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2026

09.13 Don’t Get Cut by Hanlon’s Razor jobs

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2025

06.27 MCP Security Framework - June 2025 Updates ai

06.23 LLMs get their own OWASP Top 10 ai

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2024

11.17 New Top Bird in the yard:Dark-eyed Junco nature

11.13 The Seven Stages of Job Satisfaction jobs

11.13 M4 Mac, Ollama, and Mandelbrot Sets development

Links 19 weekly roundups

12.16 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, December 9, 2024

12.09 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, December 2, 2024

12.02 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, November 25, 2024

11.25 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, November 18, 2024

11.18 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, November 11, 2024

11.11 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, November 4, 2024

11.04 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, October 28, 2024

10.28 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, October 21, 2024

10.21 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, October 14, 2024

10.14 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, October 7, 2024

10.07 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, September 30, 2024

09.30 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, September 23, 2024

09.23 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, September 16, 2024

09.16 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, September 9, 2024

09.09 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, September 2, 2024

09.02 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, August 26, 2024

08.26 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, August 19, 2024

08.19 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, August 12, 2024

08.12 Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, August 5, 2024

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2023

09.20 Reducing Shady ChatGPT Code Suggestions with Custom Instructions ai

09.13 Laborer, Craftsman, and Artist jobs

08.16 AI Tools: Is it Ethical? Legal? ai

08.15 The critical value of the in-person “rock tumbler” for polishing products and people jobs

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2022

10.17 Flutter on Raspberry Pi — Fall 2022 development

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2021

02.18 Remembering Cal Van Dyke personal

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2020

09.25 “It is well” — This Old House, Day 6 personal

09.23 “As Is” — This Old House, Day 0 personal

09.22 This Old House personal

09.22 “Knob and Tube” personal

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2018

07.18 Mueller “Netyksho” Indictment — an InfoSec Perspective development

07.16 The Case for Flutter — Mobile Meta Apps development

07.12 The Case for Flutter — Mobile-Oriented Architecture development

07.10 The Case for Flutter development

06.22 Flutter Talk Links development

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2017

06.12 Fun with Application Security - Beer City Code Conference 2017 - RECAP development

05.25 Password guidelines from NIST preview major changes tech

05.23 QR Codes and URL Shorteners – Beware tech

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2015

05.22 Circle with Disney tech

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2012

08.16 Thought-Ending Cliches personal

04.04 Ninja, Master Chief, Snow Speeder–Travel Around The World personal

04.02 Windows 8 Fatal Flaw – ARM Tablets only in Unmanaged Environments? tech

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2011

08.15 EBook Innovations Needed tech

08.11 Quit Bowling, and Start Digging Ditches – WCAGLS Day 1 jobs

08.01 Maker Faire Detroit 2011 science

07.13 Losing 70 pounds personal

07.12 Silverlight Certification Test – Passed development

07.06 TalkTimer app for WP7 development

07.06 Nook Simple Touch Reader – First Month tech

06.30 Rebooting the blog in WordPress blog

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2010

04.19 Lessons Learned: Craftsmen and artists of all types have a lot in common jobs

04.12 Why I make a fuss over the release of Visual Studio 2010 development

04.05 iPad Hands-On Impressions tech

03.30 Toastmasters for Techies jobs

03.19 Candyland, LCR, and Warstorm personal

03.12 Book Review: Think and Make It Happen personal

03.10 One Month of No Fast Food or Drive Thru personal

03.10 What is hypervideo anyway? development

02.14 How I broke my arm and will now set off every metal detector personal

02.06 Mouse Mischief: Multiple Mouse Support in PowerPoint with the MultiPoint Mouse SDK tech

02.05 Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals: Full Solution development

02.05 Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals: The MessageBus development

02.02 Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals: Automating the Transforms development

02.01 Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals with TransformGroup and MessageBus development

