Michael Descy

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• Dec 13, 2022
• Dec 12, 2022
• Dec 9, 2022
• Dec 4, 2022
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• Nov 11, 2022
• Nov 1, 2022
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• Oct 24, 2022
• Python 3.11 Oct 24, 2022
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• The once and future lawnmowing man Oct 18, 2022
• Oct 18, 2022
• 📚 Greenlights Oct 18, 2022
• Oct 17, 2022
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• Blah Oct 16, 2022
• Sep 21, 2022
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• Sep 21, 2022
• Is there no good and fast way to create an ETL job in Python? Sep 20, 2022
• Chess is just poker now Sep 20, 2022
• Long-running data feeds are a real thing after all Sep 19, 2022
• Sep 17, 2022
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• Standard Ebooks Jul 25, 2022
• Back to converting e-Books with Calibre Jul 23, 2022
• Google Fonts Jul 22, 2022
• Lexend: Change the way the world reads Jul 21, 2022
• First impressions of the Kobo Clara HD e-reader Jul 21, 2022
• ChromeOS Flex Jul 21, 2022
• Rubik’s Cube Jul 20, 2022
• JSON with my son Jul 20, 2022
• Impulse purchase: Kobo Clara HD e-reader Jul 20, 2022
• 🎧 An update on the Sony WH-1000M4 Jul 19, 2022
• Jul 19, 2022
• Jul 18, 2022
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• Learning with VS Code on Chromebooks Jul 15, 2022
• Jul 15, 2022
• Pilcrows and silcrows Jul 14, 2022
• PeaZip Jul 13, 2022
• Jul 13, 2022
• Everything takes longer to do than I expect Jul 12, 2022
• The beautiful, overwhelming vastness of the universe Jul 11, 2022
• Common Table Expressions Jul 9, 2022
• Azure Data Studio Jul 8, 2022
• Oh, Schiit Jul 8, 2022
• Jul 8, 2022
• 🎮 Ori and the Will of the Wisps Jul 7, 2022
• ETL with Python Jul 6, 2022
• Dependence Day Jul 4, 2022
• Jul 3, 2022
• Summer computer science Jul 2, 2022
• Summer math Jul 2, 2022
• Jul 1, 2022
• Jun 15, 2022
• Jun 8, 2022
• Jun 7, 2022
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• Jun 5, 2022
• My son, the programmer Jun 5, 2022
• My current Python project Jun 4, 2022
• Jun 4, 2022
• Enable Recycle Bin on mapped network drives Jun 3, 2022
• Jun 3, 2022
• Robocopy Jun 2, 2022
• I joined a gym 💪 Jun 1, 2022
• May 27, 2022
• Windows PC setup is still a pain May 21, 2022
• May 21, 2022
• 🎧 Sony WH-1000M4 headphones are just OK and that sucks May 20, 2022
• Thinking about my next role at work May 19, 2022
• May 19, 2022
• Generating dummy data with Python May 18, 2022
• May 18, 2022
• I finally caught COVID May 17, 2022
• May 4, 2022
• Working Late May 3, 2022
• Ah (Choo!), Spring May 2, 2022
• May 1, 2022
• Annual Reviews Are a Terrible Way to Evaluate Employees Apr 30, 2022
• Crypto is winning, and Bitcoin diehards are furious about it. Apr 29, 2022
• 🎮 Knotwords: A New Word Game From Zach Gage and Jack Schlesinger Apr 28, 2022
• Henry Winkler Breaks the Curse of Stardom Apr 28, 2022
• All billionaires are oligarchs Apr 27, 2022
• When I used Mac OS 8 Apr 26, 2022
• Apr 25, 2022
• Elon Musk acquires Twitter for roughly $44 billion Apr 25, 2022
• Feeling old Apr 25, 2022
• Apr 24, 2022
• Jazz music is tolerated by my children Apr 23, 2022
• Prepping my old MacBook Pro for my son Apr 22, 2022
• A keynote address Apr 21, 2022
• Apr 20, 2022
• A hastily built presentation is better than nothing Apr 19, 2022
• Apr 19, 2022
• A Python Refactoring Day Apr 18, 2022
• Chateau Picard Apr 15, 2022
• Be excellent to each other Apr 14, 2022
• 🎵 Betwixt Apr 13, 2022
• I’m giving OneNote an honest try this time Apr 12, 2022
• 🎙 The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I’ve Heard Apr 11, 2022
• 📺 Friday Night Baseball Apr 9, 2022
• Apr 9, 2022
• Apr 8, 2022
• Apr 8, 2022
• Apr 8, 2022
• Refactoring Python Apr 7, 2022
• Python for data validation Apr 6, 2022
• The reward for doing good work Apr 5, 2022
• 🎮 Children of Morta Apr 4, 2022
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• Apr 3, 2022
