unclebobmartin

10/15/2024, 9 engagements

I find it fascinating, and frustrating, that the YouTube algorithm thinks it knows what I want to watch; and is inevitably, and persistently, wrong.

10/6/2024, 8 engagements

Isn’t it remarkable that the solution of the differential equations that describe the implosion of the plutonium core of the first atomic bomb can be approximated with nothing more than: {one, zero, nor}.

10/6/2024, 2 engagements

Isn’t it interesting how little we know about the shooter in Butler?

10/6/2024, 3 engagements

Pilot Threatened with Arrest Over Hurricane Rescues https://youtu.be/yjda3xkZ4cc?si=3IFazzUd_suiHsVA via #[1]

10/6/2024, 1 engagement

You may have missed it, in the VP debate, but Walz used the phrase "You can't shout fire in a crowded theater." while trying to parry Vance's criticism of Harris' position on free speech.

The irony is, of course, delicious. The sheer ignorance that our politicians have for our history is tragic.

"There has to be a responsibility that is placed upon these social media sites that they understand their power. They are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation; and that has to stop." -- Kamala Harris.

Oh no! Directly speaking? We can't have that! What the people hear must be regulated and overseen by...by...

10/6/2024, 1 engagement

This is a note from a young woman programmer in Pakistan who is hoping to join a wider network of fellow programmers. Write to her. Encourage her. Even just a "Hi Maria" would help to make her day. cc: @KentBeck

Hello Everyone! I’m Maria Zulfiqar. Senior Software Developer and Technical Lead.

Today, I’d like to share my story with you. Over the last 11 years, I've worked my way up to becoming a Senior Software Developer and Technical Lead, through countless challenges and countless hours of learning, coding, and problem-solving.

Basically! I started my life in a village and, thankfully, I've reached a destination. However, I know this is not my final goal. I believe I have the potential to achieve something new and bigger. After all, what is impossible with hard work?

Migrating from village, I earned a place in my new school, built respect, and even received salutes from my teachers. It wasn’t easy, especially with the challenges of a village education. I became a top student and after that graduated with BS in Computer Science. Along the way, I worked and had the honor of being a guest speaker in several live technical sessions. I even had the incredible opportunity to meet Uncle Bob and Kent Beck online in one-on-one sessions. Is there any greater luck than that? From zero to here!

Today, I am a Senior Developer, and I owe it all to the opportunities that came my way. My parents did their best to support me. But this is not my stopping point. I want to move forward and connect with those who embrace ideas and growth. I want to surround myself with people who are open to trying new things, who listen to your voice, and who don’t silence it. Anyone who is agreed to O Yes! Let’s try that. Let’s do something New. (e.g. Let’s do it.! Yes! Try TDD) I’m eager to Meeting those I admire, whose knowledge I'm passionate about learning from, and meeting them is a dream. Right now, I feel like I'm trapped in a cage, and through my story, I hope to break free, just as Uncle Bob has inspired me to do. I need people who will give me a chance to achieve something greater. There’s a fire of passion burning inside me, but the environment around me doesn’t nurture it

Now, as I look beyond borders, I'm seeking an opportunity to bring my expertise to a new environment, where I can grow, collaborate, and contribute on a global scale. It’s not just about a job, it’s about finding a place where I can truly make an impact while embracing new ideas. My belief is that whatever you do, you should take it to the highest level, push the limits, and don’t stop until you’ve achieved something you’re truly proud of.

My biggest wish in life is to meet Uncle Bob and Kent Beck in person. I have a deep admiration for United States people, as I have been working with them as well, and many of whom I connect with on LinkedIn. I simply believe that in the right environment, I could achieve something even greater.

Once I tried Bug Bounty Hunting and through hardwork protected many companies from serious bugs and earned HALL OF FAME from them. What’s impossible with determination?

You can connect with me on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maria-zulfiqar-29485436/). Or at : Mariazulfi4#[1].com

https://x.com/Motabhai012/status/1835559913348845988

You should listen to this. GOP Lawmaker Gives Update On The Investigation Into January 6th, Accuses... https://youtu.be/AAR5ePPTmvo?si=Hmi3CONiY6k81ayh… via #[1]

10/6/2024, 1 engagement

Zapped 20K to @jb55. Monthly contribution for Damus.

