Jarrod Whaley

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:32:30 -0500

Music: La Cima - “Last Chance”

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:28:47 -0500

How do you plan to spend your first American Independence Day under our new monarchy? I was thinking I might eat some hot dogs, and then start to look for a democracy somewhere in the world for me to go live in.

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:46:04 -0500

I’ll never forget that June morning where I woke up to a court-ordered American monarchy.

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:37:33 -0500

If you want me to believe the Supreme Court of the United States is not a political organization, you’ll first have to stop having its Justices be both nominated and confirmed by politicians.

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 21:58:27 -0500

It always cracks me up when someone says “have a good flight,” as if that were possible.

Wed, 03 May 2023 11:30:19 -0500

I’m sorry, to which senseless Texas gun massacre are you referring?

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 02:06:33 -0500

I just need a nanoroomba that cleans the top of my roomba.

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:54:07 -0500

Each new OS update breaks a large number of my Shortcuts. Apple’s platforms were easier to automate before Shortcuts existed, which should be more of an embarrassment than it seems to be.

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 19:10:14 -0500

I have to imagine that at least 58% of Americans on ladders are high while doing so.

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 21:23:10 -0500

I think I am finally going to make it to DEF CON this year. I didn’t manage to register online, so I need to show up and try to get tickets at the door. I might even get there early and get a spot in line. Am I crazy?

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:45:15 -0500

I made a Jinja2 syntax highlighting extension for Panic’s Nova IDE, because none existed already and I wanted one to exist. Maybe this will be helpful for someone else out there too.

Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:07:05 -0500

The contents of our freezer are a monument to good intentions without follow-through.

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:48:44 -0500

Knowledge without power is useless. Power without knowledge is dangerous.

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 23:12:37 -0500

People in 1970’s sitcoms were legitimately still unsure whom to vote for on the night before the election. We’ve come a long way, baby.

Fri, 27 May 2022 21:46:09 -0500

I am not a fan of the way modern news publications iterate on their headline copy over the course of several days until they find the most engaging variation. We’re being steered into subconscious indication of what manner of “news” we prefer. The implications are profound.

Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:58:35 -0500

Don’t be a dude. Be a person.

It's Dead Simple

Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:45:43 -0500

My general strategy for living is pretty simple. I try not to get in anyone’s way, or to make anything more difficult for anybody. When I run into a difficulty that someone else has created for me, I try to remember that other people are as likely to fail as I am, and that at least a slight plurality of living human beings have good intentions. We are all in the same leaky boat together.

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:48:08 -0500

Just get the damned vaccine already. You are killing people.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:38:39 -0500

Not your average Joshua tree.

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:26:13 -0500

The one true win in jQuery is/was the fact that you can get at a DOM element with 5 characters and a CSS selector. I wish JavaScript itself would just adopt a similar model. Think of how many CDN requests could be avoided globally every hour of every day…

Wed, 26 May 2021 10:09:15 -0500

I think one of my favorite things about iPadOS is the way it always shows me 57 notifications I already saw on my phone every time I unlock my iPad. Great stuff.

Sat, 01 May 2021 15:20:49 -0500

I have named the largest of our back yard’s wall lizards Larry.

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 13:25:46 -0500

Yeah, that’s about right.

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 03:00:57 -0500

For the developers among you: am I alone in having the feeling that the bugs I encounter are getting weirder in 2020? That they feel like things that should not happen inside a computer? Am I projecting the real world onto code?

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:03:26 -0500

Hot Tip: if I have to change browser settings to make your Web site work, your Web site is garbage.