I love to code, write things, run. Freelance web consultant, Linux Sys Admin, WordPress geek. Database nerd. I enjoy most Linux distros. Non-conforming in lots of areas. Veteran. Trans/NB.
I rescue and maintain websites at https://wp-dj.com.
I also make silly cartoons sometimes.
Prep cook for my wife’s vegan cuisine.
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You’re going to die anyway.
You’re going to die anyway. “You know you’re going to die anyway, right?” It was 1999 and I had just temporarily moved into my Uncle John’s studio apartment in New York City. He very generously let me stay with him while I found an apartment for my family. After several years of trying to break…
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Septiember
Hop on board my Reading Railroad: The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan Mastering the Coding Mindset, Mads Brodt The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman How I choose to link the books I share. A sort of linking manifesto. Work & Projects & Stuff Holy ink, Batman! After…
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The frustration and magic of being a slow thinker
I’m a slow thinker. Not slow in that I don’t understand what’s going on, but slow in that my thoughts tend to percolate a little longer than others’ do. I guess you could say I’m more of a pourover thinker than a Nespresso thinker. I’ve always been a slow thinker. In school, I was never…
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Awww, gust.
Reading Rainbow: The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan Mastering the Coding Mindset, Mads Brodt A Mind for Numbers, Barbara Oakley, PhD How I choose to link the books I share. A sort of linking manifesto. Work & Projects & Stuff Last month I talked about that coding bootcamp I was registered to do. As excited…
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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.