Christopher Himes

General # Applied to a few jobs.

Cephalopod math doesn’t look that different from normal math.

If only we hadn’t switched to the new inventory management system right before Christmas!

If you can optimize the work the forklifts are doing, maybe they would have time to spare to break through the wall.

Now that I have a template for these challenges things are going a bit faster.

Spent some time yesterday reviewing other people’s solutions to day 2 and I do not recommend my solution.

Some younger elf entered a bunch of silly product IDs and we have to identify them and total them up.

The elves have discovered project management and this bit hit a little close to home.

This recipe is a hit every time I make it.

General # Applied to a few jobs.

I have been thinking about this since it was announced that this year will have twelve challenges and I have decided to attempt them all.

Brief reply to indiewebify.me post to confirm it works.

I’ve been using IndieWebify.Me to get this site setup to post on the indieweb and send/receive comments via webmentions.

General # Applied to a few jobs.

Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

In a world that has been discussing “Abundance” we should really be talking about essentials and our shared humanity.

Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North.

Elphaba, a young woman ridiculed for her green skin, and Galinda, a popular girl, become friends at Shiz University in the Land of Oz.

I need to start writing more things down.

Yeah, so initially, I was frustrated with the layout of FreshRSS.

I have been thinking about replacing my name in the header navigation with a monagram now for a while.

General # Updated FreshRSS to have an extension to toggle the left navigation and my experience on desktop is much improved.

This is not a Bear blog but here is my submission for Bear Blog Carnival for November 2025.

Another great tool for a job search or really just using a computer in general is a text expander.

Just had the awful thought that there are people out there now applying for jobs without a password manager.

General # Drove our absentee ballots to city hall.

Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.

Expanding on the tag rework I updated the main tags page to present both an alphabetical and post count view.

I had previously written about this back in August but this site has since then had a toggle between light and dark mode in the footer.

Ingredients # 2 lb (3 – 4) raw potatoes (Idaho potatoes) 2 tbsp white vinegar 1 tbsp salt 1 quart canola/vegetable oil Preparation # Peel and slice the potatoes into ¼‑inch thick French‑fries using a serrated knife.

Applied to some jobs.

Looking through some other submissions for Weird Web October 2025 for the fifth week.

For the spooky prompt I wanted to have some music and some user initiated animations.

For the deprecated prompt I didn’t know what to do so I threw it into a search engine to see if the results would inspire me.

This site can seem a bit barren so I’ve been thinking about adding a way to link to other posts from within a post.

For the surprise prompt I wanted to do my version of an internet classic jumpscare.

Looking through some other submissions for Weird Web October 2025 for the fourth week.

For the tables prompt I wanted to recreate what my current site might have looked like back in the day.

For the spell prompt I knew almost immediately what I wanted to do.

For the texture prompt I immediately thought of a recent article I read about a “dinosaur mummy”.

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Applied to some jobs.

For the empty prompt I thought of space again.

For the counter prompt my first thought was a memory game so here is my version for the weird web october 2025 This is day 24 of #WeirdWebOctober2025.

For the style prompt I decided to let the visitor set the style.

Looking through some other submissions for Weird Web October 2025 for the third week.

Looking through some other submissions for Weird Web October 2025 for the second week.

For the memory prompt my first thought was a memory game so here is my version for the weird web october 2025 This is day 22 of #WeirdWebOctober2025.

Binary is considered to be such a universal language it was used to communicate how to play the golden records on the Voyager spacecraft.

I like how this one turned out.