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Developers have fallen on tough times, with steely-eyed AI snapping up their jobs at every turn.

Hi, hope you're good!

(Technically they're called properties, but everyone calls them variables because of the var(--mycolor) syntax -- and I'm a descriptivist not a prescriptivist, so I'm gonna call 'em variables too.)

In my various websites and web applications, I often need to store some things and later retrieve them.

Now that everyone else has to work from home let me share my tips from 5 happy years of this way of life: Get some exercise!

I use a plain text file to manage my daily todo items.

Well it's the roaring 20's at last and here's the blogpost where I look back on the annual output of a machine I call "me".

I challenged my twitter peeps: Challenge: you have a csv file and you need to import it into a new table in a database.

Unless you've been living under a rock like some disgusting sand-sneaking Seeker -- you're aware of the awesome sensation taking the gaming community by storm: Desert Skies.

A good friend asked me the other day, "Wait a second, what's nimble text?"

Inspired by a comment thread at hacker news I made this mini site: excel.secretgeek.net I often want to share Joel Spolsky's famous "You Suck at Excel" video tutorial with "important" business people inside the large enterprise where I spend a lot of time.

Some people invest in gold, others bitcoin.

Yesterday I was on a bus!

Even though I'm polite and I click yes to let all the websites keep their cookies on my machine, for their own devilish surveillance purposes, even though I say yes and there are no doubt a million cookies filled with details about me, knowing everything i