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Mike Hurwitz
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Staring in wonderment at the big, blue sky. Cycling badly, software a little better. He/him.
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A Japanes woman at Casio hand coded the Sleng Teng riddim that formed the basis for dance hall! It's an amazing story www.nippon.com/en/japan-top...
Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae
The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline origi...
www.nippon.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This could be a transcript of a conversation I had with my mother this week. Could not agree more.
July 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The other article tells what I think is a more useful story

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...
Trump Won by Turning Out Voters and Building a Diverse Coalition, Report Finds
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
One thing I've been hearing for months that the article does validate: lots of the electorate loathes the establishment.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
For those who don't want to read on Medium, I've also got a version of this up on Github with code.

github.com/dangermike/a...
GitHub - dangermike/associative_entity_redux: A little test to show performance differences between indexing strategies in MySQL and PostgreSQL
A little test to show performance differences between indexing strategies in MySQL and PostgreSQL - dangermike/associative_entity_redux
github.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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January 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My deeply-beloved father-in-law died just a few months ago. My mother-in-law, his grieving widow, loves the pole-dancing skeleton her neighbors put up.
October 23, 2023 at 5:42 PM