Page Updates (i.e. why I haven’t been writing blog posts)

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My adoring fans Nick mentioned I should post more to this blog.  But I have been adding content, just stuff not visible on the home page or from the RSS feed.

It’s stuff on the wiki.  More specifically, I’ve been adding notes on automata, regular expressions, and compilers.  These are notes from Coursera classes I’m taking.

This was something I was considering when setting up my site.  I wanted static pages that weren’t posts, but maybe still have updates visible to readers.  MediaWiki provides RSS feeds for updates, but I just couldn’t stand MediaWiki especially since I also wanted a regular blog.  So I went with WordPress, but no longer had updates to pages visible.  Maybe I’ll do posts manually like this one every time I update a page, but that’s extra work.

Web version of Fallout Terminal Hack Helper

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I have Python code to help with the Fallout terminal hacking mini game, but that meant getting my laptop to run the code when I’m playing.  Damn it I’m an engineer.  That means I’m lazy.  So I learned some JavaScript and put up a web version so I can use anything that has a web browser, including my phone that I usually have on me when I’m playing Fallout.  It only uses popups for input and output since I’m not that familiar with JavaScript and HTML, but hey, it gets the job done.

So here you are.  A web version of my Fallout Terminal Hacker Helper.

(re)Discovering Cleveland: A winter dinner

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This post will start a little series I’ll be putting up I’ll call (re)Discovering Cleveland. I realized there’s a lot about the city I live in and love that I haven’t experienced (ever or not recently) as I followed Julia Kuo’s 100 Days in Cleveland then started reading New to Cleveland, illustrated by Kuo and written by Justin Glanville.  So I’ll try some new things and return to some favorite things in Cleveland and do a write up of it.  Suggest things if you want!

Also, I’m a bit late in posting this.  There actually isn’t any snow in Cleveland any more.

Winter kicked in late for us in the Cleveland area, but it couldn’t be kept at bay for the entire season.  My wife and I didn’t concern ourselves with this inclement weather as we drove through the dense particulate fog of snow on unplowed streets that caused my car to think my empathic gesturing with the steering wheel was only a suggestion.  Our destination was Touch Supper Club in Ohio City.

Snowy Cleveland Downtown

I'm told I have some relatives' names in the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

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Yo dog I heard you like cloud services

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I started this site mostly just to try it and to have my personal web presence.  It was important I think when I was looking for a job.

Then I found that this site was a good place to keep notes (see my wiki.)  I might have thought having notes on math and computer stuff would make potential employers think I know what I’m talking about, and hopefully help a student or something.  What I found really good was it was one place where all my notes were and always available where ever I was at any time.  Before, I would have notes in random notebooks, they would be lost or later illegible.  Now it’s all in one place and I can just make links to other pages instead of trying to find something in one notebook then another.

I also had local rss readers, like ones integrated into Firefox.  Those were local so when I went to a different machine like the one at work I had to clear out stuff I already read.  I found Google Reader and liked how it was in the cloud and had the same stuff marked already read on any machine.

Getting more into freedom of software, I found I didn’t like that I didn’t really own the reader, so I found an opensource one I now have on my server.  I also have other services on my server.

The reader and such are still like cloud services, but I own them.  Then I realised my server is a virtual machine in some other companies cloud.  So I’m not away from having my cloud owned by others, and I find it funny that I have a cloud in a cloud.

Cloud.