I wore my rainbow White Sox hat today. A guy in the train said “I like your hat”. I said “Thanks, is that because you like the Sox, or because you believe all people have value regardless of who they love?” He said “the latter” & woman w/him said “we believe you have value even if you like the Sox.”

Blog posts about tech topics without date stamps are next to useless.

Solid advice no matter what kind of machine you mean.

At the eye doc next to the giant retina photo machine was this note. Tech support is universal.

Can't exceed 99 characters? Sounds like someone's storing the cleartext passwords. :-(

Every time Excel asks me if I’m enjoying it, I give it a one star rating.

I use eza, an alternative to ls. I also work on macOS and Linux both. So in my bash startup I don't care if I am using eza or ls. I just set up my aliases based on if eza is installed, and which OS I'm running on. My alias setup is at gist.github.com/petdance/6a5...

The argon truck supports your need to discuss difficult or negative feelings.

#NoKingsDay in Palatine, IL

The Boss knows a real boss when he sees one

That was before he transferred to Our Lady of Butterscotch.

The “Trump put a tariff on an uninhabited island lolol 😆” is noise and a distraction. We need to stop discussing it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was intentionally put in specifically to be a distraction.

Dissent is patriotic.

Every single government official in that group chat is culpable because every one of them knowingly ignored security rules and regulations.

A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.

Dissent is patriotic.

When Richard Nixon was recorded calling Pierre Trudeau "that asshole Trudeau" on the White House Watergate tapes, Pierre famously responded to the press: "I’ve been called worse things by better people." A great line, then and now.

Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is not mere misinformation). “When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative — no matter how detached from reality it is.” [bsky.app]

Another Sunday morning, another random taco place where I write about regular expressions.

I will buy any Mad magazine paperback. This was only $3 and turned out to include a bookplate on the inside cover, the adhesive long having given up its hold on George’s claim to his property. #madmagazine

Trump to Blago: “Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day.”

Amusing SSID of the day; “CrazyNoisyBizarreWifi”

Thanks to @hollywoodtheatr.bsky.social for letting me make this dumb joke a reality. #thebrutalist #popcornbucket #brutalistpopcornbucket #seemoviesinmovietheaters

I have some #Python and data science books I’d really like to read.

Arithmetically 2025 is great. It’s the product of two squares, and one of the squares is a square squared. Plus you can represent it with the first 5 integers: 1 x (5^2) x (3^4)

We have the most festive hydrant in Illinois and I’ll not hear otherwise.

There was no need to present this as a percentage.

From 1999, Michael Moore’s TV show The Awful Truth takes on Humana and denial of care. youtu.be/45-lv0WUXAI?...

It should be easy to find the killer of the United Healthcare CEO. Go thru records and find a guy who was denied coverage and was bankrupted, or maybe a child or spouse was denied coverage and died an unnecessary painful death. There can’t be more than one, or two cases like that, right? Right?

Whoa. The dentist’s waiting room is showing Food Network, not HGTV. They have only EVER had HGTV on. My dentist visits are the only time I watch house buying shows. I’m not sure I can handle this shift in the world.

With over a year of gender neutral bathroom experience now, I’d like to propose an alternative: separate bathrooms by those who pee sitting and those who pee standing.

There is no reason to use the word “learnings”. You can use the perfectly cromulent word “lessons”.

I called my sister the other day and I said “Hi, are you home” and it struck me that not too long ago that would have been a dumb question to ask someone you had just called.

How to guarantee I will not read your email.

Amen x 1000. Related: My daughter doesn’t want a STEM career. Has no interest. If she can grow up with me as a dad and have no interest in STEM, it ain’t gonna happen, and that’s OK.

Pro tip: If your power cord is just a liiiittle bit short, a USB hub is a fine extension cord.

People say regular expressions are too hard to read. They're not. They just don't know them yet. If you can learn to read $f = (9/5)*$c+32; then you can learn to read /^[A-Z]{4}-\d{2}$/ From my talk about what every beginning developer should know. www.slideshare.net/petdance/wha...

The lesson here for developers is that not capping the size of the input field, and not verifying the size constraints on the server side, has led to a successful denial-of-service attack.

Another anti-Shibboleth to exclude recruiters: Equating git and GitHub. 
I just got email for a job where part of the application process is to include my “GIT login” for code examples. I have to assume they mean my GitHub username.

Business cards may be rarely seen these days, but they do make fantastic ad hoc toothpicks.

Reminder: "efficienct" and "fast" are not synonyms, though many people seem to like to use "efficient" because it sounds cooler. "This code is more efficient" might mean "this code executes faster", but it might also, for example, mean "this code uses less memory". If you mean "faster", say that.

Someone needs to do a version of “Beth” for developers. Beth I hear you calling But I can’t come home just now We’ve got a fire in production And we just can’t find the bug I’ve been on hold for hours I’m at number six in the queue I think my CEO’s calling Oh Beth what can I do?

Any #Solr folks know how to aggregate the contents of a multivalued field? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76885848/how-can-i-query-solr-and-get-multivalued-field-results-returned-as-a-single-stri

I don’t like that today’s Spelling Bee doesn’t recognize “Boolean”. I know it’s Boole’s name but still….

say “Hello,world.”;