Yesterday took us from Elk City, Oklahoma, to Jackson, Tennessee.
We traveled approximately 660 miles in about 10 hours. 🚙
Today we get back to Charlottesville, Virginia. Home. 🏡
Day Two Back: Gallup to Elk City
We pull into Gallup, New Mexico, at 10PM local time last night. Totally pooped out. 🥱
Today we’re off to Elk City, Oklahoma. Much shorter day. We’re only covering 563 miles. 🚙
It’s hard to believe it’s August 1. Even one day on the road makes me forget what day it is. 🤣
Will I be able to write Saturday Morning Coffee on the road? Guess we’ll find out. 😃
San Luis Obispo
Yesterday Bug and I visited San Luis Obispo, California, one of the many places our family has lived over the years. It’s a beautiful little town on the Central Coast. It’s not what most people think of when they think of the California coastline. That’s usually reserved for Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco.
We stopped to walk around Higuera street and have lunch at Firestone Grill. If you’re ever in San Luis Obispo, stop by for a meal, you’ll enjoy it.
Bug got the tri-tip sandwich and I got a tri-tip Cobb. We split a basket of half fries, half onion rings.
Needless to say it was a fantastic lunch. 🤤
We start our journey back home today.
Today’s leg takes us from Avila Beach, California to Gallup, New Mexico.
Looks like 811 miles with an estimated time of around 12 hours. 🚙
It will, of course, take longer. 😃
Day Four: Gallup to Fresno
Day Four.
We left Gallup, New Mexico at 6:30AM local time outbound to Fresno, California. We arrived in Fresno at 6:30PM local time. It works out to 13 hours becuase we had a shift in time from the Central time zone (CST) to Pacific (PST).
We covered 783 miles or 1260 kilometers. I’m happy to be out of the car.
I’ve had trouble sleeping on this trip for some reason. Last night I slept like a baby. I woke up at 5:30AM on my own, no alarm needed, which was nice.
While we’re here I’m trying to stay as close to Eastern time as possible so I can work with my co-workers on their time.
The nice thing about that is I’m off earlier because of the three hour time difference.
Today is a long one.
Gallop, New Mexico to Fresno, California.
Estimated 11 hours, 775 miles or 1,247 kilometers.
Day three, check. ✅
We blew out of Elk City, Oklahoma at 6AM and arrived in Gallup, New Mexico, at 3:15PM local time.
We covered 563 miles or 862 kilometers.
Tomorrow is another long drive. More in the morning.
Today we head to Gallup, New Mexico. I love the desert. Still tired. 😂
Day Two: Forrest City to Elk City
Day two in the books.
We arrived in Elk City, Oklahoma at 5PM local time, Saturday. It was a much shorter drive, we only covered 532 miles or 856 kilometers.
Being tired is kind of the norm on roadtrips for us but it feels really great to have a shorter day.
Today’s leg of the trip takes us from Forrest City, Arkansas, to Elk City, Oklahoma.
Short jaunt.
Day One: Charlottesville to Forrest City
Day one in the books.
We pulled into Forrest City, Arkansas, at 8:30PM CST, so it was 9:30 in Charlottesville.
That comes to 14.5 hours of driving, including breaks for gas, food, and other things. Approximately 718 miles, or 1,155 kilometers.
We’re both pooped out. This is the longest day of the trip. Tomorrow will be quite a bit shorter but still productive.
Good night.
Our youngest daughter and I are headed out on our drive cross country to California.
Today we go from Charlottesville, Virginia to Forest City, Arkansas.
Total estimated time: 12h 2m
I’m in the Durham WillowTree office for a few days for our WWDC get together for all our iOS Devs.
Should be fun!
The food will be simple but it’s the view we’re here for. That and the walk on the beach afterward.
Back in West Virginia. 🚙
Sacked out.
