Case Duckworth
Case Duckworth
Case Duckworth
You have reached my personal website. This is where I put my thoughts and feelings: about life, art, &c. (I also have a professional site, if that's what you're looking for.) This is my personal sandbox: a garden, a toolshed, a home-cooked meal. Enjoy your stay!
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Kev Quirk writes about people who’ve published their salary history online, and worries how it might skew readers’ perceptions in a keeping-up-with-the-joneses type way. Their article reminds me of that instagram effect where, because...
Over in the #tildetown IRC we were discussing the dozen and its variations. Along with the traditional baker’s dozen, skalnik mentioned the long dozen and metric dozen. Here is a full listing of the dozens variations. Half-dozen: 6....
The venerable cp command is well-known to any Unixer. Whether you want to copy one file or a whole tree recursively, cp is always available and always ready to help. However, as with most things in life there is more than one way to cp...
I just came across the Done by Humans “movement,” which appears to similar to not by AI: both offer badges to display proudly on your human-made website after some kind of vetting process. I don’t understand the appeal of sites like...
My birthday is coming up, so I’ve been thinking about birthdays. For the past three years or so I’ve also had a “Casemas” holiday on my calendar for the third Wednesday of July, since I was born on the third Wednesday. I don’t remember...
The article you are currently reading has been written in a markup language of my own design, called JAMES. It’s a line-based language that borrows ideas from Gemtext (itself inspired partly from Gophermaps and Troff though it’s not a...
I don’t like talking about Nic Cage movies, because every time I do I get this nudge-nudge-wink-wink “yeah Cage is so great right?” thing where I know my conversation partner means no he’s actually not. Or they express their dislike and...
I like Colbert, even though I quit watching him around oh, 2012? Just lost the habit of tuning in the Report every night, then with what all happened in 2016 and beyond I just lost interest in pretty much anything news-shaped. Anyway, he...
I loved Lee Lai’s first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, so when I heard that her newest book had won a lot of awards I determined to keep my eye out for it at the library. I finally got it the other day, and it is really good. It’s about a...
Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster ~ Natalie Riess I read the first Space Battle Lunchtime years ago and thought it was cute. The second volume is just as much fun! It picks up directly after the cliff hanger ending of...
This is the third China Miéville novel I’ve read, behind The City and the City and Railsea. One thing I really like about Miéville’s work is that he manages to make every novel so different from the others, and all so very good....
My first web presence was in sixth grade on this website called the express page. It was one of those websites where you could make your own little html page, like an off-brand geocities I guess (I never used geocities). They had some...
I think that noa makes a great point about the nascent “choose European!” trend going on over there. While moving away from American hegemony is a necessary step (and not only in the tech or services realms), replacing one hegemon for...
Of course I found this in a Hacker News comment. Some background “AI tells” have been a thing for nearly as long as this heLLM-scape has, and they’re just about as bad as the actual machines they supposedly unearth. The whole problem...
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series is one...