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Sunday, March 01, 2026

Learning the history of text editing in the console, the hard way

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Okay, I hit a rabbithole today. I'm not saying it's not fun, but probably not my smartest use of time. Long story shorter than I w...
Wednesday, January 07, 2026

The belated announcement of the death of StackOverflow and the retroactive obviousness of LLMs

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I mean, I already knew (if only based on the hard flattening of my own reputation graph) that StackOverlow was dead, but sheesh. Today I lea...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Got $100? I've got a career for you...

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It's neat that you can program logic on most any computer that boots nowadays. Maybe not crazy UI libraries, but wrap properly factored...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Why isn't it rude to look at your smartwatch?

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Okay, if you're Gen X or older, you grew up with watches to tell time. And not just tell time, but to keep  your  time. You were just as...
Wednesday, September 03, 2025

A trivial sign AI is making progress

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Was writing an email to a buddy who likes sports, and mentioned that I know someone who lives in DC. The balance of the email was about the ...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Shaking off the WCF rust in 2025

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Okay, was looking back through WCF earlier this week for a prospective client, and figured I'd leave some notes. Here's the stock c...
Monday, June 16, 2025

VB.NET, HttpClient, Newtonsoft, and Async

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Looking into updating a slew of VB.NET API to C# for a client, and figured I should brush off my VB.NET before getting too serious. And I ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Minimal Example to Read CheckoutSession Info from Stripe Payment Links with .NET

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Note to self: It's pretty easy to get a Stripe CheckoutSession in .NET. I talked about writing a Chrome extension and integrating payme...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Declarative vs. Imperative Programing: A Mnemonic

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Sometimes, I surprise myself : @Cthutu I wish " It's like the difference of [declaring] an address vs   [commanding ] directions....
Monday, May 19, 2025

Forced Reset Triggers

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I'd missed the whole Forced Reset Trigger debate over the last year or so, but caught an article about it in The Post Sunday and figure...