• 📺 Bill Hader Created a Killer to Cope Mar 31, 2022
• Hot Sauce Mar 30, 2022
• Try telling Memento Mori to a five-year-old Mar 29, 2022
• 🎙 Draft of the Ages Mar 28, 2022
• 📺 Rick Beato on YouTube Mar 28, 2022
• Will Smith hits Chris Rock over joke about Jada Pinkett Smith at Oscars Mar 28, 2022
• 🎵 Do you really want to cry today? Mar 27, 2022
• 🎵 FTHC by Frank Turner Mar 27, 2022
• 🎙 Tim’s Back! On Substack! Mar 27, 2022
• Mar 27, 2022
• 🎙 How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird, with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Mar 26, 2022
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• 🎮 Classic Mac games I used to enjoy Mar 22, 2022
• Is increased productivity worth the increase in stress? Mar 21, 2022
• Mar 21, 2022
• Plaintext Sports Mar 21, 2022
• Mar 20, 2022
• A Groggy Senate Approves Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent Mar 18, 2022
• Mar 17, 2022
• Mar 17, 2022
• All I know is that I don’t want to create a paper maché volcano Mar 15, 2022
• 🏈 Tom Brady Barely Left and Now is Back Mar 14, 2022
• Book Fair Mar 14, 2022
• ScratchJr Mar 14, 2022
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• Mar 12, 2022
• Chess.com isn’t just for blitz games Mar 10, 2022
• ⚾️ Apple’s big baseball deal, detailed Mar 10, 2022
• Mar 9, 2022
• 🎮 New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Mar 9, 2022
• Thinking about the new Apple products Mar 8, 2022
• Looking forward to Apple’s product announcements tomorrow Mar 7, 2022
• Mar 7, 2022
• Mar 5, 2022
• My day blew up, but everything is OK Mar 4, 2022
• Advice for giving effective presentations Mar 3, 2022
• 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine and my heart breaks for them Mar 2, 2022
• Sentence outlines, or How I accidentally learned to write a long thesis project essay Mar 2, 2022
• M.L.B. Cancels Games, Delaying Start of Season Mar 1, 2022
• Priorities Feb 28, 2022
• The Poet Feb 24, 2022
• On a break Feb 23, 2022
• Feb 17, 2022
• Feb 16, 2022
• The Thin Veneer of Modernity Feb 15, 2022
• The Tower of Babel Feb 14, 2022
• Feb 13, 2022
• Grounds for Sculpture Feb 13, 2022
• Feb 11, 2022
• Feb 11, 2022
• Knock-off Laser Toner Feb 10, 2022
• Feb 10, 2022
• 📺 The Book of Boba Fett Feb 9, 2022
• Maybe I’m lying to myself, but it’s working Feb 8, 2022
• How I manage my work emails now Feb 7, 2022
• Everybody wishes to be seen and heard Feb 6, 2022
• Recent wins Feb 5, 2022
• Memory selects the wrong things Feb 4, 2022
• Strong punctuation preferences Feb 3, 2022
• Moonlighting as a terribly inefficient coder Feb 2, 2022
• Tom Brady Announced His Retirement Today Feb 1, 2022
• Things I am learning from playing chess, part 2 Jan 31, 2022
• I have discovered that past me was also me, at least on the page Jan 30, 2022
• Things I am learning from playing chess, part 1 Jan 29, 2022
• Things are going pretty well Jan 28, 2022
• FancyZones, Microsoft’s tiling window manager for Windows Jan 26, 2022
• Converting my old school papers to Markdown Jan 25, 2022
• Preserve your writing with open, simple file formats Jan 24, 2022
• The Writing Life Jan 23, 2022
• On having nothing to say Jan 22, 2022
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• Jan 21, 2022
• 🎮 Steamworld Dig Jan 20, 2022
• How Old is Your Brain? Jan 19, 2022
• My son plays chess now, too Jan 18, 2022
• Jan 18, 2022
• VBA will never die Jan 13, 2022
• Chess against humans Jan 12, 2022
• Long division Jan 11, 2022
• ⌨️ Having trouble adapting to the Planck keyboard Jan 10, 2022
• Jan 9, 2022
• Another office setup revision Jan 9, 2022
• Jan 8, 2022
• A miracle Jan 8, 2022
• Chess Jan 7, 2022
• web3 Jan 6, 2022
• Double Commander Jan 6, 2022
• Jan 5, 2022
• 🎬 Nobody Jan 5, 2022
• Checkers Jan 5, 2022
• I should never have bought my daughter an iPad with only 32 GB of storage on it. Jan 4, 2022
• Jan 4, 2022
• The Republic Jan 4, 2022
• Jan 4, 2022
• Jan 3, 2022
• Intermittent fasting Jan 3, 2022
• An Omicron snow day Jan 3, 2022
• Jan 2, 2022