I've published the slides to my Introduction to Debugging with Python talk that I presented at Penguicon 2017. I'm hoping to present this at some upcoming conferences but for now you can take a peek at what I have.

There is also a video of the presentation that I did …

I try not to dwell on certain decisions that later turn out to be bad moves, but one that keeps popping up is my insistence on putting a hard disk drive on my Atari 800XL computer.

Let me explain.

Putting a hard disk drive (HDD) on my Atari 800XL was …

I can see why companies in the "tax preparation" service are reluctant to just let the government figure things out:

• Fee for the software (because navigating the tax code is for chumps).
• Fee for the state versions (because just filing federal is for chumps)
• Fee for e-filing the state version …

So the "re-reading K&R" book thing got side-tracked again. This time around life happened again and I got side-tracked with the other things that took precedence. But the one thing that I would like to be my constant companion is the willingness to keep trying and keep at things …

I think for the month of March I'm going to try an experiment. Something that I've long wanted to do, but something that has gone by the wayside more often than not.

I'm going to read through Kernighan and Ritchie's classic book "The C Programming Language".

I liken this to …