Had our coffee, got Ms. Cocoa loaded up, and started down the road. We’ve just crossed into Indiana. 🚙
We’re in Nashville, no not that one, the one in Illinois. We’ve picked up our new pup, Cocoa, and head back home tomorrow. Kolby is gonna hate us for a while but he’s a sweet boy and will teach her the ropes. 🐶🚙
Hello Kentucky 🚙
Hello West Virginia 🚙
Saturday Morning Coffee
The week has come to an end. Grandma, the final of the grandparents, was laid to rest Wednesday, December 7. She had a very full 96 years. We miss you already, Grandma.
Now we head home. Bug — our daughter Taylor — and I are at Fresno-Yosemite International waiting for our plane to San Francisco. Sipping my quad-grande-vanilla-mocha and typing away on my iPhone. Coffee is good. ☕️
When Swift began life as an open source project, we wanted to open not just the language itself, but the ecosystem around it. Foundation has been instrumental in the success of decades of software and has been an integral part of the Swift developer experience from the beginning, and we knew it had to be included in the open source offering.
This is really nice to see. Apple does have a history of open source projects.
Swift is an amazing language and I’d love to see it spread to all operating systems. To write shared code for Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android, and have it be a first class citizen would be incredible.
C and C++ are still great choices for that of course and we now have Rust, which becomes more tempting with each article I read about it.
In late November, Amazon began making what are expected to be the largest corporate staff cuts in its 28-year history, axing as many as 10,000 corporate employees, or about 3 percent of the company’s office staff.
It’s sad to see a company have to lay off so many people, especially around the holidays.
Good vibes to all those affected.
Over the last four years, we’ve evolved Dart into a fast, portable, and modern language. Our next release, Dart 3, completes the journey to a fully sound null safe language.
Another interesting language getting safer by the day. This could be a really interesting cross platform choice for model, network, and data persistence code if it doesn’t rely on an interpreter. Even if it does it makes me go hmmmm. 🤔
Also, Dart Engineering folks, use Blogger instead of Medium. It is a Google property after all.
Recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal didn’t shake hands with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy, at a ceremony on Tuesday.
Good. Those assholes don’t deserve to be recognized by any of us. Support an insurrection and the man who instigated it and you don’t deserve any respect.
When a man got lost deep in the dark Alaskan wilderness, it was his iPhone’s satellite that saved him.
I’ll be darned. It worked! 🥳
Predictably, many Rust advocates (of which I am one) pointed out that this is exactly the kind of vulnerability that can be statically prevented by Rust, and is a clear example of where “Rewrite it in Rust” can have real benefits.
Speaking of Rust. We’re seeing a movement to Rust as a low level language. Even Microsoft is going to move to it for low level stuff. It would be really great to see it treated as a first class language by Apple and Microsoft in their respective IDE’s.
The Pentagon has given a tacit endorsement of Ukraine’s long-range attacks on targets inside Russia after President Putin’s multiple missile strikes against Kyiv’s critical infrastructure.
I like the idea of tactical strikes into Russian territory. After almost a year of defending themselves it’s nice to see Ukraine go on the offensive.
Putin has succeeded in making sure Ukraine becomes part of the United Nations. Nice job dude. 🤪
I have never had my social media account at any social media platform suspended. But it just happened at Mastodon, a place I have posted so few times that I can literally count them on a single hand.
I’d love to hear the other side of this story. Since Mastodon instances are not beholden to any one corporation they can make their own rules. It could’ve been as simple as the instance admin not liking Mr. Abramson’s work.
He could’ve found a different instance to participate in. It’s really easy to move and I know of at least two instances dedicated to journalism.
It would be nice to see Post federate with other services, Mastodon being the primary one. Post could still maintain their own unique identity and allow others to at least see headlines to paid articles. Just spitballing.
Nice work, Jack. Your buddy Elon has turned Twitter into 8Chan.
Elon is ruining Twitter.
Also, I’d love to see Mastodon support embedding cards in websites. Maybe it does and I don’t know how. That would be amazing.
Kim and Taylor had to take a little detour and visit Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo.
They’re having a great road trip! 🥳
