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It has not been a great start. It, however, has been a busy one.

Don’t smoke (Stay quit!!)

Going strong! The urge to smoke still surfaces on occasion. I have, however, been able to avoid every time. I must admit that it gets easier, but it always take a bit of an effort.m

Say yes more often

Doing ok. I have caught myself a couple of times. Still needs work

Read a book a month

Failing miserably. Read about 5 pages. Currently reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. It is a very interesting book, but I have not been able to find time consistently. TV, netflix and youtube, usurps time away from other pursuits.

Write an app a month

Doing ok. I have managed to write a small app to collect links and text and store those into a database. The app is written in go and is called notedown. It’s a lot of fun to hack something together. I am struggling with user authentication and authorization. auth0 is a great service to get started with implementing a good system for any app. At the moment, I have managed to put together a very rough version that kinda works.

At the moment, the goal is to get parity with apps like instapaper or evernote. The eventual goal, is to make notedown provide automatic tagging and aggregation of links. For the next month, I will focus on getting this solution deployed with a simple gui that is cross-platform.

If you are interested in the idea, you can reach me on twitter, or chat at Gitter, or hack at it on github.

Blog once a week

Failing miserably. As this post illustrates, I have procrastinated all month long. I guess two posts a month is still better than none.

Originally published on shiv.me

*Update: Fixed link to original article*

The word “resolutions”, feels forced. It feels like a ritual declaration of intent, followed immediately by inaction, and eventually concession that it was all in jest. This year, I am going to have some goals.

• Don’t smoke
• Say yes more often
• Read a book a month
• Write an app a month
• Blog once a week¹.

Goals, feels more friendly, reachable, inviting almost.

Originally published on shiv.me

*Update: Fixed link to original article*

[1]: Managed to get one in for each week, albeit a resolutions posts in week 2!

Walking around Gastown, in search of food, starving — ahem, hungry, lead us to this place of smokey delights. Peckinpah, has a simple menu: meats, sides and others. As we discovered, with a menu like that very little can go wrong.

Behold, the best wings I’ve had in a long time! And wonderfully smoky, half a Cornish game hen.

Hushpuppies: Cornbread with cheese, deep fried. Need I say more? The sauce ! Ohh the aoili, honey and bourbon.

Squash, greens and some magic.

How much choice do we really need?