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In Response to a Spammer at rally4israel.com
Last week I received some… colorful… spam through rally4israel.com, a project I started in April 2024 (and perhaps the subject for another post). My first instinct was to ignore the message, but over the next 24 hours a response started to form in th...
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A poem I wrote years ago, slightly edited
Sep 28, 20251 min readThe Tale of the Flickering Monitors, part 2: You're (not) Grounded!
This is a followup to my previous post: The Tale of the Flickering Monitors. To recap, my monitors were blinking in strange and disruptive ways. The culprit turned out to be my treadmill, and spraying some water on it made the flickering stop. If tha...
Aug 26, 20254 min readThe Tale of the Flickering Monitors
A story of frustration, persistence, and spray bottles
Aug 20, 20256 min readLinux Boot Trouble: "Gave up waiting for root file system"
Notes for future me (👋) on a bug I hit starting up my dual-boot laptop
May 4, 20252 min readPython Operator Chaining… and why you still can’t trust ChatGPT
A colleague of mine recently posted the following on a Teams channel which we’ve appropriately named “Something cool I learned today!”: "a" in "abc" is True will evaluate to False (!) This is because the [Python] interpreter reads this as "a" in ("a...
Mar 3, 20253 min readPython Imports and Module Caching
This is another post based on Dr. Fred Baptiste’ Python 3: Deep Dive series. For more, head over to Udemy. What happens behind the scenes in a python import statement? Glad I asked. Here’s how it works: Check sys.modules: Python first checks sys.mod...
Jan 14, 20253 min readPython Decorators: How They Work and How to Write One
This is a talk I gave back in February 2023 at Centers Healthcare explaining how python decorators work and how to write one. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_t21RUHqM
Jan 13, 20251 min read