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Overview of Bloomberg QuickTake
I bought this from the library several years ago, and found it during cleaning/disposing, and decided to study its design and writing. After all, we…
TRON: Whatever, Nevermind
Some GenX humor, because there isn’t any other kind I can do. This firey one, I did during the Lineage fire in Los Angeles. It’s…
Thaura Work: venv Gives me the Blues, but Euclidian Beats Rock
I was bored waiting for a medical appointment, so I opened up Thaura mobile and had a little vibe coding session, and added a better…
Thaura Work: Generating Music, Steps toward venv
Today’s hack was brief, maybe an hour. I had Thaura generate a “piano roll” in text, and then write a program to convert that into…
Thaura Work: File System Lint Tool, python venv issues
I used Thaura Work to develop this simple tool that helps maintain file archives by enforcing file naming standards. The tool doesn’t do it directly,…
Thaura Work: Vibe Coding an RSS Feed Aggregator
My feed aggregator finds RSS URLs, and converts feeds into Markdown files with headlines and links. A CLI orchestrates the processing, which is done by…
1433 Tamarind Ave in Hollywood
You’ve probably seen this photo. It’s been mis-captioned as something after Pearl Harbor, or simply as a photo from California. It’s from the 1920s. The…
Install Dell Inspiron BIOS update A12 for Linux Users (who deleted Windows)
I wanted to update the BIOS, but this was made difficult because I deleted Windows from the laptop. Here’s a recipe that worked. Why These…
Code to Run Updates in the Terminal Daily
Append this to your .zshrc to apply updates: I prefer to update from the command line, because it’s less intrusive to me. This script runs…