2024-04-29 00:00
Every morning, after I wake up and get out of bed, after I get dressed and herd my two kids to the breakfast table, and after I give them a plate consisting of a freshly-peeled banana and ha… Read More
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I am Joe. I’m one of many Joes, but I am uniquely me. I’m the messiest organized guy you’ll ever meet. My glasses are always bent and my hair always a mess. I’ve never had a role model and as such am my own person.
2024-04-22 00:00
Earlier this year I was running a 14-mile race - the Frosty 14 put on by the Ohio River Road Runners Club.
No small feet, this race follows the Perimeter Trail around the lake at Caesar Cre… Read More
2024-04-20 00:00
Here are the April 2024 statistics for this blog.
I wrote three posts:
March 2024 Book Reading List
AI & Copyright
A Mario Cake for My Son’s Birthday
Google Analytics
Users… Read More
2024-04-09 00:00
March is over. Then the kids had a week of spring break - which included the April 8th Total Solar Eclipse.
Now it’s time for my monthly book reading list.
I ended up reading ten dif… Read More
2024-03-28 00:00
Can someone copyright AI-generated art? Can AI own a copyright of its own art?
I’ve been pondering these questions over the past year or so with the advent of LLMs and other generativ… Read More
2024-03-25 00:00
It’s been quite a journey since my son first asked for an elephant cake for his 4th birthday.
This year, for his sixth birthday, he asked for a Mario cake. As in Super Mario, the Nint… Read More
2024-03-20 00:00
Here are the March 2024 statistics for this blog.
I wrote four posts:
An Interesting Thing with TypeScript Partial
Record Mapping Strategy for OpenCSV
February 2024 Book Reading List… Read More
2024-03-19 00:00
I was assigning an object of one type to another object of another type the other day, and ran into an interesting thing since both types were partials.
Partial, for those unfamiliar with T… Read More
2024-03-13 00:00
I’ve deployed yet another artifact to Maven Central - this time a record mapping strategy that allows you to read and write Java Record Classes with OpenCSV.
As always, I have the cod… Read More
2024-03-04 00:00
By the time February was half-over, I realized I hadn’t read any books to my kids.
Zero books to my son. Zero books to my daughter.
Part of this was because my son is reading more an… Read More
2024-02-26 00:00
Recently my cable Internet service was automatically “upgraded” from 30 Mbps to 300 Mbps (along with an increase in price).
Curious if my speed would truly increase, I made sure… Read More
2024-02-20 00:00
Here are the February 2024 statistics for this blog.
I wrote three posts:
Over Two Years of Recording my Calories & Weight
January 2024 Book Reading List
An Ariel Cake for My Daugh… Read More
2024-02-13 00:00
For the past 829 days, I’ve been recording my calories - what I’ve eaten and what exercises I’ve done - in MyFitnessPal. I’ve also been recording my weight almost eve… Read More
2024-02-06 00:00
January 2024 is in the books.
Speaking of books, it’s time for my monthly book reading list.
As my son - who’ll be six soon - reads more and more, I read to him less and less… Read More
2024-01-23 00:00
My little girl just turned four.
She’s old enough now that she knows what she wants and what she likes.
I’ve made character cakes for my son’s last two birthdays (and wil… Read More
2024-01-20 00:00
Here are the January 2024 statistics for this blog.
I wrote four posts:
2023 End of Year Side Income Report
Another Decent Chat with ChatGPT - Setting a Content Length in Spring Boot
2… Read More
2024-01-15 00:00
2023 has come and gone. That means I can now look at how much I made on the side last year.
Traditionally I’ve done these in the last few days of December. However, I’ve found t… Read More
2024-01-10 00:00
At work, after a Spring Boot upgrade, we suddenly started getting 411 Length Required error when making HTTP requests.
For whatever reason, we now needed to manually set the content length… Read More
2024-01-08 00:00
New Year, New Goals.
Mostly, at least. A lot of the goals my wife and I set for ourselves we roll over from year to year.
This will be the seventh year I’ve made a post with these… Read More
2024-01-02 00:00
2023 is over. This post will mark the 71st regular monthly book reading post - the first one from January 2018.
Which is amazing since that’s before my son was born. And I’ve ha… Read More
2023-12-20 00:00
Here are the December 2023 statistics for this blog.
I wrote two posts:
OpenCsv - Register Custom Converter without Annotations
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Melding Tool
Google Analytic… Read More
2023-12-19 00:00
The other day I was using OpenCsv and needed to register a customer converter to convert a string to a simple object. For whatever reason, using OpenCsv’s annotations wasn’t an o… Read More
2023-12-11 00:00
Recently I’ve been playing Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.
It’s an old game at this point - originally released in 2010 for the PSP.
PSP cover for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Slee… Read More
2023-11-20 00:00
Here are the November 2023 statistics for this blog.
I wrote three posts:
Invisible Costs
October 2023 Book Reading List
Mint is Shutting Down; Alternatives & an Ode to Mint
I also… Read More
2023-11-17 00:00
A few weeks ago there was a meme floating around about if you spend using a physical $50 bill, it will remain a fifty dollar bill. But if you spend that same fifty bucks with a credit card … Read More
2023-11-06 00:00
Time flies. Halloween and October are over, November is here and it’s almost time for Thanksgiving.
I read nine different books to my son and twelve different books to my daughter, wh… Read More
2023-11-02 00:00
Mint, the personal finance app, has announced they’re shutting down January 1st, 2014.
