When you want to call an API at runtime in an Astro component, you have to import it in a different spot!

Today marks a day for me. After days of manual labor and a lot of editing, I finally published all my notes in my Zettelkasten on my blog. You can find all of them here. It feels like it's opening years of work to the public. Although nobody will notice them, it's relieving to make them available for free to anyone....

Autumn is upon us, or is that tomorrow, and the little birds are here to eat our natural feeders. There are a lot of different flowers they can peck at, but this one sunflower seems to be the favourite. There are chickadees too, but I only saw one so far …

Time::Piece is my preferred perl module for handling dates. Here is how it can be used to convert between UTC and the local time, even for past dates which may have crossed the current daylight savings time status. Assumptions and Restrictions Date conversions can be confusing because there are a number of tools...

Someone online recently was quite disparaging of me working for Big Pharma which prompted me to write this explanation.

Even after using Emacs for 15 years there’s still so much I can learn. I probably should have already known this, but there’s a first time for everything. It’s rare that Emacs hangs. Exceedingly rare. Which is probably why I didn’t know how to deal with it. Today Emacs started hanging when trying to open files over...

I’ve been thinking lately of ways I could shave some grams off my new bike, especially around the wheels, but without spending too much money. I’m no weight weenie by any means—my kickstand attests to that—but I’m also not above reaching for some low-hanging fruit if I can. Enter TPU tubes. If tube manufacturers and...

Nicholas Rougeux made this wonderful archive of Metra train tickets from Chicago, and it reaches back more than 50 years. Nicholas just updated the gallery, making it easier to navigate and what not and so I’m embarrassed I’ve never seen this lovely thing before! I love the designs from back in the 70s like this one...