For about the last week or two, my Apple Watch just eats battery. About every other day, battery burns for double or triple rate, then it's normal for a day or two, then again.

Turning on/off doesn't seem to fix. My guess is some app is going crazy trying to hit the network, but I'm not sure how to diagnose or fix…

The playwright Christopher Durang has died -- in college I directed a cheap production of Dentity Crisis, and watching people react to the audition materials was one of the great joys of my life.

Buttondown enabled comments a while back, and I just turned them on, you can go to any post at https://buttondown.email/noelrap/archive/ and add your own comment.

It's late, but my annual epic roundup of books I read last year is up at

https://noelrappin.com/blog/2024/04/big-book-post-2023/

Perhaps you will find something you will like?

The third post in what I guess is now a trilogy about Ruby method arguments is now up:

https://noelrappin.com/blog/2024/03/better-know-block-arguments/

It's also coming to newsletter subscribers in their inbox momentarily.

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Thanks!

I'm going to "yes, and" this and also say that if you get used to complexity, you can also become suspicious of simplicity, as in "That can’t possibly work…”
https://ruby.social/@konnorrogers/112095854177518413

A very useful skill to cultivate in software development is a radar that says "what I'm doing is getting too complicated, there's got to be a better way to do this.”