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Oct 25, 2024: Nico Estévez has been named Head Coach of Austin FC. ⚽️ This is an underwhelming hire. I wish him well, and hope for the best. But I don’t think …
Jul 17, 2024: There are a lot of minimal, text-focused blog systems these days. A few I’ve looked at lately: bearblog pika omg.lol postcard My impression …
Jun 2, 2024: I made a post to Facebook for the first time in years, and now I’m enjoying hearing from people I haven’t talked to in a long time, and I …
Mar 25, 2023: ⚽️ Match day for Austin FC. Some fans are growing nervous at the 2-2 record to start the season, even though the team is only one point behind second …
Nov 6, 2022: I love a site that keeps their archives online and searchable. I searched for PowerTalk and found this Tidbits article from 1993.
Nov 5, 2022: Blogging and the Blank Page I’ve been blogging with Drummer lately, and I found it pretty great in some ways. I like the outline structure of the writing and of the …
Nov 4, 2022: I guess it should be no surprise that so much ActivityPub work seems to be happening right now.. I’ve been trying to grok mastodon lately, …
Nov 4, 2022: New plan: Export all my existing wordpress stuff to a static site and serve it on a new subdomain. Start fresh with Micro.blog. Moving content between …
Oct 13, 2022: Stopped reading: Inverting The Pyramid: The History of Soccer Tactics by Jonathan Wilson 📚 I knew this would be a heavy lift, and it was too much. The …
Oct 9, 2022: The Bergstrom Spur Trail will be approximately 6.5 miles bike and pedestrian trail from Vinson Drive to East Riverside Drive and US-183 in southeast …
Aug 16, 2022: Currently reading: Inverting The Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson 📚 I don’t know if I’ll finish this one, but it was at the library, so …
Aug 16, 2022: Finished reading: Devil in a Blue Dress: An Easy Rawlins Novel by Walter Mosley 📚
Aug 10, 2022: Currently reading: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley 📚
Aug 10, 2022: Finished reading: The Final Empire: Mistborn Book One by Brandon Sanderson 📚 A very easy read; almost a young adult book. And so many of the …
Jun 29, 2022: I love that Nolan Bushnell says his favorite Atari game is Tempest. I loved that game. I couldn’t get into Stargate–so many …
Jun 14, 2022: So many online reviewers think I’m buying clicky keyboard switches for the sound. I couldn’t care less about the sound. They just feel …
May 25, 2022: I saw Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 film, At Long Last Love last night. It was a huge flop in its time, on the order of Ishtar or Heaven’s …
May 17, 2022: Tonight we saw What’s Up Doc? in a theater full of people. It’s the best way to watch a comedy, and some 50 years after it was made, this …
May 15, 2022: The eclipse from an iPhone camera pointed at a telescope eyepiece.
May 12, 2022: It’s looking more and more likely that I’ll have to give up on Twitter completely.
May 10, 2022: Saw The Automat at AFS last night. I knew of automats, but I didn’t realize how grand they were. The floors and tables were white marble; the …
May 10, 2022: My play date arrived!
May 10, 2022: ACM members will no longer get access to O’Reilly’s Safari books after July 1. It was a good deal while it lasted. I’ll go back to …
Feb 11, 2022: Now that everything is crisp and retina-y on my new display, the custom scrollbar in Lightroom looks notably bad.
Feb 11, 2022: The new monitor came and the options are: A slightly too-large but sharp UI. A slightly too-small UI. I’m surprised how noticeable the sharper …
Feb 10, 2022: It looks like the remains of Spider House Cafe falls into good hands. Austin Chronicle: Brian Tweedy joins fellow Hotel Vegas owner Jason McNeely, …
Feb 10, 2022: Not a day goes by without an email from Instagram because some stranger is trying to reset my password.
Feb 10, 2022: Austin FC fans are freaking out because the team lost a preseason game. Chill. Preseason is more like practice–practice against game-quality …
Feb 10, 2022: I got out the Fuji X100s for the first time in a long. I had to relearn a few buttons to set it up, but dials and knobs are forever.
