2020

2020 category

Started reading: Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry.

A Hallmark Channel AI Christmas

Another piece I wrote in collaboration with an A.I., this time, trying to create the most stereotypical Hallmark movie plot possible. I failed. You are a young woman coming home from the city. You are … Read more

Fixing GPG Yubikey integration on macOS Big Sur

I had some trouble after upgrading GPGTools to version 2020.2 on macOS Big Sur, where it would ignore my Yubikey smart card and I couldn’t unlock my stuff. Every time I tried to use gpg (Yubikey … Read more

Painfully Rendering a Simple Bar Chart with Nivo

I’ve been working on a graphing project for the Astoria Digital volunteer group in collaboration with Muckrock. The app will visualize data around New York’s 50a police disciplinary record … Read more

Read the short story Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit by Rebecca Curtis.

Finished reading: Dungeon World Sage LaTorra & Adam Koebel. It took me 11 days.

Started reading: Dungeon World Sage LaTorra & Adam Koebel.

PHP Boolean Casting Gotchas

I find PHP’s boolean casting rules strange and hard to remember. I know I’m not alone. To help myself out, and anyone else that happens to stumble upon it, I wrote a commented script that … Read more

Started reading: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro.

Finished reading: Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro.

Started reading: Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen.

Read: Design Ethics by Mike Monteiro.

Read the short story The Sand Banks, 1861 by David Wright Faladé.

Read the short story Cicadia by David Gilbert.

Finished reading: The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe. Took me 2 days.

Started reading: The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe.

Finished reading: Kindred by Octavia Butler. What an incredible book. Took me 10 days.

Read the short story Asymmetry by Kendra Fortmeyer.

Did not finish Eloquent Javascript

I did not finish reading Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke. I really liked it though. I leave out hope I’ll go back to it, but it took me almost 2 years to get to this point. I never went … Read more

Finished reading The AWK Programming Language

Finished reading: The AWK Programming Language by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan & Peter J. Weinberger. Took me around two months and two weeks. This was really helpful to read even the first … Read more

Started reading: Kindred by Octavia Butler.

Read the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.

New article: Actually Using the General Sibling Combinator: https://www.chrisdeluca.me/article/actually-using-the-general-sibling-combinator/

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Actually Using the General Sibling Combinator

I&rsquo;ve vaguely known about CSS&rsquo;s general sibling combinator for a while, but I have never found a practical use case for it, until now. And let me tell you, the results are, get ready for … Read more

Started reading: Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Y. Bhargava.