Here is a blog/tweetstorm, just to try it (view on twitter) Internet:Me: Ok, I will give you my opinion on distributed work now vs. before the pandemic, and after. We’ve been doing remote work for several years now, though I prefer to call it distributed work–I think it is a better way to describe the … Continue reading Remote/Distributed Work Thoughts Amid the Pandemic
I got email notifications that my Let’s Encrypt/certbot certificates were expiring, and these should auto-renew. I had explored certbot a bit ago to organize it more, but did not look into all aspects I looked into it a bit more and saw that everything with certbot was getting errors. First there was a misconfiguration due … Continue reading Certbot renewal fixes
I wanted to take a look at the OECD health care spending data by country. If you take a look the US is really an outlier country, and not in a good way. Here’s a spreadsheet where you can explore the data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRQ7aLKrmptQ547MHm0Sj6t7ezduULvcls2eqKEK8vuluq7qg5_hh-42UBrYHrekGLDumYxc-jy5SRg/pubhtml The source data is from here: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm You can view the data … Continue reading Exploring OECD Health Care Spending Data by Country
Setting up a new computer so wanted to document the steps for that. Here’s how it is similar and has changed since I wrote one of these in 2012. Also it is interesting for me to see which I apps I downloaded that I still use or no longer use. Here are the setup steps: … Continue reading Setting Up a New Macbook Pro 2020 Version
Ok, this is a big election on November 3rd, but the main race is the presidential race. I’m voting by mail and sending back my ballot today. Here’s how you get vote by mail info for Chicago: https://chicagoelections.gov/en/vote-by-mail.html You can also track the status of your ballot, and they send you an email when it … Continue reading 2020 Voter Guide for Chicago, IL
I have had Certbot/LetsEncrypt set up on my websites to ensure they use SSL. Lots of it works automatically but it seemed some of the autorenewal of certifications had some issues. Particularly, I had a domain that wasn’t active anymore as part of a certificate with a lot of domains. Here were a few handy … Continue reading Managing SSL Certificates for HTTPS with Certbot
I wrote a crossword puzzle about a year ago that I submitted to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and LA Times. None of the publications accepted it. But here is the puzzle if you want to give it a try. I’m working on submitting a new puzzle so we will see if that … Continue reading Crossword puzzle to solve
It’s not a new idea but I think the development of events has caused us to rationalize a horrifying level of incompetence and deaths which are preventable, and have been prevented in many other countries around the world that are not acting idiotically. From the attacks on 9/11 about 3,000 people died. As I write … Continue reading Trump’s Actions on Coronavirus are Criminal
Since this is an unprecedented time I wanted to document some of the new words and phrases that have popped up that are now commonplace that really were very uncommon before or I didn’t know about. Here’s a list of some of these phrases that come to mind, some people use in conversation, some that … Continue reading Coronavirus Phrases for 2020
Around mid-March 2020 we started quarantining due to coronavirus. It’s been a bizarre few months so far, in lots of ways. One thing personally that has been a bit strange is thinking what I was doing a year ago and what I am doing a year later. A year ago I was just starting to … Continue reading world travel, then 1 year later, quarantine
