Things that I am thinking about or learning (either through reading or by school of hard knocks). These are my personal thoughts and not necessarily the positions or thoughts of any organization I am associated with.

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Limping along with Octopress and Catalina macOS

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I am still using the Octopress 2 framework for the website. This has been challenging as the dependencies for old obsolete software gets harder and harder t...

Finding Java and NetBeans

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Working with NetBeans 9 with an OpenJDK 10 install on a MacOS Mojave machine.

Success – hard work and-or luck?

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In his article Absolute Success is Luck. Relative Success is Hard Work., James Clear provides a pair of stories about how luck (including the circumstances o...