Writing T-SQL code is not my happy place.

I turned on autocorrect for “ok” on my wife’s phone. I do not regret this.

This is so true! This is the work God has called me to. — The Only Places on the Streets That Understand

Sunday I preached on the Holy Table we share with the saints across time and space. — www.marmanold.com/sermon/me…

At Arrington Vineyards and Rosemary has declared this her cookie rock. 😂

What monster selects the light theme?!?

A feminist tried to fail me out of divinity school. — Logs in the River of Discourse

Official Graduation pictures have arrived. 🎓

Salary alone is not sufficient to support developers. You must also provide them the tools they need: networking, VPN, workstation, needed access, etc. Development requires tools. If developers don’t have them, they’ll go to a place that does.

I can’t believe it’s May and the heat had to come on! ❄️ ⛄️

Lining up to walk!

Six years ago, I promised Bishop McKendree I’d remain faithful to the faith he established in Tennessee. I entered reunion with the English Church, but I survived VDS and remain faithful to the Good News of salvation through Christ for all.

So, it looks like I’ll be dropping Python for Scala here in the next month or so. What IDEs, tools, sites, etc. do y’all Scala folk recommend? #scala

I maybe went a little overboard on this month’s coffee order. ☕️

I’m going to need this in VS Code. So cool! • Visual Studio Container Tools Extensions (Preview) - Visual Studio Marketplace

Unsurprising. The Psalmist gives us lament and praise. Always a Psalm for an occasion or moment in life. • Sad Music Helps Depression

Mad props to Kafkian. It saved my bacon today after realizing the official Python client doesn’t support the topic record naming strategy for subjects. 🐍

How am I just now learning that Jonathan Edwards owned slaves? Seems like something that should have come up.

Scala is a contender, but it seems possibly too difficult for our very junior staff. Is Kotlin too new? Is Groovy a dying language?

Real talk. Kafka seems to want to force you on to the JVM get to the full API. What’s the least bad JVM language? Specifically, I don’t want Java dependency management or crazy verbose syntax.

So done! VDS Assignment list is empty and will forever remain so!

God willing, I just submitted my last academic assignment to VDS. Unless I royally borked this paper, I’m officially done with divinity school!

I preached a thing. — Easter Peace be With You ⛪️

Dollywood was incredibly crowded yesterday — two hours to get into the park! — but it was incredible to spend time with my parents, wife, and kids. 🦋

I’m not getting all the hate towards the NFL Draft. Like, I’m not a sportsball guy, but I do love tourism tax money building my greenways and parks.