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I learned to program through online documentation and projects. I also read books but I don’t consider them pivotal to my programming or software engineering career. Some of the books I read are: Designing Data-Intensive Applications:...
I love journaling. I’ve been doing it, on and off, since middle school until now. First using pen and paper, then using journaling apps like Grid Diary, and recently, I made my own app to tailor it to my specific journaling needs.What...
I intended for this to be a post about the singer vocabulary.It is still that, but it is also a post about using GenAI to grab data from an image. I mean, you can use Excel to do the same thing, but GenAI is a lot easier.Here we go. It...
Galaxie 500 - Cabaret Metro, Chicago, Illinois, March 29, 1989 / The Lounge Ax, Chicago, Illinois, October 12, 1990It’s not quite the Fourth of July, but hey, let’s listen to “Fourth of July” by Galaxie 500. If there was ever an...
So today is Canada Day, July 1st, a celebration of all things Canadian and, every year since I moved here it usually rains on this day. Well, today may be an exception to the rule as the sun is doing it’s best to fight it’s way through...
Kim Philby was Britain's most damaging double agent, passing secrets to Moscow for nearly thirty years. Here's how he was finally caught, who he worked with, and what happened after he fled to Russia
The single most important habit in AI-assisted coding isn't a prompt; it's The post Git Is Undo for the AI (and Memory It Can Read Back) appeared first on Justin's IT Blog.
We all want to be funny. We all picture ourselves walking into a party and becoming the room's centre of gravity. Girls are dying to talk to us. Everyone wants a piece of the conversation. Even though it's an overwhelming thought, we'd...
We are gathered here today — no, wait, that's too morbid. Let me try again. Sony just scheduled a eulogy eighteen months out, filed it as a corporate blog post, and had a Senior Director sign it. January 2028: that's the date physical...
A moment from a brilliant sitcom called Such Brave Girls. Mum: Good morning! Time for work. Josie: I don’t think I’m up for it. I’m just not creatively fulfilled in retail. Mum: Josie, we’ve talked about this. Work isn’t about...
Thus far (see here and here), we have studied the first three passages in Adam Smith’s 79-page pamphlet: Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of...
Mary H.K. Choi’s debut novel, 2018’s Emergency Contact, opens with the particular and unrelenting embarrassment of a teen girl whose mother happens to be a MILF. Choi’s protagonist, Penny Lee, is just four days from heading off to...
The papers are burying the lede on the story of SCOTUS ruling in favor of birthright citizenship. The headline should not be that it survived, it should be that the ruling was 5-4 on the Constitutional question. In other words,...
"Bring the Noise" by Public Enemy Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What's a song you only listen to when you're completely alone? - Bring the Noise by Public Enemy No one in my house has any...
If you were to make a discovery feed bingo card, what do you think would fill up the squares? Some post that could basically be summarized in the sentence "lol, just blog, queen!"? Some post jacking off how great Bear is for the upteenth...