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Laravel View Composer

I watched a Laracast video this morning on View Composers… these will be very helpful to me. For a long time I have wondered how to avoid calling the same code repeatedly for showing a piece of code on a page, and now I have the answer!

Hacking – Too Much Victim Blaming

Each time a company or organization gets hacked, the tech community aggressively blames the victim. If a physical retail store had a gang of bandits break in and steal goods, no one would blame the victim retail store… they would blame the bandits. We have set up aggressive laws that allow for tracking down and imprisoning the bandits for physical crimes.… read more “Hacking – Too Much Victim Blaming”

Samsung S8

I just got a new Samsung S8. I am very happy that I bought an unlocked version without all of Verizon’s garbage preinstalled on it… and the ability to remove Samsung’s preinstalled apps. The only thing that is preinstalled that I can’t remove is Facebook because apparently it is built into the OS itself.

Ultimate Frisbee

I played ultimate frisbee at Venice Beach with the Paradiso Crossfit group yesterday. It was a lot of fun! I got some patchy sunburns though. I’d like to play more Ultimate soon if I can.

Productive Life

Since I stopped drinking again 30 days ago, I have worked out for 29 days straight. I had my best running times of this year in the last couple of runs. My brain has been working much better – I have a great idea for improving alignment of my team members with Coalition’s goals and I also have begun programming again.… read more “Productive Life”

Terrible People

I work with hundreds of employees and hundreds of clients, and have seen all sorts of folks over time. Recently, there have been a couple of really terrible people though… these two basically have been harassing me nonstop to the point that I’ve had to get the police involved. Hopefully the police will be able to resolve this.