Category: Skills
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Would It Hurt To Document The Device You Sent Me?
I am actually good at this computer stuff. It is what I do. So I get frustrated when I order hardware and it doesn’t work. A month ago, I ordered a Mini-ITX board. It was cheap, and it wasn’t 17×17 cm, it was 17x19cm. Which didn’t fit in the case. The low profile CPU cooler/fan…
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Prepping – Surviving in the Cold
I had the joy of staying at the Fort last weekend. Originally, the temperatures were supposed to be in the high 40s at night, and the 60s during the day. Perfect Fort weather! That didn’t turn out to be correct (go figure…). It was below freezing overnight Friday night into Saturday morning, and Saturday night…
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The Weekly Feast – The 80s Want Their Spinach Dip Back
For whatever reason, every party I ever went to in the 1980s included at least one version of this dip, served in a bread bowl. I’m not sure why we stopped making it, because it’s iconic comfort food, tasty and with a healthy kick to it from the spinach. Therefore, I shall share it with…
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Prepping – Annuals and Perennials
There are two main types of plants in the world: annuals, which you plant from seed (or cutting or slips or whatever) each year, and perennials, which come back every year. Some examples of annuals are cucumbers, lettuce, potatoes, peppers, and zucchini. Each year, you need to plant new plants. Each year, they complete their…
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The Weekly Feast – Turkish Yogurt Bread
I discovered this recipe by watching an older Turkish couple in Azerbaijan on YouTube. They don’t share amounts, but the woman cooks on screen, and I made educated guesses about how much of everything to put in. She uses this recipe both to make these flat breads, and as a crust for meat pies. I’ve…
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Document Object Model
A modern website is a complex system of inter related pieces. Each of which must work correctly and communicate correctly with the other parts of the system. As website creators, we break the design into the Frontend and the Backend. The front end is anything the end user sees, while the back end is responsible…
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Unit testing
This is boring geek babble. Quality Assurance is not something computer nerds are good at. It is boring, repetitive, and difficult. That doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done. Instead, it means that you need somebody to do QA for you. You cannot do QA on your own. You won’t see your own errors. Consider a…
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Prepping – Inside to Outside
We’re almost at the point in time when some of the seedlings you’ve planted should be going outside. Hardy greens like kale, cabbage, and chard will probably be able to weather the outside temperatures in the next week or two. This means there’s a lot of work to do! The first thing you need to…
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Project Management
Love it or hate it, project management is a thing. It has to be there. If you don’t think it is there, you are just doing it badly. Project Managers are a different kettle of fish. Some need to be boiled alive. Others can just dance on hot rocks. And a very few can sit…
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The Weekly Feast – Chicken Ramen Stir Fry
Everyone in my house loves stir fry. I do all kinds of stir fry dishes, too. I make a great coconut Thai curry, and my ginger soy poke bowls aren’t bad either. Recently, I was in a mood for noodles instead of rice, though, and I went looking and found a recipe for using ramen…