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My favorite picture from Chicago.

I didn't think I'd be shoveling snow off my porch in mid-April.  And yet here we are.  The joys of living in the great white North.

Apparently 42.5% of developers "love" C while 57.5% of developers "dread" it.  #devsurvey2019 #culturaldivide

According to StackOverflow developer survey results, Python is  a "loved" language, which is at odds with how it's viewed among my peers, who tend to hate it.  Typescript is also a "loved" language, which I can get on board with.

I mean, I can't be the only one who thinks Netanyahu and Gantz look disturbingly alike?

Wait...Netanyahu and Gantz are different people?

I'm disappointed in season 2 of American Gods.  I'll have to abandon it if it doesn't improve soon.

The Expanse is one of the most densely plotted shows I've ever seen.

I think I've hit IndieMark Level 1 #indieweb

It's not that #GlassMovie was horrible.  It's that it could have been so much better.

I made the mistake of blinking and now Angular is on version a million

Blogging and personal websites and email are considered old school and I just want to cry.

Hrm. I'm beginning to get a bit worried that Jane from "Jane Says" may not ever actually make it to Spain.

I have a large collection of digital photos dating back over 15 years. An impressively small fraction of them are actually any good, but that's a different conversation, probably revolving around my digital hoarding habits.

Such a large collection deserves a particular method of organization. Or maybe it doesn't. Did I mention they're mostly mediocre? Anyway, I have one! I thought I'd share in case anyone finds it useful (including a future version of myself, my mind being a sieve and all).

The procedure I came up with is strongly influenced by several personal idiosyncrasies. Obviously, not everyone shares these traits, so your mileage will definitely vary - though I think it's always interesting to read about how other people do things.

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As you walk down a typical street in Manhattan the first thing you notice is just how straight it is. Roads in Manhattan have actual vanishing points, like railroad tracks. You walk slowly towards this point that you will never reach, and the cross streets come up one at a time, at perfectly spaced intervals and at perfectly right angles. First you look left, and then you look right, and you're taken aback at how perfectly straight those roads are as well, and how they also seem to go on forever in the distance.

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Now that pot is legal, I think I'm high from all the collective haze of smoke that spontaneously appeared over Montreal this morning. Just kidding. I'm pretty sure that was smog.

I ether saw John Goodman on my way to work today, or someone who looked a hell of a lot like him.

Maniac on Netflix feels like it's taking place in the same universe as Blade Runner

On a list of "movies I watched and liked as a kid but in retrospect of kind of horrific" I think "The Parent Trap" is near the top of list.

Home for a Rest could easily be about death and despair if it were sung differently.

I feel like a lot of Italian cuisine is basically a competition over which dish has the highest (tastiness / # of ingredients) ratio.

Rice pudding ice cream is a thing? I....want some. Like, right now.

"A lot of problems would have been solved in the old west if they simply built towns big enough for two people"

I think fresh cheese curds might be the main reason to live in Quebec.

Google's AngularJS is one of the most popular web frameworks out there, but it comes with its share of criticism (performance around two way binding being one of the more prominent complaints). Google responded by releasing Angular 2 (and, as of now, 4, 5 and 6), which addressed some of the issues but at the cost of being drastically incompatible with its predecessor, with no realistic way to upgrade except through pure elbow grease. Angular 2+ might as well be a completely different framework.

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