Today I Learned

Nostalgia can be fun! My earliest experience with computers was with a Commodore PET ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET ),...

People make mistakes. Lots of them. We’re very good at making them, but not so good at preventing them. It can be fun to go down the...

“Get Off Of My Cloud” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWqmMAvmdU ) is the hit song by The Rolling Stones ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet;” One of the most recognizable quotes in the...

... But not necessarily Blue. Yellow Submarine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(film ) was one of those films which...

I finally have a semi-usable version of a Kanban tool running. I built it on the so-called “LAMP” ( https://www.til-technology.com/post/...

I have been spending most of my (relatively) free time working on PHP ( https://www.til-technology.com/post/it-s-been-a-long-time ), and...

Short post this week. It’s Victoria Day weekend in Canada, but that’s not the reason. In fact, I spent most of my (relatively) free...

When people talk about things that are complex, they usually talk about rocket science, which is more generally referred to as “aerospace...

#TIL that a fossa ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossa_%28animal%29 ) is more than just another name for Ubuntu 20.04 (ie, “Focal Fossa”...

Pen test? That’s when you try to identify who’s who in this photo of the famous magicians Penn & Teller ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Cognition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition ) refers to “the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding...

#TIL that Kali Linux ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux ) was not named after the Hindu goddess Kali. This was actually a great...

Code talker ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker ) is a name given to military personnel who used a “little-known” language to...

WARNING - Some tech-speak and jargon below. I’ve tried to be clear, but follow my more-or-less actual stream of consciousness, so the...

The plaque above was my father’s. I saw it almost every day of my life when I lived with my parents, and it’s now in my home. (I also...

For anyone not familiar with it, Mind Your Language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language ) was a British sitcom running in...

After commenting ( https://www.til-technology.com/post/d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-vu ) on how useful my prior familiarity with the C programming...

Today, I experienced déjà vu about déjà vu. How cool is that? I was going through Dani Krossing’s ( https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChar...

Uh, no. Not that kind of rule. More like the Tears For Fears song ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4zA0xnBEJU ), but not quite that...