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TLDR # I don’t let LLMs write content.

I was traveling through the dark woods.

We can’t help it.

A toolbox is your collection of tools to solve a problem set.

A guide rail is the thing that keeps a tram or roller coaster on the right path.

When I was an amateur hiker I frequently thought to myself that I should be the one who walks in front of the pack.

I have a problem when it comes to data - I have too much of it.

So you’ve spent a long day hiking through the woods.

Most everything I’m about to say here is obvious to someone - but the sum of it is (hopefully) not obvious to everyone.

It was a pretty nice day, all things considered.

We often hear people talk about wanting to find their true selves, or to be their authentic self.

The esp32 is a small 32 bit realtime microcontroller with 160mhz of processing power, several megs of flash and last but not least, bluetooth and wifi that’s available for about $6 a pop and can be programmed using both the Arduino language and MicroPytho…

Photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash If you ever find yourself the victim of an internet scam, the first thing to realize is that it’s ok, and you are not the first nor last person to fall victim to a scam.

One day, Jules was a respectable married woman with her life in order and a well furnished NYC apartment that could of been featured in a Crate & Barrel magazine and the next day she was not.

I regularly use the crockpot for larger cuts of meat, and it’s fantastic for both pork and beef.

Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash So in case you haven’t read the news lately, apparently there’s a pandemic going on.

Photo by Anna Earl on Unsplash Moderating a community is more like gardening than it is like engineering.

The TS80 is a portable, somewhat finicky Chinese manufactured soldering iron which is powered over a USB-C port.

Photo by Dominic Romero on Unsplash Think of the most manipulative person you know.

Cover Photo by Devin Edwards on Unsplash We’re surrounded by binary choices in our world: the light switch is on or off, we can have a glass of wine or not.

Debate not fighting # All debates are arguments, not all arguments are debates.

Coming from the perspective of a Windows user, Linux may seem entirely alien under the surface.

So my office lamp is in an awkward location behind a sofa.

Hello again world!

I’m going to give a theory on why people tend to be afraid of failure, back it up with some anecdotal evidence and then give a recommendation on how you should react to failure in general.

There are several different strategies for versioning releases.

Spent the weekend at Pax which was amazing but came back to some disappointing news.

Everyone has read a blog post that starts with a grand claim such as “MyLatestDB is the fastest database ever!”

I was recently on a comic website and was struggling heavily with their poor UI layout that made navigating pages quite painful so I wrote a tiny tampermonkey script to add in WASD style navigation.

This blog isn’t all that interesting tech wise, but I wanted to take a moment to cover it for those with a passing interest.

So one of my big focuses in a lot of my projects is less about open sourcing my code (though that’s important) and more about open sourcing my underlying data.

Oh, why, hello there good sir and/or madam.