Feb 9, 2022: LG has a USB-C 4K display with USB-A ports for a dock-like experience (I still prefer wired keyboard and Ethernet). The problem is, if you use USB-C …
Feb 9, 2022: The state of monitors for the Mac is disappointing. I just ordered a 27" 4K display but I’m wondering if i should stick with a 2K monitor …
Feb 8, 2022: Felipe Martins signed to Austin FC. DC Unitied fans: So long Felipe! Best of luck! Every opponent everywere else: What an ***hole. ⚽️
Feb 8, 2022: Complete thought: There is nobody on microblog talking about Austin FC or even MLS. Maybe I’ll be that guy. ⚽️
Oct 10, 2021: I watched Spectre last night in preparation for tonight’s showing of No Time to Die. I had forgotten pretty much the whole move. Not bad, but …
Oct 1, 2021: “I would like to believe in God in order to thank him, but I just believe in Billy Wilder, so thank you, Mr. Wilder.” I remember this vividly from …
Sep 14, 2021: Sunrise
Sep 12, 2021: If you’re an Austinite who opposes TxDOT’s plan to demolish 140 homes and businesses to widen I-35 to 20 lanes, be sure to sign this …
Sep 4, 2021: 📽 I rewatched Midnight Run after a long time. It’s a formulaic dude buddy movie but it totally holds up.
Aug 24, 2021: 🎵I can’t believe it was 2006 when The Rolling Stones played Zilker park. 15 years ago! I’m old…
Aug 21, 2021: 📚I have a stack of unread Important and Impressive books, but I think I’m going to read a children’s book: Howl’s Moving Castle.
Aug 21, 2021: ⚽️It’s another Austin FC home match I’m going to miss because I don’t want to crowd into a stadium during a COVID surge.
Aug 21, 2021: I know it makes me a suburban cliché, but the gas-powered yard service is really putting an edge on my Saturday morning.
Aug 20, 2021: Set up cross posting between Twitter and micro.blog. I’ll be trying out micro.blog exclusively for a while.
Aug 19, 2021: Is Micro.blog better, or just smaller? I have two immediate reactions to micro.blog. The first is that it is a friendly and inviting. It feel less confrontational than the blue bird. It …
Aug 18, 2021: Ulysses’ greatest strength is its greatest weakness: the internal document database. Yes, it keeps documents together instead of littering my …
Aug 18, 2021: It’s match day for Austin FC. I’m not sure I want to stand in a crowd of 20K and scream for 90 minutes.
Aug 18, 2021: On the topic of writing tools, it looks like Ulysses supports micro.blog. As luck would have it, I cancelled my Ulysses subscription because I never …
Aug 18, 2021: I kind of want to write with BBEdit. I like micro.blog, and I appreciate that the backend is a static site, but it still requires blog tools, instead …
Aug 16, 2021: Monday morning! It’s going to be a great week!
Aug 15, 2021: We started out planning for a picnic at Waterloo Greenway, ended up spending a rainy day at the Crown.
Aug 15, 2021: I updated my micro.blog theme, and now the highlighting is somewhat better. I’m not a fan of the dark mode syntax on a light mode page, but …
Aug 15, 2021: Update: the next step is not screwing around with domain names. The next step is to write a bunch of stuff and see how it shakes out, how it feels. …
Aug 15, 2021: Syntax Highlighting in micro.blog I give micro.blog a C- on code formatting. The code block is monospace, but has no highlighting applied. The code block is wrapped in <pre> and …
Aug 15, 2021: I wonder how code formatting works? Here are a couple of samples: #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { for …
Aug 15, 2021: A post with a photo: the Austin FC supporters section. Note: not my photo. I’m in that crowd somewhere.
Aug 15, 2021: The next step for my micro blog is a custom domain. But do I add a micro.brokaw.org domain, or replace my Wordpress site currently at …
Aug 15, 2021: The new post seems to have overwritten my earlier posts. Luckily, they were just test posts from 2017.
