Unavoidable
Seen on separate days just off Syntagama Square in Athens, Greece. For the non-religious - your author included - these religious zealots are way too active/visible on the streets of…
Tolerance …. to a point
A oft-seen bumper sticker - at least in Minnesota - advocates tolerance: political, religion, sexual, whatever. Totally get it, totally agree with it. It's what the The Youngbloods were singing…
Meandering Thoughts #53
From the EuroNews article Ranked: These are the best airports in Europe for punctuality and passenger experience: Though I don't know why the author referred to South Africa - which…
OPNSense Port Forwarding
I recently replaced my home router with a device running OPNSense. Very successful production deployment. I deployed a Navidrome server for streaming my personal music collection to Subsonic-supported clients. I…
OPNSense on Protectli Vault 1610
Overview A Cisco LRT224 Dual WAN router has been the cornerstone of my home network for over a decade: solid, easy to configure, above-average performance, VPN server, and other prosumer…
The Lost Cafe Schindler
An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria. Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at…
Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory
Oskar Schindler's name and his role in protecting Jews from the Holocaust during World War II became known globally with the release of Schindler's List. His efforts are recognized by…
Meandering Thoughts #52
Anyone job searching knows a quality, well-written CV gives you the best chance of surviving the initial cull of applicants; conversely, misspellings and grammatical mistakes allow those hiring to quickly…
API Standards ARE Data Standards
"Amelia in Code" by donnierayjones is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Aside from those whom have ignored technology trends for the last twenty years, everyone else is aware of -…
Maintainable Code #1
This code snippet (FirJvmStaticChecker.kt:72) caught my eye while digging into Kotlin codebase: if ( container !is FirClassSymbol || container.classKind != ClassKind.OBJECT || !container.isCompanion() && containerIsAnonymous ) { ... } else…