I keep encountering a very peculiar Npgsql query “issue,” which causes me to get stumped, look up the solution online, and continue my life. This happens once every 4–6 months. I don’t know why, but I keep forgetting the proper syntax, and I have decided to jot down the summary…

I have been hearing about and even indirectly using the technology called WebAssembly for years now. …

It’s no secret that Twitter has generated a lot of headlines recently with Musk’s acquisition and the actions the platform has taken since that acquisition has gone through. For many, the arrival of Musk’s antics meant replacing Twitter with something else, and the most common alternative has been Mastodon. Twitter…

It’s no secret that the stock market was hammered hard last year. For me, the significant downtrend started in early 2021 and has been going strongly nowhere but down across the board since then. Sure, you had an occasional stock pop, and a few sectors like energy and mining, to…

I was cleaning up my Twitter bookmarks the other day and ran into a post someone made in May 2021. At the time, the stock market was experiencing big drops across the board, hitting especially hard growth companies that are early, not yet profitable, but high promise companies that many…

This post got too long and feels rambling, so I will summarize it first and then post the full thing afterward for myself and anyone else that might want to dive in deeper. I recently ran a 5k (5km or 3.1-mile race) and put in almost my best time ever…

It’s that time of the year again! Time to look back and review the books I read in 2022. I enjoy this post and have been doing one for five years now. …

Last month marked the first anniversary of the day when I made some big decisions in my life. One year is an arbitrary time, not that long, but long enough to look back and see what happened. What happened November 22nd, 2021, I had just started a one-week annual Thanksgiving vacation with…

It has been almost six months since my last blog post about publicly traded cryptocurrency mining company stocks. At the time, all of these stocks were experiencing 90% drops from their peaks, and the outlook was bleak. You can read the full post here. In this post, I will look…