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So the motorcycle-touring season has started, albeit a little late this year because of the COVID situation, and I’ve been avidly pursuing it. On Sunda…
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Jun 16CommentShare
Linus Torvalds’ reply to an anti-vaxxer on the Linux kernel list is a must-read. Pre-2018, Linus would have destroyed the poor chump. He’s discouraging…
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Jun 14CommentShare
When dealing with dictionaries, a typical problem is when an operation attempts to retrieve an element using a key that does not exist in the dictionar…
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Jun 11CommentShare
The idea behind this book is fascinating. As the subtitle suggests, the book collects stories of rebel mountaineers of all kinds. Some chose to disobey…
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Jun 5CommentShare
The article I’m linking today is authored by Aaron Stannard and focuses on the drama currently going on in the .NET Open Source ecosystem. We’ve all be…
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Jun 4CommentShare
Trade Wars 2002 was a great 1991 online game I hosted on one of my BBSes back in the day. Not sure if it was Lorien or Phoenix BBS; it might have been …
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May 29CommentShare
Pardon me while I’m venting out my frustration. I am so tired of Homebrew messing up with my stuff. It used to be the perfect tool for the right job un…
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May 26CommentShare
My brilliant friend Salvatore Sanfilippo (otherwise known as antirez of Redis fame) has an interesting write-up on his website. How similar is programm…
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May 25CommentShare
According to a famous and fortunate Homeric expression, words are winged, not so much like birds but rather like arrows, which cut the air quickly to g…
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May 15CommentShare
Flask 2.0 has just been released. Along with it come many other major satellite releases: Werkzeug 2.0, Jinja 3.0, Click 8.0, ItsDangerous 2.0, and Mar…
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May 14CommentShare
For decades Scandinavian countries have been renowned for their educational systems, low levels of corruption, sustainable economy, social justice, ove…
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May 13CommentShare
I am very late to the party, but today I learned that the good old dotnet SmptClient is considered obsolete and should not be used. Quoting the documen…
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May 4CommentShare
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