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To Dave Hines, my friend, may you now have the joy you had spread to everyone around you.

Posted on October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 By darkhelm 2 Comments on To Dave Hines, my friend, may you now have the joy you had spread to everyone around you.

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…

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The problem with people abusing scripture to attack entertainment

Posted on October 21, 2019August 2, 2021 By darkhelm No Comments on The problem with people abusing scripture to attack entertainment

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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Angular Material & Breakpoints…. details they didn’t explain in the docs.

Posted on November 30, 2018August 2, 2021 By darkhelm No Comments on Angular Material & Breakpoints…. details they didn’t explain in the docs.

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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Lazy-loaded configuration data in Python 3, Part 1: The Base Class

Posted on November 2, 2015August 2, 2021 By darkhelm No Comments on Lazy-loaded configuration data in Python 3, Part 1: The Base Class

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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Smarter playlist length calculations

Posted on September 12, 2013August 2, 2021 By darkhelm No Comments on Smarter playlist length calculations

For my playlist controller/generator application, I wanted to have a way to produce an accurate list length to reflect about one day’s worth of songs. I figured that if I knew how long every track was in my library, I should be able to get a good estimate as to how many tracks I could…

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Making my playlist processing be concurrent.

Posted on September 10, 2013August 2, 2021 By darkhelm No Comments on Making my playlist processing be concurrent.

This may come as a shock to some people, but I have this itch to continually tweak my music playlist. It started with me having a set of songs I liked… And [un?]fortunately, this collection grew, and grew. Soon, I wanted to have a way to organize my music and ensure that I’m listening to…

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A Christian’s Response To: A Christian’s View of World of Warcraft (published in 2008)

Posted on May 23, 2013August 2, 2021 By darkhelm 2 Comments on A Christian’s Response To: A Christian’s View of World of Warcraft (published in 2008)

I found this little jewel out on the ‘net, and feel a need to respond to the blatant misconstruing of what is or isn’t OK with World of Warcraft. I am a Christian (Confessional Lutheran, to be precise), and I also enjoyed playing World of Warcraft. I don’t like it when people muddy the name…

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All Hallow’s Eve

Posted on October 23, 2012August 2, 2021 By darkhelm No Comments on All Hallow’s Eve

Growing up, I was raised with the understanding that Halloween was a “pagan holiday” that was to not be celebrated at all. Our Halloween “tradition” was to put blankets over every window that could possibly leak light out of them on Halloween night, all cuddle around a single, solitary lamp in the back of the…

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Music Playlist Generator, Part 2

Posted on April 6, 2012August 2, 2021 By darkhelm No Comments on Music Playlist Generator, Part 2

Part 1 Now that I had a XML file representing everything in my playlist, I needed to be able to actually use it within my Python script… so I could then, in turn, generate my daily playlist. I’m using PyPy, which is a rather unique variation of Python that can drastically speed up the performance…

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Music Playlist Generator… or how I like to make things complicated…

Posted on April 4, 2012August 2, 2021 By darkhelm No Comments on Music Playlist Generator… or how I like to make things complicated…

Well, more or less. See, I have this collection of music I’ve transferred from a whole lot of CD’s I bought over the years onto my computer. I had an iPhone which I had used to play that music by using iTunes to create a dynamic playlist, and load that playlist onto my phone. Well……

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