Author: DJ Billings
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Coding Journey Update
I first started learning to code in grade school – which is not that strange these days but in 1982 it was pretty groundbreaking. I wrote more about that on my dj-codes site. I started coding again in the early days of the web. I created sites from scratch and tinkered with HTML wherever I…
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Get off my lawn
Phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst-phsst… On one of my morning walks in our suburban Los Angeles neighborhood, I took a detour around a home where a mass of sprinklers was dousing the lawn in little arcs. The lawn was green, lush and beautiful. If I played golf, I probably would have been tempted to tee up. Instead, I skirted…
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Jooleye
Reading until my eyes are bleeding: Face: one square foot of skin, Justine Bateman What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Richard Feynman Permanent Record, Edward Snowden Rapture of the Nerds, Corey Doctorow and Charles Stross How I choose to link the books I share. A sort of linking manifesto. Work & Projects &…
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How I choose to link my reading list
If you’ve ever checked out my Library page, you’ve seen my reading list. Sometimes everything changes and other times it looks like I take months to read the same book. That’s because sometimes it does. Sometimes I give up on a book that’s not really happening for me. No guilt. I read for pleasure, mostly,…
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Messing around with Python and EV3
This used to be an embedded tweet. Since I don’t really do twitter anymore, it’s gone. Sorry. But maybe I’ll post about it on dj codes.
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Jooon
Reading until my eyes are bleeding: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Eric Hoffer Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science, Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright Black Holes and Baby Universes, Steven Hawking Work & Projects & Stuff Jenni and I are thinking about…
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The Catastrophic Boba Shortage of 2021
I read the headline, then I read it again. Yep, it really does say that, I thought. It’s not just that it’s 3:00 am and I’m sitting on the toilet in the dark. I’m mostly awake and it’s right there: “Boba Shortage to Last Throughout Summer.” There was nothing I could do in that moment…
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May
I Can Read! Blood and Gold, Anne Rice True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Eric Hoffer Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science, Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright Work & Projects & Stuff I’m working with two WordPress clients on revamping their sites. It’s super interesting work. On one I’ve used Elementor extensively and…
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saturday: a haiku
Follow my blog with Bloglovin saturday morning the exterminator’s here it’s too early dude
