Things I'm thinking about lately Blackface This thing about blackface among Virginia political leaders is.. interesting and frustrating. Look: blackface is problematic. At some point, the culture matters, but it's always been about poking fun of African-American people - it's…
Category: programming
Things I'm thinking lately: Teamwork You can't want me to excel and then get in my way. Well, you can, but you... shouldn't. Date Formats Yes, I find I prefer year/month/day. It's inherently sortable. It's also really common in computing,…
Ah, new things and directions.... Someone on IRC this morning mentioned Volt.ws, a messaging client available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. It's really tiny. It's also missing a lot of functionality still, but it can connect to Slack... and it's…
Okay, I'm going to try the header format thing again, because it's something new and different (for me) in Wordpress' Medium-style editor. But here are the things I'm thinking about: The Super Bowl I tried to think of a cute…
Things I'm thinking and feeling: I really don't "blog" all that much. I record, I guess, and that's sort of a "web log," but I really don't expose much of my innermost feelings - it's like observations with a mirror…
Things that are crossing my path lately: Flit, in context of "Python Packages and You." Python packaging is not a strength of mine.I hate to say it, but the Democrats' rejection of Trump's offer to open negotiations about the government…
Things I'm learning about, on this day of verbs: "What metrics matter: A guide for open source projects" has a lot of good information. It's interesting.I get to buy a new Macbook charger today; my "old" one is giving out,…
Things I may have learned recently-ish: Painting pottery is fun. I'm not very good at it. I apparently also have a thing for beer steins... out of which I drink coffee, because beer isn't very good in my opinion. But…
Things I've learned recently: It's tempting to write expressions of moral outrage, like "Does anybody remember justice?", but then you remember that yes, most people do, but they'd rather reach for revenge or outrage instead. Justice takes too long. It's…
Things I've learned recently: If you really want to know if you have value, post something of questionable worth on the Internet. You'll immediately have a bunch of people correcting you. That's not to say you should post anything harmful…