Month: July 2024
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Feeling Like A Teenager Again
Read more: Feeling Like A Teenager AgainSo a friend of mine introduced me to his friend, a girl he knew in high school and is friends with on Facebook. They were never an item but friends. I’ve been talking to her now for about three weeks and she’s really growing on me. Our conversations are usually pretty deep and meaningful. The…
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Mastodon On Podman
Read more: Mastodon On PodmanToday I am really proud of myself for having gotten Mastodon operational on Podman. I wanted a challenge and I wanted to get off of Docker because I don’t like Docker’s attitude towards open source. Furthermore, Docker is not as secure as Podman because Podman runs rootless by default. Below is how I got it…
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America Has Slums
Read more: America Has SlumsRobert Kiyosaki, the (in)famous author of Rich Dad Poor Dad has recently warned that America has slums. I simply want to respond to him with dripping sarcasm, “No shit, Sherlock!” Maybe it’s because in America we blame and punish the poor. In America, poverty is ironically very expensive. The poor pay more for basic goods…
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Gavin Newsom Makes Me So Angry
Read more: Gavin Newsom Makes Me So AngryGavin Newsom, governor of California, just issued an executive order to remove homeless encampments throughout the state. He states, “This executive order directs state agencies to move urgently to address dangerous encampments while supporting and assisting the individuals living in them — and provides guidance for cities and counties to do the same.” This makes…
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Frustration With Social Security
Read more: Frustration With Social SecurityLet me be perfectly blunt: my local Social Security office is all fouled up! It badly needs some oversight to come from Washington, D.C. Today, I actually had to fight with the representative to look over my record to see that my Social Security Disability Insurance is out of provisional status and in to what…
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Efforts In Vain Today
Read more: Efforts In Vain TodayToday learning just is not going to happen. I cannot seem to muster the focus necessary to engage in any learning even though it is a topic that I am very interested in, i.e. Linux. I am finding myself reading the same paragraph over and over. When that happens, it’s best just to put the…
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A Realization Has Hit
Read more: A Realization Has HitUnfortunately, web development is not going to be a practical path for me and I am okay with it. As I get deeper into the material, I am only getting more and more confused. I am confused to the point where I don’t even know how to get started on the project assigned and my…
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Been Away From My Blog
Read more: Been Away From My BlogIt’s been awhile since I’ve written anything on my blog and it’s because I have been totally immersed in The Odin Project, my web development class. It turned out that I had all kinds of bugs on my calculator project and really had to start from scratch. The calculator project was, by far, the most…
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Major Success With Odin
Read more: Major Success With OdinToday I had a major success with The Odin Project. I completed the final project of the Foundations part of the course. The final project of this stage was to build a basic calculator with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. And yes, I completed it and I did some of the extra credits by making the…
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Writing Code
Read more: Writing CodeI’m starting to realize that coding and software development is a lot like learning another written language. It’s replete with its own set of grammar rules and elements of style. Thus far, I’m kind of muddling through the journey. At times, I’m sure the code I’ve written is garbage despite getting the goal achieved. I’m…
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