Moving On
As of this writing I moved on from my previous host and I am now moving to this more modern and secure location. My previous host has been getting more and more expensive and less and less modern featured for years.
July 8, 2016 Lightning
These are the first lightning photos in several months. It was a good electrical storm but the lightning wasn't so photogenic.
Saving Console Messages in JavaScript
Have you ever encountered a situation where it would be beneficial to save whatever is written to the console across browser sessions? If you have, you know there are not many solutions. I recently decided that localStorage would be a good candidate to implement a solution to this problem with.…
Decisions in 1 Pomodori
All programmers suffer from analysis paralysis at some point in their career. The trick is bringing it to a swift conclusion. Try this to move forward next time. Give yourself 1 pomorodi (25 minutes) to analyze the problem. After that make a decision and go with it. Whatever falls out…
Node.js vs Python vs PyPy – A Simple Performance Comparison – Updated
Some History This is a followup to my original post: Node.js vs Python vs PyPy - A Simple Performance Comparison. This article corrects a discrepancy caused by a slight difference in the JavaScript implementation which skewed the Node.js results. The Algorithm As stated in the previous article, I've attempted to…
The Flood of Social Media Posts – Whats Wrong, How To Mitigate It, How To Fix It
What's Wrong Since its creation, social media has taken off at an exponential rate. Each day more and more people are creating accounts and contributing to the feed. Facebook is the service most readily adopted, mainly because of the people already on it. In the case of Facebook, lets say…
The Early Days of Flight
This post started from a comment I made on facebook about the "Volocopter" story on CNN. At the time my comment was "Why does this look like something from the early days of flight?" That it turns out is a very good question and an even better follow-up, "Aren't we in…
The Final Apollo Mission – December 7, 1972
On December 7, 1972 (41 years ago today) the final manned mission to the moon blasted off from Kennedy Space Center. Eugene Cernan was the last person to walk on the moon on December 14, 1972 at roughly 05:40 GMT. It is ultimately hard to believe that its been 41…
Tullahoma, TN Halloween Pirate Ship Decoration
Took this picture of an awesome Halloween decoration in Tullahoma, TN this week... Complete with Kraken.