9/29/2024, 18 engagements

https://x.com/alexbunardzic/status/1835714487103697067

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836265669631053838

https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1836481913063698758

I have to say that the Israeli's pulled off the best, and funniest, targeted strike of all time. They managed to put little tiny bombs into the pagers of Hezbollah fighters, and simultaneously blow their balls off. Nicely done guys.

https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1836746567513977039

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1836595786655641739

https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1836747654996328747

agile teams foodforthought

""Remember as a developer, you are a stakeholder. You have a stake in the software that you need to safeguard. That's part of your role, and part of your duty. And it's a big part of why you were hired" - #[4] Clean Architecture #teams #agile #foodforthought

9/20/2024, 3 engagements

Pro-Life Laws DID NOT KILL Amber Thurman | Kristan Hawkins

Yeah, I know it’s two hours long, but just listen to the first 10 minutes. I dare you to turn it off after that. This was spectacular!

DHH Is Right About Everything

9/20/2024, 1 engagement

I saw "Am I Racist" yesterday. It was pretty funny.

9/15/2024, 4 engagements

You know you're going to have to learn Clojure, don't you? It's inevitable. So you might as well get started now.

Here are two resources that will help you. They're both easy, and fun.

For those who like to read:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2PP9uiaifw4QGXYQBiHICr_bn6nStjq

And for those who like to watch:

9/7/2024, 2 engagements

Hey! I’ve got a really great idea. Get this.

First, let’s demoralize and defund the police nationwide reducing their numbers to the point of being ineffective.

Then let’s throw the southern border wide open so that Venezuelan gangs and Islamic terrorists can pour, unimpeded, into the country.

Then, let’s make sure the cities elect radical prosecutors who will refuse to charge and hold criminals; making sure that those gang members and terrorists stay on the streets.

Oh yeah, and then let’s make sure the city legislators declare their cities to be sanctuaries that refuse to turn criminal illegal immigrants over to ICE for deportation.

Sound like a plan?

9/7/2024, 4 engagements

What would possess an American politician to decide that America should not be energy independent?

9/7/2024

This is rich.

https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1832015574139859278

9/7/2024, 1 engagement

Twenty three hundred years ago Aristotle described the universe as a series of concentric spheres made of a crystalline material called "Quintessence" (The Fifth Element). The Sun, Moon, planets, and stars were all embedded into their own individual spheres which rotated around the Earth at different rates.

Four hundred years later, the Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy could not reconcile his observations with the circular motions implied by Aristotle. But circles were perfect, and the heavens must also be perfect, so he invented "epicycles". He said that the heavenly bodies each moved in small circles around a point, and that point moved in a circle around the Earth.

Over the centuries, as observations improved, Ptolemy's epicycles weren't enough. So more were added. Wheels within wheels. And even they were not enough so other contrivances of speed and angle were added.

In the middle of the sixteenth century Copernicus, who believed that God lived in the Sun, moved the Sun to the center and found he could eliminate some of the epicycles and other contrivances used to match observations. But many still remained.

In the early part of the following century Johannes Kepler showed that the shapes of the orbits of the planets were not circles, but were ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.

Just a few decades later Isaac Newton collapsed all the previous centuries of observation and reasoning down to one simple formula. F=Mm/r^2.

A century later, Einstein, stimulated by the work of Maxwell, Michaelson, and Morley showed us that Newton's formula was an approximation of a rather more complicated rule having to do with time, space, and the speed of light. He called it his general theory of relativity.

Two decades later, using the best theories of gravity at his disposal, and Hubble's distance laws for galaxies, Fritz Zwicky noticed that the galaxies in the Coma cluster were moving too quickly for gravity to hold them together. He proposed that there must be more material in the cluster than was visible. He called that material, Dark Matter -- a term first coined by Henri Poincaré to describe a different phenomenon.

By the 1960s there were many observations that galaxies rotated too quickly to hold themselves together. The speed of the stars at the outskirts of the galaxy move well beyond the escape velocity of the visible matter.

