So, I created a new Ruby Gem. I had an itch, and nothing else already existed to scratch it. Details in the rest of this post.

I’m finding that in my free time I’m spending more of my time working with Ruby as my language of choice. Maybe this is a bit dated; you could perhaps argue that Ruby already “peaked” and now we should all move onto the hottest new thing now that friendlier statically typed languages have come out like Golang, Rust, and Zig.

After many years, I have (finally) ported my posts from Blogspot to my static blog. Part of what took so many years was:

1. I assumed I needed to do something fancy to port them over.
2. My previous static blog engine (Frog) had a limited feature set, which meant that redirects of paths and whatnot was an exercise left to the user (i.e. me) and I never felt it justified the time investment to get create a workaround.

The answers to these two hold ups are:

If you couldn’t tell, the title of this post is a nod to “Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs”, a psychological theory about how we prioritize things as humans. This post isn’t about that theory whatsoever.

This particular hierarchy of needs has to do with prioritizing tasks to accomplish a goal. I am not the master goal setter in the world. I don’t claim to be some sort of planning guru. Far from it. But I have had a thought about a simple way to deal with task lists. It has all been inspired by conversation with my friend and colleague AJ and an article I read on Trello’s blog.