Blind Not Dumb

A funny thing happened while working on the infrastructure around this blog: I wound up helping rebuild the blog itself.

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” - Archimedes Rules of Engagement In this post we will be talking about some of my thoughts and feelings around generative AI in 2026 and the ways in which it is…

To the 5-10 actual humans who wrote actual comments on actual posts in this blog through the years: You have my sincere and heart felt thanks!

Fair Warning I am a pragmatist.

Confession I have a guilty confession to make: The idea of trying to come up to speed with modern front end web development fills me with inchoate dread.

Pycon US 2025 WAS Amazing!

Introduction We all lie to ourselves all the time.

Intro One of the beautiful things about powerful tools is that they enable you to do easy things easily but also more complicated things as well.

The Internet is a Dangerous Place These Days (Introduction) In this day and age, you really are taking a risk if you’re not running some form of ad blocking.

Why Are We Here?

Introduction If you’re used to developing on *NIX systems, coming to Windows can be a bit of a shock.

Of Burn Out And Boiled Frogs I can’t speak for everyone, but as for my own experience, burn out can be tough to self diagnose because it happens slowly, by degrees.

Over the last few years I’ve been feeling like living exclusively in my Python programming happy place is something I can’t afford to do.

I’m switching the static site generator I ues for this blog from Pelican to Nikola.

Hi all!

Don’t Despair!

[06/08/2021 Update: Added a bit about Windows Terminal.

I was recently in an online discussion about whether or not technologists should use “managed services” like the one I work for.

Introduction It was the dawn of a new century in the tech world.

[caption id=“attachment_498” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”] A Musical Mind[/caption] A coworker at my previous job once said in response to my whining a bit about having just lost 700 songs from my digital music library “Let go of your music collection!…