Implicit Dot Computer
Perhaps Consider Hiring Me
2024-04-17Despite programming and/or doing some kind of computer stuff for... geez, literally the majority of my life, time just keeps ticking huh. Anyway, despite that, I don't have a lot of external signifier…
Lesser-Known Python Goodies
2024-04-16Python is famously an easy language to learn, but it's a hard language to really learn because there's so just much of it; Python's standard library has over 300 modules as of version 3.11! 1 Knowing…
Greenery My mental image of Texas was informed by this airtight syllogism: cowboys live in Texas; cowboys live in the desert; therefore Texas is desert. I did see some proper desert complete with cact…
The Cosmic Dance Goes On
2024-04-09For the 2017 solar eclipse, my house in Washington was within range for observing the transit. The amount of occlusion was something like 80%; that sounds like a lot on paper, but even 20% less sun is…
CSS Naked Day 2024
2024-04-09Another travel mini-post, but it's time-sensitive that I post something today in particular. Literally less than an hour ago at time of writing, I learned about CSS Naked Day from a Mastodon post and …
Mental Modes
2024-04-07Just a quick post today to avoid falling too far behind while I'm traveling. I'm in Austin, Texas right now, and it seems like a pretty chill place, but I haven't seen enough of it to write anything …
Earlier this year, I decided to replace my old and trusty Thinkpad E480, now getting pretty long in the tooth and having some trouble with all these newfangled web apps, with some newer hardware. I'd …
A Handy Pattern for Rust Errors
2024-03-29Here's a nifty pattern I use for making Rust error handling more ergonomic. Feel free to skip to the code at the end if you're already well versed in Rust error types. For everyone else, a quick prime…
You Can't Just Not Anglicise
2024-03-26There's a small park near where I live that was, until recently, called Numbnutz Park, named after the great [citation needed] community leader and semi-professional phrenologist Horatio Numbnutz 1. …
Hie to the Hinterlands
2024-03-22The Web is getting worse. I'm not going to enumerate examples of how the big digital platforms have gotten slower/more bloated/more invasive/generally less functional in the last 5-ish years, but I'm …
Shell Adventures: Compiling a Manpages Ebook
2024-03-21man pages are truly the best software documentation out there, with famously zero problems with formatting, content, or navigability. In fact, haven't we all at some point wished we could access the m…
A Dichotomy of Failed Superhero Media
2024-03-13Once upon a time, circa my middle school/high school days, I was pretty into comics, superhero comics especially. Superficially, I should be massively into the MCU/DCU/ICU/BTU/what have you. But I'm n…
I use Anki a lot. In a nutshell, it's a spaced repetition program that works almost eerily well for memorizing certain kinds of data. Lately I've been using it to help study for the CompTIA A+ certifi…
I recently saw two movies at the Noir City Film Festival. I won't get too spoiler-y in this post, but there's still a nonzero amount of spoilage below. If either of the spoiler-free plot overviews bel…
Three Demos from NextFest 02/2024
2024-03-01After a bit of a demoless dark age, game demos are back, baby! Well, in the indie space anyway; I don't think it's likely we'll get a free, curated, self-contained sample of the next Assassin's Creed…
We're so back
2024-02-26This site has gone through some changes since its inception nearly a year ago. It started as a Django site1, but before long I began to hear the whispers of the Dark Wizard. "Make your own site g…
Python has a specific feature (?) related to string literals that, while not undocumented, isn't too well known either. If you have two string literals that are separated only by whitespace, the inter…
Shave Your Head!
2023-06-21
In this post, I outline why I started keeping my head shaved and why, if you're a similar person to me in a few respects, you might benefit from doing the same. I close with some practical tips for the novice head shaver, and some pitfalls to watch out for
What's so great about being bald? The main benefit in my experience is the removal of the friction that comes from having hair. Not literal friction (although there's less of that too), I mean the sma…