I’m thankful for great friends.
Really.
I think I have some of the best friends in the entire world.
NB: This is in response to: http://alexking.org/blog/2015/08/24/rememberances. Alex King passed away on 2015 September 27 after battling cancer for more than two and a half years. Alex was one of the original WordPress developers, and leaves a lasting legacy and impact on the WordPress community.1 Dear Caitlin, I met your dad at the 2009 WordPress…
On my latest flight from Seattle to Heathrow I took a stab at making a time lapse. We were scheduled to leave Seattle at 7:20pm1, so I was hoping capture the aurora borealis during the night portion of the flight since we would be flying at at a pretty high latitude, even dipping into the…
From whatilearnd.com: A lot of the lessons that were learned by others, I felt that I had already learned in the past couple years. But I did take some notes of little reminders of these lessons. I’ll share them here – mostly because I want to write them down. My main takeaways were these: authenticity.…
Problem: I have a checking account at Bank A and at Bank B, and I want to transfer money between the two. A bank-to-bank transfer takes three days and costs $5 per a transfer. There’s an option to setup an account through another interbank organization, but I really don’t want to sign up for yet…
For those that are curious, this is what I’ve been working on lately. I happened to be leaving work on Tuesday when N46IFT took off. I pulled the car over and she floated off towards Mount St. Helens as my eyes quickly looked over her body, stem to stern. Even in the distance I could…
Jeffrey Goldberg at Agilebits, who make 1Password, has a great primer on why law enforcement back doors are bad for security architecture. The entire article is worth a read, presents a solid yet easily understood technical discussion — but I think it really can be distilled down to this: From blog.agilebits.com: Just because something would…
I love learning about how TV shows are put together. This is a great, real-time look at how The Price Is Right is filmed.
From the documentation for Python’s distutils.version: StrictVersion Version numbering for anal retentives and software idealists. LooseVersion Version numbering for anarchists and software realists. Who ways programmers don’t have a sense of humor.