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  • April 8, 2025

    Change

    We often solidify and even petrify our positions and thoughts, especially in the fields in which we are most experienced. We try to protect what is, because of the risk of what could or will be. Respectable elders are regarded because of their experience and ability to see past the immediate effects of a given

  • March 17, 2024

    const, let, and var. Why your linter is wrong.

    Tell me young padawan, have you ever needed to assign a variable inside an if block and realized “oh no! I can’t access this outside the block further down where I need it!”, then end up writing something like this? Of course, you tried to use const first like a good frontend dev, but realized,

  • March 14, 2024

    TypeScript React Beauty in the Eye of the Handler

    Compare these two TypeScript components with their handlers. One uses function composition to produce handlers with required inline type signatures because typescript cannot infer their usage, and the other just requires repeating the same line a couple of times. Which one do you prefer? Or And my personal preference here, while I love TypeScript, is

  • March 3, 2024

    Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs

    Roku Community Thread My TV today after switching off an airplay stream decided it’s no longer mine. I’m no longer allowed to use it. I either accept my several hundred dollar tech is unusable, or accept these egregious terms. I’ve always been a big fan of dumb TVs with an Apple TV plugged in. That

  • January 21, 2024

    Does a Flash Drive Weigh More Full?

    Hypothesis before research: Yes, as current is introduced into the flash drive the electrons from the external power source are stored in various configurations such that the total mass of the flash drive is increased, even if only by me (mass of an electron) times the number of electrons required to store final state. Deep

  • January 27, 2023

    D&D 5.1e SRD Published Under Creative Commons

    I am re-hosting a copy of it here because I’m so excited and it’s totally valid to do under the new license! https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons

  • November 12, 2022

    One Person Making a Difference

    Let’s imagine that you discover the largest contributor to soil and air pollution by a factor of 10 was actually tire wear shedding microrubber into the surrounding air and leeching into the ground. Society would need that to change. But how do you do it? This example is quite useful for the fact that it’s

  • June 15, 2022

    Implementing a Pipeline Operator in Ruby

    Many programming languages have the concept of a pipeline operator that looks a little like this |>. If you’re not familiar with them you’ll more than likely at least be familiar with the pipe | operator in bash for sending data between commands. There’s even a proposal to add the pipeline operator to JS. But I like writing Ruby.

  • December 20, 2021

    Getting Things Done in 15 Minutes

    I’ve got the book and have been using the GTD method for 2 years now, but this will get anyone started immediately. https://hamberg.no/gtd

  • December 19, 2021

    The Spoils of Society

    List of local injustices perpetrated by the US, its corporations, and institutions as I learn about them.