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  • Pride Rocks -- New Jersey

    Free concerts to promote LGBT+ voting in New Jersey (Somerville, New Hope, Asbury Park)!

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  • Mrs. Creiger Was Calm

    An article about a woman in our town from 1893. I like how she handled the situations.

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    • Postcards for Democracy

      Info about postcarding parties.

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    • Harris 2024

      I’m writing this moments after hearing the Biden has dropped out.

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    • Juneteenth

      Happy Juneteenth, folks!

      I find many people get perplexed trying to explain what this holiday is. My advice? Keep it simple: Today we celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.

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    • Removing Dead Code From DNSControl

      A few weeks ago I used the golang tool deadcode to find and remove unreachable code from the DNSControl project. I also fixed some unrelated unused parameter warnings. This was my first experience with the utility and it was a good experience.

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    • Apple Vision... thoughts

      I wasn’t going to buy the new Apple Vision Pro but I thought I’d look at the web site.

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    • Niklaus Wirth has passed away at age 89

      Computer science pioneer Niklaus Wirth dies aged 89.

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    • Our House

      I thought I’d share some info about our house.

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    • The Greater Fool

      Some thoughts…

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    • Have a f***ing sales person call me!

      No, I won’t return your cold-call if your job title is similar to any of these:

      • “Business Development”
      • “Growth Account Executive”
      • “Revenue Operations”

      Hang up the phone. Stop sending me email.

      Find someone with “sales” in their title. Have them call me. I’lll gladly respond.

      Let me explain why:

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    • George Mack's Razors

      Goerge Mac (@george__mack) posted a list of rules and razors that he’s found useful. Before Twitter deletes them, I recorded them here.

      The originals are all here: https://twitter.com/george__mack/status/1649835213982408704

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    • In memory of Dr. Erwin False

      Today we celebrate the birthday of computer scientist Erwin False, computer science, innovator, and collaborator with George Boole in the invention of what we now call Boolean Algebra.

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    • My new ACM Queue column: Operations and Life

      I have 2 big announcements!

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    • Usenix LISA is no more. Here's my retrospective

      The Usenix LISA conference is no more. After 35 years, I have a lot of good (and some not good) memories of the conference. It was a big part of my career and I’m sad to see it go. However I’m proud of what LISA accomplished.

      I wrote my personal reflections on the conference in a new article published on the Usenix website. Warning: this article includes some over-sharing.

      Read it here: LISA made LISA obsolete (That’s a compliment!)

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    • How to disable stable-diffusion's safety filter

      You may have read Run Stable Diffusion on your M1 Mac’s GPU. (The Linux equivalent is here.)

      Here are a few code changes you might wish to make:

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    • Automating an un-automatable access issue

      This is a “face-palm – why didn’t we think of this earlier?” situation that I thought I’d share. Maybe it will help someone else.

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    • Facebook's Metaverse Doomed to Fail

      Facebook/Meta’s VR will fail.

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    • My prediction from January 2, 2016

      A friend of mine dug up this Facebook post that I wrote in 2016. I hate when I’m right.

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    • Biden Needs to Promote His Success

      Biden is actually doing an amazing job but he’s being humble. This will cost him the election. He needs to start boasting.

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    • Mayo Clinic finds and fires 700 bio-terrorists!

      Headline: Mayo Clinic fires 700 employees for knowingly bringing harmful biological substances to work.

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    • ProTip: Give Your Enemy Bad Advice

      One of the most cynical tactics of GOPers is to make public statements recommending bad advice for Democrats. Then reporters join in and start repeating this bad advice. Soon there is a groundswell of support for this bad advice and the Democrats are tempted to cave. The GOPers cackle as they watch the Democrats fall into their trap.

      Want some examples?

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    • Don't make me use Cisco WebEx

      Here are my rules for using Cisco WebEx.

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    • Fun With Shipping

      I have to blog this so that when people say “that can’t be true” I can point to this blog post.

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    • The Minimalist Headset Solution

      I got sick and tired video conferences being delayed by audio problems. I know that a lot of times it is a problem on my end, but I think everyone has had audio problems. How did I fix it? I got rid of any feature that caused me trouble until I had a trouble-free headset experience. Spoiler alert: I had to eliminate nearly all features. The purpose of this blog post is to provide links so that people can purchase the same equipment I now use.

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    • Cory Booker Teases Tuberville Over Defund The Police

      Senator Cory Booker just did something awesome.

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    • Numberwang (all videos)

      That’s Numberwang!

      I’m not going to try to explain.

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    • VMware WorkspaceONE Notifications are a crime against productivity

      VMware’s WorkspaceOne has an annoying feature on macOS where every time it does an update you get a notification. This steals my cursor, interrupts my work, and breaks my concentration.

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    • Commonly misused business metaphors

      I keep hearing people misuse metaphors, or say them incorrectly. Here’s a list of them.

      I’m considering building a website that lists metaphors and their correct use. In the meanwhile, this blog post will have to do.

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    • Vim n.n.n.n.n.n.

      What does “n.n.n.n.” do in Vim?

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