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How can a "Good God" send people to Hell?

This is another post that sat in my drafts for several years, originally intended as a reference for myself ahead of a small group meetup. I never published it because I didn't think I had a good reason to publish it publicly, but again, this is my blog

Is evil an illusion?

The following was intended to be my notes - which turned into more of a musing, or perhaps a rant - that I prepared ahead of a small group meetup several years ago. This has sat in my drafts since then, but I never published it because I didn't think

OSSU blog #8 - Calculus

It's been a while since my last OSSU post - about 14 months. During that time I started and finished single-variable calculus.

I put way too much effort into my system locale

tl;dr - I wanted to display date and time in a certain format. Couldn't do it. Built a custom locale file based on the English (Sweden) locale. Feeling cute, might change my preference again later. I recently installed Fedora Asahi Remix on my M2 Macbook Pro. The installation

OSSU blog #7 - PLC

👉 This is post #7 in a series I'm writing as I go through the OSSU curriculum. Read post #1 for the full background on why I'm doing this Programming Languages, Part C The last course in the Programming Languages course trilogy. I am going to

OSSU blog #6 - PLB

👉 This is post #6 in a series I'm writing as I go through the OSSU curriculum. Read post #1 for the full background on why I'm doing this Programming Languages, Part B Programming Languages Part A, Part B, and Part C are really one whole

OSSU blog #5 - PLA

This is the first blog post I've written about OSSU where I don't have to explain why I failed so miserably to meet my goals, and that...

OSSU blog #4

Where have I been? I last posted about OSSU on January 10th of this year. Almost four months ago. I wish I could say that in that time I was...

OSSU blog #3

👉 This is post #3 in a series I'm writing as I go through the OSSU curriculum. Read post #1 for the full background on why I'm doing this How to Code: Simple Data This course was next up after the math prerequisites. A large chunk

OSSU blog #2 - the math prerequisites

👉 This is post #2 in a series I'm writing as I go through the OSSU curriculum. Read post #1 if you want to know more about why I'm going through OSSU and blogging about it. I forgot a lot of math The first thing I

OSSU blog #1 - why and how

I recently committed myself to completing the OSSU computer science cirriculum . This post is the first in (what I hope to be) a series of blog posts that document my journey. This post will address what led me to OSSU, why I decided to document my experience in public, and

Populate fields that aren't in a Django ModelForm

Populate and save a model field that you don't want to include in the ModelForm

OneDrive and git - don't do it

I recently turned on OneDrive's "Known Folder Move" feature, which syncs your "known folders" ( Documents , Downloads , and Pictures ) to OneDrive. I had been keeping my git repositories in my Documents folder, which means they were now being synced to OneDrive. tl;dr - OneDrive'

Django template formatting in VSCode

I'm currently learning Django. Doing things in Visual Studio Code has been an awesome experience - except for one thing. Whenever I would save a template, some sort of autoformatting would happen and make my Django template tags look really undesirable. Here's an example (shoutout to the