As I've started to look at real estate, something in the back of my mind as a radio nerd is where I'd put a tower. In the course of doing some reading, I've learned a fair bit that I thought I'd try to summarize here. Beyond obvious stuff like height,…
A speech by Grace Hopper at Lake Forest College in 1982 contains this gem: “Always remember that it’s much easier to apologize than to get permission,” she said. “In this world of computers, the best thing to do is to do it.”Her point, of course, was about avoiding…
A friend and mentor once told me that it's almost always worth taking a moment to figure out the optimal way to do something in your IDE or editor, because the couple minutes it will take you will be amortized over the rest of the years you use the tool…
CircleCI's currently having a sad: % dig app.circleci.com ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> app.circleci.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10705 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0,…
wait, people use programming to SOLVE problems?!?! — Yoz Grahame (@yoz) March 11, 2021…
zefrank1 - An Invocation for BeginnersI'm extremely late to the party on this one, but this is ❤️. And someone else put together a transcript here.…
It's February 2021, and several of the commonly-used open torrent trackers have gone away. (RIP, Coppersurfer!) I spent a bit going through some lists and wrote a script to run scrape requests against them. I eliminated the ones that often failed to respond; some were unreliable and some just don't…
I've ended the week with a whole lot of tabs open. And I mean a lot. I might have a problem. Also, this laptop only has 16GB RAM. (Pretty graphs via iStatMenus)So here's a bunch of the "This is interesting, I want to read this later" stuff I've accumulated.…