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If you’re going to get offended by Christians, fine: choose something worth being offended about. “I’ll pray for your soul” isn’t one of them.

I wrote a post on Facebook a long time ago (years!) about the flaw not being in WHO you hate, but THAT you hate. This is me capturing a thought line on the subject for posterity (and for the Fediverse, because I haven’t inflicted myself enough on the Fediverse for my satisfaction yet, apparently.)

One of the most enjoyable things about being on social media – especially a “new social media” like Mastodon – is seeing all of the energy people represent for solving the problems they see.

It’s also one of the worst things about new environments, because people have a natural myopia in how they see problems that have solutions, and they tend to see their solution – something that works – as the solution.

Seriously: what did you expect? What did you want to happen? What outcome were you looking for? One of the things that always amused me about peoples’ reactions to Donald Trump were that they were so… catastrophic in nature. (My brother used a word the other day, “catastrophated,” and while that’s not a word, I [...]

I don’t like Twitter all that much. I find that I struggle massively to write in 250-character bites; I simply hate the idea of boiling my thought patterns down to such tiny blocks, and it’s just unpleasant to me. I don’t think reality is so simple that it can be compressed like that. But the [...]

I like this blog, honestly. But it’s very crufty by now, having had multiple generations of multiple plugins tied to multiple versions of Wordpress, and I’d love to clean it up.Anyone have any advice on migrating content from WordPress to a clean install of WordPress, such that I can add plugins carefully to create a [...]

I can’t believe it’s been a year since I posted anything to my blog. Someone said I should make a substack, and honestly, considering how great the Wordpress interface is for writing these days, that sounds like it might be a decent idea. Hm.

Went back out to the RAMS field today; week two, first as a provisional member. One of the leaders of the club helped me fly three times; I took a charged battery, but I only have one. They recharged it there. It took about fifteen to twenty minutes to recharge the battery each time, and [...]

I do a lot with messaging architectures, and because I work on embedded systems so much lately, my main broker protocol has been MQTT, used with Javascript. I learned something that surprised me this morning, even though it really shouldn’t have, given some thought. MQTT is a common protocol used in IoT. It stands for [...]