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February 2018 Twenty-nine posts

28-Feb-2018

Tonight @helenprejean inspired the crowd @cchsdons tonight. She says like Elie Wiesel she was called to share what she has witnessed. Passionate powerful speaker!

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27-Feb-2018

Color the Smiley Over the years I have made a lot of little web experiments and geegaws. I’ve made hangman games and drawing programs and random text generators. At one place I worked I helped make a thing that would turn an uploaded photo of a face into a Terminator face! I’ve made so many of these kind...

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26-Feb-2018

Leah is cool.

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26-Feb-2018

I blogged for 17 years and all I got were these lousy Markov chains. In which I turn my experiments with turning written text into Markovify-generated sentences into a cool Twitter bot.

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24-Feb-2018

So I wrote a bot this past week. It’s a twitter bot (@BloggingBot) & based on my 17 years blogging it makes sentences based on my words. It is surreal to see what it has generated. Because some of them sound like things I might have written. #markovchain #programming #twitterbot

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24-Feb-2018

This guy—Billet(I can’t remember if that makes right)—is being fostered by my aunt & uncle. He’s nice.

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23-Feb-2018

Markov Chains are hilarious. I’ve wanted to make Markov chain generated sentences based on this blog for a long while. Wednesday night, I did. It took me under an hour! Why have I avoided it thinking it’d be difficult? Probably I thought it’d take a long time and would be lame. NOT SO First, I exported the contents of...

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22-Feb-2018

Limones 🍋

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22-Feb-2018

Suspicious Activity: “An admin user with the username backup was created outside of WordPress” On 14 February 2018, WordFence alerted me to highly suspicious behavior. This is the format of the email I received from WordFence version 4.9.3: This email was sent from your website “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]” by the Wordfence plugin. Wordfence found the following new issues on “[REDACTED BLOG NAME]”. Alert generated at Wednesday 14th of February...

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21-Feb-2018

Blog Post Visualization + Code I’ve been doing maintenance galore on this site. I have a hand-written theme and I’ve been doing things like returning the footer to a good shape and sweating the responsive details of it. I first wrote that code in 2010 but I’ve adapted it to be a bit better and now am using CSS Grid...

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