GeniusMusing

It still amazes me to this day how just finding one new thing can lead to many more things, if you follow the flow. I like to listen to music when I work and at the moment most of my work is writing code so that, at least for me, rules out listening to things where I would need to pay attention like a podcast. I switch between a few sources of music, some local play lists and the occasional streaming service or two. No, [...] Read more

There are several things I like about HTMLy and only one or two things I think could be added or improved. One of those things I really like is the ability to enter your post in different and mixed content. This text I am just typing into the browser and letting it decide on how it displays it. Just plain text. You can also enter the post as HTML or Markdown and it will render it the same, examples are below. I know at [...] Read more

Free Time Well Spent I was finally able to have the time to hunt down an issue that I had been living with since this time last year, mainly, this blog. While I do enjoy writing software and it has almost become my full time (paying) job at this point, it does leave me not wanting to work on my own stuff in the evening. I finally decided to spend some of my "free" time to figure out just why this blog software would not [...] Read more

Why Open Source Needs A New Funding Model So a developer makes a little project to scratch an itch, get it working to a point that seems stable enough and publishes the code to a repository. Some time later one of a couple possible things happen. 1) The code/project is abandoned for any number of reasons, lack of personal time to work on it, burnout, moving on to other things, lack of community support, job change or [...] Read more

A lot has changed in the past few months. I picked up a major project in June but it didn't really start up until September. And wow did it ramp up! It is almost a full time gig hour wise and looks like it will run until May or June of this year with maybe longer but with less hours doing maintenance and other things. I have been on a search for a different blog platform as I don't have much time these days to work on my [...] Read more

Labor Day Wikipedia Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday in September in any given year (i.e. a single day from September 1 through September 7) to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States. It is the Monday of the long weekend known as Labor Day Weekend. Now that we [...] Read more

This adventure started when the most recent water bill landed. Not that the extra 600 gallons (2271 Litres) of usage cost that much more but the fact that we have been here for over a year and our water usage is pretty much the same most months and probably has not varied more than 20 or so gallons adjusted for seasons. As we are well into the summer and we are running the lawn sprinklers twice a day for five minutes [...] Read more

About a year ago we moved into a new to us house. For the better part of a year prior we were apartment dwellers with a lot of stuff in storage. Just prior to this was a 2,200 mile trip to move to the Pacific Northwest. By then my lawn mower was almost 10 years old, all electric and had been through three sets of SLA (sealed lead acid) batteries and a conversion to LiOn batteries that I did a couple of years before. The [...] Read more

It would appear that one of the hardest things to do is replace a screen door. Not the actual installation of said screen door but actually getting one. And one that works. So the adventure started just over a week ago at 8:00 AM when I found a screen door that I wanted for our garage. This was to replace the one the previous owners had installed, a velcro/magnetic thing that was old, tired and torn. There was no [...] Read more

The slow death of a browser Alas, poor Firefox! I knew it, Internet: a browser of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: it hath borne me on it's back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those tabs that I have viewed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not [...] Read more