Life

Monarch Butterfly Extinction

As a kid, I’d collect butterflies with my father and brother. We caught many types in the canyons near Rose Creek. By far, the most populous was the Monarch. I remember complaining about only catching Monarchs. “Nothing interesting”, I’d say and was reprimanded by my father. He’d say, “in your lifetime, the Monarch will become …

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Technology

Books of 2021

Last year, I started a list of the books I’ve read, updating about every quarter (still investigating how to auto-update through a Kindle API of some sort). This year, I want to call out some of my reading habits. Reading MoreFirst thing is that I’ve been reading more. I usually find a book I really …

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Technology

Stack Overflow As The Last Resort

On April Fool’s, Stack Overflow introduced their copy/paste keyboard which later became a real thing – The Key. There had been other jokes in the past limiting the number of times you could copy text from their pages before you had to start paying. Many coders learn new languages quickly by using examples from SO …

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