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  • Brain dump from artist alley

    Every year I spend a several days at our local Comic-Con in an artist’s booth. I have nothing to do than sit and look pretty. This is when my creative side comes out. But what I think are good ideas are usually met with cringe faces, and threats to be…

  • Mr Wilson’s Halloween Display

    In the house I grew up in, books were used as a form of punishment. Because I was a rotten kid I was often being punished with reading. Honestly, as much as we butted heads, it would have been better if my stepfather just beat me with the damn books.…

  • My Week Creating a Plant Sale Order Form

    Someone at my church asked me if I could create a website for the youth group’s plant sale. Usually, I would say no, mainly because I am lazy and not a web developer, but I agreed to help. I think the phrase I used was, “I could muddle through it.”…

  • The Discord Around Apple: A Developer’s Dilemma

    Apple is hailed for its innovative products and commitment to excellence. Yet, beneath the sleek exterior lies a company embroiled in controversies and facing criticism on various fronts. As a developer in Apple’s ecosystem, I’m grappling with the dichotomy of Apple: the idealistic vision it espouses and the harsh realities…

  • The Mac-iPad Unification

    I’ve been sitting on this for a week while I helped Duckies Doodles with Planet Comicon 2024 in Kansas City. It was a blast; we had a great time. Recently Federico Viticci at MacStories.net revealed his Frankenstein MacPad, a hybrid Mac-iPad that he had created. Using just Apple software, he…

  • Hello, world!

    I was advised that my first blog post should be a simple introduction, so the best way to do that would be in various languages I have learned over the years. So here goes… BASIC C Pascal x86 Assembler COBOL Lisp Bash C++ HTML Perl Java AccentR SQL Objective-C Arduino…