon to evening. We’d all bring dinner and hang out until the sun set. It was a great thing to look forward to each week and a great way to feel gratitude for where we lived while tuning out the turmoil in the world.

Hackintosh goals 👇

Exploring my first hackintosh 🍎🖥️

My son is currently using an ancient 2014 Macbook Pro that has a 4th Gen Haswell Intel i5-4308U (2 core) @ 2.8 GHz processor and 8 paltry GB of RAM. We plug it into a Thunderbolt Display and mostly use it as a tethered desktop since the battery on it barely holds a charge. It has had the dreaded Service Battery indicator on it for the last year. I haven’t built a machine since Pentiums were a thing so I’ve been wanting to explore the hardware world again and with Apple transitioning to their own ARM based M1 silicon, the opportunity to build a hackintosh is dwindling. Time to dive in.

Oh 💩

There’s nothing more sad than looking at your blog and realizing you haven’t written anything in years. The second most sad thing is realizing you said you’d commit to writing more in 2020 only to find that it’s already mid-May 🤦‍♂️. I won’t dwell too much on my failure here. I’ll just say, rather publicly, that I’m going to write more and that I’ll spend less time worrying about how it looks and whether something should be a post on (insert social platform), tweet, tumblr (if that’s still a thing), or a blog entry ✍️. For simplicity sake, I’ll concentrate on being more consistent on the blog. Technical writing and note taking will probably still be in the form of a gist.

Motivation

Why start writing now? Well, honestly, if I don’t, it will never happen and recently I’ve had a few things I thought I’d be interested in writing about. As we enter into our 3rd month of staying home, I’ve been catching up with some old colleagues that I seem to have neglected longer than my blog. A common question that naturally comes up after a long period of no contact is

In Searls video “How to stop hating your tests”, Justin talks about 3 high level concepts with your tests - Structure, Isolation, and Feedback. The overall theme focuses on keeping the tests running quickly, easy to read and understand, and easy to change.