Global Stocktake
De-carbonizing Fashion
Last week, even after Earth Day 2024 came and went, SOSV continued, like so many…
Happy Earth Day
Of course, everyone knows Earth Day is far more than one day. Like a birthday,…
Acumen
Hiding in Plain Site: My Little Pony and a New Theory on the Illuminati
What? It is the attention economy. An economy a truly advanced species should be well…
The Debby-cation Silver Lining
Nerding Out
Trekking Through Python’s “DLL Hell”: Versions, Packages, Virtual Environments
PYTHON DLL HELL On my local system (Ubuntu of some flavor), I had Python 2.7….
Overcome the Bitbucket Authentication Blues
TL;DR Although it was my fault, GitLab has been completely unhelpful getting me back into…
Finding Tomcat Version on Linux
OK, there are a bunch of different ways, but it depends how Tomcat was installed….
.NET Configuration File Madness
THE SETUP Pretend you want to open an app.config or web.config file. OK, normally, that…
My Weirdest, Benign COVID-Influenced Day
I have heard some crazy stories from people who have survived far more intense scenarios,…
The Code Cheese
I thought to myself, “This should be fairly straightforward.” And, in my defense, in the…
The Quest for Easy Project Management Apps
FOND MEMORIES OF ASTRID So there I was, half way through 2015 and thinking,”Dang, I…
Better secrets for Node.js apps? Meet Schluessel
TLDR Secrets. Encrypted. Easy to Use. Much fork. Much secret wow. https://github.com/Pik-9/schluessel About Secrets You…
Courting Fullpack Trickster in the US
That’s right, you heard me right. When my son told me Trickster had shut its…