Today we conclude that the universe is full of something we call Dark Matter. It forms the seeds of galaxy clusters, and it's shape outlines the webs of those clusters that are woven through space. We think that this dark matter outweighs visible matter by a factor of nearly six to one.

And we have not the slightest clue what this stuff might be.

9/4/2024, 2 engagements

They kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured, and after 300 days they finally shot those innocent jews in the back of the head. They are Nazis. And like their spiritual forebears they must be destroyed, utterly.

9/4/2024, 7 engagements

This!

https://world.hey.com/dhh/free-speech-isn-t-guaranteed-to-be-forever-e7654685

9/4/2024, 4 engagements

In the late 90s a team of researchers studied a large number of these events, reaching extreme distances, and therefore extremely far back in time. By measuring the red-shift of the spectra of those events they calculated how fast they were being carried away from us by the expanding universe -- and they discovered something very strange.

We expected that the mutual gravity of all the galaxies, and all the matter in the universe should be slowing the expansion of the universe down. After all it takes energy to climb against a gravitational field; and that energy loss must be slowing things down.

What the researchers found, instead, is that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. This means some kind of energy is being pumped into the universe that opposes the inward tug of gravity and pushes the galaxies away from each other ever faster and faster as time goes by.

We call that new energy "Dark Energy" -- and we have no idea what it is or where it comes from.

9/3/2024

I wrote a book about how to effectively combine procedural, OO, and Functional programming. The title is "Functional Design"

9/3/2024, 4 engagements

This is fun!… Where does punctuation come from?! https://youtu.be/k9Re5otW-v0?si=uMZJFtA2h2N8SnRo… via #[1]

8/25/2024, 3 engagements

Getting ruby to work is a gigantic pain. I think the whole Ruby module management system went off the rails a long, long, time ago. (No pun intended.)

8/25/2024, 3 engagements

Neutrons in isolation are unstable. They will energetically decay, becoming a proton, electron, and an anti-electron-neutrino with a half-life of about 10 minutes. This is called ß-decay.

This reaction is reversible through a process known as electron capture. If a proton and an electron are forced into near proximity, they can combine to form a neutron, emitting a normal electron-neutrino.

In the collapsing iron core of a high mass star, in the last microsecond before it blows itself to kingdom come as a type 2 supernova, the electrons and protons within the iron are forced together and undergo this inverse ß-decay becoming neutrons and emitting an overwhelming barrage of neutrinos.

The newly formed neutrons rapidly sort themselves out into energy shells. Neutrons are fermions. Identical fermions cannot co-exist together in the same system. Thus the neutrons in the collapsed core separate into a vast number of different energy shells. Low energy neutrons are deeper in, higher energy neutrons are farther out. There is no way for the higher energy neutrons to lose energy since all the lower shells are full.

All those neutrons are in a constant state of vibration and collision. Higher energy neutrons vibrate and collide faster than lower energy neutrons. All that vibration and collision creates an outward pressure that holds back the inward crush of gravity. So the object, now only a few miles in diameter, settles into a stable state called degenerate matter.

This object is often called a neutron star; and the degenerate matter within it is sometimes referred to as neutronium. A teaspoon of neutronium would weigh several billion tons.

Much of the angular momentum of the original star remains within the neutron star. However, since the radius has shrunk by three or four orders of magnitude, the angular velocity has increased by a corresponding factor. These objects can spin at thousands of RPM. Moreover, much of the original star's magnetic field is trapped within the neutron star, and has likewise been compressed by several orders of magnitude. Thus, the neutron star is a very powerful spinning magnet.

When you spin a magnet you create an electric field. The electric field across a newly formed neutron star is enormous. That field accelerates vast numbers of charged particles to stream outwards from the magnetic poles. However, the powerful magnetic field lines force those particles to move in a spirals as they stream outwards. When charged particles move in spirals they induce electromagnetic waves -- light. And those light waves travel in straight beams emitted from the magnetic poles of the neutron star.

Those beams of light carry away some the rotational energy of the Neutron star. This creates a drag on its rotation. But given that the star contains a solar mass of neutronium spinning at thousands of RPM, it has plenty of kinetic energy to spare and so the reduction in rotational velocity is very gradual.

