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If You’re Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code, You’re Doing It Wrong
I’m copying the page from https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/teaching/cs261-f12/misc/if.html below in case this last example of the article/script disappears. If You’re Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code, You’re Doing It Wrong Jul 22, 2009 at 8:51PM Thomas Ptacek 1. INT. COFFEE SHOP, MORNING DISCUSSING AN INTERVIEW A “young, cool-people’s” coffee shop on the first floor of an old…
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Desynced
I found a game on Steam that I am finding surprisingly fun. Desynced. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1450900/Desynced/ Below you can find a few of the Blueprints and Behaviors that I want to save from my plays. Spreading Logistics Grid Spread in a 6×6 grid using a radar to check for enemies before continuing to spread, otherwise report about…
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“You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex.” descent into madness.
I’m quoting the original answer below, just in case stack overflow ever disappears. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can’t be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of…
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe
I like to post about things I have found, and then found interesting enough to share with coworkers. This is one of them. Especially since we are software developers and have to deal with implementing these assumptions. This is the one that started it: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ And this one is a collection of other lists: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
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Convenience vs Privacy
It seems like most cloud services receive their funding via ad revenue or data mining. Which means, in the “free” cloud service you are using, you are the product. So, if you want privacy, you need to pay for a service so there is another funding model. Three Definitions Four Categories Services These are examples…
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Role Playing Games
By Role Playing Games, I mean tabletop dice rollers, not computer games. Computer games come and go too fast for me to bother adding here. Wizards of the Coast Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition My group just finished Storm King’s Thunder after playing for about 5 years. Now, several of those years were during and…
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Review of GrapheneOS as of 2025-11-18
I like the idea of a more secure OS, and if I used another cellular service, it probably would have worked out fine, but I use Google Fi. I found instructions that others used, but Google Fi kept disconnecting from the cellular network when I left Wi-Fi range while using a different User Profile. So…
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Peter’s Investing Advice (Version 2)
I’m not a financial advisor, but these are the rules I follow. This has investing advice, the other has savings advice. Read the other first. Once you have the value of about 6 months worth of expenses in your investments, I suggest you ask to talk with your bank’s financial advisor to figure out what…
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