Et cetera

Literally “the rest of it”. There’s a little more of my own words and opinions in these.

  • Re: Trading

    During the pandemic, I, too did a little trading. Only in the most conservative beginner way (no leverage, no futures). I’ve also since mostly moved away from it, but I spent some time learning a few things rooting around in the morass of grifters, thieves, cons, and vaporcoins. I didn’t go broke, so here are […]

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  • AI Images

    This is a gallery of images made by Dall-E 2 from prompts my daughter and I made. I picked the favorites.

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  • Lazy Programmer

    I was talking with someone once about a project and as we were wrapping up, I made a lighthearted self deprecating comment about the best developers being lazy ones. Initially, I thought I’d misread the tenor of our conversation, because he seized on my comment with a vengeance. He was suddenly kind of shockingly angry. […]

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  • Conveying Value

    One challenge of freelance work for me has been conveying the value of my work- whether that’s consulting, or even deliverables to clients. As a brilliant way to address this, one of my old mentors gave me this paper on planning a web site. It did help streamline spec-ing out jobs, but that was a […]

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  • Below is some very unoriginal whinging and I sound like a curmudgeon, but I’m saying it anyway because it’s true and to move past it. I get it, things change, code changes, products change, competition enters, and people gotta eat. It’s disheartening to admit though that I don’t seem to be able to make clients […]

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