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I was born at the perfect time to pursue a career in full-stack software development. I grew up programming 8-bit computers, then learned Unix in college. I entered the workforce at the emergence of Windows for Workgroups and Linux, and I'll be retiring right about the time the AI's make me redundant. Also, the year Social Security goes broke.
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Months and months of planning by lots and lots of middle management can save literally hours of programming.
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Give a man a program, and you'll frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, and you'll frustrate him for a lifetime.
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I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
@xxclusionary, on Twitter -
I've put all of my skill points into arguing with blinking lights.
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But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a new piece of Apple gear, to lust after it, hath committed purchase of it already in his heart.
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Don't say you're easy on me; you're about as easy as a nuclear war.
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I sold the Renoir and the TV set; don't wanna be around when this gets out.
Duran Duran, The Reflex
Author Archives: David K.
How Can Sharing a Screenshot from the PS5 Be this Frustrating?
I’m GenX. I’ve been programming since I was 10. I’ve been programming professionally for 30 years now. I live with computers and software all day, every day. I am comfortable in macOS, Windows, and Linux. I want to share a … Continue reading
44 Years Later
The nostalgia is strong with this. I loved being able to make forms with the glyphs on the Vic-20 and Commodore 64. These keycaps have been “out of print” for a long time, but Signature Plastics is now making them … Continue reading
Anthem Sucks, Health Insurance Will Get Socialized, Water is Wet
Once again, Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield has denied me a prescription. It’s like the 4th time in the past couple of years. I spend $10,000/year on all the insurance I can get, while my company pays the other $20K of … Continue reading
Wonka review: Willy was never meant to be the hero – Polygon
As a prequel to the ’71 movie — and specifically not an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book, for rights reasons — Wonka uses a healthy serving of musical numbers to tell the tale of how and why its quirky chocolatier … Continue reading
Should Retired Ministers Get a Pension from the Church?
Twenty three years ago, I had a pension with Arvin. They got “bought” by Meritor. After a couple years, they sent out an email that basically said that the pension fund was “theirs” now, and they were under no obligation … Continue reading
SA Retro Keycaps, Ordered
After literally about 10 years of lusting after these, I finally pulled the trigger. I don’t know when they’ll get made and arrive, but I feel that they will have been worth the wait. But… ouch.
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records | WIRED
According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of … Continue reading
Why do people use VBA?
Why do people use VBA? In order to answer this question, we must first look at another question – who actually uses VBA in the first place? In 2021 I ran a poll on /r/vba where I asked redditors why … Continue reading
The Joy of Coding
I’m writing a program to read a large JSON file to insert tens of thousands of rows of data into a graph DB using PySpark, but the development loop still evokes the same joy and magic as when I was … Continue reading
Concerns over Cryptocurrency Mining and the Environment
When BitCoin prices were spiking a year ago, people concerned with such things started pointing out that the energy required to perform all the mining could power a small country, and lamented the implied acceleration of the destruction of the … Continue reading