The social web When it comes to the social web I have played with many alternatives over the years, including some paid offerings, because I didn’t want to be the product being sold. The problem with all of them, so far, is adoption. The people I want to follow are on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and LinkedIn. I no longer wish to... More
Anattā I may have groked what the Buddhist calls not-self, anattā. I have had some part of my attention upon consciousness and time over the last few months. Not the surface definitions, not even the philosophical/physical conversation about the concepts. Instead, I have been attempting to grok the experience of consciousness and time. That contemplation was my... More
How must an elector vote? https://equalcitizens.us/electors-freedom-faqs/ At university I studied Political Science. While I focused on international issues, my favorite subject was constitutional law. I have been following the Supreme Court ever since. Our elections have been in the news … forever. The Electoral College and winner take all have been lately. Here is a resource to learn a bit more. This story will continue.... More
Identity You may call yourself by any name. Each identity has a shifting foundation. What was liberal, isn’t. What was conservative, isn’t. Want was Democrat is now Republican and what was once Republican is now Democratic. What is at this moment will be different tomorrow while carrying the same name. Even our understanding of the meaning of... More
Citizen one Political/Criminal commentary follows No really. Do not read. In re criminal acts by the citizen Trump before he became President Trump It is interesting since DOJ will not indict the sitting president and our Congress may not impeach. Trump may find himself in a Putin like position. If Putin loses power he probably dies at the... More
Consider https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/us/politics/russia-sees-midterm-elections-as-chance-to-sow-fresh-discord-intelligence-chiefs-warn.html How much of the today’s American political division was amplified with support from Russia? Perhaps it started long before we know. Perhaps it preceded Trump. Might everything since Reagan be part of some slow, cautious, steady, destabilization effort? Okay. That’s my conspiracy theory. I think it is more likely than the “deep state”. More
Sleep A proposal to find your natural sleep rhythm sounds great. I know something of the rhythm and circles I would gravitate towards naturally. Yet, we live in the anti-human world we have built with the legal persons that need no sleep at all, that rather needs us to conform to some well-regulated standard rhythm that may or... More
Learning to code Learning to program is like learning to read and write any foreign language. Lots of time will be spent looking at symbols that make little sense and hearing people speak about the language in terms that are, while familiar, carrying less meaning than perhaps they should. Lots of time will be spent reading references without... More
Good code Works Is easy to understand Is easy to change Is fun to work with Reference: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/what-is-good-code In fairness, this view is valid too: https://xkcd.com/844 With the existing code bases we work on and the code bases we create, I am going to work tirelessly to improve the first case and contribute the later. More
Script style We drive our devops system of CI/CD pipelines with a collection of standardized bash shell scripts. These scripts collect required resources; validate starting conditions; check for lint and style issues; run unit, acceptance, integration, performance, and smoke tests; build deployment packages and supporting infrastructure in various environments; all while collecting metrics on the artifacts being built... More
