Don’t consent to searches
If you ever want a damned good reason to never consent to a police search of your phone or other electronic device, take this case out of Oregon recently decide...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
AOC did nothing wrong
Two things to say up front before getting into Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s recent letter to the Attorney General. First, it is not a crime to inform people of th...
Claudia Tenney seeks to commandeer the States
Now that the text of the bill is finally available, let’s go through this. Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24) introduced HR.373 as part of the 119th Congress, calle...
My own Linux challenge
Plenty of tech YouTube channels have taken a plunge into daily-driving Linux. And I’d actually been wanting to do so for the longest time. The holdup hasn...
Open source++
Given what’s been coming out of open source projects in the last few months, with waves of purges and “cleansings” to rid projects and reposit...
“Bloat” doesn’t mean what you think it does
So a few weeks ago I come across a post calling the engineers of old “lazy” because a decision to not record all 4 digits of a year led to a worldwi...
Photography made me a better programmer
Actually, no, it didn’t. But that doesn’t mean the two never overlapped. Like most photographers out there, I do post my work online. To Instagram, ...
Commenting your code
My philosophy on comments is pretty simple. They’re for explaining outlier situations, not handholding. You don’t write comments to point out the ob...
DF64 Gen 2 coffee grinder
About a year ago, I wrote about the Timemore Chestnut C3 manual grinder and explained that, while it’s a capable grinder, I bought it merely as a stopgap ...
Pardons aren’t without consequences
The President’s pardon power is unconditional and unquestionable. He has the power to pardon anyone for crimes against the United States. And in some last...