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I got into HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) fencing last year through a club in my little town. Olympic/sport fencing is fun, but imagine (safely) swinging a 4lbs. steel lon…

That's because publishers these days basically require you to have that magnitude of social media presence or they generally won't touch you. If they do, they will do next to nothi…

Getting an error claiming it, but I assume they’re getting pelted by people claiming it right now.

https://jm.cool

A new numbers game named Sigma. It’s like a crossword plus Sudoku (kind of). Try it out? https://jm.cool/games/sigma

On macOS, select images, right click, “Quick Actions,” “Convert Image.”

My mom spends easily that much with her tax preparer who is an independent person who tries to dissuade usage of software like TurboTax. My sister spends about $100 to file, and th…

Precisely why I built https://freetofile.com (it’s a simple static site with React for internationalization that automatically renders in Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, or Engli…

GitHub was founded to make managing permissions and sharing a git repo easier. It was a nightmare when git was first starting to get traction. Their original tagline was “git repo …

Apple certainly do have web frameworks they’ve written in Swift. No, I don’t know why they aren’t publicly available (at least yet). But I do know they power a number of public fac…

Working for me?

There are a lot of odd choices here. Is there a mailing list thread or something where this was worked out? I couldn't seem to find one on a quick scan, but I don't know where thes…

Unfortunately not currently, but I will definitely post around again if one opens up in the future!

Bingo! Both of those.

Sequoia Capital - REMOTE (but must be US based and enrolled in a college/university) I'm looking for a software engineering intern for the summer at Sequoia! Here's a tl;dr: - It's…

Properly used white list parameter controls (i.e., strong parameters) that are the default Rails behavior at this point would have prevented this bug completely.

I found the book “Python Distilled” got me up to speed quickly after not doing a ton of Python for about a decade.

Maybe my experience was different but the lack of smell from COVID was farrrrr more acute and noticeable than I’ve ever had with a sinus infection. It was like the sensation just s…

I have a lot of friends (including my spouse) who are teachers, and I can pretty confidently say that an office environment/culture/work sphere as we as engineers are used to is va…

Probably because “alias” is a keyword in Ruby.

I had, literally, eight different majors over my Bachelor's career, with almost enough credits for two whole B.A. degrees by the time I was done. I just finally picked a major that…

Sounds like you need to hire better magicians. :)

Given they're a legal startup, I really hope it's Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Birdman,_Attorney_at_La...

I definitely could be wrong! I think there will always be cultural centers because people like gathering together (virtually or otherwise). Things like memes and TikTok trends crea…

He almost hits on what's changed in my brain, but then kind of wanders into this weird criticism of...things people enjoy. I think the shift is that we don't have a monoculture any…