A Proper Workday Episode | Ep #7

Good morning, this is the Lone Dev SEMA Daily Podcast.

Thank you for tuning in, I'm Brett, your host.

It's Monday morning.

We are in the thick of the holiday season now.

I just dropped my middle son off to school

for that three-week period in between the days off,

that three-week period in between Thanksgiving

and Christmas break.

That period of time where you're stressing out

buying holiday gifts and whatnot,

and the fishing's not so great.

Yeah, that period of time.

Hello, we're in it.

We're in the thick of it.

Good morning.

It is another gloomy day here in Northern California

where I live.

It's been gloomy like this many days on end.

The sun hasn't peeked through this high fog

in many, many days, many, many days.

I think this week we're gonna get some sunlight.

We're gonna get a little bit of sun

peeking through that high fog,

and I just might take that as an opportunity

to go to the lake and catch me some carp.

But that's probably something you're not interested in.

What are you interested in?

Perhaps you're interested in the stock market.

Who are you?

This is a question I've asked many times.

In fact, it's only the second time,

but I've asked it in the previous episode.

I said, who are you?

And you didn't answer me.

But today I ask again, who are you?

In the next episode, perhaps, or the episode after,

I'm gonna create a landing page on my website on bretts.app.

That is my website, bretts.app.

I'm going to create a landing page on my website

that allows people to give me an anonymous message

because I just wanna know,

is there anybody actually listening to this thing?

And if you are, just give me a sign.

That will be my little experimental project

for this podcast that I'm doing here.

But anyway, I had absolutely nothing planned

for this episode.

I just wanted to give you a proper workday update.

Yeah, like I said, just dropped off the kid to school.

Heading home now.

Gonna go over my stock portfolio

and the usual stuff I do in the mornings

and think about the next project I'm gonna be building.

Like I said, I'm gonna create a landing page

where people can give me anonymous messages on my website,

and that's for this podcast here.

So I'm gonna be putting some more effort into this podcast.

I've been putting some development effort

into this thing.

Just so you know,

I'm actually putting some effort into this here podcast.

It's not just me pressing record and riffing.

I'm actually gonna try to make this

into something interesting,

but it does require feedback.

It does require some interaction from you folks

that are listening.

If there is anybody listening,

it does require a little bit of feedback from y'all.

So I want you to hit up that feedback page

I'm gonna be building soon,

and I'm gonna give you information about it

in future episodes.

Probably the one this afternoon.

So actually in this very podcast you're listening to,

you just might get the URL.

I've already decided what the URL's gonna be,

but I can't tell you yet

because I'm not 100% confident

that I'm gonna actually build it this afternoon

or finish it this afternoon.

So I'll let you know when it's actually done,

but there's a very good chance

in this very episode you're listening to right now

that I'm gonna let you know

what the URL to that feedback page is gonna be.

So that's that, my friends.

Like I said, gloomy day.

I'm on the road.

The leaves are finally turning here in Northern California.

It takes a long time for the oak trees

to finally drop their leaves.

Towards the end of the fall,

they kind of turn like this brown color,

and it isn't until like mid-December

where they've finally dropped all their leaves,

and that's when you know it's really wintertime.

The official start of winter is actually,

I think it's December 21st.

It's the winter solstice that's coming up, folks.

And that, that day,

that is the day right before Christmas.

That is the anti-crescendo.

Is that a word?

I think that's a word.

The anti-crescendo, crescendo.

The opposite of crescendo.

That is the anti-crescendo of the year.

I think it is a special time of year.

It's a magical.

Time of year.

And we're getting there, folks.

We're getting to the anti-crescendo.

All right.

Hopefully I didn't bore you to death this episode.

But, well, this isn't the end of the episode.

I'm gonna record an afternoon edition,

hopefully with the URL to my feedback page,

and I thank you for listening.

We're in the thick of the holiday season now, folks.

Hang in there.

Like I said, it's okay to listen to Christmas music now.

It's not weird.

Go ahead and do so.

Not that you need my permission or anything, but.

Yes, it is appropriate now like I like I covered in the previous podcast I covered

When it is indeed appropriate to play Christmas music and now's the time to do so. Yes. Thank you. Alright, peace out

Good day, this is the morning segment. Wait a second. Good day

This is the afternoon segment of the lone dev summit daily podcast

Welcome to it. I

mentioned this morning in the morning segment that I was gonna create a a

web page on my website where people can go and

leave their anonymous feedback I

Mentioned that this morning. Yes, I did and

In fact, I did indeed create that web page that web page is now available

Where anybody

Who knows the URL?

