Microblog

  • Went to get a Christmas Eve bloody with Kari and someone at the bar just tested out their bottle of mace. Now we’re all just chillin, randomly coughing with the doors wide open for airflow. posted 9 months ago - reply

  • CHRISTMAS BREAK BABAYYYYY posted 9 months ago - reply

  • Anyone still using RSS readers? If so, what are you using? What are you subscribing to? posted 9 months ago - 4 comments

  • Just listen to some Devin the Dude and chill out. posted 9 months ago - reply

  • “Missy Elliott is the original hawk tuah. Please.” - Kari Brooks right now posted 10 months ago - 1 comment

  • Trying to decide between the Big Doinks and the Comfy Pants. posted 10 months ago - 1 comment

  • Someone that I work with just said, “I have FOBI... Fear of being included.” posted 10 months ago - reply

  • It really grinds my gears that Sonos got rid of the last.fm integration. posted 10 months ago - reply

  • I removed nearly all the news and social media apps from my phone a month ago and wrote about it: derek.broox.com/blog...-detox posted 10 months ago - 2 comments

  • I listened to music on Spotify this year. posted 10 months ago - 1 comment

  • My website has been slow as shit. My DB, along with many of its definitions are literally 20 years old, so I revisited it. 95% of the issue was poorly defined indexes and a couple bad query patterns that haven't scaled with my data. Duh. So, remember to revisit your indexes every once in a while. posted 10 months ago - 3 comments

  • My neighbor is out here in a dumpy old snowplow, clearing the 1” dusting of snow off his driveway while blaring Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. #FirstSnowOfTheYear posted 10 months ago - reply

  • I’ve reached the age where I need a good session of stretching and foam rolling my back before bed. Feels pretty good tho. posted 10 months ago - 2 comments

  • I’ve been abusing my bod this holiday season and it’s barely begun. bodymelt.gif posted 10 months ago - reply

  • It’s remarkable how much better my mood is while driving in holiday traffic in a vehicle with adaptive cruise control. posted 10 months ago - reply

  • Getting to say that we’re skeetin on the skyline is reason enough to be on Bluesky, imo. posted 10 months ago - reply

  • I just spelled the word “crashed” like “crached” … and now I’m going to step away from my computer for a bit. posted 10 months ago - reply

  • My therapist pointed out that my self esteem is pretty directly tied to how productive I am… and I’ve been having a ton of productivity failures lately. Feels bad, man. posted 10 months ago - reply

  • I kinda regret choosing to build my website with Nuxt. I want to love it, but it’s just too easy to get into buggy states, hard to troubleshoot, and so many things that should be straight forward are not. posted 10 months ago - reply

  • We know too much about too many people. posted 10 months ago - 1 comment