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I am currently setting up my first-ever Raspberry Pi. This tiny single-board computer can be used for a lot of practical projects, (mine will be a small database and/or file server). Besides being practical it’s also just fun to build something like that and see it work. They’re used a lot in education to inspire kids…

 An interesting article focusing specifically on Athletic Brewing and also the non-alcoholic beer trend in general.  This past year we made a serious commitment to to cut way back on alcohol consumption as a part of an overall attempt at healthier living. While that is great for ones liver it can pose some interesting social issues.…

  I was dropping off my car to the dealership for routine maintenance. The nice gentleman in the service department was taking down my info and asking a series of car-related questions regarding the maintenance history. Ah…here comes that sense of dread creeping up my spine. For some inexplicable reason I feel this compulsion to…

 The steps of BI (Business Intelligence) Requirements gathering Data Retrieval Data prep Data Modeling Dashboards/Reports So this has been in the forefront of my mind lately. I’m working on a project (work-adjacent but not directly related) where I’m standing up a SQL server in Azure, creating a database on that server, then populating data to…

I had never heard of Phillip Amour’s Five Orders of Ignorance until I read about them in Alan Page’s book “The A Word” . Quote follows: 0OI – Zero-Oh-I is lack of ignorance. It’s when you know something. I know, for example, that the first track on the Rolling Stone’s Sticky Fingers album is Brown Sugar.…

 In our innovation week I looked at an overlapping mesh of topics that (I think) all dovetailed together nicely. Initially I was interested in checking out Cypress component testing – a new feature released a few versions ago that I had read up on a little but hadn’t had time to play around with much.…

Recently we got fiber installed at our house raising our connection speed up to a gig. We could have went higher (2/2.5?) but honestly a gig seems like so much (8x faster than our theoretical top speed on coaxial, which we never actually hit – 200 mbps)  that it seemed crazy to punch it up,…

function destroyer(arr, …throwAway) {   return arr.filter(elem => !throwAway.includes(elem)); } destroyer([1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3], 2, 3); The above was a solution on Free Code Camp on their Javascript course, part of the ‘Advanced Algorithms’ section. The problem posed was: You will be provided with an initial array as the first argument to the…

 Devmoot happened this past Friday at Relix, right up the road from my house. It’s a tech conference sort of akin to Codestock just a bit smaller, happening on a single day and on a single-course track (speakers all lined up in one room, one audience rather than the mix/match style of Codestock). Tech conferences can…

 Today is Saturday, September 23, 2023. Today is officially the first day of fall.  i.e. the “autumnal equinox”, when the sun’s energy is approximately balanced between the northern and southern hemispheres and the 24 hour cycle is ~ 12 hours day/night. After today the northern hemisphere will begin to tilt away from the sun, shortening the…