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I hope at least some of y’all are familiar with the W.C. Handy song “Yellow Dog Blues”; if not, there are links to a couple of performances at the Mississippi Blues Travellers page Where The Southern Cross The Dog – Moorhead,...
Even though I already have probably too many desks (my main work desk, a standing desk that has probably been improvised for far too long, and an occasional tactical take-over of our dining table), I spend around a third of my working...
Kanbanize Now!Or - how we kept running two week sprints while our robots shipped in two hours A confession before we startSomewhere right now, a team is holding a sprint planning session to decide what four agents will do over the next...
FOUL!, My first day, Fake it 'til you make it.
I feel like whenever I look into the library of the Famicom Disk System, I find a lot of games that are kind of interesting as curiosities, as well as the seedy underbelly of the 1980s Famicom boom. But in Meikyuu Jiin Dababa, I've...
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It’s been about 18 months since this site’s last design refresh, and I found a few hours this weekend to iterate again. This is far from perfect, but it’s let me tick off a few things I’ve wanted to do for a while: Rejig the home page to...
I’ve never been fortunate enough to have a room I can use solely as my study/office, so I’ve had to stick my desk wherever there’s a free spot. Here’s where I last had it at the old house, in the living room: When we moved to our...
I've been playing a lot of Sudden Strike 5, a WW2 real-time strategy game from Kite Games. I bought it somewhat on a whim — I am not going to pretend I am not often perusing the "WW2" or "tank combat" tags on Steam and this looked higher...
Read the full post at - The open web as gift economy Beautiful essay -> https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/ I got online in 1997, when I was in middle school. My earliest experiences online centered...
There is a strange kinship between extreme cold and unbearable heat. We usually associate introspection with winter: short days, closed windows, the instinct to retreat into ourselves. But relentless summer can produce the same effect....
So, what should I write about next on the blog? A question I often ask myself at the beginning of the month. The FIFA World Cup has been and gone, and the less said about FIFA, the better, but as the years roll by, it does look...
Second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients form their own area of study. This seems like a narrow class of equations, but it’s very important in applications. This class of equations seems like a...
Last year, I watched The War Room, the documentary following Bill Clinton's first campaign — a film I am remiss for having never written about, because it was captivating, satisfying, and illuminating. And whether for good reasons or...
The pricing gun should have been a dead technology years before it actually was. But state laws artificially kept it around as a shield against the scary barcode.Today in Tedium: Determining how much something costs shouldn’t be...