Everyone’s arguing about the federal budget U.S. nonprofits handle more revenue than the GDP of the United Kingdom. They are subject to less disclosure than a single publicly traded company. We processed 4 million IRS 990 filings. The data is … Read more
How did you go bankrupt?”Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. This post tells the story of what happened when 4,000 companies … Read more
Disclaimer: I am not blind, but I am disabled. Does your region have any Blind-run blindness or vision impairment advocacy organisations, big or small? Local groups? Groups/organisations by the blind will be able to recommend all sorts of resources for … Read more
For 24 hours I will be blind and alone in my apartment. I eventually want to try being blind for a week, but I’ll need seven days with no other obligations, and I won’t have that for a while. For … Read more
#ollama-bot This is a rudimentary IRC bot that communicates with a local instance of ollama. #Installation You’ll need to have ollama installed in order to actually use the bot. Instructions for doing that are out of scope for this document. … Read more
Anyone who knows me can vouch for my tendency to frenetically pick up and drop hobbies. I’ve found two benefits of this: No one’s ever intimidated by you because your next embarrassment is right around the corner By starting out … Read more
The day after the 2022 Midterms, I heard almost every possible interpretation of the surprising results. The Democrats had done much better than expected and feared, and youth voter turnout was unusually high. On cable news and twitter, data analysts … Read more
This rarely happens. A screen reader instead stumbles over these static images, sometimes reciting filename gibberish, leaving a blind reader with no possible way to discern meaning. That’s assuming, again, that an accessible version of the textbook exists to begin … Read more