I use VLC on Android to listen to music because it’s kinda neat. My one annoyance is that it doesn’t have anything like the Recent Albums cover flow like Plex does. Really annoying. I pick up a lot of music and really miss being able to look at my recent CD stack to remind myself …
Author Archives: Shawn
Kill All Serial Scrapists
Yesterday, I saw this site was timing out with HTTP 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) and I couldn’t access my WordPress blog. Whut? I logged into my shared hosting shell, looked at the server logs, and saw I was being hammered by some scraper bot. So of course Apache’s mod_security was throttling my site and returning …
F.U.M.
In Neal Stephenson’s epic sci-fi novel “Cryptonomicon”, we read of a character in one of the modern timelines who is a techie and a new business owner. This guy has a running gag where he has an app he wrote that sits in his PC’s toolbar that checks his bank accounts and his investments and …
Oops! All Side Quests!
Work has me exhausted; I can’t work fast enough to finish one project before two tasks, three manager questions, and four support requests come in. So much context switching, and I lose time and energy. So much energy. The stack keeps deepening. People ask me, “Hey Shawn, why don’t you play games to unwind?” “Well,” …
Denke immer nie
Looking forward to the end of this semester of German II. I’m burned out. Given my struggles this semester, I’ll never achieve competence level A2. German I and II are considered A1, and I’m a middling student at it. Immigration wants higher than A2, so there goes that. At this point, I can’t even remember …