cshark

To be a fly on the wall in the MacOS design meeting....

I hate MacOS. It's the most absurdly difficult operating system I've ever encountered. Easy to use, impossible to work with, or on. It's like Ubuntu, but done b...

Advice for using programming communities and groups on Facebook

This week has been an experience. I’ve been busy packing up, and moving for the job. With the holidays, I’ve also spent more time on Facebook. Maybe my use case...

Looks like I'm moving too. Exciting. Anyone wanna buy some stuff?

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You know how people tell you that you should never take internet advice?

I have to admit something, and it pains me to do it. I haven't spent a lot of time with Ruby over the last decade or so. So, naturally, it's a deficiency I'm aw...

There's this job I want at a major company. Got through the initial screen, and I have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the technical. Now I'm cramming Uncle Bob nonsense because they're obsessed with it. Wish me luck!

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Heaven help me, I'm installing visual studio for the first time this decade.

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Was telling a friend about D-Tube the other day. And he said, "That's not a weaner porn site, is it?" I must be slow. That possibility hadn't even occurred to me.

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Website: How many years of "Webmaster" experience do you have? Me: We don't use offensive language when describing ourselves.

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Finished TNG, now watching Voyager. Quite possible that Janeway is the most overacted space ship captain since Kirk.

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Finished Star Trek TNG, Started Voyager

So, some takeaways from TNG Everybody's a racist, even the aliens. Especially the aliens, actually. Human racism and misogyny is pretty constant. And single att...

Scheduling

Writing event calendars is always a fun and interesting exercise. I feel like every time I try it, the art has changed, and I'm playing catch up. It's also a gr...

Thinking about my grandfather

He was into some truly weird food. Things I've never been able to stomach like borscht and herring. I don't even know how he did it, but he could get macaroni t...

Some late night fun prototyping with php, mysql, and ipfs

I wanted to show off a little, and nobody is ever online on monday at 2am. So I made a video about some of the fun stuff I've been working on. Hope you enjoy. I...

My new least favorite word in the english language. Intuitive. Common usages, "This is great! Wish it could be a little more 'intuitive.'" There are certain words you should never use around coders if you value your safety. This is one of them.

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About this thing...

Something occurs to me about this thing I do for a living. See, you can fail without realizing it. A little piece here, a little piece there. Most of these fail...

Now watching Season 5 of Star Trek TNG, and I have this overwhelming desire to build a keyboard that shoots flames everytime I come across a Javascript error.

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What I do for fun on the weekends.

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Writing a course

So, I'm getting ready to start on a new project, where I create courses, teaching people how to write code. I know a number of languages, so it makes sense for ...

More thoughts on Star Trek: Stupid Maps

The way Star Trek sees the universe is interesting. Planets are basically countries, mostly with single world governments, and those countries think of territor...

Deploying php code with IPFS

So here's how you do it. 1. Compile your code into a phar, and set it to work with a configuration from the file system. 2. Add the phar to IPFS. 3. Write some ...