Aug 15, 2021: Another Try at micro.blog I (re-)subscribed to a paid micro.blog acount. I got a couple of free trials for supporting the kickstarter, but it never clicked. I’m back to …
Jan 18, 2021: Happy MLK Day, 2021 Martin Luther King, in Letter from Brimingham Jail. …I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white …
Jan 9, 2021: Edgerouter X In the fall of 2020 I got Google Fiber. For about $5 more than I was already paying to my local cable company, I got 5x the speed. I remain skeptical …
Jan 4, 2021: Is Austin the Next Silicon Valley? By “next Silicon Valley, ” I mean a runaway housing affordability disaster that prices out all the diversity and creativity that we value …
Jan 2, 2021: Happy New Year 2021 “Good riddance” seems to be a common sentiment towards 2020, but I can’t complain too much. I have my health. I have food and place …
Nov 29, 2020: TxDOT's Plans on Interstate 35 Texas Department of Transportation Open House. Don’t forget to submit a comment. Towers.net, Widening I-35 to 20 Lanes in Downtown Austin is the …
Nov 23, 2020: Another Take on Austin's Proposition A Emma Freer wrote a good retrospective on Austin’s successful 2020 light rail election in Austonia: Unlike other races this election cycle, the …
Nov 23, 2020: The Long, Strange Trip to Austin’s Transit Victory In November 2020, Austin passed Proposition A, authorizing a $7.5 Billion transit expansion which includes rail. There have been various …
Nov 23, 2020: The Long, Strange Trip to Austin’s Transit Victory In November 2020, Austin passed Proposition A, authorizing a $7.5 Billion transit expansion which includes rail. There have been various …
Aug 26, 2020: Morgan Witt on Austin Land Use Candidate for Austin City Council Place 7, Morgan Witt, quoted in the Austin Monitor The reality is that when we talk about preserving neighborhoods …
May 16, 2020: iA Writer 5.5 Improves Wordpress Support iA Writer just updated to version 5.5. This looks like a significant update, with one big feature that affects me: better support for self-hosted …
Mar 26, 2020: Markdown for Technical Documentation It seems like this advice comes along periodically: Don’t use Markdown for technical documentation. Hillel Wayne is the most recent plea to hit …
Mar 23, 2020: Remote Cheese Tasting In the spirit of supporting our local business during the pandemic, we signed up for a cheese-tasing course with Antonelli’s. We picked up a …
Mar 23, 2020: Three Days, Three Rings One thing I noticed during these coronavirus work-at-home days is how absolutely sedentary I am when working from home. I’ve worked from home in …
Mar 22, 2020: WordPress Hosting While I’m on the topic of WordPress, I found a new hosting provider. I run a small family site. Even though it’s small, it has a lot of …
Mar 22, 2020: New Theme, Take One Well, here I am, with a new theme. I’m giving GeneratePress a whirl after discovering it on the WordPress subreddit. I want a pretty simple, …
Mar 22, 2020: Wordpress Theme Search Every so often I gather the strength and resolve to try to get a Wordpress theme that does what I want. I want it to: Not look terrible–mostly …
Dec 22, 2019: West Texas We went to West Texas in November. Turns out it was an ideal time to go: cool at night, and the midday sun was not strong enough to be miserable. We …
Jul 30, 2019: Austin Orange Line Workshop Depending on the map you look at, the Orange line is either a 21 mile route from Howard Lane to Slaughter Lane, or–if you ignore the parts …
Jul 7, 2019: Ulysses vs. iA Writer I’ve been looking for a serious writing program. Maybe serious isn’t the right word, because I use Vim and BBEdit, and those are nothing …
Jul 3, 2019: City Grid From the BBC: The Hidden Ways that Architecture Affects How You Feel. One thing that is guaranteed to make people feel negative about living in a …
Jun 17, 2019: The Traveller and the Sport I wanted a new fountain pen that would better fit my passport-sized Midori Traveller notebook. I’ve been using a Pilot Metropolitan and a …
Jun 16, 2019: Choose Me It’s common for a movie to have two-dimensional characters, poorly acted, placed in a riveting plot. The Star Wars comes to mind. It’s …
May 27, 2019: Merchant of Venice Sunday before Memorial Day was the last day of the Austin Shakespeare production at Zilker park. Here we are waiting for the play to start. [caption …
May 26, 2019: Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Today’s movie is Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. It a it is an updated, punk-rock version of a Frankie and Annette teen romp, just as the …
May 25, 2019: Return of the Secaucus 7 I saw Return of the Secaucus 7 as part of Richard Linklater’s Jewels in the Wasteland series at the Austin Film Society. This is often described …
Apr 21, 2019: Best Travel Promo Ever Oita City released a promotional travel video featuring a breakout performance by a monkey. Now I want to visit based on this video alone.
