I feel like I now have a good understanding of Amazon Web Services. This means later today I’ll discover something that wrecks my understanding. But wow, with Terraform and AWS you can really simply build and deploy a pretty crazy set of servers. I’m even deploying docker-based apps.

I’ve occasionally been working at The Frontier in RTP during the week. We have a small office there and I’ve noticed I don’t like using my headphones when in there. So I picked up a UE Roll Bluetooth Speaker based on a Wirecutter recommendation. I’m really happy with it. It is small but heavy, feels durable, and sounds great.

I just finished a marathon of the 4th season of “House of Cards” on Netflix. I think the season was good but real life presidential elections seem so much more crazy.

Last night at NSCoder Night we were playing around with Dan Leehr’s new app Clone. It’s really a great 1.0. With this and Travis CI, I can now publish to this blog from my iPhone or iPad Pro by just committing to Github.

At tonight’s CocoaHeads, I did a small talk on using Server Side Swift and deploying it with Docker and Ansible. Everything was going fine until the Swift Web Framework I was using crashed. Turns out someone pushed a breaking change in the 30 minutes between my test run and my live demo. This is why you don’t do live demos and don’t rely on latest from a remote repository.

Apple posted videos from their Apple TV Tech Talks. I wanted this API so badly for a long time and have still done nothing with it. Maybe these videos will inspire me.

So I bought one of those “mattress in a box” mattresses. It arrives today and I’m super excited. I’ve been getting horrible sleep lately and I think our 15 year old spring mattress gets some of the blame. We reviewed a lot of different ones and ended up picking the Purple mattress. It had some great reviews and probably one of the funniest videos on YouTube.

I just open sourced the theme for this blog on Github. I think some of the things I do are not standard to Hugo, so I wrote some extensive documentation too. If you like this blog’s theme, check out internet-weblog on Github, https://github.com/jnjosh/internet-weblog.

After spending a month or so building an API in Go, I’m really liking the idea of server-side Swift. Go is nice, but I like the idea of an iOS app and the API it consumes in the same language. This was in today’s iOS Dev Weekly: Hello Server Side Swift.

I saw two movies last weekend, Deadpool and Zoolander 2. Both were not as funny as they should be. Deadpool was good but most of the funny things were spoiled in the trailers. Zoolander 2 was just disappointing.