If you’ve been programming, or learning programming over the past year or so, you should have seen many of the coding assistants… MS Copilot, Claude, Chatgpt and similar. While these have been very handy in looking up how to build a thing – and even building the thing (sometimes successfully!) There are a lot of reasons why you should do the real coding for your project… Or at least read and add your changes and files manually, from a browser vs built in IDE features.
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March 14th is Pi day – a national holiday in celebration of mathematics. For anyone who has done anything with morse code or ham radio, this game combines them with Pi digits for a challenging game:
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If you’re like me you may have preferred the old open-source Silence app, over the default Android’s text messages for many years… It had an optional encrypt option that sometimes worked, it had its own backup/restore to restore to a new phone, but unfortunately that is incompatible with others and now has an incompatibility warning with Android 15…
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As you may have heard in the news today, many thousands of cell phone users did not have service today, on Verizon or phones trying to connect to a Verizon number.
Continue reading “Verizon Outage Highlights need for Amateur Radio, Backup Radios”Wrapping a book? Have you tried the wrapping paper diagonally?
This Christmas, I was wrapping a rectangular present and noted that the regular way of wrapping did not work for a portion of wrapping paper – but diagonally, it would work, or almost work for rectangular items.
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There were recent headlines about Somali fraud in the charitable systems in Minnesota… While all fraud in the millions of dollars is something we should investigate, track down, and denounce, the recent collective punishment might be out of proportion…
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Remember the previous social media channel Twitter that was redefined by a well known billionaire? I had heard that it is not in use as much anymore, but after hearing from multiple channels about entrepreneurs promoting their stuff quite successfully, I decided to try it out…
Continue reading “Four ways Twitter/X is a mess right now…”Daylight Savings Time Alert… time to set your… cron jobs?
For those with a non-“smart” alarm or watch, this Sunday (November 2nd, 2025) may be the time to fall back an hour. It’s also a time developers watch for odd errors…
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App-tive-climbing – the game that lets you be active – be climbing – be learning, even without a rock wall, is now free! Check the website for details and a link to in-browser game or the Google Play link (for newer Android devices).
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As you may have heard, today is the last day of Windows 10 security updates. What does that mean for future potential security of your systems? Well, there are several options:
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