Bemused ramblings some dude says on the internet
Content is king may be the most abused cliché in marketing, but it isn’t backing down from asserting itself over reality. The truth is, if you want to make money off of content, you can either create content which appeals to everyone and manages to obtain great word of mouth and manages to just touch every heart everywhere, or you need to make a lot of content which makes a few people (comparatively) happy at a time.… Read the rest
Windows patching tends to be synonymous with disaster when measured at scale. If you work in IT, you’ve seen what happens when a patch isn’t thoroughly tested before deployment. You might push your schedule back a week or two to audit patches, or you might use a small test environment, but even with all of these measures, Windows 10 (and server derivatives) tends to have more than its fair share of patches which break things and have unintended side effects.… Read the rest
One concept which pops up when dealing with the basics of object-oriented programming (OOP) is when should you use a static class versus a non-static class. In some languages, this distinction doesn’t explicitly exist, but in others, it can impact resource usage and functionality. The matter gets even further convoluted since static classes can bleed into standard procedural programming in some languages.… Read the rest
If you’ve ever had to administer anything like Linux, BSD, Solaris, or similar, you know just how powerful command line can be. Almost any POSIX operating system can be wholly administered from command line. Even Microsoft has started to catch up on administration with advances in Powershell. Command line gives a much easier experience automating and administrating a system at the expense of a harder learning curve.… Read the rest
Everyone who develops using a Linux distribution has heard of Eclipse as a GUI IDE or used something like Vim, Emacs, or some other text editor of choice from console to develop with. If you’re in something like Python, you may have heard of Eric IDE or any of the other Python IDE’s. There are all sorts of different development environments available on Linux platforms ranging from console to GUI and ranging from largely manual to autocompleting almost everything for you.… Read the rest
Sinolingua‘s Graded Chinese Reader series is great if you want something to read, learn from, and not feel like a textbook. While a lesson intentionally shoehorning 15 new words in each paragraph might be more efficient, there gets to be a point where you just want to read something that isn’t structured or guided.
These are legitimate short stories which have been edited to fit a vocabulary limitation without entirely controlling the content.… Read the rest