A sign of how this year went - last night I had a dream I had gotten laid off. (Thankfully I'm ending the year gainfully employed. :)

writers who have to work on sites with lots of annoying popups and stuff - do you hate seeing your writing abused like that? just went to a place where i had to click 5-7 times to dismiss crap just so i could read

New post from my blog: "Links For You (11/30/25)" https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/11/30/links-for-you-113025

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

@jschof.dev heya - not sure if it's intentional, but i went to your blog today (i'm sharing a link to one of your articles), and noticed i can't find your actual name _anywhere_. as you share it here, is there a reason why it's not shared on your blog? i'll assume there is and not share your name

New edition to the family.

CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."

Happy Not Really Friday but Kinda Is (lucky for me). I discovered this song playing Just Dance a few years ago and it became my jam. Had the family high score for it. (And yes, I look ridiculous dancing, which is the point, right?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NKU...

I've shared this before, but Local is a dang handy app if you need to test WordPress w/o installing MySQL, PHP, nginx, etc. I just needed to do some API tests with a WP install and this had me up and running in minutes: localwp.com

Just a reminder, “Epstein” is the name of the sex trafficker. The president is called “Epstein’s monster.”

It's that time of year

Authors - are yall getting spam related to your books, ie marketing it, making a web page for it, etc? I haven't published a new book in a while, so I'm assuming scammers are just scraping Amazon.

New post from my blog: "Using Google Static Maps in Your Print View" https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/11/20/using-google-static-maps-in-your-print-view

Cursing works.

"Take on Me" is fine, and the video is one of the best ever, but the best _song_ by a-ha is easily "The Sun Always Shines on TV" www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ir...

I'm a bit late to this, but apparently we have a new Cat image placeholder service: placecats.com

TIL Chrome will *ignore* your local HOSTS settings and do a DNS lookup every few requests. It explained why my local app server test would be super slow every 5-10 requests.

you ever type something, just know you misspelled it, looked it up, realized you were right, and _still_ worry it's wrong?

TIL about the HTML Size Analyzer from DebugBear. Great for finding sneaky Data URIs or large payloads of JSON in your pages: www.debugbear.com/html-size-an...

New post from my blog: "Gemini File Search and File Stores for Easy RAG" https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/11/17/gemini-file-search-file-stores-for-easy-rag

Happy Hecate Day to all who celebrate

New post from my blog: "Links For You (11/16/25)" https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/11/16/links-for-you-111625

MTG isn't speaking truth to power. She is trying to grab a seat on a lifeboat after she helped steer the ship into an iceberg.

TIL adults play wiffleball and ESPN8 will televise it.

Damnit - Marvel API is *officially* dead. Got the email last night. I guess that's better than just ignoring it and not supporting it, but damn.

Who should I follow that's big into Astro?

Our two youngest fur babies actually slowed down for a moment to nap in the sun. Not the best pic, sorry.

Some damn fine happy music for a damn fine happy day - www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk52...

Currently in Mississippi for a few days. Yesterday I got the message Bluesky was blocked, today I didn't. (Obviously.) Any idea why?

New post from my blog: "Checking for Spam Content with Chrome AI" https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/11/07/checking-for-spam-content-with-chrome-ai

My youngest doing his best to keep me in check: "Why _did_ mom marry you? You have absolutely no rizz."

before a meeting i added this comment to my code: "mage" and ive got zero clue wtf i was thinking

New post from my blog: "BoxLang's Improved PDF Handling" https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/11/05/boxlangs-improved-pdf-handling

I forgot how damn good Concrete Blonde are.

The Catholics down here must be in a tizzy. Good.

New post from my blog: "Creating a Generic Generative Language with Chrome AI" https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/11/03/creating-a-generic-generative-language-with-chrome-ai

I was very, very, VERY happy to see Powerwash Simulator 2 was released this weekend. If you've never seen it... yes it sounds kinda lame. But honestly, it is the most chill, relaxing game I've ever played.

So looks like I’m on the job hunt again😅 Right now, I’m looking for contract/pt work since I have another really huge “project” in the works right now🤭 If you know of any contract/pt roles in dev marketing, technical writing, or dev education, please send them my way! Please repost and boost!💜💜

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

A haunted house but it’s just the country you live in trying to kill you.

A bit late as I was exhausted last night, but 80s Sasquatch says Happy Halloween.

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This is so freaking cool.

Says the guy who didn't pay child support. (Clay, not Matt obviously.)

The major vibe shift between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is that in the 2010s, companies embraced DEI to signal they weren’t as racist as his government whereas now they abandon DEI to signal to him that they are just as racist as he is.

The best part of my anxiety is that - yesterday I got objectively very good news for my future. Very. And my brain can't process it doesn't need to stress. Maybe in a few weeks it will get there.

Only in Louisiana...

If you've never seen it, this is the most insane, batshit crazy video game ad (technically console i guess) ever made - I can't believe this got approved (but obviously it worked, I still remember it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OUc...

My OSX doc is on a large monitor, but sometimes would pop up on the smaller screen. Apparently this happens if your mouse drifts towards the bottom of the screen and is expected. I use Spotify on the other screen and now it makes sense.

Living the lifestyle of the rich and fabulous...