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Jan 13, 2023
The Unfulfilled Engineer Disillusionment at Work
Nothing good comes from being insecure about your worth, especially at your job. That’s what today’s episode is about. That’s what today’s guest is here to discuss.
It’s a slow burn, but if you listen to the end, I think you will value yourself more professionally. My Guest is Don Mckay. Someone longtime listeners will undoubtedly know.
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Dec 24, 2022
Javascript Date Gotcha
I recently discovered that my weather site was displaying the monthly weather charts wrong, but only in Safari. The X axis was showing the dates out of order, “2022-12-1”, “2022-12-10”, “2022-12-11”….
Important to note here is the day in the first date is only a single digit, Firefox, and Chrome can parse it, Safari cannot. The format isn’t right, so correcting that fixed the problem.
The incorrect format was coming from the Postgres database, to convert and group the dates I was using
DATE_PART('day', time)which omits the leading 0. This was being concatenated with the year and month, not a great way to format dates, changing it toDATE_TRUNC('day' time)and stripping off the time in the UI fixed this problem. -
Dec 1, 2022
North Cape 4000
Yesterday I signed up for North Cape 4000.
A 4000km bike race from Turin to North Cape, which is the northern most location in Europe reachable by road, in 13 - 25 days. We’ll be travelling through Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
Its something I’ve been pre-occupied with for the best part of half a year. I’d be walking to work, cooking, or brushing my teeth, and thinking what it’d be like to cycle the routes. Planning my sleeping gear, looking for parts and components for my bike to make is suitable for the ride. And generally not focusing on what I probably should have been at the time.
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Nov 7, 2022
The Long Dark Teatime of the Audax Soul
Galashiels is always wet, thats the conclusion I’ve come too. The drive to Galashiels had not been wet, we managed to set up the bikes in the dry, but that was the last time we were dry.
This Audax had caught our attention because of the name, both of us are fans of Douglas Adams, and it was only 100km (ish) away. With controls in Eskdalemuir, Longtown, Eskdalemuir, and finally Galashiels again, we would be travaling through some beautiful scenary, and challenging ourselves with our first 200kms.
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Oct 26, 2022
Ride of the Valkaries
We started the ride late, having travelled 60 miles in the morning starting at 8 o’clock, to get to the start. The start was a McDonalds, we were 15 minutes past the start time, but luckily we were still able to start, instead of jumping on our bikes and rushing off we stood under the umbrellas for 5 minutes to wait out a down pour.
I’d cycled through the Scotish Borders this summer when doing the Coast and Casles route. But todays ride we were constantly surprised by the beauty of the scenary, and not just because the mist and rain hide it from use until we were on top of it.
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