Archives

Most of this is ancient history, saved from an old Wordpress install and the Thoughts section of the late thosecleverkids.com. Anything pre-2025 may have some broken imagery but I have salvaged what I can for the use of future historians.

2017

• Autocomplete in Python Shell on Windows

2016

• Dear Josie: On Weasel Words
• Upgrading Django
• Debugging a Vue.js Error

2015

• Worst Pickup Line: A Play in One Act

2014

• Exception Handling
• Java Version Hell on OSX
• The Garrison City Should Lock From the Outside
• Thoughts While Lowering a Crib
• wxPython on OSX Mavericks with or without Homebrew
• Django Profiling Bug
• It's My Party (now)
• Résumé Rewrite Services
• Fundraising: A Play in One Act
• Checking on memcache's health

2013

• Lacey
• Installing New Relic Plugin Agent on Shared Hosting
• Setting Up Server SSH Access
• The Next 25 Years
• "Rich Get Richer": A Play in One Act
• Popular with Jerks 25-40
• Django Command to Back Up to Amazon S3 with Python
• Top Tips for Patients
• MySQL and Python on OSX
• Greener Development
• Parochialism
• CSS: min-width vs. zoom
• Ruining Fletch
• Songs Craig Finn Has Heard Bar Bands Play
• Django, Haystack & Elastic Search

2011

• We Do This Every Day

2010

• Catharsis: To a Young Designer
• Week 162
• Week 142
• Week 137
• django-avatar and Pinax Configuration
• Week 134
• Any Interest in the 700-page Abridged Version?
• Week 133
• True Love: A Play in One Act
• Week 132
• Week 129
• Week 128
• Week 127
• On Optimization

2009

• Microformat Proposal: Coding Experience
• Django/ Pinax: Problems With Login() in Unit Tests
• Cheating at The Beatles: Rock Band
• Monty Back, Rommel Still Dead
• Free to a Harmonix Home, Rock Band Idea
• My Name is Crew
• Expression Engine if Clauses
• Dreams They Complicate My Life
• PHP Excel Exporter
• Windows GPG Front-End
• Morning Stress
• Nothing's Coming Out!
• Anatomy of a Late Night

2008

• "Life's Good", Indeed
• Presented Without Comment
• Xmas Flick Tradition Continues for Hicks in Stix
• Making .NET 2.0 Spit JSON
• Archive
• Archive Index
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-20
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-19
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-18
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-17
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-16
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-15
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-14
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-12
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-11
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-10
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-09
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-08
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-07
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-04
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-03
• Friday's Misguided Economics Question
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-02
• Twitter Updates for 2008-10-01
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-30
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-29
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-26
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-25
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-24
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-23
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-22
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-19
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-18
• A Few Notes on My Breakfast Cereal
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-17
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-16
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-15
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-14
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-13
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-12
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-11
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-10
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-09
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-08
• Welcome, Virtual Overlords
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-07
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-06
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-05
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-04
• CSS Print Tests or How to Go Crazy after a Few Hundred Revisions
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-03
• Twitter Updates for 2008-09-02
• Twitter Updates for 2008-08-30
• Twitter Updates for 2008-08-29
• A 2 Foot Yardstick
• Twitter Updates for 2008-08-28
• 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
• Yankee Fans: Bad at Math
• Words and Phrases that Cause Me to Close a Music Review
• Weird Spam Blog
• A Confession
• Getting Ready for the iPhone 2.0
• Nick Cafardo
• Dearest Gmail,
• Celtics Win + I Am An Idiot
• Mancrush: Woz
• Terry Francona: Fashion Critic
• Google Android Demo
• Lone Watergunmen
• The AV Club
• Joe Weider Small
• Joe Weider Big
• For Michelle,
• FBoFW
• Foodstuffs I Miss
• So . . .
• Shocking, Sharpening
• Humorless
• Painfully Delicious
• Dear Dog,
• What a Database Can Say About You
• Video on Flickr
• Usability, Defined
• A Brief History of My Celtics Fandom
• Put Me in the 80%
• Design Reminder
• God, What Won't You Do?
• New All-In-One IM Swiss Army Knife Does Twitter
• Burying the Hatchet
• Holden+ C64 = Love
• There Are No New Stories
• No More of That Then
• SXSW Music Torrent
• Celtics Coverage: Now with More Scat!
• New Gnarls Barkley
• VM Development
• Nothing Says "Quality You Can Rely On"
• Secret Language of Twins
• Location Awareness
• A Brief Timeline of Last Night's Improbable Events
• Burn, Baby, Burn
• Hapiness
• Anti-Arsenal CAPTCHA
• Retro Done Rite
• Winter
• Rock Band Track Production
• How Do I Justify a Tablet as a Business Expense?
• Heard on the Internet Today
• Seriously?
• The Expense of Developing an Electric Car
• That Was Quick
• Kottke on Rent Parties
• Getting Started on Rails, Again
• No Dreamcatchers Either
• Who Wrox? This Guy Right Here
• Childhood Disappointment
• Doubly Impressed
• Oh Google Ads
• New Pornographers Video
• Anxious
• New Mountain Goats Album
• Q: What I Think We Are
• New GTA IV Preview
• Alternative Uses for a Time Machine
• On Sordidness
• On a Friday's Death
• Album Cover - Starlet Sea Anemone
• Album Cover - Roobarb
• Album Cover - Recarred II
• Toward a Collective Consciousness
• On Starting a Project
• Nexus and the Library
• Easy as Fishing, You Could be a Mortician
• An Athlete's Lament
• Mitt? Primaries Are That-Away
• Dave Atell's iPod

2007

• Conversations to Remember
• Still Waiting
• Clone Table Rows with Form Elements in a .NET Style
• Rails 2.0 Released
• Try Catch Drop
• Me and .NET