A while ago, I started adding to my Basic programming section, with notes and sample code for various dialects that grabbed my attention, but didn't go far. I'm finally catching up these days with entries about FreeBasic and wwwBasic. They're just stubs right now, but I should have much more to add shortly, so stick...

August 21, 2023 re: Aviation - Flight to Friday Harbor, WA A friend, a toddler, and his mom joined me in an adventure to fly to Friday Harbor, WA (KFHR) last week. Friday Harbor is located on the San Juan Islands and just a few miles from the international border with Canada. The airstrip is a wonderful un-towered...

Is it possible to live without Google and the like, and still use modern, portable computing devices? I still don't know.

Another year, another county fair

The air already feels like summer is over and turning to fall, and with fall is the sunflowers. I'm really hoping to get at least one more beach and pool day in before its too late for this year, but the timing isn't working out very good. Either we have …

Recently, I walked through engineers in our team about how I take notes with Zettelkasten and P.A.R.A. note-taking methods. I also wanted to share here, without going into much detail, how I've been using both systems. Zettelkasten was born to build articles, books, or posts from the ground up. Whenever you come...

…it probably isn't going to have the impact people seem to be expecting… — Gary Marcus

In an August 15 tweet, @iamdevloper, a very funny programmer-humor account, asked which technology you wouldn’t bother to learn over again: JavaScript, Regex, Kubernetes, or PHP. Never mind the completely obvious answer (if you aren’t in operations at Google, you probably don’t need Kubernetes), I was blown away on...