Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
quoting another reviewer: Between the World and Me is written as a letter/essay from Coates to his fifteen-year-old son, trying to come to terms with what it means to grow up as an African American...
View ArticleUsing datatables.js with Get()
It’s been a while since I’ve posted in the Software Development category, but here’s the solution to something that’s been a thorn in my team’s side for a few days. We’re working with datatables.js,...
View ArticleSearching Evernote
I use Evernote. A lot. I’d consider it to be a backup for my brain, except that often it’s more like the primary storage instead of backup. Recipes, lists of books, notes on projects, and much more...
View ArticleThe Women of Easter, 1916
Easter Rising, Enniscorthy 1916: writing about a revolution (Irish Times, 26 Mar 2016): Three writers remember three women – George O’Brien his grandaunt Greta Comerford, Roddy Doyle his grandaunt Una...
View ArticleEnabling FTP Server on Windows 10
Almost every article “out there” on setting up an FTP Server on Windows 10 starts with using the “Windows key + X keyboard shortcut to open the Power User control panel” – which doesn’t seem to...
View ArticleGetting highlighted text from the Amazon Kindle [update]
on October 25, 2011 I wrote a post on Getting highlighted text from the Amazon Kindle. Most of that still applies, but Amazon has changed several pages’ address and formatting. The info formerly at...
View ArticleDarktown, by Thomas Mullen
Atlanta Georgia, 1948 – quite a different city than we know today. Darktown is a historical novel telling the story of the first negro police officers here; men with what has always been a difficult...
View ArticleMost Wanted, by Rae Carson
Yay! Another new Star Wars book – this one in support of Solo: A Star Wars Story. That movie gave us some backstory to Han Solo; this novel gives us more and sheds light on the history between him and...
View Articlegrep, in PowerShell
Here is a sample of a PowerShell script that I use for finding text in files, having “grown up” with a more Unix-like syntax. I know, this isn’t exactly a clone of grep‘s functionality, but it gets me...
View ArticleNatural Born Heroes, by Christopher McDougall – Book of the Month Nov ’18
November’s #book recommendation, a true-life adventure, a detective story to uncover it, and more: “a story of remarkable athletic prowess: On the treacherous mountains of Crete, a motley band of World...
View ArticleThe Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal – Book of the Month Dec ’18
This time ’round, my Book Of The Month is actually two books: Mary Robinette Kowal‘s The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky. Dr. York, the protagonist here, is a smart, hard-working survivor of an...
View ArticleAtomic Habits, by James Clear – Book of the Month Jan ’19
Ah January — a time for setting goals and making resolutions to change. So many of us do it, yet by the end of the month so many of us have gone astray, reverting to our old ways. This month’s book is...
View ArticleMichael Vore
Michael “Mike” Vore, 80, of Columbia, Maryland, succumbed to cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital on February 11, 2020. He is survived by his son Steven (Hilary), Grandsons James (Tory) and Robert...
View ArticleWhen Chrome Auto-Updates
Using Selenium Webdriver or similar frameworks to “drive” a browser, usually for UI or end-to-end test automation, you may occasionally get this message: session not created: This version of...
View ArticleUsing Node.js with Docker
I’ve looked at a few times, but I never had much of a need in my workflow. Now though, I’m more interested – we’ve got a few microservices that need to be running for our main application. They each...
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