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“Bloat” doesn’t mean what you think it does

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So a few weeks ago I come across a post calling the engineers of old “lazy” because a decision to not record all 4 digits of a year led to a worldwi...

Photography/Programming

Photography made me a better programmer

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Actually, no, it didn’t. But that doesn’t mean the two never overlapped. Like most photographers out there, I do post my work online. To Instagram, ...

Programming

Commenting your code

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

My philosophy on comments is pretty simple. They’re for explaining outlier situations, not handholding. You don’t write comments to point out the ob...

Programming/Technology

Why we “romanticize” past developers

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let’s look at this: And quoting it directly in case it disappears later: People like to romanticize the devs of the past. “People just don’t c...

Programming

Chart.js and Ghost

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m migrating this site over to Ghost. Over the 15+ years I’ve had this blog on WordPress, there are a few plugins I’ve come to rely on heavil...

Firearms and Ammunition/Programming/Second Amendment/Supreme Court

Bump stocks and automatic operations

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So according to the ATF and Sotomayor’s dissent in the “bump stock” case, Garland v. Cargill, these two operations are identical: and Yeah, ob...

Programming

Using Fullscreen Lightbox with Ghost

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Add this code to the default.hbs file in your theme at the bottom before the {{ghost_foot}} helper. Don’t forget as well to include the fslightbox.js file...

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