Blog Posts

Whelp, the first half of the year has come and gone. The country is heading to authoritarianism, but I'm still kicking.

Since Trump was elected back in November, I've had a hard time articulating my feelings with regards to the people in my life who I know voted for him. I recently came across this post and I thought John Pavlovitz did a good job putting into words what I've struggled to.

I decided to move my week notes into their own collection in my 11ty setup. Because of that, there might be some flukiness with my RSS feeds. Sorry about that!

The older I get, the faster it feels the world is going. I’m not sure what to make of that, but alas, it’s happening and there’s not much I can do about it. May wasn’t a particularly noteworthy month, it just sort of was.

I recently read an article from 404 Media about how schools were not at all ready for the onslaught of questions of how teachers and students should or should not use AI tools like ChatGPT.

So this is kind of cool. In .NET 10 due out later this year, Microsoft has announced the ability to run code right from the .NET CLI rather than having to scaffold an entire project.

I spent hours as a kid playing GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64. The game was fun and the music was amazing. Koji Kobura does an awesome job of re-creating the pause music.

The other day it was announced that the popular gaming and entertainment site Polygon was sold off and that many of the site's writers were laid off. It was one of my go-to sites for video game news and I suspect that given the loss of staff, will not be the same.

Last year, one of my goals or aspirations was to finish the novel I had started. Needless to say, while I most certainly made progress on it, I didn’t even finish a first draft. To state something that should be beyond obvious, writing a book is hard!

I'm a huge Philadelphia Phillies fan and a baseball fan. Over the years I've collected a collection of Phillies fitted caps of various different styles. One of the caps I bought was a modern replica of a 1929 Philadelphia Athletics hat complete with World Series patch on the side of it. It got me thinking a bit about how we choose what team to follow and become a fan of.

In the NHL, in the regular season, if a game is still tied after the end of the overtime period, the game is decided by a best of 3 shootout where a skater gets a free shot on the goalie. It then moves to a sudden death shootout. I’m not a fan of them. It feels gimmicky and removes the team aspect of the game. In my beer league, slightly different story.