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Thanks to a quick, gracious reply from the GIS Mapping team at County of Santa Clara – Registrar of Voters, I have a shapefile with the precincts for Santa Clara County.

Greg Kroah-Hartman, “Fellow at the Linux Foundation… responsible for the Linux kernel stable releases… maintainer of a variety of different kernel subsystems (USB, char/misc, tty/serial, driver core, staging, etc.)”, has a couple of interesting talks on t…

Download a copy of CPython’s source: % git clone https://github.com/python/cpython Where is zip implemented?

I enjoyed this article on Small Programming Tricks.

Today at a workday at the local school, one of the volunteers thinned the society garlic (Tulbaghia violacea) plantings.

I’ve been enjoying following along with Simon Willison as he plays with LLMs via his llm tool but haven’t tried it out yet.

I wanted to find the number of citations per year for a paper from my dad, at least per Google Scholar.

On a recent visit to Japan, I was amused to see some of what I’m pretty sure was Pittosporum tobira, aka Japanese cheesewood: Pittosporum tobira in Ibusuki, Japan Pittosporum tobira in Ibusuki, Japan I’ve written about it a couple of times before — Pittos…

I bought my mom a copy of Tim Harford’s “The Data Detective” and checked it out myself, meaning to re-read it in parallel with her.

I visited my parents in Iowa last week.

I’m starting to read “WordPress Plugin Development Cookbook – Third Edition”.

Dendromecon rigida has beautiful leaves.

We have a Google Drive folder with documents needing review.

This morning I heard a kid ask their mom, “What’s that flower?”

Here are some of the types of grass (family Poaceae) I’m trying to grow around our yard.

A fun book I finished Sunday: “C++ Brain Teasers” by Anders Schau Knatten.