After the State
Just as the old churches, once so central that it was impossible to imagine life without them (if one even thought to try), so the centralized nation-state will […]
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Coding my way to the perfect car, Part 2
In my previous post on this topic, I said that I was going to take one of the most humdrum and aggravating tasks a postmodern serf can do […]
More DetailsThe Great Introspection
The once in a century occurrence we are all going through can be horrendous; it can be frightening; it almost certainly will, at the very least, move our […]
More DetailsTechnical debt of the soul
Either rushing ahead on whatever path seems to lie open, or painful, stubborn resistance; both of these behaviors are symptoms of a life with no self-control, no self-guidance. […]
More DetailsHow to learn about a new database schema with hardly any guidance/documentation
So: A few weeks ago I was requested by my team lead to dive into a schema that had been set up to record user activity in a […]
More DetailsMaking sense of a new table of open data in your database
Let’s say we download a bunch of public domain data that we’re considering for use in a service we’re building. Like so much of the data grudgingly made […]
More DetailsModern political elections as trench warfare
Elections are like trench warfare between large powerful opponents. Heavily contested and lasting over many months, each side’s move is quickly countered, ending in stalemate and eventually a […]
More DetailsMicrosoft’s Remote Desktop Android app on a cheap Chromebook friendlier than RDP on Windows
For whatever reason, when using using Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Android app on my cheapo Chromebook to connect through the corporate firewall to my day-job computer, I experience significantly […]
More DetailsWindows update broke my printing (but my Chromebook saved my @$$)
About a year ago, after changing yet another swiftly-drained ink cartridge, I swore off HP forever and marched down to the store and got myself a Brother printer. […]
More DetailsThe time I freed myself (till the next time)
So it had been another jittery, monkey-minded day. I had dosed myself earlier on with some bread and cookies and it was now evening, and I was walking […]
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