Jim Kubicek

On Friday I dropped our oldest off at Two Sentinels Girl Scout Camp.

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A few weeks ago I had a chance to go winter camping in Yosemite.

A follow up to my last post, here’s how you flatten a list in prolog. % Base cases, empty lists match empty lists flatten([],[])

My solution is the simplified Zebra problem from this SWI-Prolog tutorial.

I’ve been getting occasional “your system has run out of application memory” since I upgraded to macOS Tahoe.

Stephanie is running an ultra in Wisconsin this weekend, I wanted to track her progress and give myself an idea of her pace and when I could expect her to complete the next segment.

I rented a car this weekend and I tried the Dodge Hornet.

I just added Umami tracking to the blog.

Last weekend was my birthday and I was able to get a last-minute backcountry pass for the Pohono Trail (starting at Glacier Point).

I took the Political Compass quiz.

The best action button setting I have so far is using it for TODO dictation.

Google has finally admitted that it tracks your search history, activities, the websites you visit and the services they use even in Incognito mode. – news.abplive.com I’m fairly technical and extremely online, so Google tracking me when I’m in incognito…

github.com/vanna-ai/vanna AI tools excel in areas where an exact answer isn’t necessary (“draw a picture of a unicorn”) or where it’s easy to verify the correctness of the answer (“write a python script to download and merge some log files”).

We’re spending the week at Kirkwood.

I just upgraded my work laptop from a 2019 Intel MacBook to a 2024 M2 MacBook.

First, I’ve written my first WordPress theme.

OK, maybe not fully back, but better than nothing?

Stephanie and I got matching Ember cups for Christmas.

Well, my last post was about how I have my whole deployment pipeline setup in Github, let’s see if I can use it from an iPad to publish a post.

Github actions allow me to implement continuous delivery for this blog.

This blog is a static site generated with Pelican.

Let’s say you’d like to create your own collection class.

I just finished writing a homebrew formula for a python script I wrote, I’m going to walk through how I did it.

It’s about time I took a look and saw how the other half lived.

Just a few weeks ago Waterfield Designs released their first pack, the Staad Backback.

I run into this frequently when doing big a big refactor.

We were getting a crash inside a button.

I add this to all my Rakefiles. task :default do system "rake --tasks" end It prints a list of Rake tasks when you run Rake without a command.

Like many people, I was thrilled when Parse announced their cloud code product.

I’ve been writing some Javascript using the default settings in Chocolat, tabs instead of spaces and each tab is equivalent to 2 spaces.

I’ve been running into an issue over the past few days where [objA isKindOfClass:[ClassA class]] is returning false when clearly objA is a kind of ClassA.

Sometimes I long for the day when I get to create an iOS app that just uses Apple’s default interface element.

This is my million dollar idea.

Big view controllers in big projects tend to accumulate a lot of private methods and properties.

A few months ago Matt Gemmell created a fantastic writeup on creating open-source components.

I exclusively use Apple’s iMessage for chat.

I’ve always used plain git push to update my remote repos and I’m finally getting tired of seeing this error every time: (master)> git push ...

I seem to run accross a lot of developers lazily loading their properties.

OK.