If the magnetic poles of the neutron star are not perfectly in line with its spin axis, then those beams of light swing around through space like a lighthouse beacon. If they happen to be in line with the Earth, we see the object emitting pulses of light as the beams pass by. We call these pulsating stars Pulsars.

8/22/2024, 5 engagements

The collapsing iron core of a massive star that has exhausted its fuel will quickly reach densities at which electrons and protons can no longer remain separate. They combine to form neutrons in an extremely violent reaction that tears the rest of the star apart and blasts it's contents all over the sky as a type 2 Supernova.

At the time of the explosion the structure of the star looks like an onion. There is an outer shell of Hydrogen gas, then a shell of Hydrogen fusing into Helium. Below that is a shell of Helium fusing into Carbon and Oxygen. Deeper still is a shell fusing Carbon into Neon, Magnesium, Sodium, and Aluminum. Deeper still is a shell fusing Neon into Oxygen and Magnesium. Still deeper the Oxygen fuses into Silicon, Argon, Sulfur, and Calcium. And finally a shell that fuses Silicon into an isotope of Nickel that decays into Iron.

All this material is blown to smithereens when the barrage of outrushing neutrinos produced by the core's transmutation into neutrons collides with those shells. The over-pressures cerated in that collision stimulate even more fusion. The environment of the explosion is rich with free high energy neutrons, and alpha-particles (Helium nuclei). These particles are absorbed by the elements within the explosion, transmuting them further into the vast majority of the elements on the periodic table up to element 36.

All these nuclei are scattered amidst the rapidly expanding cloud of debris and eventually mix with the interstellar medium, polluting the existing clouds of neutral hydrogen and, if close enough, stimulating them to collapse into planetary systems.

The Oxygen and Nitrogen in our atmosphere. The Carbon and Calcium in our bodies and bones. The Sodium in our seas, and the Iron and Aluminum in our buildings, originated from this process. Those elements all came from stars that blew their guts up all over the sky, and seeded future stars with the elements of life and civilization.

8/22/2024, 2 engagements

Most of the stars were see in the night sky are extremely luminous giants. Stars the size of our Sun are too faint to be seen beyond a few dozen light years. This is ironic because the Sun is much larger than the majority of stars. There are a vast number of nearby stars that we simply cannot see with the naked eye.

Giant stars burn very hot, and very bright, and for a very short time. A giant can fuse hydrogen into helium thousands of times faster than the Sun. It can exhaust its fuel in as little as ten million years.

In their cores, they first fuse hydrogen into helium, then helium into carbon and oxygen. However, unlike the Sun they are massive enough to continue the process and fuse carbon into a number of other elements, that eventually are fused into silicon

At each stage the rate of fusion must increase because the reactions become less efficient.

On the very last day of a giant star‘s life, it begins to fuse silicon into iron. This reaction is so feeble that the star will burn through a full solar mass of silicon in a matter of hours; all the while a nugget of iron, the size of the Earth, with the mass of the Sun, accumulates in its core.

Fusion reactions with iron are endothermic. They consume energy as opposed to producing it. So when the silicon is exhausted, and the iron begins to fuse under the weight of the star above it, the core cools.

The cooling core collapses, it can no longer produce the energy needed to hold up the mass of the star. The collapse proceeds so rapidly that the material at the center approaches a sizable fraction of the speed of light. The rest of the matter within the star is pulled down with it at a slower pace.

When the core has shrunk to approximately 10 miles in diameter the pressures are so great that the electrons and protons within it are forced to combine into neutrons. This reaction creates a barrage of neutrinos heading outward at the speed of light. Meanwhile the neurons in the core rapidly arrange themselves into an energy shell structure that resists any further collapse. The collapse stops dead.

The outrush of neutrinos carries a vast amount of energy that is more than sufficient to reverse the inflowing matter of the star and blow it out into space at a fraction of the speed of light. This reversal creates temperatures and pressures that stimulate even more fusion within the outrushing guts of the star.

The explosion is so energetic that the dying star’s luminosity increases by approximately twelve orders of magnitude. For several weeks it will outshine the galaxy it lives in.

