Sun 17 November 2024

The rise and fall of the popularity of programming languages is fun to watch.

Quick disclaimer: I'm not a programmer. I've never held a programming job. I have been interested in programming as a hobby for several decades, and have written shell scripts as a part of my job in …

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Fri 01 November 2024

This article is written based on a prompt I shared with a friend a couple weeks ago. You can my article from that "round-robin" prompt exercise here.

Since neither of my fedifriends have written their prompts yet, I'm actually borrowing the idea I gave Amin to write:

I'm going to …

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Thu 24 October 2024

A while back, a friend and I exchanged subjects for blog posts, which turned out to actually be a lot of fun.

A week ago, he, I, and another fedifriend got together to exchange blog post ideas/prompts, round-robin style.

The prompt I was given (with purposefully no context) was …

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