To this date, schema-dts is the only
side-project I have that achieved better-than-moderate success. It took several
hours between the time I had the idea for schema-dts and when I had a reasonably
working v0.1. I pulled an all-nighter--something that I hate doing and would
never recommend--not out of sheer passion, but because: I knew how rare a moment of inspiration is, and I knew that if I…
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How helping on a film set led to me down a serendipitous path, publishing a new
open source library, and getting an IMDB mention. About a year ago, a friend asked me—along with
some others—to help as extra hands on set filming the second season of an
absurdist comedy mini-series she was working on called
Look it Up . Helping film anything wasn't something I thought I would ever do, so I was…
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Reading Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road gave me
many treasured lessons. Many are relevant on election years. One is especially
relevant on the heels of the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and
particularly during an election year where fear and Islamophobia are on the
ballot. As a large portion of Americans react to fear of terrorism and
religious-inspired radicalism with…
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youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aH2Ppjpcho
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I have not written anything in this blog in a long time. I have tried to start writing many times, but I never could finish. I have been, for the past few months, increasingly frustrated with the stiuation in Jordan; while the government is doing some right moves, politically, I became largely frustrated with the wave of bigotry that has swept our society off its feet. Bigotry in politics is…
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