This is a type 2 supernova, and we don’t want to be close to one. 50 light years is not far enough. Within that radius the radiation slamming into the Earth would be disastrous for life. Fortunately there are no stars within that radius that are likely to blow up soon.

But keep your eye on Betelgeuse — it’s likely to blow in the next few thousand years — maybe tomorrow. At 500 light years it would put on a hell of a show. It would be brighter than the full moon and you could read by it at night.

8/20/2024, 6 engagements

Out in the vast interstellar emptiness float huge clouds of dust and gas -- mostly neutral hydrogen, H2 molecules that are loosely bound together by their diffuse gravity. The masses of such clouds are sufficient to create hundreds of stars like our Sun; but the thermal energy of their temperature, and their weak but non-zero angular momentum, are sufficient to prevent their gravity from collapsing them. They are stable structures that will last hundreds of millions, if not billions of years, if not disturbed.

But disturbance can come in the form of a shock wave from a distant supernova or stellar explosion. That shock wave can compress portions of the cloud into densities with sufficient gravitational potential to enter a runaway collapse.

As the collapse proceeds it can stall if the collapsing fragment has too much angular momentum. The cloud, now spinning much faster because of the collapse will often assume a dumbbell shape and the two lobes will separate. With most of the original angular momentum having been shed into their mutual orbit, the two lobes are free to continue their collapse into a binary star system.

Most of these new stars are small, and will collapse into an object roughly the size of Jupiter with little or no internal energy. We call them brown dwarfs. They have been heated by their collapse to glow in the infra red, but will gradually cool.

Some clouds are larger and will collapse to the point where fusion reactions will begin in their cores. First it is the deuterium that fuses, generating quite a bit of heat. But deuterium is rare and that fuel is rapidly exhausted. If the new star is massive enough it may begin to fuse regular hydrogen into helium. Many of these objects are one tenth the mass of the Sun and glow in the red, and near infra-red. We call them red dwarfs. They burn slowly and will last for tens of billions of years.

Some have about the mass of our Sun. They are comparatively rare, but will shine brightly in the visible spectrum, fusing Hydrogen to Helium, and then eventually Helium into Carbon. In the final stages of their live they will become red giants, and will end their lives by repeatedly ejecting their outer shrouds of hydrogen, until only the white hot carbon core remains. These are White Dwarf stars.

But as noted earlier, stars often form in binary pairs. And sometimes the two partners are as massive, or even more massive than the Sun.

The first to die will spread into a Red Giant and disgorge massive amounts of material into the space around it as it pulsates through its death throes. Sometimes that material reaches the partner star, adding slightly to its mass, and reducing the distance between them through friction.

When the Red Giant finally become a White Dwarf, it may be close enough to the partner star to gradually steal material from it -- especially if the partner enters the Red Giant stage.

Matter, mostly hydrogen, builds up on the hot surface of the White dwarf. The White Dwarf may have half the mass of the Sun, and be only a few thousand miles in diameter, roughly the size of the Earth or Mars. Thus the gravitational potential at the surface is huge, and the infalling hydrogen is strongly compressed and heated.

This process continues until the hydrogen accumulating on the surface of the White Dwarf reaches the temperatures and pressures sufficient to ignite hydrogen fusion. This results in a massive thermonuclear explosion called a nova. The explosion is strong enough to blow all the accreted material off the White dwarf and re-expose the carbon core to begin the process again.

From our point of view the binary pair will brighten by many orders of magnitude every few decades. We may just see one of these this Summer or Fall in the constellation of the Northern Crown (Corona Borealis)

8/19/2024

The Sun, our local star, is just under a million miles in diameter. The surface temperature is about 5,000K, and the power output is about 4E26 watts.

All that power is coming from the innermost 10% of the star -- the core -- where the temperatures are around 17E6K, and the pressure is ...um... crushing.

At those temperatures the Hydrogen atoms cannot hold onto their electrons. So protons and electrons are free to zoom about without binding. The velocities of the protons are so high, and the pressures are so great, that every once is a great while two protons will get close enough that the strong nuclear force will bind them together into Helium. This happens to about 500 metric tons of Hydrogen each second. In that reaction a lot of high energy gamma rays are released.