01.29 Evaluating the iPad: Consumer vs. Creator vs. Cross Platform tech

01.07 CodeMash Apps for iPhone development

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2009

12.16 What I Learned at the Silverlight Partner Summit 2009 development

12.01 Confusion and FUD around Silverlight PDC Announcements development

11.13 Continuous Learning Lessons from Leaf Blowing jobs

10.27 Where does all the money for schools go? personal

10.14 Success in drying out waterlogged Laptop tech

10.05 Why I am voting for Nessie personal

09.20 Brother Color Laser Printer HL-4040CDN tech

09.10 Fearless by Max Lucado personal

08.04 Programming for Today’s Kids development

07.19 Kodu Review and First Impressions development

07.18 Homemade Kubb Set Plans and Report personal

06.22 Dell Latitude 2100 “kidbook” – Detailed First Impressions and Tips tech

06.15 NECC 2009 Themes tech

05.03 Windows 7 Makes Vista Look Like “New Coke” – Tips and Impressions tech

04.22 Silverlight 101 Presentation and Files from .NET University West Michigan 2009 development

02.20 Tech Trends and Netbooks tech

02.17 Marie Catrib’s Restaurant Review personal

02.11 Outliers by Malcom Gladwell personal

01.14 2009 Reading List – Already out of control personal

01.06 What is CodeMash? development

01.02 2008 Retrospective personal

Links 6 weekly roundups

12.07 Post Interesting Links to Blog 12/08/2009

11.26 Post Interesting Links to Blog 11/27/2009

07.30 Post Interesting Links to Blog 07/31/2009

07.29 Post Interesting Links to Blog 07/30/2009

07.27 Post Interesting Links to Blog 07/28/2009

06.29 Post Interesting Links to Blog 06/30/2009

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2008

12.24 What would make a good/great Netbook? tech

12.04 Another reason I love Woot. personal

10.28 ImplicitStyleManager – Hidden Gem in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2008 development

10.22 MVC Beta – Non-GAC implementation development

10.19 World Animal Day – boston.com nature

10.18 Silverlight IRL #2 – Fast Data Access w/ NHibernate development

10.15 Silverlight IRL – Requests development

10.09 Someone had to do it! personal

09.16 Reason #458 People Don’t Like Computers ui

07.07 Silverlight Proof-of-Concept – Top 10 Questions to Be Answered development

06.11 Lessons from Keynote #2 – Steve Jobs tech

06.10 Lessons from Keynote #1: Bill Gates tech

06.06 How I Got Started in Software Development jobs

05.19 Community Clips tech

05.12 MVC Tips and Tricks from WMDoDN 08 development

04.17 Day 1 – Festival of Faith and Writing 08 personal

03.23 West Michigan FIRST Robotics Regional Competition science

03.18 Cool Tools: Window Clippings tech

03.14 Florida Gem #2 – Honeymoon Island / Caladesi Island personal

03.11 Cool Tools – ZoomIt v1.8 tech

03.03 Microsoft, Nokia Put Silverlight On Mobile Devices development

03.02 April issue of EGM reveals Bungie’s next project: Lego Halo – Joystiq personal

03.02 Blogging Drought – Cheap Computer – ‘Bots on the Rock blog

02.20 Lunar Eclipse 2008 science

02.20 First "’Bots on the Rock" Meeting a Success! science

02.18 Microsoft DreamSpark development

02.13 Why I like Twitter tech

02.10 Shuttle Launch Experience science

02.10 Florida Photos personal

02.05 Vacation Update personal

02.05 A few coming privacy / personal information services tech

01.31 Lost English word – "delight" (and other vacation tangents) personal

01.27 Missing You personal

01.23 Draft of HTML 5 Hints at a Brave New Web development

01.22 Shuttle Launch Passes Arrived! science

01.21 Astronomy "Craft"? science

01.20 Retire Fire Extinguishers personal

01.17 First Amazon non-DRM music purchase tech

01.16 Computer Handyman and Plumber tech

01.15 Tribot Sumo Test #1 – WallBot science

01.07 This can’t be a real picture … can it? personal

01.07 Silverlight wins the Gold at the 2008 Olympic Games development

01.07 Mousetrap Cars – Any advice? science

01.04 Celestron – LCD Digital Microscope (LDM) science

01.04 2008 Goals – Take 2 personal

01.04 2008 Goals – Take 1 personal

01.03 2007’s Resolutions in Review personal

01.03 New Scientist: The Santa Delusion personal

01.02 Florida Freeze personal

01.02 Heading "South" – Any Ideas? personal

01.02 PC ProSchools of Grand Rapids jobs

