I used to drive at night, a lot. Often, I'd put at IPad up on my dash with a movie playing, it's reflection off-center my field of vision in front of me. I could listen to the action and shift the focal length of my eyes to see the action at any time. It worked [...]
Outside the Cyrstal [ Chapter 1 ]
The monitoring relays alerted us that the caravan never arrived at the midway outpost. Michale went missing the same day the caravan left so it was almost certain he left on it. Since I worked in the Operations Center, I was privy to the fact that he wasn't registered on the journey. I was also [...]
Outside the Cyrstal [ Prologue ]
My story starts simple enough. I wanted to get out of town, run away. You'd think that would be a straightforward process. However, when I tried to register for the caravan heading to Canton, they told me I was too young. Fair enough, because that's probably true. Canton is nearly 30 statute miles aways, or [...]
How To Keep Running
Business or Life, it's all a marathon composed of literally running for your life until you meet your final resting place. "One foot in front of the other" is what they say. I was a runner once, and many people are not. What does it mean, to run a marathon? There's nothing like running. The [...]
2018 Resolutions – 12 Projects
I write in my blog approximately once a week. I try and pick one to publish once a month. I've got some that are personal (Why I Hate Veterans Day) and some that are semi-interesting (Why Features Hide Value). But for 2018, I'm going to work on 12 fun/learning projects that aim to bring value [...]
What Programmers Are Doing Wrong
Looking over usage stats of web developers and those who use the internet. It seems that OSX usage for writing software has been on the rise while end user usage of OSX has been on the decline, or staying stable, over the last few years. With almost 50% of all software developers using OSX and [...]
Signing Commits, SSH with Yubikey and Windows
I have a Yubikey and Windows 10 on a Macbook Pro. It turns out all the tutorials out there are either for OSX or Linux. There's some tidbits here and there for Windows users, but it took several hours of chasing down. Here's a little tutorial and some gotchas I ran into while getting it [...]
All the Crappy Javascript
Javascript. One of the idioms I love in Javascript land is being able to do this: https://gist.github.com/withinboredom/fb779c8b10cc89c9e69d6f3f4537bd90 And now something is the result of DefTrue() ... A lot of libraries (and people also tend to write functions like this too: https://gist.github.com/withinboredom/944d19cbfb8bddea1610e9b3173df387 The fact that these people (and I won't call them out) check to make sure the [...]
WordPress#
This past weekend, I had a bit of free time to try something I've always been curious about. What would it take to port the WP_Hook class from WordPress/PHP to C#? So, I did it. It took a few hours, at most. I even went so far as to port the unit tests. It looks [...]
Time Capsule (2005)
Sometimes life throws us a life-changing experience. It "wakes us up" from the routine that life can become. I once swore that I would never become complacent in life ... yet, here I am. Complacency is comfortable, it's easy, it's smart. It's coasting because you can, to make it to the next day. It's skipping [...]