3 days agoMember-onlyShakespeare’s Sonnets Exposed: Resurrecting The PodcastSonnet 32 analyzed after a three-and-a-half year hiatus — How Shakespeare’s Four-Hundred Year-Old Sonnets Drove Me To Madness And How They Tell Me They’re Performing As Intendedtherightstuff.medium.com Two years ago, I posted an article on Medium explaining my obsession with Shakespeare’s Sonnets, where my obsession comes from and what I’m attempting to achieve. While we have continued to produce more pages for the graphic novel — we’re currently working on page 30*, which is more than halfway…Shakespeare3 min readShakespeare3 min read
Published inPython in Plain English·May 29Member-onlyA Simple Wrapper For Python Request Mocking With requests_mockMock successful requests, failures and exceptions, and return multiple responses for the same URLs — Every corner on the internet appears to have different opinions on how to mock HTTP requests made via the requests module. There’s plenty of documentation and many helpful suggestions spread all over the place, so much so that (as usual) it’s difficult to find anything if you don’t already know…Python2 min readPython2 min read
May 28Checkoff’s Gun1K12Liz KoonceThank you for putting this together.Thank you for putting this together. There's a vast difference between knowing that this sort of thing is going on, and understanding the scope and scale of such a devious, unethical disinformation campaign. I've heard plenty about this sort of thing over the years, but this article sheds light into the dark corners and makes it crystal clear just how dangerously Kafkaesque the political landscape of animal agriculture has become.1 min read1 min read
Apr 29Member-onlySpoken Word: “21 gunmen salute”How can this piece on school shootings still be relevant more than a decade later? — I wrote this piece sometime in 2014, and it breaks my heart that that I’m still reading new articles like Arie Kruglanski’s “Why do mass shooters kill? It’s about more than having a grievance”. How can a nation care so much more about…Spoken Word2 min readSpoken Word2 min read
Apr 22Member-onlySpoken Word: “the return”Another rescued piece that’s been haunting me for years — This is a poem written in two parts: the first part was written in the middle of an awful night after an awful fight while my now-wife and I were not-exactly-vacationing* in a hotel room in Victoria B.C., …Spoken Word3 min readSpoken Word3 min read
Apr 19Hurt People Hurt People2.3K22More Than Our CrimesIt's far too easy to blame kids for acting out, when they've grown up in a pressure cooker of…It's far too easy to blame kids for acting out, when they've grown up in a pressure cooker of toxicity and despair. …1 min read1 min read
Published inAWS Tip·Apr 18Member-onlyAWS Breaking (Change) News: New S3 Buckets Blocked For Public AccessAccess Control List Not Supported. AccessControlListNotSupported: The bucket does not allow ACLs. — This morning I walked in to the office to find our CI/CD pipeline on fire. Here is our first error of the day:AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Apr 17Member-onlyMore MacOS Fails: Choose Audio Input and Output At The Same TimeAnother UX fail with potentially dire consequences — I recently wrote an article about MacOS making undesirable decisions for me about my “Focus Time”, and was sadly surprised to learn that I had a few coworkers who have also been hurt by that behavior. …Mac4 min readMac4 min read
Apr 14Member-onlyWhat Did You Feed Your Gods Today?Why we need to be more wary of toxic “reality” entertainment — This article was inspired by my wife and I agreeing to turn off Power Slap: Road To The Title, after seeing enough to arrive at the conclusion that this is not the launch of a new and exciting sport, rather a disparate bunch of people being invited to hurt each…Media5 min readMedia5 min read
Apr 6Member-onlyThought Experiment: Incentivizing Teachers And Health-And-Welfare Workers With Actual MoneyOr, You Know, We Can Just Wait For The Next Lockdown To Clap For Them Again — A few days ago I came across The Anatomy of Your Salary from Philip Joubert, wherein he makes an economic argument for how salaries are determined that seems counterintuitive from a moral perspective, but is quite rational. …Education3 min readEducation3 min read