Can go there and give me anonymous feedback regarding the lone dev summit daily podcast

Where you can say whatever you want and I will talk about it on this here show

Don't don't confess to any crimes or anything

The only information I have on you is your IP address

So I wouldn't be able to really do anything with that information not that I'd want to

but anyway, don't like

Whatever. It's an anonymous web page, right? You can go there and post whatever the hell you want

I just want to know if there's anybody actually listening to this thing and

that's that's a way that I I've I

I

Figured out that maybe that's the only way I can get actual proof

I mean I can see that it's being downloaded

but is anybody actually listening and

So go to this URL

The URL is Brett's dot app

slash feedback

That's BRET dot app app slash feedback

and

You'll find a form there

where you can

Just you can optionally enter your name or you can just enter it in not an anonymous message

Is there anybody out there?

This is the test

anyway

If you are out there, thanks for listening. If you actually subscribe to this thing Wow, that's amazing

But thank you. Anyway, wow, that was a weird car

I am on my way to a department store a

relic of the past

Kohl's have you heard of Kohl's? It's a it's a department store here in the u.s

and I'm going there to return something because it's it's a place you can go to

Drop off your Amazon returns. I'm going there to drop something off

not that it's

Pertinent to this episode, but that's what I'm doing folks

And I wanted to talk a little bit about artificial intelligence

Because I use it all the time now, okay, so I used artificial intelligence to

Help me put together the feedback form

And it was really simple

If you can go there, you can see if you go there, you can see how it looks pretty nice and stuff

like the

Like the

The visuals are friendly

not bad, I mean wouldn't win any design awards or anything, but

It's nice and it's something that would have taken me a while to do

If you look under the hood, there's a lot of CSS and stuff behind the web page

Cascading style sheets for those who don't know what CSS means

Are you a developer?

Well, anyway AI helped me throw this thing together it was so easy and

The stuff they say about about AI is partially true. Yeah, it is taking over the development world

in a way

But you still have to hold its hand somewhat

It doesn't just do everything out of the box correctly the first time

For example when I was putting together this feedback form

There were some things I had to have it correct

Especially security related things

And I had to have a little bit of knowledge about this stuff in order to direct it in the right way

Direct it in the right way

So it's not 100% like foolproof

Where a non developer can go and create something like this without any

Knowledge. I mean they could they could get something that works

But the devil's in the details, right?

Like maybe they'd make it slightly insecure or somebody could guess the URL where I go and view the responses to this thing

Well, you could go ahead and try to guess the URL and if you did guess it you wouldn't be able to access it because

it's impossible and

also, I made a little web page for viewing the responses to this thing and that's also a

URL I won't that's not public obviously, but if someone happened to guess it

They wouldn't be able to view it because I put it behind a very strong password

that would take like

Longer than the heat death of the universe to brute force

So what I'm trying to tell you is that it's gonna be impossible for anybody to view the responses that you put up on my

anonymous feedback form

so if you have any fears that

I'm not thinking about this kind of stuff if you're the kind of person who does consider these things have no fear

Because I do think about this kind of stuff. I did work for a security software company for seven years of my career

So I am security minded

And that's that and that's where AI won't necessarily think of all the details

Well, I

guess my point is that AI is super helpful and

So a non-programmer can use it to get something working, but the devil's in the details

and

That's the point of today's

Afternoon update I reckon

Stock market update. Well, I was read today

I've been striving to outperform the market in my portfolio

But lately I've been struggling with that. I was doing fine for a while

With my goal of outperforming the market

But lately it's kind of gone the other way where the markets kind of starting to catch up to me. I'm still ahead

But the market is certainly catching up

Mostly because a lot of the stocks that I own that have been doing really well are starting to top out

are starting to

correct a little bit

so

And I'm still have a massive cash position

But what's what's really bad is on red days when the market is down and I I still I

Am down more than the market on the red days

I had a day like that today and that that's just really painful and it makes me feel like I'm just failing

At my goal of outperforming the market, but the truth is just that that happens sometimes obviously

You can't always outperform the market every day. It's you have to look at it over a long period of time

So anyway, just a little update on that little goal of mine who knows what's gonna happen there and

That's

the gist baby

I'm gonna get out of here and go into Kohl's and return this Amazon thing

Until next time friends peace out