Apr 21, 2019: Post by BBEdit I’ve gone back and forth from static site generators, like Jekyll and Hugo, to hosted sites like Wordpress, which is the current platform. One …
Mar 10, 2019: Churchwood at SXSW One of the advantages of things like music festivals and SXSW is the chance that you’ll happen upon a band that you’ve never heard of …
Mar 9, 2019: Fixed Links I’ve been moving around from one hosting provider to another, and a lot of my links have grown stale. Links to my own content were broken …
Mar 9, 2019: Posting with Byword ByWord is another app I’ve tried for posting. It works well on a Mac, and it has support for posting to a self-hosted WordPress blog (publishing …
Mar 8, 2019: Posting Workflow This post was written in BBEdit and rendered from Markdown to HTML using a custom script. It’s still manual in that I have to copy and paste the …
Dec 11, 2018: The Big Hack Bloomberg published a big article last year about Chinese infiltration of American computer hardware. Reportedly, servers at Amazon and Apple were …
Dec 2, 2018: Vintage Folding Cameras A couple of folding cameras we inherited. The one on the right is an Agfa. I don’t know what the one on the left is. The lens is a Rodenstock. …
Nov 25, 2018: Riding Horses is More Dangerous than Riding Motorcycles Via the National Institute of Health, a 1991 study from the British Journal of Sports Medicine identified horse-riding is more dangerous than …
Sep 13, 2018: Configuration is the Root of All Evil From the fish shell design document: Every configuration option in a program is a place where the program is too stupid to figure out for itself what …
Sep 8, 2018: Scott Meyers Can No Longer Remember the Full Intricacies of C++ Scott meyeres is one of the foremost experts on C++. He recently had this to say regarding bug reports on the code in his books. I retired from …
Aug 18, 2018: Cutting the Cord We recently cancelled our cable TV. We’re an Apple household, so we get most our stuff from AppleTV apps now. In addition to the usual Netflix …
Aug 18, 2018: Lady Snowblood at Austin Film Society I’m in a period of Japanophilia. Recently the Austin Film Society showed all six installments of Lone Wolf and Cub, which were excellent. This …
Jul 21, 2018: New Blogging & Hosting Platform As everyone knows, the number one reason for poor craftsmanship is poor tools. To that end, I am addressing my poor blogging output by changing the …
Feb 19, 2018: WordPress Hosting Benchmarks If you’ve ever tried to research web hosting, you’re probably noticed the disreputable nature of hosting reviews. Most review sites are …
Feb 18, 2018: The Science Behind Police Shooting Bystanders Ready, Fire, Aim: The Science Behind Police Shooting Bystanders | TIME.com: According to a 2008 RAND Corporation study evaluating the New York Police …
Jan 30, 2018: Reports of Blogging's Death Jia Tolentino at the New Yorker laments that blogging is over: Blogging, that much-maligned pastime, is gradually but surely disappearing from the …
Jan 28, 2018: Is Swift Easy? Michael Tsai on Swift: I like Swift. But, having programmed in probably more than a dozen languages, I would not classify Swift as easy to learn. …
Dec 18, 2017: That Sinking Feeling – Talking Points Memo That Sinking Feeling – Talking Points Memo: I suspect [the trump team] now fear[s] (no doubt rightly) that Trump officials lied during their …
Dec 18, 2017: Paul Krugman says bitcoin is a bubble - Business Insider Paul Krugman says bitcoin is a bubble - Business Insider: There's been no demonstration yet that it actually is helpful in conducting economic …
Dec 15, 2017: How To Thank Black Women For Keeping Roy Moore Out of Office How To Thank Black Women For Keeping Roy Moore Out of Office: On Wednesday morning, the media erupted with calls of “Thank you!” to Black women for …
Dec 8, 2017: An Expert's View on Trump's Lies I study liars. I’ve never seen one like President Trump. In research beginning in the mid-1990s, when I was a professor at the University of Virginia, …
Dec 7, 2017: Repost.
Dec 6, 2017: 152 years ago today, the 13th ammendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in this country. (via Nikole Hannah-Jones)
Dec 5, 2017: Another attempt at the Grand Web Unification project, via Bridgy.
Dec 5, 2017: Byword Test This is a test from Byword
Dec 5, 2017: Where is Amazon’s Prime Video app for Apple TV? - The Verge Where is Amazon’s Prime Video app for Apple TV? - The Verge (Via Daring Fireball.)
