The Lysol President

Soon to be overheard on some news network:

Yes, I am “The Lysol President”. If that is too much to remember, just call me by my nickname – Lys – that’s pronounced “Lies”….

 

Convocast Episode 5 is out!

This is my 500th post according to my WordPress dashboard, so I thought this should be a full-fledged post instead of just a status. Woohoo!

My latest episode of Convocast (Episode 5) is live – check it out! I talk about my experience in the aerospace industry (at John Philpin’s request in Episode 4).

 

Is there still hope for COBOL programmers?

Recently, Joseph Steinberg noted  that the governor of New Jersey put out a call for COBOL programmers to assist in updating or fixing business applications being used by the state for unemployment applications. I last wrote about this in June 2019 , after seeing an article about COBOL expertise being still in demand by financial institutions. I decided to look and see if there were any resources available for someone to get familiar with COBOL. It turns out that Micro Force is a company that has up-to-date COBOL development environments and compilers, OpenSource.com lists several compilers available (gnuCOBOL seems to be the significant one (documentation here)), and there is a beginning COBOL programming book available from Apress. Looks like there may be some opportunity here (at least according to Indeed.com ….).

Bookmarked The Archive Turns 2 Years Old (Zettelkasten Method)

Last week, on March 15th, was The Archive‘s 2nd anniversary. Just like we’re all supposed to not celebrate big birthday parties or gather for festivities in general, this year’s app anniversary is toned way down as well. Here’s to what has happened in the past year.

 

Bookmarked Open Source Tools From the Warren for President Tech Team (medium.com)

We are so grateful for the hundreds of thousands of Warren supporters who used our tools to help our grassroots movement: Thank you.

In our work, we leaned heavily on open source technology — and want to contribute back to that community. So today we’re taking the important step of open-sourcing some of the most important projects of the Elizabeth Warren campaign for anyone to use.

Our hope is that other Democratic candidates and progressive causes will use the ideas and code we developed to run stronger campaigns and help Democrats win.

Bookmarked 10 top writing tips and the psychology behind them (withoutbullshit.com)

writing tips Photo: Wikimedia commons
There are plenty of folks happy to tell you how to write better, just as any doctor will tell you to “eat right and exercise.” But changing your writing (or eating) habits only happens when you understand why you do what you do. I can help you with that.

RSVPed Attending WordPress IndieWeb Online Meetup

Interested in the Indieweb, but you already have a WordPress site? Do you have a WordPress website or thinking of starting one?
Whether you’re a blogger, coder, designer, or just someone who wants to improve their presence on the web, if you have a WordPress site and want to add Indieweb functiona…

I am going to attend – should be fun! This is my first time to use a RSVP Post Kinds item, hope it works….