I don't mean to jump on a "Let's bash 2020" bandwagon but man last year fucking sucked. I didn't have especially high expectations, but I was also tentatively hoping for a small rebound after 2019 was the worst year of my life. Two back-to-back years of soul-crushing suck have been exhausting. It feels like everything in my life has suffered, not the least of which is...

Or a tale of how I made a beginner mistake and lost cspray.net. From roughly 2011 to 2015 I wrote on a far more regular basis at a blog hosted on cspray.net. It was my attempt to put material up about my thoughts on programming and technology in an attempt to get noticed by an employer. A couple of the posts got some attention, they were picked up by programming news...