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Greetings! I hope you had a most excellent 2022.

The City Council considering "Freedom to Read" action

On Thursday, September 1, the Austin City Council is poised take a stand opposing book banning and library censorship. At this week’s council meeting, they will decide whether to take action to support “Freedom to Read.”

I fixed it.

In my previous post, I discussed my publishing workflow for this website.

Jekyll + Rake + IntelliJ

I used to run a pretty complicated publishing workflow on this website. I don’t anymore. I’m writing this up because it might be useful for somebody else who uses the Jekyll static site generator for publishing to their own private hosting site.

Fast, secure, interactive disk erase utility.

I’ve released a new tool for easily performing a secure erase on disk drives.

Bad comments are worse than no comments.

Good code comments are good. They help the reader better understand what’s going on with the code.

Call for public presentation of these reports

Back in March, the Austin City Council adopted two resolutions relating to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. Here is a news report from that time: Council cautiously supports city’s look into blockchain, crypto

Austin City Council is considering two very bad resolutions

Dear Mayor Adler, Mayor Pro-Tem Alter, and council members,