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To open up a file within a browser having a vscode://file/ URL like this: vscode://file/C:\xampp\htdocs\mycoolapp\app\Models\Membership.php So it looks like this:   Then save the following as a registry file named vscode.reg: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00  […]

Euclid's Definition 1 We normally think of a geometrical point as being smaller than anything, because of where Euclid placed it in the hierarchy of geometry. Building up from simple to more complex, his first definition is the simplest: "A point is that which has no part." Clearly, Euclid  […]

As a child growing up, I learned in the public school system designed around the metric of state test scores. Decades later, I have a vague understanding of the general complaint that teaching students to take tests is the wrong way to teach, but only today do I understand that complaint in a  […]

This article is going to be stored in a database with a record ID of 281, which is a prime number, as soon as I click "Save." At the moment that I write these introductory words, it exists in an aether of nowhere. Neither here nor there. It has no record ID. It is thus a virtual weblog  […]

Placeholder, or, as a mathematician might say: zero. There's nothing to see here. Carry on.

A year of mindful[1] meditation Here it is early the morning of Thanksgiving 2023 and I just discovered a rather deep heartful meditation which took about a year to learn. The essential idea is quite simple and took only a few minutes to comprehend, but it took a year of preparation so that I could  […]

First, a brief summary. This morning during meditation I was deep in my heart, listening, when I found myself arriving into a rare condition of clarity. It seemed to me as though I had entered a holy place within my soul, where the veil between heaven and earth is fading. My attention was in a  […]

A recent essay where I invented the word trivulet as the name of the fundamental ternary logic element ended up becoming a fertile field for new insights. This is now the second post derived from ideas discovered while writing that one. While explaining how ternary logic is different from binary  […]

In the ongoing labor to develop an internally-coherent way of perceiving ternary logic -- and its most famous derivative, binary logic -- I have come to an understanding of how ternary logic is the proper logic of the continuum; not of particles, division, or separation. Particles, division, and  […]

This essay René Girard: The Last Nietzschean brings tears to my eyes while reading, not so much for the content, but because of a private hypothesis I developed while independently thinking about René Girard and Nietzsche. This essay explores that relationship in enough detail to confirm the theory.  […]