π§‘ Divorced nomad
After eight years of marriage and thirteen years together, my wife Laurie and I are getting divorced. I am, for now, without a home.
After eight years of marriage and thirteen years together, my wife Laurie and I are getting divorced. I am, for now, without a home.
In my notes, I found some fairly sparse thoughts on listening to Lita Ford’s solo career for the first time. I don’t know why I was listening to it, or what I had in mind when I was taking β¦
I did a little analysis of my Letterboxd watch list, to see if there were any interesting patterns.
Alamo Drafthouse put out a list of 100 movies theyβd want on a desert island back in 2020. Sourced from all their creative directors across the country. I thought it was an interesting place to find β¦
Twitter’s public implosion has redoubled my interest in blogging, and I’ve been posting more.
You may know that you can open man pages in a Neovim buffer with :Man
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However, you can also configure your shell to open manual pages in a
Neovim buffer when called from the command line.
I’m working on a short novel, which got me thinking about typesetting (naturally). There’s as many ways to style a book as there are a webpage [citation needed], but there’s rules β¦
There are plenty of fuzzy search solutions for Neovim, most notably Telescope, but sometimes you just want something fast and simple.
I’ve been trying to find a good workflow for drawing vector artwork that has the spontaneity and roughness of hand drawn images.
I entered a erotica fiction contest for the popular comedy podcast Double Threat, and I was lucky enough to have my submission given a superlative on the show. What follows is that submission. Content β¦
Another piece I wrote in collaboration with an A.I., this time, trying to create the most stereotypical Hallmark movie plot possible. I failed.
I had some trouble after upgrading GPGTools to version 2020.2 on macOS Big Sur, where it would ignore my Yubikey smart card and I couldn’t unlock my stuff.
I’ve been working on a graphing project for the Astoria Digital volunteer group in collaboration with Muckrock. The app will visualize data around New York’s 50a police disciplinary record β¦
I find PHP’s boolean casting rules strange and hard to remember. I know I’m not alone.
I did not finish reading Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke. I really liked it though. I leave out hope Iβll go back to it, but it took me almost 2 years to get to this point. I never went to β¦
Finished reading: The AWK Programming Language by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan & Peter J. Weinberger. Took me around two months and two weeks.
I’ve vaguely known about CSS’s general sibling combinator for a while, but I have never found a practical use case for it, until now. And let me tell you, the results are, get ready for β¦
A lot has changed in the world since I last posted.
I have been extremely lucky during this pandemic. I am still employed, I can work from home, and I have my wife to shelter with. I do not take these β¦
Finished reading: Learning to Program in C by Thomas Plum. It took me around six months. Below are my notes.
Finished reading: Javascript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani. It took me 133 days. Below are some notes. What Is a Pattern? ΒΆ Patterns donβt solve all design problems, nor do they replace good software β¦