Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 21
June 15, 2022
No premature optimization
Don’t optimize code before it needs optimization or you’re likely to create unoptimized code.
June 8, 2022
UFO contact imminent… any day now
In yet another example of how the seventies was another planet, I ran across a set of seventies UFO magazines with a roundtable including Gene Roddenberry about super-children and their relation to alien contact.
June 1, 2022
Kolchak: The Montique Fantom (A Daredevils adventure)
A reskin of the Daredevils adventure The Body Vanishes for The Night Stalker in 1976.
May 25, 2022
ISBN (128) Barcode generator for macOS
Building on the QR code generator, this script uses CIFilter to generate a Code 128 barcode for encoding ISBNs on book covers.
May 18, 2022
A Decade of Jell-O Joys: 1963-1973
What changes a decade brings! I have the 1963 Joy of Jell-O and the 1973 New Joys of Jell-O. What happened to Jell-O and gelatin between the sixties and the seventies?
May 11, 2022
Revolution: Home Refrigeration
Nasty, brutish, and short. Unreliable power is unreliable civilization. When advocates of unreliable energy say that Americans must learn to do without, they rarely say what we’re supposed to do without.
May 6, 2022
Reunion lodging
The Double JJ Resort has rooms, cabins, and campgrounds available, and will be where the reunion dinner is held.
Sunday pot-luck & memorial
On Sunday morning we will have a pot-luck and memorial at Webster Park, followed by a tour of Hesperia High.
May 4, 2022
Rainbow Magazine preflight tool enhanced
I’ve added several features to the Rainbow Magazine preflight tool, including a check for references to line numbers that don’t exist.
May 1, 2022
Saturday dinner
Saturday’s dinner will be at the Double JJ Resort.
