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How to prepare for this weekend’s HEATWAVE and SMOKE FROM CANADA?

My town has a Juneteenth celebration every year and the FB announcements about it always attract comments that are ignorant, such as “fake holiday!”

Do you prefer the command line over the mouse?

When I use VSCode I find it difficult to tell which tab is the active tab.

Movements need symbols.

I’ve decided to stop evaluating AI-based SRE tools.

TechCrunch’s article The rise of ‘micro’ apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them reminded me about something I’ve been wanting to say.

Since everyone is talking about Vince Gilligan’s new show Pluribus, let me share my Vince Gilligan’s story:

The archive is here: https://www.yesthatblog.com/NYCDEVOPS/index.html The first east-coast DevOps meetup was nycdevops.

Did you see that the U.S. is no longer funding the national security CVE program?

There are three AI-related links (URLs) that everyone should visit.

Mostly a “note to self”, but others may find it useful.

Free concerts to promote LGBT+ voting in New Jersey (Somerville, New Hope, Asbury Park)!

An article about a woman in our town from 1893.

Info about postcarding parties.

I’m writing this moments after hearing the Biden has dropped out.

Happy Juneteenth, folks!

A few weeks ago I used the golang tool deadcode to find and remove unreachable code from the DNSControl project.

I wasn’t going to buy the new Apple Vision Pro but I thought I’d look at the web site.

Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth dies aged 89.

I thought I’d share some info about our house.

Some thoughts…

tl;dr version: The job title “business development” is distasteful.

Goerge Mac (@george__mack) posted a list of rules and razors that he’s found useful.

Today we celebrate the birthday of computer scientist Erwin False, computer science, innovator, and collaborator with George Boole in the invention of what we now call Boolean Algebra.

I have 2 big announcements!

The Usenix LISA conference is no more.

You may have read Run Stable Diffusion on your M1 Mac’s GPU.

This is a “face-palm – why didn’t we think of this earlier?”

Facebook/Meta’s VR will fail.

A friend of mine dug up this Facebook post that I wrote in 2016.

Biden is actually doing an amazing job but he’s being humble.

Headline: Mayo Clinic fires 700 employees for knowingly bringing harmful biological substances to work.

One of the most cynical tactics of GOPers is to make public statements recommending bad advice for Democrats.

Here are my rules for using Cisco WebEx.

I have to blog this so that when people say “that can’t be true” I can point to this blog post.

I got sick and tired video conferences being delayed by audio problems.

Senator Cory Booker just did something awesome.

That’s Numberwang!

VMware’s WorkspaceOne has an annoying feature on macOS where every time it does an update you get a notification.

I keep hearing people misuse metaphors, or say them incorrectly.

What does “n.n.n.n.” do in Vim?

You’ve probably read about HBO’s ‘Integration Test’ Email.

Years ago a co-worker noticed something about our company’s disability policy.

I’m considering switching to Todoist.

I no longer fill out customer support surveys.

Do you WANT to get paid?

Looking for SRE’s with experience in the Microsoft stack!

This is my webpage for tracking teleco executives trying to ruin the internet.

Thanks to my MIL’s exhaustive genealogy research, I can now say with certainty that my house was built by Alexander Hamilton’s wife’s third cousin twice removed.