Dec 5, 2017: MarsEdit Post A quick test to post from MarsEdit
Aug 16, 2017: Setting up my personal site for IndieWeb…
Jul 18, 2017: Twitter Harasses Ed Sheeran into Deleting His Account Ed Sheeran Deletes His Twitter Account After ‘Game of Thrones’ Cameo Gets Mixed Reaction While some people were delighted to spot music …
Jul 2, 2017: Movie: Funeral Parade of Roses If you saw David Lynch’s Mullholland Falls and thought, “too conventional,” then Funeral Parade of Roses is a film for you. …
Jun 30, 2017: After the Fox Last night’s move at the Austin Film Society: After the Fox. Peter Sellers plays a master criminal who stages a bogus movie production to …
Jun 12, 2017: Newt vs. Newt Via David Wright: Robert Mueller is superb choice to be special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media should now calm …
Jun 12, 2017: I don’t want to go back to Xcode 8.
May 29, 2017: Trump v Trump: Sources Remember, don't believe "sources said" by the VERY dishonest media. If they don't name the sources, the sources don't exist. …
Apr 5, 2017: VPN In light of how the Republican Congress sold the citizens privacy to the ISPs, here are a couple of reviews of VPN service. The Wirecutter: VPNs Are …
Jan 31, 2017: Bannon's Anticipated War David Kaiser in Time: During the 1990s, two amateur historians, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss, developed a new theory of American history in …
Jan 29, 2017: Travel Memories Trump Hotels tried to have a Twitter conversation about favorite travel memories. Twitter rose to the occasion. Here are a few of my favorite. At 18 …
Jan 29, 2017: History Calling Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…” You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done. — …
Jan 29, 2017: Helping ISIS Recruiters From a September, 2016 NY Times article on Anwar al-Awlaki, Al Qaeda recruiter: Today, with the war between Muslims and the West escalating,” …
Jan 29, 2017: Fake News Rundown Today an item scrolled by on my Facebook feed that alleges evidence of 800,000 illegal votes in the 2016 election. The source of the article was the …
Jan 23, 2017: Texas Women's March Round-up Texas Monthly round-up of Texas Women’s Marches: 50,000 marchers packed the streets in Austin; 22,000 gathered in Houston; as many as 9,000 in …
Jan 22, 2017: Women's March Austin A few photos from the Women’s March on Austin. [gallery size=“medium” ids=“338,339,343,342,341,354”]
Jan 16, 2017: MLK on White Moderates Excert from MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess …
Dec 31, 2016: Smart Quotes Via Daring Fireball, Glenn Fleishman’s Atlantic article on curly quotes: The trouble with being a former typesetter is that every day online is …
Dec 15, 2016: Memory Layout in Swift Mike Ash’s presentation on memory layout in Swift.
Dec 10, 2016: To Repeat: Medicare Isn’t Going “Bankrupt” From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Medicare’s Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund will remain solvent – that is, able to pay …
Dec 8, 2016: Super Mario Bros. Theme Performed Live Nintendo lengend Shigeru Miyamoto, inventor of Mario, performs "Super Mario Bros. Theme" with The Roots.
Dec 2, 2016: Cleaning Out Argument Labels The guys over at CleanCoders made a video series on the creation of an iOS app. While refractoring, they decided to remove keyword arguments. We also …
Dec 1, 2016: WSJ on Trump's Carrier Deal The Wall Street Journal editorial board critizies Trump’s Carrier deal, calling it a “shakedown:” A mercantilist Trump trade policy …
Dec 1, 2016: Secret Lambda Permissions This is the culmination of half a days work trying to figure out why my Lambda function didn’t fire: The console doesn’t support directly …
Dec 1, 2016: Election Percentages Courtesy David Frum: Nixon 1960: 49.55% Gore 2000: 48.38% Kerry 2004: 48.26% Ford 1976: 48.01% Romney 2012: 47.15% Trump 2016: 46.17%
Nov 30, 2016: Fair Elections I keep thinking about this tweet from Garry Kasparov: Saying that fair elections are rigged is as much a crime against democracy as saying that …
Nov 30, 2016: iTunes Visualizer I just realized the iTunes visualizer is still there. I remember Steve Jobs getting up and demonstrating this in a keynote. Does anybody still use …
Nov 23, 2016: The Case for Identity Politics There has been lots of ink spilled on the evils of identitly politics and how the Democrats have to embrace the color-blind notion of class. Here are …
