Blog by Jade Michael Thornton

Getting a RailDriver console recognized by Train Sim World 6 on Linux, running through Proton, takes a few steps that aren't obvious anywhere in one place.

This started as a final paper for a course on technology and ethics.

This is the second of three posts on the Dakota War of 1862.

This is the last of three posts on the Dakota War of 1862.

In the summer of 1862, a Dakota leader named Little Crow warned his people that war with the United States would destroy them.

I built an MCP server that gives AI assistants access to real-time US weather data.

I have a Tempest weather station and I quite love it.

I read Frank Slootman's Amp It Up recently, and it clarified my thinking about management philosophy, even though I landed somewhere different from where the book wanted to take me.

Some AI coding agents have started adding themselves as Co-Authored-By on git commits by default.

The path of Dodd Road (and Dodd Boulevard) through the southern Twin Cities metro.

In June of 1861, a steamboat3 carrying Minnesota's governor, political dignitaries and a group of white observers drew up at the Redwood Agency for what would become the last peaceful treaty payment to the Dakota people4 before betrayal, starvation, and vi

Org-roam is an Emacs package for non-hierarchical note-taking, and it does a brilliant job at organizing these thoughts but does not include automatic timestamping.

I've recently jumped on the not-so-new hotness of Consult, with its friends Vertico and Orderless, replacing the still strong but slightly slower Counsel, Ivy, Swiper and Flx.

A modest list of interesting blog posts I've come across containing tech mystery stories exploring how a bug or mistake or other problem came about, how it was discovered, how it was fixed, and maybe some lessons to learn.

At DroneDeploy, we've been experimenting with more and more AI tools like GitHub Copilot, but we're concerned about the security implications of incorporating complex generated code snippets into our production projects.

When it comes to Emacs packages, there are a few "must-have" selections that always appear on popular lists, from Magit to Helm and/or Ivy, and the necessity of the sane person: Evil.

I've recently been experimenting with replacing Projectile with the built-in project.el, and so far it has impressed me.

Chapter 26 is a short section of Uncle Bob Martin's classic, Clean Architecture.

Every once in a while, I need to deinit a Git submodule, but I just cannot get my brain to remember how, so here's my reminder: git submodule deinit -f path/to/submodule rm -rf .git/modules/path/to/submodule git rm -f path/to/submodule After those three c…

Occasionally, though I don't know or understand the cause, Steam fails to install and/or update some games and reports the error "Corrupt update files".

At FlightAware, we use Jira to track work and git for version control.

Working with TCL for a while, you have to come to terms with the fact that arrays and dicts aren't just different APIs.

Artisanal SSH socket remapping At FlightAware, my work is spread over multiple packages on multiple remote servers, all accessed by SSH.

I was talking about my TCL-writing days with a friend and they very helpfully pointed out that one of my claims here was backward and some of the examples could be clearer.

http-server has gone a while without a substantial release, despite issues and PR's coming in at full force.

Working with TCL at FlightAware, I've run into more than a few frustrating bugs in the standard library packages.

After a bit of work, I'm proud to introduce ClearNight Retro, a new dark, relaxed retro theme for Atom!

I've been mining Monero for a while now, and I use xmr-stak on most of my machines (except the ones using ARM).

A Tour of the Worm Donn Seeley Department of Computer Science University of Utah ABSTRACT On the evening of November 2, 1988, a self-replicating program was released upon the Internet (1) This program (a worm) invaded VAX and Sun-3 computers running versi…

From time to time, one comes to the issue of removing elements from an Array.

Two years ago, ES6 (retconned to ECMAScript 2015) provided a massive update to the existing and already powerful ECMAScript standard.

The id attribute is an often-used and useful HTML attribute.

For several dwindling reasons, DuckDuckGo can still be tricky to add to some services despite being the default search engine for several browsers.

I'm excited to announce the release of Vero, a simple and informative theme for Zsh.

Jade creates a simple website from scratch using the Bootstrap framework

It may be useful to have multiple source workbooks which can be individually updated and replaced, then combine them into a single combined workbook for actual use.

Email privacy has historically been less friendly than one might hope, with the most widespread technology being PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).

The standard QWERTY keyboard is great in a lot of ways and for a lot of uses.