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GeePaw Hill

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Feb 19

Kate Bush, "Houdini".

I think, sometimes, I have not properly honored this artist, Kate Bush.

This song is the song of Bess Houdini, the Bess of Erich Weiss. Wife to the highest paid entertainer in the world.

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

Feb 16

In re: exceptions in Java. I used SocketServer.accept() the other day. Now, for the unwashed, accept() is a blocking function in an async environment. It's for listening to see if someone connects to the listening port.

And what if -- I did -- you want to listen for this, but in an exitable way, so that, say, if no one connects for a second, you regain control and can do something else, for instance.

Here's how you do that:

try {
serversocket.setTimeOut(xxx)
serversocket.accept()
}
catch(SocketTimeoutException ignore) { }

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

Feb 13

Glen Campbell, "Wichita Lineman"

Campbell, who lived at the pivotal moment when we turned from great singers to great singer-songwriters, is, even now, much maligned.

But his tenor was good, and his taste was good.

It's a Jimmy Webb song.

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

Feb 12

Aight, light. I'm going light. We're doing light.

Here's Harry Nilsson, "Coconut".

Taj Mahal, "Fishin' Blues".

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

Feb 12

I have been mulling, stalling, hedging, thinking, strategizing, so on and so forth, on a new project I've had in mind, for at least six months.

I think I'm about to pull the trigger on it.

And I'm not even gonna tell you what it is.

Because all the mulling, stalling, hedging, etc etc et fucking cetera had almost nothing to do with the geekery.

I make content for a living, or, more correctly, I make content for a non-living. I have project after project, three of them alive currently, to serve as the base and motive for my content.

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

Feb 11

Killing time while I wait for my birthday drink(s). I am prowling around a large java code base, looking at code I regard as "good", and partly picking nits and partly re-envisioning it in Kotlin idiom.

It is fun, sometimes, to look at bad code from lousy designers. But I am enjoying looking at reasonably good code from a designer I have a lot of respect for. Feels like it's even more fun.

A f'rinstance nit: don't use inline if's to handle pre-configured optional steps in an algorithm. Use a Strategy constructed at configure-time.

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