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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.com

Progress Manifests as Boringness

What was once spectacular is now mundane. A reusable rocket lofts laser-linked broadband satellites, then lands the booster like a pencil very much does not, and nobody watches. SpaceX took all that magic and made it boring through perfect execution. Good for us.

Progress Manifests as Boringness

Marriage Advice

Does my wife read my blog? I shall know soon enough.

Marriage Advice

Siri & Google Gemini

Apple confirms Google Gemini will power the next-generation Siri. That has to be a slap in the face to the half dozen AI engineers still left at Apple.

Product Review: TP-Link TL-SX1008 (10Gbps, 8-port network switch)

A review of the TP-Link TL-SX1008 10Gbps switch, covering its Black Friday 'sale' pricing, the variable-speed fan that's far quieter than my old Netgear, why most gear is still stuck at 1Gbps, and a pointless PC-to-PC transfer that hit a sustained 1.1GB/sec.

Product Review: TP-Link TL-SX1008 (10Gbps, 8-port network switch)

Space Force Tries So Hard and I Want to Like It

Space Force is well done, well acted, a top-notch production, and the vanilla of ice creams: no one hates it, but if a good flavor is available, vanilla stays in the freezer. The Grinder, on a tenth the budget, was the chocolate, until a therapist character ruined it.

Space Force Tries So Hard and I Want to Like It

Oglethorpe

We hiked Mt. Oglethorpe with the clouds fully descended, so we had basically no view the entire time. Old growth trees, gorgeous all the same. True of the North Georgia mountains as a whole if you ever get the chance.

Muppets from Space (or The Desperate Need for Quality Family Films)

Finding a movie that satisfies both the CoComelon-tier toddler and the adults is a perennial challenge for pizza-and-a-movie night. Then I stumbled on Muppets from Space. The kids were rapt, the parents weren't bored, no dodgy themes, and Gonzo finds his people.

Muppets from Space (or The Desperate Need for Quality Family Films)

When You Marry a Woman Who Raised Herself

This is hysterical. And correct. Good for him.

When You Marry a Woman Who Raised Herself

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

I'm trying to find the polite way to inform the in-laws that this isn't actually a step in making pineapple upside down cake.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake

One Pixel Black Line on macOS

I burned an AI token chasing down a one-pixel black line between the top bar and the view below it. ChatGPT's fix hid the whole titlebar; I wanted it visible. Grepping my old change logs found the real answer: the window titlebar separator. Set it to none.

One Pixel Black Line on macOS

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