Reflections on a summer sabbatical
Summer’s end is creeping up on us. The heat and humidity make it seem like a point in the distant future, but it’s almost mid-August and
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Offline Wikipedia (and more!) with Kiwix
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ChatGPT isn't wrong...
Finding files with different extensions
In a previous blog post I wrote about using the find command to search a file
Unix bin directories
Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sb
The Jester
by: dialup (Nicholas Cloud), AO The Citadel, St. Charles MO (This article originally appeared in the March 27th edition of the
HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
I’ve watched a few BBC documentaries by Adam Curtis now, and I have a lot of resp
Goodbye Evernote
I’ve been a paying Evernote user for years; and before that, a “free” Evernote user for even longer. Evernote has some seriously powerful
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
This morning I finished reading Thomas Sowell’s book <a href="https://smile.ama
Scott Hanselman is Wrong
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Bye Bye Google Play Music
This is a post I uploaded to Facebook on March 9. In my quest to remove my personal data from google services and quit gi
import facepalm;
Sometimes bugs can be particularly evasive, and today I had such a one. A module in deep in our codebase was throwing an Err
Fun with Homebrew casks
One of my favorite utilities for OSX is Homebrew , a package manager that lets you easily install programs
Joker Movie Review
I finally watched Joker last night. It is dark. But the movie earns all of its praise. It really is an extremely well done film. E
Book Review - The Mythical Man-Month
The Mythical Man-Month is one of those books that is, well, mythical in the circles to which it pertains – that is, the software
Protip - return from exceptional conditions early
During a recent code interview, I noticed a React component with a render method written in the following (abbreviated) form, <figure
Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated? Hacker News
This post on Hacker News is worth the read, not only for OP’s <a href="https:
Destructuring Reconsidered
While working with React for the last five months, I’ve noticed that React developers make extensive use of object destructuring, especia
Book Review - How to Watch TV News by Neil Postman
My grandparents were religious about watching the evening news. On the occasions that we visited them I recall the family gathering in th