So I’m reading this book on grace, which is turning out to be one of my favorite books ever, because it so systematically details how grace operates in a way that confirms my own thoughts on the subject for so long. Yet it goes further, and provides lots of evidence to support its position. Here is […]
An adventure begins
Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Changing the user information for clearhat Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default Full Name []: Clearhat Room Number []: Work Phone []: Home Phone []: (816)xxx-xxxx Other []: @@clearhat.org Is the […]
Merging an existing React project with an empty Visual Studio .NET Core backend
I'm new to React so I was pleased to finally discover that this task is very easy. After going through all the tutorials on how things work, and diligently searching down a decent React project template, I finally had an existing open source React dashboard that I wanted to integrate into an […]
Installing ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 Linux with Apache
An article on github.io gave all the instructions I needed to get the components above working, and it's a great tutorial. However, I needed to tweak a few commands to get them working, so I'm creating this post here and perhaps will save someone else an afternoon's research if they can find this […]
No longer a superfan of Google
Right about the time that Google eliminated their "don't be evil" motto a few years ago, I finally began to lose hope in them, after years of unbounded enthusiasm. It was kind of a final straw thing. From then til now, my previous superfan enthusiasm with all their amazing technology -- […]
A little anarchy in your pocket
I might, could, possibly know someone involved in working on the backend of this MineCraft Pocket Edition server together in their spare time. Or I might not. Either way, if you're into Minecraft, and you found yourself here reading this sentence, you may enjoy taking a tour of this Nukkit server. […]
Children are not at the center of their knowledge; quite the opposite
All that you know Is hanging on a structure of you You at the center As if that were the only way Calmly, openly, as if There were no ugliness therein It was not always so; Consider for a moment And you will see clearly: When you were young All that you knew Was hanging on the structure Of someone […]
Salomon Maimon's finite intellect is akin to Bernardo Kastrup's alters
My previous post was about a nice little tidbit from Salomon Maimon where I found him describing a way of reading Immanual Kant that was analogous to a way I study math (while protecting an internal intuitive coherence which I feel certain would become fragmented if I read other writers more […]
How to retain intuitive coherence while studying deeply
I just encountered this quote from Salomon Maimon, and it expresses the way I have approached mathematics (which is I believe different from the way most people approach it). The reason I learned to study this way is that I believe so intensely what I believe, I must be careful what I believe. For […]
The logical necessity of honoring your parents
Perhaps it can be expressed in acorn form first, but there is a large and complex tree buried in this insight, which will take a lot of room to fully express. To start, we have this realization that is predicated in a sense of survival, a sense of continuity. Whether it arises in reaction to a […]
Diving in to React JS
After circling around it for weeks, looking at every other option I could find, I finally decided that ReactJS has what I want to carry me forward for the next few projects, possibly years if it goes as well as I think. I fell in love with JSX the moment I saw it, we shoulda been using that long […]
Little known insight into Galileo's paradigm shift
Well, little known to me at least. Had no idea that Galileo was the one who invented mathematical physics. I found this insight fascinating. Emphasis mine: Perhaps the most important move in the scientific revolution was Galileo’s declaration that mathematics is the language of natural science. But […]
Before the beginning
Before the beginning, the Holy One awakened one morning as the birds began to sing their serenade to the coming sunrise. We whose love for the Father is so great we cannot bear to be separated from him, our beloved whose every breath is a great wonder for the infinite depth of meaning which […]
Our purpose is joy
I wrote the following in response to a friend who was saying there was no obvious purpose, and quoting Kierkegaard on how we create our own purpose until we realize it is absurd: I believe there is a purpose, and our purpose is "joy," and suggest that we are at the very initial phase in […]
Love is the standard
Love Won the War […]
Shortcut to start VPN connection with a single click in Windows 10
Alas, Windows 10 introduced an absurdly complicated way to start a VPN connection where it used to take only a couple clicks. Turns out you can make a shortcut that will allow you to single-click your way into a VPN connection like the good old days. Winaero.com does a great job of describing how to […]
Hilarious notes on a programming task that got absurdly complicated
In the end, it looks like I should have searched through the code for all SQL commands like "SELECT" and "UPDATE" and "INSERT" and determined which tables I needed. Might have saved a few days. But you know how you get tunnel vision when you're down the rabbit hole. So, […]
You cannot step outside infinity to perform an operation on or within infinity
Okay, it's a pretty raw tangle of thought experiment, but here we go: You can't. There is no such thing as multiple infinities. Imagine if there were, all such multiple infinities would simply exist within a "larger" infinity that is ultimately singular. That ultimately singular one is the […]
Configuring Iridium Browser with even more privacy than default
Iridium is a privacy-oriented browser based on Chromium, so it has all the advantages of Chrome without flooding Google with a continual stream of telemetry as you surf the web. From looking at it and playing with it recently, I find it to be pretty much what it advertises, and am happy using it to […]
More on the tergiversation
Found this article which goes into a little more depth on this obscure mathematical comment by Winston Churchill about a moment when his life changed. I still consider it to be one of the deeper insights into the true nature of infinity. I had a feeling once about Mathematics, that I saw it […]