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2007

12.31 Programming WPF: Books: Chris Sells,Ian Griffiths development

12.30 15,000 digital pictures (& counting) tech

12.27 N.J. Orders HIV Testing For Pregnant Women – washingtonpost.com personal

12.27 Return of the Heathkit HERO – now with Visual Studio science

12.27 Passed a Microsoft test – last minute 2007 goal achieved! jobs

12.27 My Chumby tech

12.27 BlogEngine.NET 1.3 released blog

12.26 Surprise Hit – Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker personal

12.21 Merry Christmas personal

12.21 Bug or a Feature development

12.21 The Bible According To Google Earth personal

12.14 Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed jobs

12.10 Now we’re talking!! ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview development

12.06 Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day – Saturday 12/8 personal

12.06 Blizzard Warning!! FOR HAWAII!! personal

12.05 Cool Tool: Tourist Remover tech

12.05 Bug vs. Feature development

12.02 First Lego League Regional Robotics Competition science

11.30 MS Math Add-In for Word 2007 tech

11.30 Survey: Few believe a good education is necessary personal

11.29 6Gb of memory – Now What?!? tech

11.29 Silverlight 2.0 development

11.27 The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support. tech

11.26 Science Museum – Launchpad Online – Launchball science

11.26 Health Care personal

11.25 Pet Peeve #26 personal

11.20 Oxford Word Of The Year: Locavore personal

11.20 Chuck Norris Political Ad personal

11.20 VS2008 on Vista x64 development

11.19 Visual Studio 2008 plug-ins (warning Silverlight 1.1) development

11.19 Visual Studio 2008 Ships development

11.13 MapQuest, Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Yahoo? Anyone? tech

11.07 Walking pneumonia personal

11.02 Bowling for Junior Achievement personal

11.02 Useless data – but interesting tech

10.31 Made in America: By Robots tech

10.29 Howtoons: The Possibilities Are Endless! science

10.26 My next car – ideas? Electric? Alternative Energy? tech

10.25 If You’re Happy and You Know It… personal

10.22 Day of .NET Ann Arbor development

10.15 "WIRED Science" on PBS science

10.08 Solar Decathlon 2007 – LTU: ALOeTERRA science

10.08 Google Reader: Trends tech

10.04 UC Berkley launches YouTube channel tech

10.03 Celebrating space: it’s 50 years since Sputnik science

10.02 BlogEngine.NET 1.2 blog

09.27 Any good new fall TV? personal

09.26 Useful Microsoft Word Feature tech

09.25 Show and Tell #5: Cub Scouts – Then and Now personal

09.23 Statetris – USA tech

09.21 Birthday Stuff – new Nano tech

09.14 Show and Tell #3: International Pen Pals personal

09.14 Crazy Canadian Dime personal

09.14 Michigan Legislature Bills RSS Feed tech

09.12 Show and Tell #2 – Community College Computer Course personal

09.11 Show and Tell #1: Life’s Experiments (1981) personal

09.11 More Crystals science

09.06 Silverlight 1.0 Released development

09.04 Howtoons – The Infamous Marshmallow Shooter science

09.04 Wal-mart Telescopes science

08.31 First Dangerous Crystal science

08.29 Mr. McGroovy’s Box Rivets science

08.29 Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta tech

08.29 Collection/Addiction #2: Games personal

08.28 If you have to work in a cube … jobs

08.27 Remaining Collection/Addiction #1: Books personal

08.27 Not Moving Sale personal

08.23 Microsoft Open Source Projects development

08.23 Habits of Highly Effective Brains personal

08.22 Sharpen the Saw for Developers jobs

08.22 Google Earth – No, Google Universe … science

08.22 Germany Exploring The Moon Too science

08.22 Tafiti (beta) tech

08.18 Unskilled and Unaware of It jobs

08.18 The Dreyfus Model of Skills Acquisition jobs

08.17 64-bit Vista Oddness tech

08.17 Crystal Experiment – Take 1 science

08.17 Quad-Core Laptop tech

08.16 Pessimistic Shipping Dates personal

08.14 Water Weenies and Crystals physics

08.14 Laptop vs. Desktop for Development development

08.03 Post from the Road blog

07.30 Wii Physics – Measure your 0-60 time with a Wiimote physics

07.24 Turn On Channel 8 tech

07.24 Starting fresh blog

07.24 Genealogy made easy ui

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