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You share your blog post on X, Facebook, Bluesky, etc and you know it will be presented so much better if it has an image. Sometimes it's easy. You blog about something that has a visual element and it's easy to use a diagram, a product...
Did you know that Concourse has full time developers working on it? And that development for it is supported by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, SAP, RamNode, and Pix4D? And that if you need commercial support you can reach out to the...
My latest Film Data Scientist video, this time looking at the numbers behind the age of directors.If you would like a slightly more… ahem… sensible reading of the data, you may want to check out my article from a few weeks ago, titled...
If you haven't heard about the Prairieland defendants, these are 9 protestors convicted for protesting at an ICE detention center in Texas. You can read about their protest, the grisly sentencing, and one protestor's conviction over...
As I’ve written before, these past couple years I’ve often felt like the last remaining person in either quantum computing or AI who lacked a stake in some startup company whose valuation is right now shooting into interstellar space. My...
Oh God, here we go again: Trump’s New Air Force One is a Sitting Duck: More specifically, it “lacks the defensive measures of the previous model,” which might be an issue when one has foolishly started an unnecessary war with an enemy...
Big thanks to James from Lakeside for this one! I recently got a comment on my reviews for my ‘poor sentence structure.’ Well, I write the way I speak (mispelling omitted of course). I used to try and flourish things a lot but I kind of...
It is frustrating to deal with people who lack any sort of curiosity. They go through life stumbling from one problem to another, without any inclination to know why the problem existed or how it ever got resolved. Naturally they have no...
Before we get to the subject(s) of this month’s blog, muchachos, I want to acknowledge an anniversary: This month marks twenty years—yes, twenty—of Uncle Rod’s AstroBlog. In that long-ago summer of 2006, did I have an inkling we’d still...
My book came out today. I finally get to write that sentence. Thanks to all on Bear who fight the fiction that metrics make creations matter. That metrics say what’s good, therefore who’s good. Bullshit. Every post here is an act of...
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a water leak in the basement which has pushed me out of my normal home office space (fortunately no books or computers were...
JSDoc has a @deprecated tag that you can use in TypeScript, too. Here’s an example.
“Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.” Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (Kelly and I saw it at the Old Globe yesterday) Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me | Book office hours...
Is there a rule somewhere that says that if half your workday is spent in meetings, you can’t be expected to produce a whole day’s work? Just makes sense, right? I’d go further and say, you can’t even do half a day of work after that....