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There really is nothing like live music. Second best thing to being there in-person is getting to watch the video of the live takes.Loving Cory Wong's and Joshua Redman's live recording of On A Random Tuesday: Live At The Blue Note...
I just got the notification from WordPress that today is the official anniversary of my blog launching — I’ve been doing this for 19 years now! I don’t have too much to say about it at the moment, as I’ll probably wait until next year...
nights are getting darker but somehow at times my heart is lighter the dream still here alive
As an 80s kid, I recently got a couple dice sets that spoke to my childhood. First up is this set from 1985 games: VHS tape style dice case Example of the d20 in this set I saw this set one or two years ago on the 1985 Games site. I put...
After switching computer and moving from my old laptop (which ran Windows at first, and later Linux) to a MacOS computer, my old mouse became incompatible. It worked very poorly. I didn’t know how to fix it.I read online that my mouse...
Take this code: path = "C:\477_data" If we run this with Python 3.11+ in development mode (to enable deprecation warnings), we will see: $ python3.11 -X dev example.py /.../example.py:1: DeprecationWarning: invalid octal escape sequence...
Trump is clearly the Manchurian Puppet for Putin, destroying US military capability for decades to come: www.rnz.co.nz/news/worl…
In Ruby on Rails, the software ecosystem I predominantly work in these days, yarn has been the default package manager for the javascript side of things for a long time. (See my big write-up of the timeline & current state of frontend...
The reality of the wildfires in South Birmingham is starting to sink in. Years ago there was a tweet (remember tweets?) saying: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer...
Hello, I haven't posted in forever because I've been busy or just surviving this heat. Back in July, I stumbled upon a post from someone, I don't remember their name, who said that they were using AI to write their posts. Don't worry, I...
The first time I encountered AI generated images was in the fall of 2022. I was in Rockford when my dad was in the hospital and my brother -n-law was sharing funny images on his phone (I'm pretty sure they were silly cats..lol..) and the...
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Here my previous post about encapsulation, the primary purpose of which is to argue for the importance of the concept. Here are some realistic, important violations of encapsulation: Using a system that requires the properties or...
Headed onto my roof before 5am (thank you, early sunrise) for a few minutes to catch this color.