Because technology should be the means, not the end.
When you realize that all your stuff is going to belong to someone else someday, it removes any lingering guilt. Gift that stuffie to your niece. You get to enjoy bringing a smile to her face and save someone else from feeling guilty about throwing Mr. McButtons in the trash in the future.
Messie Condo, Nobody Wants Your Sh*t: The Art of Decluttering Before You Die
This weekend, I finally completed a review of the Rogue C# series and the Kindle edition is now live on Amazon.com. While the actual development of the game itself is nowhere near complete, you can now have an offline version to read on your Kindle or other eBook reader. The EPUB and PDF editions remain…
Listen to this post or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) This site has seen a lot of changes since I first started it in March 2000, just as I have. It started out as Drewslair.com, a purely personal website where I talked about some of my tech work and did a bit of…
I circled back to working with Python this weekend and learned how to use the BeautifulSoup HTML parser.
Vanessa Wingårdh’s video, Subscription Scam: We’ve Been Tricked!, reminded me to check through my current subscriptions and I thoroughly recommend taking a few minutes to check it out. She provides a number of examples from other YouTubers who have discovered just how insidious the subscription trap can be and how easy it is to rack up hundreds of dollars in charges or more every year.
From the introduction to Self-Guided SQL – I continue to define my use of A.I. every day as the tools evolve and I face new situations but this still sums it up well. There is one thing that will not change as long as I continue to create and share content and that is that…
I’m starting another review of my recently published book, Self-Guided SQL: Build Your SQL Skills with SQLite, looking for anything I might have missed, and one thought I had was adding more material on how to access SQLite from programming environments. A couple of months ago, I uploaded a video on how to create a…
Listen to this post or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) It seems like, every few years, I get the urge to play around with Python programming. This time, I found myself looking at some of my old BASIC files from back in the day and knew I needed a better challenge so I…
Listen to this post or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) I just picked up an Amicool External DVD Drive after I realized I’d lost my last means of accessing DVDs when my old computer died. There was no setup and no external power source – just plug it in to the USB, insert…
Several years ago, during my short time as a programming instructor, I came up with an assignment for the students where I asked them to create a financial calculator that would calculate mortgage statistics and savings accumulated with compound interest. Of course, I designed my own version and posted it to Github. While looking over…
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Listen to this article or continue reading below. (Audio provided by ElevenLabs.) Kamrui Essenx E1 Specs and Features Leaving the Tower (This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com. The products shown have been personally reviewed by the author and found to meet the standards for advertising and recommendation on ComeauSoftware.com.) I lost my old tower…