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I know many in software development hear frustration over pricing models. I know I have complained. I guess we sometimes feel as if digital services should just appear magically, without considering that behind those products …

(One of my summaries of the one-day Pycon NL conference in Utrecht, NL). You might start with some simple python code. Just a few functions. It grows and grows. Now... how do I structure this? …

Apart from the infamous one about 3D printers (I was right), and the one that featured on the orange site, my most popular post is a fairly technical one about GitHub webhooks. It seems to …

LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to …

8 months post-ice, it's time for something new!

Sometimes, I’ve just felt a meeting or pitch slipping away from me. In desperation, I start to thrash around for a way out – throwing new ideas or angles into the conversation, trying to dig …

I’ve mentioned this in passing and used this analogy before, but I don’t believe I’ve ever dedicated a post to it: you’re welcome to my exhaust. In other words, I don’t subscribe to the concept …

I have a killer business idea. I’m just going to take one penny from every bank account in the world. I’m not going to ask; you can’t say no. It really won’t affect you. You …

Today I learned about 5 useful pytest options that let me control what tests to run with respect to failing tests. pytest selection arguments for failing tests Florian Bruhin shared a pytest tip on X …

We just wrapped up our 13th conference. This was our first three-day event. Up until this one, all past FLOCK events basically fit into a single day. Each event has its own theme, curated for …

Since getting married earlier this month, we’ve been busy assembling a giant package of documentation for Rakhat’s US green card application. The insane complexity of an I-485 adjustment of status application is another article in …

[This post has been auto-deleted several times, presumably at the request of Carla Rossi, and every time it is reviewed, Google reinstates it quickly ... again and again]A couple of weeks ago I said on …

I covered Showtime’s marvelous film noir series, Fallen Angels, in my second volume. This anthology show delivered six episodes in the summer of 1993, followed by another nine in the autumn of 1995. Each playlet …

His Three Daughters (2024) • View trailerFour stars (out of five). Rated R, for profanity and drug useAvailable via: NetflixBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 10.20.24The fact that this film’s title isn’t …

Over the last three years of maintaining this blog, there’s been a conspicuous absence in the acoustic index toolkit presented so far. Whilst the Bioacoustic Index (BI), Acoustic Complexity Index (ACI) and Normalised Difference Soundscape …