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In my various websites and web applications, I often need to store some things and later retrieve them. Mostly for this I use a really simple key value store called "Stashy", that I built, oh, decades ago. Imagine I have a "plain old class object", and I want to save it. It might be an object called "myNewBlogPost". I will call:...

Now that everyone else has to work from home let me share my tips from 5 happy years of this way of life: Get some exercise! Measure your steps and make sure you do a healthy amount every day. Super important. With no incidental walking your fitness can really drop. Music! Music is crucial for me and maybe for you too. I bought a spotify...

I use a plain text file to manage my daily todo items. (Gina Trapani championed this idea with the "todo.txt" movement) and I use some little bits of console goodness to make it work my way. I like to jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace. At the start of each day I run a powershell script, "today" that does a bunch of calculations, opens up...

Well it's the roaring 20's at last and here's the blogpost where I look back on the annual output of a machine I call "me". I spend a lot of time berating myself for the things I didn't do, so it's pretty odd to look back and see that a lot of things did get out the door. Numbers in parens, e.g. "(3,2,1)", are the figures from last year, the year...