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Follow-up on the 2026 US general election and Oregon races
Overall, the Democratic Party had overwhelming success across the nation, taking control of the House and Senate in Congress. In addition, the federal government did not interfere in Election Day activities. Election Law Blog has several posts on this topic, suggesting that the preparation of state and local election leaders helped create an environment that…
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Possibly the earliest possible results from Maine:
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The Emacs text editor is now 50 years old! See coverage in MIT Technology Review and The Register (via Emacs News).
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It’s interesting that the Atlantis version of Dave Winer’s Frontier application is available in a repo called helloFrontier – and that he does not link to the repo…
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My podcast with John Philpin
I recently recorded a podcast with my friend John Philpin, where we talked about our projects on the IndieWeb and the current state of AI – give it a listen!
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modeorg.org: a human guide to Org mode (via Emacs News) – a 30 day guide to learning the Org Mode feature within Emacs – I will give this a try to see how it compares to my site Org Mode for Beginners.
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Preparing for the US 2026 general election
There are a number of important elections happening around the world. In Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro in their presidential election this past weekend. This past Tuesday, Israel held national parliamentary elections, which will determine if Benjamin Netanyahu will continue as prime minister. In the United States, early voting and mail…
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Retirement Update
I have been retired now for several months, and thought it was a good time to reflect on how things have changed for me. When I started my retirement, I would start each day with a written list of to-dos on my computer, and work to complete all the things on the list. After about…
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The passing of MIT/NASA pioneer Margaret Hamilton
This week, it was announced that Margaret Hamilton had died. From the MIT News article announcing her death: “Hamilton worked first on the software for the uncrewed Apollo missions and then was promoted into leading the team developing the on-board flight software for the crewed missions. By 1968 she was assistant director in charge of…
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Podcast on design engineering in software development
I am 2/3 of the way listening to this podcast, and it is giving me some insight into the (visual) design of software. In my career in the aerospace industry, this was not a topic that was included in most of the software I worked on. Maggie Appleton talks about the importance of the human…