Nov 21, 2016: Laborious Autoposting I spent the better part of the evening reading up on the Facebook Graph API and writing a tool that can do my auto-posting for me. Right now it only …
Nov 20, 2016: Trump Appointments and Transparency From the Center for Economic and Policy Research: The Senate can [demand transparency] by refusing to confirm any nominations until Trump takes the …
Nov 20, 2016: Entrepreneurs to Trump Entrepreneurs to Trump: Don’t take away our Obamacare (Warning: Obnoxious autoplay video on that page.) Before Obamacare, people were tied to …
Nov 20, 2016: Posting Links is Lame The last couple of posts I made went to Facebook as links back to my site. That is not how I meant things to go. I’m not trying to drive traffic …
Nov 20, 2016: Improve Your Writing with Flesch‑Kinkaid I came across this little bit of wisdom via Hacker News: There’s one trick that everybody who writes sales knows and nobody else seems to know. This …
Nov 20, 2016: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere I’ve been reading about IndieWeb and the goal of publishing on my own site and syndicating the content out, or POSSE. I’ve had a personal …
Nov 20, 2016: It's a Living This is one of my favorite SXSW photos. On the stage is a John Langord band that’s going bananas, but these guys are just working the sound …
Nov 20, 2016: No Age, FFF 2009 For some reason, this stood out tonight. No Age, back when Fun Fun Fun was at Waterloo Park. [caption id=“attachment_212” …
Nov 20, 2016: RealAle Overview Mmmm...beer... [caption id="attachment_208" align="alignnone" width="1024"] RealAle Brewery[/caption] A wide-angle view of the RealAle plant. You can …
Nov 20, 2016: Push to Cross
Nov 20, 2016: Look at All This Beer! Hans Pils, as far as the eye can see! [caption id=“attachment_189” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] Hans …
Nov 19, 2016: The Original Bernie Bro Hint: This Bernie is not named Sanders.
Nov 19, 2016: Bastille Day Jugglers Jugglers at the Bastille Day celebration at the Fench Legation.
Nov 19, 2016: Autoposter Experiment I set up an auto poster that will post content from my personal site to Facebook and Twitter. I’d like to make everything originate on my site …
Jun 16, 2016: Fisherman on Lake LBJ [caption id=“attachment_154” align=“aligncenter” width=“1024”] Fisherman on Lake LBJ[/caption] Rescued from the …
Jun 14, 2016: Genius Gin Tasting [caption id=“attachment_144” align=“aligncenter” width=“1024”] Charles from Genius Gin pours a tasting.[/caption]
Jun 13, 2016: Crucifictorious Reunion [caption id=“attachment_148” align=“aligncenter” width=“1024”] Grandma Saracen joins the Crucifictorious …
Jun 8, 2016: Griffin
Jun 1, 2016: Speed Limit 25
May 26, 2016:
Still Photography
I tried to work with the cloudy evening light and make photos that are flat and static.
Mar 4, 2016: Being a Snob is a Bad Thing Today’s example was a Verge article titled Oh my heavens, the British went and made a Top Gear for wine snobs, but i’ve been annoyed at …
Feb 29, 2016:
February Photography
Some photos from February. I delayed on January's photos because I wasn't sure I liked posting as a gallery. I still have problems with it, but I …
Feb 27, 2016:
January Photography
A few pictures from around the neighborhood. As promised, these aren't necessarily good, but they the best I could do in the time I had. Next time …
Feb 9, 2016: Choosing a VPS Hosting Provider I finally got my site up and running. I could have launched it a lot sooner, but I decided to take a detour in the realm of VPS providers. It makes …
Jan 27, 2016: Easy Network Scripting I just learned about nc and was so excited I had to write about it. From the man page: The nc (or netcat) utility is used for just about anything …
Jan 27, 2016: Better Wordpress Management through Fabric One of my goals in setting up a Wordpress site was to automate the deployment, configuration, and maintentance. More specifically, I wanted the …
Jan 25, 2016: Default Arguments in Swift Functions Default Parameters in Swift Its the little things that make my life as programmer easier. Like default parameters in Swift. From the The Swift …
Jan 22, 2016: Goals for this Site My goals this blog are to develop a habbit of publishing writing and photographs. The key thing to both these activities is to practice regularly and …
Jan 21, 2016: Version 0.1 In the world of semantic versioning, version 1.0.0 is the point where you’ve made a public commitment to a stable API. If links are the public API of …