Thoughts, ideas, and other such things I feel like putting here. About basically any topic.
I just found out that my best friend for the last almost 30 years had died, from complications due to surgery. Dave Hines was more than a friend to me, he was a brother, someone I had talked with online or off at least every other day or more since I knew him. We met…
How I learned to appreciate OpenWRT For years, I had been using a router that had a custom ROM on it. I had used DD-WRT, which had a convenient set of web-based menus that allowed for me to customize how my router functioned and what features it could use. But DD-WRT was limited. There just…
I have grown exceedingly tired of people telling me to “not make waves”, to “keep the peace”, to essentially pretend that everything is OK just so to not offend. To lie about something to prevent conflict. This is essentially what is at the root of Political Correctness, is it not? To deconstruct language to a…
Goodbye, big tech. Hello self-hosting. The fall out of the past year has resulted in my migrating away from Big Tech and their Cloud ecosystems. As of right now almost everything I use online is self hosted an operating from my house. Including this blog now. My instincts told me to pull away from large…
Out of likely a genuine concern from a relative, my wife and I were given a printout of an article called “The Problem with Pokémon”, written by a “Pastor David L. Brown, Ph.D.”, originally published in 2015, and then updated in 2016. This family member is concerned for the well-being of our children, and I…
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So the Angular Material documentation (material.angular.io) do not explain Breakpoints well, pointing to the Material Design documentation, as shown: The layout package provides utilities to build responsive UIs that react to screen-size changes.BreakpointObserverBreakpointObserver is a utility for evaluating media queries and reacting to their changing.Evaluate against the current viewportThe isMatched method is used to evaluate one or more media queries…
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I am tired of all of this nonsense. I am tired of hearing how the elephant in the room party’s candidate has done one reprehensible thing after another. I am tired of hearing how the jackass party’s candidate is evil personified. I am just sick of it. Honestly, I have no confidence in the two…
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With this project, the vast majority of my time has been just trying to marry a number of diverse technologies together and get them to play nicely with each other in the Java EE ecosystem. One of the first things I had to do was to get JPA 2.0 entities to be accessible in Jython…
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The project I have been working on lately requires me to move out of my comfort zone of pure Python, and focus on something more. Unfortunately, I am stuck with certain requirements from the company: My application must be deployable to Glassfish 3.1 Which means it must use Java EE 6 …And Java SE 7…
In a current project I have been part of, I have had to deal with a relatively large amount of mostly static data that needs to be readily available in my application. As most of the data is static, and doesn’t change, but drives the application’s functionality, I figured I could store the data in…
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