Those gamma rays are trapped within all those charged particles in the core. They bounce around in the core, doing a random walk for thousands of years. But eventually they reach the outer shell of the core where they can heat the Hydrogen gas outside the core.

The bouncing around of all those gamma rays creates an outward pressure that keeps the core of the Sun from collapsing under the weight of the Hydrogen above it.

The hydrogen outside the core, heated by the gamma rays escaping the core, rises to the surface of the star in a massive convection current. Upon reaching the surface, the heat of that gas is radiated at 5000K and reaches us ~8 minutes later.

This process has been going on for nearly five billion years, and will continue for another five billion or so. However...

The Helium building up in the core takes up space. This impedes the fusion reaction. Fewer gamma rays are produced, causing the core to contract. This heats the core driving the fusion rate back up, but at a slightly higher temperature.

Thus, the Sun is gradually warming. It is about 10% hotter today than when it formed, and it will continue to get hotter and hotter as the eons pass. In about 200 million years, it will be too hot for water to remain liquid on the surface of the Earth.

So, I guess we'll have to move the Earth a bit farther out.

8/16/2024, 2 engagements

Harris campaign caught editing WDAY Radio and other news outlets headlines | WDAY Radio - AM 970 and FM 93.1 https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1824287000519659624

We're All Far Right Now (Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/LsbRrTULpgA?si=Z0VYLAJ4SkuV8-ro… via #[1]

https://becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com/20240813183534/injunction.pdf

Read the first paragraph.

8/15/2024

Imagine an empty room with 1000 coins on the floor. The room sits above a subway line, and when trains go by it jostles the coins and flips some over.

The room is locked and you have the only key to this room.

You come into this room for the first time on Tuesday and you count 300 heads. On Wednesday you count 400 heads. What do you believe the count was on Monday and why?

And what does this have to do with the universe at large?

8/15/2024, 1 engagement

unclebobmartin

Uncle Bob, Software Craftsman. http://cleancoder.com http://cleancoders.com

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I just signed up for Damus purple.

4/30/2025, 14 engagements

4/30/2025, 2 engagements

So much winning!

2/4/2025, 10 engagements

https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1884616251047108741

1/29/2025, 4 engagements

James Grenning is the person in my network who is most connected to the Embedded world. He does a lot of training in that space. Do you need an introduction?

1/22/2025, 4 engagements

It's done. Biden is gone. Trump is in office. The horrors of the last four years will be repaired and reversed.

1/21/2025, 6 engagements

1/18/2025, 3 engagements

But they didn't do any of those things. And so either they are supremely incompetent, or they don't actually believe in the Climate Crisis, or (and I think this to be the most likely case) both.

1/15/2025, 7 engagements

Given the recent changes at Meta, I wonder if all the lefties will abandon Facebook for BlueFace.

1/7/2025, 3 engagements

test

12/8/2024, 13 engagements

The WG21 Question.

C++ Standards Contributor Banned For Using Word "Question"

12/1/2024, 7 engagements

The WG21 Question.

Announcement! There's a new C++ Standard.

http://tomazos.com/ub_question_incident.pdf

12/1/2024, 7 engagements

I think we need to rethink the whole CoC thing.

12/1/2024, 9 engagements

I first subscribed to Scientific American in 1974. I voraciously read every issue. It was breathtaking and astounding. It has hard, and thrilling. I learned, and learned, and learned.

Michael Schermer, the recreational mathematics columnist whom I avidly read for years, explains the devise of this once great publication.

The Scientific American Goes Woke + Laura Helmuth's Resignation. By Michael Schermer

12/1/2024, 2 engagements

Name that President:

Had an affair with a 16 year old virgin intern in the presidential bed.
Dropped Trou in front of the cabinet, grabbed his organ, and asked: "Does have anything like this?"
Forced aides he didn't like to take notes while he sat on the crapper.
Refused his wife offer of divorce after a lurid affair with her social secretary because his mother threatened to cut him off financially and politically.

11/24/2024, 6 engagements

I've never experienced anything like this. The firehose just keeps on pumping. This team is moving hard and fast. It's clear they've got an agenda that they will push hard and fast to get done.

