Since the presidential election in November 2016, the state of Wisconsin has de-registered over 482,000 voters from its rolls. This is according to the numbers that The Wisconsin Elections Commission post to their website. Looking at the history of voter registration levels in that state, there was an unprecedented rate of voter purging starting in August 2017, that continued through the beginning of 2018.
I was recently inspired by Jeff Geerling's blog post on the subject of taking a Drupal 8 project, not using composer to managed dependencies, and moving it to doing so. His blog post is a good read.
An occassionaly pastime of mine is to put together timelines using the timeline.js framework. This is what I used to build a timeline based on the events of the Star Trek universe. In the past few monts, I had been working on a timeline that depicts real human efforts to explore space. So here is my Timeline of Space Exploration (Can you tell I like space?). Of course it's a work in progress.
I Originally wrote this in February 2017, and had not previously published it. But given his recent facebook spat, and the abhorrent call for violence against journalists just before the shooting in Annapolis, I decided to go ahead and publish it.
Milo Yiannopoulos, who is this guy? Since I don't follow the Alt-Right, it's probably not surprising, but he's made a lot of news lately. I frankly think groups like Black Bloc are giving him more attention than he deserves. Milo seems to feel it's very important to get his opinions correct. So here are the notes
I shouldn't have to say this to the type of person who follows this site, which is mostly myself, and a bunch of trump supporting Russians that speak very strange languages... but here is a reminder to be careful when copy-pasting code, especially from comments/descriptions from a ticketing system. Depending on your operating system, the following lines will look identical, but there is a subtle difference.
I went to my first public night with the Analemma Society on Dec 9th at Turner Farm park in Great Falls. It was an amazing experience. A friend and I went thinking it would just be a typical astronomy meetup, in a field, with a few enthusiasts and their scopes (since this was our first meetup, we had no idea, but this seemed like a reasonable expectation). In reality, the Analemma society had just opened their roll-top observatory, with three permanently mounted telescopes, all open to the public.
My apologies if you have been mislead here. I once had a web-came set up to watch my cat. It's gone now. If you would like to see my cat, he has several pictures up on facebook.
I've noticed an issue crop up recently where drush seems unable to download new modules, or update existing ones with the drush dl and drush up commands. The issue is that some versions of wget shipped with Redhat Enterprise Linux failed to check SAN names in certificates properly. This article from fastly explains the issue well. Note that Drupal.org hosts its updates server on fastly.
You can see where drush is failing by using the verbose flags
Recently, I've taken up an interest in Astronomy. My folks acquired an Orion Skyview Deluxe 6" EQ telescope last year (basically a older version of this bad boy), and after some time collecting dust, I grabbed it and and started teaching myself the ropes. I was inspired to start the hobby after spending an evening looking at the Star Walk app, which came a week after I had watched the movie Contact (for the umteenth time).
