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After six and a half years of remote work, my employer has decided that we should all return to the office.

When the COVID 19 pandemic happened, my employer had a trial “work from home” day.

The vehemence and vitriol that AI brings out in some people is both surprising to me, and exhausting.

At the risk of being a curmudgeon, I need to rant about tipping with regard to carry out food orders.

Last night I checked off a concert box I thought I’d never get to see.

Sometime in the early 1980s I discovered the David Eddings books in the local bookstore.

I am probably not 100% neurotypical.

The WiFi icon in my menu bar has been gray for sometime now, regardless of signal strength or connection.

On July 20th I’ll be in Chicago to see the Rust “50 Something” tour.

There are two broad categories of music instruments: fixed intonation and variable intonation.

When you’ve got rid of all the mosques But the costs of life still rise and you’ve built your fortressed borders but the NHS still dies and the Muslims are all gone and your town’s a wall of white but corporate vultures are still pillaging every facet of…

Andy Weir’s “The Martian” was the first book I ever read twice in a row.

From right to left (at the moment, anyway) here are the things in my Menu Bar.

I watch a bunch YouTube channels.

For years I have thought that, if I were a teacher, I would allow the use of any source material the student desired, as long as it was attributed fully and correctly.

Jujutsu Version Control Recently I’ve been using Jujutsu or jj for version control.

Last November someone I follow on Mastodon posted about taking a week-long Rust programming course that used the Crafting Interpreters book as the project.

The Voyager spacecraft are incredible.

Several years ago I discovered Writing an Interpreter in Go and the sequel Writing a Compiler in Go, by Thorsten Ball.