Usually the week after the election is boring. This week has been anything but; and it has been glorious.

Strap in! This is going to be a wild ride. And it's about time.

11/17/2024, 5 engagements

Why I voted for Trump.

During his first term:

The economy was good,
Worker's wages were increasing,
We were energy independent and approaching energy dominance.
There were no new wars,
Immigration was decreasing and under control,
NATO began to contribute their fair share,
Peace was breaking out in the Middle East.

And the Democrats:

Concocted the Russian Collusion Hoax
Spied on his campaign and presidency.
Impeached him for looking into Biden's treason.
Suppressed the Biden Laptop.

I could go on. I'm happy to answer any questions.

11/3/2024, 14 engagements

I still can't zap #[1]. I need to pay him for Damus.

10/30/2024, 9 engagements

#[1] I cannot seem to zap you. Damus says invalid lightning address. I'll keep looking.

10/29/2024, 6 engagements

Once I'm done with these book projects I'm embroiled in, I think I'm going to embark upon a rewrite of more-speech. Using swing was a huge mistake. I'll be looking at a different UI technology.

10/28/2024, 5 engagements

This was hysterical. Full throated belly laugh stuff.

Donald Trump full speech at Al Smith Dinner in New York City (Oct. 17, 2... https://youtu.be/XI0MUoW28VE?si=Pwj2SrpF6yiGM2du via #[1]

10/19/2024, 5 engagements

Today is a good day. Yahya Sinwar is dead!

10/18/2024, 1 engagement

Baer: "How many illegals did you let in?"

Kamala: "Let's get right to the point. Arugula, tomatoes, julienne carrots, sliced radishes, and Donald Trump. Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump..."

Baer: "Was it one million, two million,...?"

Kamala: "I WAS SPEEEEEEEKIIIIIING you disgusting male chauvinist. Now shut up and let me SPEEEEEEEEEEEK!

Baer: "But you undid the remain in Mex..."

Kamala: "DAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNAAAAAAALLLLLD TRUUUUHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMP!"

Baer: "Madam Vice Pres...."

Kamala: "YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M SAYING!!! It's TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP..... He's UNSTABLE..... TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP, DAAAAAAHHHHHHNAAAAAAALD TRUUUUHHHMP!"

Baer: "Um. Your handlers are ending the session."

Kamala: TRUUUUHHHHHMMMMMMP! TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP, Trump, Trump, trump, trump....trmp.......tmp.....tp......t.......

10/18/2024, 3 engagements

Everyone should learn a little Clojure.

10/15/2024, 9 engagements

I find it fascinating, and frustrating, that the YouTube algorithm thinks it knows what I want to watch; and is inevitably, and persistently, wrong.

10/6/2024, 8 engagements

10/6/2024, 2 engagements

Isn’t it interesting how little we know about the shooter in Butler?

10/6/2024, 3 engagements

Pilot Threatened with Arrest Over Hurricane Rescues https://youtu.be/yjda3xkZ4cc?si=3IFazzUd_suiHsVA via #[1]

10/6/2024, 1 engagement

You may have missed it, in the VP debate, but Walz used the phrase "You can't shout fire in a crowded theater." while trying to parry Vance's criticism of Harris' position on free speech.

The irony is, of course, delicious. The sheer ignorance that our politicians have for our history is tragic.

Oh no! Directly speaking? We can't have that! What the people hear must be regulated and overseen by...by...

10/6/2024, 1 engagement

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Once I tried Bug Bounty Hunting and through hardwork protected many companies from serious bugs and earned HALL OF FAME from them. What’s impossible with determination?

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You should listen to this. GOP Lawmaker Gives Update On The Investigation Into January 6th, Accuses... https://youtu.be/AAR5ePPTmvo?si=Hmi3CONiY6k81ayh… via #[1]

10/6/2024, 1 engagement

Zapped 20K to @jb55. Monthly contribution for Damus.

9/29/2024, 18 engagements

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agile teams foodforthought

9/20/2024, 3 engagements

Pro-Life Laws DID NOT KILL Amber Thurman | Kristan Hawkins

Yeah, I know it’s two hours long, but just listen to the first 10 minutes. I dare you to turn it off after that. This was spectacular!

