#musing

There’s something about swimming lanes that feels… territorial. Not in an aggressive way, just in that quiet, personal, this‑is‑my‑spot kind of way. The second lane from the left— that one is mine. I don’t

The words were printed on someone's shirt. "Luck is Limitless Horizons". I think it is a gym slogan, or so it looked. It was just a random scene I walked past. No real significance. But for some

Somehow, I just managed to survive. My story is by no means unique, or different. Absolutely not. In fact, I think I might be better off than most. Either way, it felt to me like I did not really survive,

Hey everyone, Yesterday was a much-needed break. It's funny how fast time flies when you're trying to enjoy it. I'm feeling a lot better today, and I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for all

I've had one of those soul-sucking days, and not even the fun kind involving a succubus, no, just grocery shopping in this economy. So, for today's post, I'm just going to talk about some of the command-line

Hey everyone, I recently wanted to add the current HIVE price to my Qtile bar, which I thought would be a simple task. Qtile has a built-in CryptoTicker widget, so I figured I would just add it to my

Hey everyone, Today's GM advice is all about the pre-game, specifically the one session that can make or break a campaign before it even starts: Session Zero. It is one of the most important tools a Game

Hey everyone, I run a lot of scripts via cron, even on my laptop, but my laptop isn't always connected to the internet. This can cause issues for scripts that need an online connection to do their job.

Hey everyone, After my last post about the mathematical fairness of the Ultimate Dice Roller, I got some excellent feedback. The gist of it was that a normal distribution over a large scale is a good start,

Hey everyone, The other day, @ecoinstant posed an excellent question about the Ultimate Dice Roller: we know it's provably fair, but is it mathematically fair? In other words, over a large number of rolls,

Hey everyone, A recent announcement from Let's Encrypt about issuing their first certificate for an IP address sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. For some reason, I had always assumed that TLS/SSL

Hey everyone, It's Brain Drain Friday, and this week truly earned its name. Yesterday, I did a developer "no-no": I spent a good 12-14 hours debugging and fixing a legacy application directly

Hey everyone, My investigation into the high CPU usage on the "moon" server has been a process of refining the data to get a clear answer. After first identifying python3 processes as the general

Hey everyone, I've been keeping an eye on our "moon" server lately, and the CPU usage metrics have been consistently high, suggesting it might be time to invest in a new, more powerful machine.

Happy Sunday, everyone. Well, just a day after the last hive-nectar release, I had to push an emergency hotfix. A client was getting a very strange error when trying to post replies: Assert Exception:false:

Hey everyone, I've been asked a few times how I manage to get so many different projects and tools built so quickly. It’s a great question, and I was inspired to write about it after reading an excellent

Hey everyone, I recently came across a phishing email, and while the usual advice is to just delete them and move on, something about the link caught my eye. Instead of a standard malicious URL, it led

Hey everyone, I was asked almost this very question yesterday: "What takes so long in the dev world?" It's a perfectly fair question, especially when a feature seems simple on the surface. This

Next to the kitchen, the dining room, the living room, the family room, the back veranda, the side veranda, the courtyard, the foyer, the receiving room, and before the upstairs bedroom and the ballroom,

Last night, I had a hard time going to sleep because I felt like I had unfinished tasks, so I stayed up beyond my usual sleeping hours. This is a situation I often experience since moving to the city.