rproffitt

I've been project leader, team member and a cat herder over the years. I'm a firm believer that projects have a lifespan and that means they die at the end. No reason to overinvest in tools especially if they incur RENTAL FEES. Go with what you know, bury the project …

Wait, I checked out your link. Something fishy going on here.

That word "publishers" as in the preparer of books, journals, music, or other works for sale. So that word, I do not think it means what you think it means as there are no books, journals, music or other works for sale here. Moving on. If we toss that word …

The font wars was decades ago. To me this sounds like those days. Today you like the user and their browser and such choose fonts and more. Only when you get into typesetting which HTML is not will you address this area.

> Andigipro is a digital marketing and market research agency founded in 2026. Given this is your actual business and the claims at your website, I expect you to write answers to these questions.

We call this "America's IQ Test 2026".

Opera, Chrome, Brave and DuckDuckGo browsers show that message. Strangely, FireFox does not. Checking version there. 

"TEAM ALGAE"

Grizzly -> Adams

## Actually I'm seeing a morph to DISMAL MAGIC! My son who taught A.I. classes is now working as a programmer and the next hire was nothing about programming. They call themselves a programmer but have taken no programming or related classes in any computer related field. All they do …

Crypto and Web 3.0 is a daily report of million dollar HEISTS. Let's look at today's news from https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com NOTE: This is just one of the thousand heists! > An attacker stole $11.6 million in various crypto assets from the Verus–Ethereum bridge, which allows users to use tokens from the …

Today I learned that 4 is a 384 bit number. Story at https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certification-authority-emudhras-private-keys-compromised-one-of-them-was-the-number-4/5304312 # 4

50% of content is reported as AI slop with the goal being clicks and not much else. If you are going for engagement and subscriptions, head to SubStack. If it's just clicks, do the AI slop productions.

When the site has what I am looking for. If you don't have it, I move on. How are your mind reading skills today?

It's been many decades but back around 1970 I saw the LCD (liquid crystal display) at the Los Angeles Science Musuem during a special show by what may have been RCA employees. I knew this was a big deal back then and here we are with a lot of our …

Electrical worker's joke: Q. Why do the lines hum? A. Because they don't know the words.

For now I am in the "POISON THE AI" camp. Examples: • Glaze (Style Defense): Developed by researchers at the University of Chicago, Glaze subtly alters the artistic style of an image so that generative AI models perceive a different medium or technique (such as mistaking an oil painting for …

Here's a blast from the past: VIM Yes, VIM. Examples at https://www.google.com/search?&q=vim+for+python+development

AI/SI doesn't respect privacy, security, and copyright. Should we follow their lead?

Now put in a really large number such as the number of observeable stars today. That's 200 billion trillion stars (2 × 10²² to 7 × 10²² or more).

The analogy is the old car that as it ages spends more and more time in the shop. The owner can make it worse by adding modifications and festoons. Some maintenance is going to happen. About that AI CODE. No one with a brain wrote that so you know it's …

> Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as "surveillance companies." Their rebranding as "social media" is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense Edward Snowden 17 Mar 2018 This via Twitter which …

Small world. My son is doing the gig thing for the Amazon Whole Foods delivery. You can look at that to see the scale of the apps for the customer facing apps. You might think that such an app is "just one app." SURPRISE! In the Amazon system you have …

Before all this, ask the basic question which is: # Is this required for my job? Do not take or attain such because you think it will land you a job!

Google "Key Banks Blocking AI Agents". There are also court cases where the SI (USA name required now) Agent gave a price quote and the airline had to stand by the quote. So SI is a sword. Are you going to ride or die with SI (again, USA required name …

Why not Tkinter (Frameless Window)?

The one thing. Have a product and service folk want. If you don't have that, you are toast.

Small world. My son taught A.I. courses at uni. But with the changes to US department of education, DOGE and more the funding vanished and he's now in the real world. Back as a software engineer (is that the term?) he does use A.I. but short of vibe coding. So …

I've going with not a thing. YOUR SKILLS mean more than the TOOLS!

It's been a few years but email was offline for a very long time in the 90's.

Where I live you inflation is running hot and our food and safety agencies have been DOGE'd and RFK Jr'd so I would not suggest going into this business today.

To the last question. The last mobile dev I worked on was NATIVE. For each platform we used Apple and Google's own kits. Today I might not bother and go hybrid. That is, the app is pulling content from the web servers. This means the mobile app isn't as scary …

I've never seen this IN REAL LIFE. In real life working apps we get an Apple laptop (today, not decades ago) and with the usual applications for the new silicon. Try Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion which may still have free licenses for personal use. and now, UTM is worth a …

It didn't take much to find https://www.reddit.com/r/dropshipping/comments/1hifm3x/sellviacom_scam/ and it appears to be problematic. There are more stories like that so I'd kick that one off your list and keep looking.

Last time the office did Xcode we used apple laptops. It never occured to us to add more cost and problems with some oddball rental scheme.

Given the changes over time, did you consider SubStack?

From the past, grep? grep -rnw '/path/to/your/folder' -e 'your_search_string' I remember folk quite scared of the command line.

See https://xkcd.com/927/

As each decade passed, what was large became small. Today I think nothing about a list with a few million items in it. However that would be in some database (designer's choice here.)

As the AI SLOP passed 50% of content out on the web you may want to forget what used to work and consider substack and other venues.

You use what you can use. Don't fall into the traps that the tools make your paintings better. A painter does not blame the brush.

Poorly. RIGHT NOW!! As in now now I'm running a campaign and we are mailing postcards and more. Emails and texts rarely get a response but old fashioned snail mail is getting a response about 50% of the time. Obviously it depends on the campaign you are running. This one …

Goals unclear but yes I've used what must be a dozen JSON convertors and all were fine. As to your goal, you may have UNSTATED GOALS such as you wanted the output to not only be in PDF but to be formatted and presented in the same way that the …

I agree about being on an older PHP. As I read http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.13 I find myself saying, I want that fix.

Over the past week I've put more of LibreOffice through its paces. While we do have older versions of Office good to go, I can't find reason to install those today.

So as an agent to "IT Staff Augmentation Services" you don't know? Why would anyone use your company services?