DHH Is Right About Everything

9/20/2024, 1 engagement

I saw "Am I Racist" yesterday. It was pretty funny.

9/15/2024, 4 engagements

You know you're going to have to learn Clojure, don't you? It's inevitable. So you might as well get started now.

Here are two resources that will help you. They're both easy, and fun.

For those who like to read:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2PP9uiaifw4QGXYQBiHICr_bn6nStjq

And for those who like to watch:

9/7/2024, 2 engagements

Hey! I’ve got a really great idea. Get this.

First, let’s demoralize and defund the police nationwide reducing their numbers to the point of being ineffective.

Then let’s throw the southern border wide open so that Venezuelan gangs and Islamic terrorists can pour, unimpeded, into the country.

Then, let’s make sure the cities elect radical prosecutors who will refuse to charge and hold criminals; making sure that those gang members and terrorists stay on the streets.

Oh yeah, and then let’s make sure the city legislators declare their cities to be sanctuaries that refuse to turn criminal illegal immigrants over to ICE for deportation.

Sound like a plan?

9/7/2024, 4 engagements

What would possess an American politician to decide that America should not be energy independent?

9/7/2024

This is rich.

https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1832015574139859278

9/7/2024, 1 engagement

In the early part of the following century Johannes Kepler showed that the shapes of the orbits of the planets were not circles, but were ellipses, with the Sun at one focus of the ellipse.

Just a few decades later Isaac Newton collapsed all the previous centuries of observation and reasoning down to one simple formula. F=Mm/r^2.

And we have not the slightest clue what this stuff might be.

9/4/2024, 2 engagements

9/4/2024, 7 engagements

This!

https://world.hey.com/dhh/free-speech-isn-t-guaranteed-to-be-forever-e7654685

9/4/2024, 4 engagements

We call that new energy "Dark Energy" -- and we have no idea what it is or where it comes from.

9/3/2024

I wrote a book about how to effectively combine procedural, OO, and Functional programming. The title is "Functional Design"

9/3/2024, 4 engagements

This is fun!… Where does punctuation come from?! https://youtu.be/k9Re5otW-v0?si=uMZJFtA2h2N8SnRo… via #[1]

8/25/2024, 3 engagements

Getting ruby to work is a gigantic pain. I think the whole Ruby module management system went off the rails a long, long, time ago. (No pun intended.)

8/25/2024, 3 engagements

Neutrons in isolation are unstable. They will energetically decay, becoming a proton, electron, and an anti-electron-neutrino with a half-life of about 10 minutes. This is called ß-decay.

This object is often called a neutron star; and the degenerate matter within it is sometimes referred to as neutronium. A teaspoon of neutronium would weigh several billion tons.

8/22/2024, 5 engagements

8/22/2024, 2 engagements

At each stage the rate of fusion must increase because the reactions become less efficient.

The explosion is so energetic that the dying star’s luminosity increases by approximately twelve orders of magnitude. For several weeks it will outshine the galaxy it lives in.

8/20/2024, 6 engagements

But as noted earlier, stars often form in binary pairs. And sometimes the two partners are as massive, or even more massive than the Sun.

When the Red Giant finally become a White Dwarf, it may be close enough to the partner star to gradually steal material from it -- especially if the partner enters the Red Giant stage.

8/19/2024

The Sun, our local star, is just under a million miles in diameter. The surface temperature is about 5,000K, and the power output is about 4E26 watts.

All that power is coming from the innermost 10% of the star -- the core -- where the temperatures are around 17E6K, and the pressure is ...um... crushing.

The bouncing around of all those gamma rays creates an outward pressure that keeps the core of the Sun from collapsing under the weight of the Hydrogen above it.

This process has been going on for nearly five billion years, and will continue for another five billion or so. However...

So, I guess we'll have to move the Earth a bit farther out.

8/16/2024, 2 engagements

Harris campaign caught editing WDAY Radio and other news outlets headlines | WDAY Radio - AM 970 and FM 93.1 https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1824287000519659624

We're All Far Right Now (Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/LsbRrTULpgA?si=Z0VYLAJ4SkuV8-ro… via #[1]