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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

The Iliad & Odyssey of Homer

I need to read these books again. They're so good although trying to keep track of the names can be brutal. If you're insane, apparently you can read the scanned pages for free online in a web browser – if you're in to that sort

Hosting an AASA File on Your Ghost Blog

I recently started blogging again after a long hiatus. The only things I really cared about were: 1. I need to be able to self-host it. 2. It needs to not be WordPress. And so I discovered Ghost, which has been mostly great. The lack of a user interface for

MTG Resigns

Marjorie Taylor Greene (I think that's the first time I've actually typed out her full name) resigns, not a moment longer than is necessary to secure her life-long pension. Good for her, I guess. I've joked about doing the same thing. For all we

Would You Rather; Bad Dreams

4yo: Mom, would you rather eat ice cream or eat POOP? Mom: ?! 4yo: Ha ha ha! ChatGPT has no sense of humor. I think the baby had his first bad dream. Somehow, the cry was noticeably different than the usual dirty diaper or I'm hungry cry. In either

Of Self-Employment, Mailboxes & Minivans

Is it wrong when you laugh aloud at your own writing? I was scrolling all the way back to the beginning of my old Blogger blog, when I discovered this gem from September 2005: Certainly less appreciated, but a benefit just the same [of self-employment]: I never have to return

App Development Drudgery (App Icons)

The problem here is not the tools; it's the fact that the tools are necessary at all. I get that there are some artists who want to tweak their app icon at each of the required three million different resolutions, but for the rest of us, I just

Programming & Parenting

It is particularly convenient during the several months when the baby can't squirm, roll, crawl, etc. After that, it is nearly impossible to get any work done. It remains fun to try though. Coincidentally, just shy of four months old, the baby rolled over during the night. I

App Development Drudgery (App Store Screenshots)

One of the key elements of effectively getting folks to try out your app is also one of the most obnoxious and annoying requirements for app development: app store screenshots. I entirely dislike putting together app store screenshots. And once you're done, you have to it all over

Treasures Everywhere

This is true to a degree I never would have believed prior to having kids. There are treasures everywhere. Often, they find their way indoors. Unexpectedly stepping on a random rock in the living room is the best.

Red Meat Allergy from Tick Bites (it's not all bad news)

It turns out the red meat allergy from a tick bite isn't ALL bad. The fear, of course, is that you'll live the rest of your life without eating food from mammals (red meat in particular). This is true, but at least we see now that

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