Granny’s Wisdom: The 70’ high farm silo climbing story. I told this story at my Granny’s funeral, and I think speaks a lot about who she was to her children, grand or otherwise. When I was 12 and...

A new[ish] feature to Visual Studio and VS Code has made me very happy…. but it is OFF by default. You should probably be using this if you are editing code with large nested blocks, such as C++ cp...

Fountain pens have saved my life in many ways… and they can help you too. I’m posting this on World Mental Health Day to illuminate the importance of talking to someone/anyone (or in this case som...

Case sensitivity rules in the solution search are a bit interesting, and can be frustrating if you don’t understand the rules, and helpful when you do. Table of Contents Backstory It works o...

Have you ever wanted a bit more from your Jekyll static site? Something like adding authentication or database serving data to certain pages? Maybe you want to have a sign-in for some section...

I was answering a co-worker’s question on what tools to buy to get into bike maintenance, and made this very rough list of items that I’ll try to keep updated if I think of more. Start slow, and d...

*Note*: This post was written back on 2023-09-28 when I was working on a new AI feature, and we were moving super fast. We since have returned to much more rigorous PR policies At my work (as with...

I was looking for a free way to make a QR code from this site. I looked at websites offering it for free, but they usually end in a sign up request. Never mind installing an app just to do the once...

This week, a significant issue arose involving CrowdStrike and Microsoft computers. Here’s a brief summary of what happened, as well as my Hot take on the matter: CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor Updat...

Please bear with me I am in the process of moving my WordPress blog to this new site. I am re-learning Jekyll at the same time, and started out with a nice theme called Chirpy (check them out on ...