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The popular Mandelbrot zoom-in videos all seem to develop rotational symmetry before long, and the order of that symmetry only increases over time. I've assumed that this is artifa…

Our PCI-compliance audit dings us for not disabling autocomplete on the login form fields. That's not the same as disabling paste, but heading that direction. For personal use I ju…

This is much like the Elm Architecture [1], a pattern that I enjoy using. That structure gives me problems though when I want to speed things up by caching frequent calculations an…

Going to the Howard Johnson's (in Oshkosh, Wisconsin) in the late 60's was a big treat for my family. Their fried clams were exotic fare.

Elm, with Typescript and Vite. Working with Elm code is satisfying to me. It's generally easy to revisit code I last worked with months ago and get immediately fluent with it again…

Kind of okay. I came down with COVID on May 10. Took Paxlovid (I'm 64) and felt recovered in a few days (but I continued the 5 days of Paxlovid, of course). Then on May 23 a bad co…

His "Behemoth" bike had such low gearing for hill-climbing that, as I recall it, the bike had two retractable small wheels, one on each side, that worked like training-wheels to st…

I have a Herman Miller Aeron that works great, bought at a reasonable price off Craigslist. Along with the Aeron I often use an inflatable cushion, the "Gymnic Disc 'o' Sit". Sitti…

We ran into this, where the Outlook client would scan one-time login links from SalesForce (iirc). Huge pain to work around.

Don't believe everything you think.

Far too many sites don't allow more than one hardware key for 2FA. I set up 3 yubikeys on those sites that allow it.

Prior to the stay-home order my wife and I would go out line dancing three nights each week. Dancing in unison with dozens of other people is surprisingly invigorating. I miss it d…

I save each OTP config on three separate Yubikeys using Yubico Authenticator. I also screen-shot the QR code and save that and any recovery codes to a veracrypt volume. If the site…

It's the same with the WSJ. Just last week I wanted to cancel the paper delivery and get online access only. Even to do only that required a phone call; not even a chat option was …

Damn, this is disappointing. I've long preferred hg over git but developer preference has clearly moved to favor git. I like using mercurial queues for managing local config change…

I've been using Riot daily for several years, and this 1.0 version seems to work really well. Like any major UI change it's going to take me a while to get used to the slightly dif…

I'm 60 and doing a combination of IT and app development work. I totally agree about the exercise part of this. Not so much to look younger (although it might help), but rather to …

Matt Levine is a treasure. His Money Stuff column/email has taught me, a programmer not versed in fintech, a lot about the intricacies of the financial world. In particular, his cl…

The Tezos project uses OCaml to build the core network and protocol features (but not the smart contracts). Companies are starting to build products based around Tezos and OCaml kn…

I've been playing JQBX over Sonos as Jason described. It works pretty well. It does seem that the app player is needed for this as the web player will play one song over Sonos and …

With Matrix, switching to another server is painful because one's identity is tied to the particular server. I've done such a move and it requires rejoining all rooms and re-establ…

Tezos will use Proof of Stake. They have a development version working now and there is good reason to expect a production version within a year.

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"The importance of data and speed to information can't be understated in the capital markets ..." That says, it's less important than you could possibly state.