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More plants and their friends.

Local butterflies, bees, and birds.

I hosted an intern, and all they got was this bundle of links.

Counting events, or measuring state?

A cable box, and a napkin holder, made with OpenSCAD.

A red-shouldered hawk caught a snake.

Central and Prospect

Rolling your own, for better or worse.

A houseplant program for preparing photos.

A birding outing in Propspect Park.

How about some links that aren’t about computers?

Photos from the Ashland Nature Center.

Nikon Z50 II and a decent lens.

What if we tried something different?

Understanding and using an ESP32’s analog-to-digital converter, in Rust.

Fiction: “The Forest Has No Immediate Plans to Kill You”.

Continuous testing and continuous deployment in less than 100 lines of code.

Making a working (?)

Making laser-cut wall-mount keyboard shelves.

Soundtrack: Joy Kills Sorrow, “Working for the Devil”.

D&D probability distributions in your browser.

Gamifying test development: using in-editor coverage for rapid positive feedback.

About the physical design of my daylight clock.

I don’t know what to call my favorite form of wordplay.

The Ethical Compiler: about the fallacy of deriving “what ought to be” from “what is”, and the importance of expressing/capturing intention in the language.

Purpose Hannah Robertson on houseplant programs and bouquet programs.

The long version of a short code-review comment.

I serve this site through a combination of cloud and at-home infrastructure.

…a title, author, date, and canonical link.

Can you encode UTF-8 without branches?

Three papers from Onward!

Using imprecise numeric formats to render fractals.

Reflections on the warlock’s signature cantrip.

On “Safe” C++, in which C++ is not just a language, but a community, which is not safe for everyone.

About the electronics of my daylight clock.

Let’s get the downer done first: I Attended Google’s Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral.

About the software of my daylight clock.

I’ve built a clock with an illuminated daylight indicator along its edge.

Named Things, “about when you want to build a tool, and what everyone else wants you to build is a brand” Who has permission to know things?

What if my site generator “just” used HTML syntax?

On Mastodon: “friends don’t let friends use autoincrement keys”, recommending UUIDs for publicly-visible keys instead.

A new-for-me approach to sharing what I’ve been reading recently.

Recursion: me, on tracking and sharing recent reading.

Holding myself accountable for blogging, by accounting.

I made a yak-wool hoodie for a rubber duck, combining two programming idioms in one artifact.

Three tidbits on enabling dark mode for cceckman.com.

Useful material for learning computer engineering.

A creative coding project mimicking variegated yarn.

An introduction to mechanical keyboard terminology and choices.

Understanding an issue with CapsLock and Mod-Tap in the QMK keyboard firmware.