I find PHP’s boolean casting rules strange and hard to remember. I know I’m not alone. To help myself out, and anyone else that happens to stumble upon it, I wrote a commented script that … Read more

Started reading: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro.

Finished reading: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro.

Started reading: Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen.

Read: Design Ethics by Mike Monteiro.

Read the short story The Sand Banks, 1861 by David Wright Faladé.

Read the short story Cicadia by David Gilbert.

Finished reading: The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe. Took me 2 days.

Started reading: The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe.

Finished reading: Kindred by Octavia Butler. What an incredible book. Took me 10 days.

Read the short story Asymmetry by Kendra Fortmeyer.

I did not finish reading Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke. I really liked it though. I leave out hope I’ll go back to it, but it took me almost 2 years to get to this point. I never went … Read more

Finished reading: The AWK Programming Language by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan & Peter J. Weinberger. Took me around two months and two weeks. This was really helpful to read even the first … Read more

Started reading: Kindred by Octavia Butler.

Read the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

New article: Actually Using the General Sibling Combinator: https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/actually-using-the-general-sibling-combinator/

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I&rsquo;ve vaguely known about CSS&rsquo;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 … Read more

Started reading: Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Y. Bhargava.

Didn’t finish reading: A Slave Girl’s Story by Kate Drumgoold. Gave up after one day and 30 pages.

Computer World featured Astoria Digital, the social justice tech group I volunteer with.https://www.computerworld.com/article/3567471/how-slack-airtable-and-open-source-software-connected-new-yorkers-during-the-pandemic.html: https://www.chrisdeluca.me/note/1595105910/

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Computer World featured Astoria Digital, the social justice tech group I volunteer with.

Read the short story Morning Child by Gardner Dozois.

Read the short story Yiwu by Lavie Tidhar.

Read the short story Singing on a Star by Ellen Klages.

Read the short story The Cell Phones by Karen E. Bender.