I’ve been using Mint a long time. The first transaction I have in there is a tuition payme… Read More
2023-10-20 00:00
Here are the October 2023 statistics for this blog.
I wrote three posts:
Comparing Our Health Insurance Options for 2024
Does Friday the 13th Happen More Often in October?
September 20… Read More
2023-10-16 00:00
It’s open enrollment season, which means it’s time for my wife and I to select our health insurance for next year.
As complicated as health insurance is - dealing with deductibl… Read More
2023-10-13 00:00
Not only is today Friday the 13th, it’s also October. And I don’t know about you, but I feel as if a disproportionate amount of Friday the 13th’s happen in October.
Wantin… Read More
2023-10-06 00:00
November is over.
I read 12 different books to my son and 19 different books to my daughter. It seems to be a trend, now that my son is reading more to himself, that I am now reading more b… Read More
2023-10-03 00:00
We’re now in the last quarter of the year. Three months left.
Here’s what I read last month in September - 23 books to my daughter while managing to read 3 books for myself.
Bo… Read More
2023-09-20 00:00
Another non-busy month in the blogosphere.
I only wrote two posts:
August 2023 Book Reading List
Why Do I Always Read Those “How to Make Passive Income” Articles
Google Analy… Read More
2023-09-07 00:00
Time marches on, and I keep reading.
I read 15 books to my son and 13 books to my daughter.
Books I Read to My Children
Books I Read to My Son
Here are the 15 books I read to my son:
4… Read More
2023-08-22 00:00
Why do i always read those “How to Make Passive Income” news articles and blog posts?
They always say the same thing.
Invest in dividend stocks
Yeah, I know. I already do this… Read More
2023-08-20 00:00
A slow month. I didn’t post anything other than my July 2023 Book Reading List.
Which is the first month since I started blogging again back in January 2018 that I pretty much didn&rs&hell…Read More
2023-08-06 00:00
More and more my son is reading on his own. And my daughter is trying to mimic her older brother and “read” on her own, too.
Which means I read less and less to them.
But I sti… Read More
2023-07-20 00:00
Another month, another blog stats post.
Not much was posted this month:
Ohio’s Expanded EdChoice Program - A Breakdown of Scholarship Amounts for 2024
June 2023 Book Reading List
G… Read More
2023-07-14 00:00
So Ohio Governor Mike Dewine signed Ohio House Bill 33 on July 4th. This bill is Ohio’s budget for fiscal years 2024-2025.
If you want to read it, it’s only 6198 pages.
If you… Read More
2023-07-06 00:00
I have a lot going on right now, so I’m just going to list the books I’ve read.
I read 18 different books to my son and 18 different books to my daughter.
Books I Read to My Ch… Read More
2023-06-20 00:00
Duh duh duuh. Another blog stats post. Because it’s the twentieth!
I made a measly three posts this month.
Here are those three posts:
Finally a Decent Conversion with ChatGPT
Mor… Read More
2023-06-07 00:00
After many chats with ChatGTP, I finally got a decent conversation that helped me with a problem I was having.
That problem? I was having problems in a Docker Compose application proxying f… Read More
2023-06-06 00:00
If something takes more time, that means it involves more effort, right? And if you want something done quicker, just add more people, right? Right…?
Wrong.
Everyone knows this. Or… Read More
2023-06-01 00:00
Time flies. May is over and it’s now June.
I read 17 different books to my son and 18 different books to my daughter.
Books I Read to My Children
Books I Read to My Son
Here are th… Read More
2023-05-20 00:00
It’s the twentieth. That means… Another blog stats post!
I made a total of six posts this month! I haven’t made more posts in a month since I made nine posts in August 20… Read More
2023-05-17 00:00
And it’s not that it’s going to take over everyone’s job.
That threat is bad, true. AI is definitely going to upset and transform the job market. But that’s not wher… Read More
2023-05-15 00:00
To help secure Spring applications, I created a Content Security Policy builder and bean and published it to Maven Central.
The code is available on GitHub.
Here’s the dependency inf… Read More
2023-05-11 00:00
Last night my wife asked me to edit some random PDF that has bunch of car logos on it. It seems she wanted to make a car logo quiz for her MOPS group.
Any quiz she was able to find online s… Read More
2023-05-03 00:00
April was a busy month for me - I was still able to get plenty of reading in both for me and my kids.
May will be a bit slower.
So, last month in April I was able to read 19 difference boo… Read More
2023-05-02 00:00
So earlier today I had defined a little validation function type in TypeScript:
type validated = (valid: boolean) => {};
In my mind, the above type describes a function that takes a b… Read More
2023-04-25 00:00
Last year, my son wanted an elephant cake for his birthday. This year? A penguin cake.
And of course, I was up for the challenge.
So off to Google I went. I needed something simple, and I… Read More
2023-04-20 00:00
Another month in the books.
I only made four posts:
March 2023 Book Reading List
Word Guessing Game - A ChatGPT Generated JavaScript Game
Why a Roth IRA is Better - With Math
Git is… Read More
2023-03-29 00:00
So I asked ChatGPT to make me a word-guessing game in JavaScript.
The code looked alright, but I did have to make some modifications to get it to work both correctly and how I wanted it to… Read More
2023-03-24 00:00
Which is better? A Roth or a Traditional?
That’s a hard question to answer. Better in what way? And a Roth or Traditional What? Since IRAs aren’t the only thing that can be &ldq&hell…Read More
2023-03-22 00:00
In trying to understand things - like the version control system Git - I like to compare it to something much more mundane and easy to understand. For instance, Git is like a book.
Commit h… Read More
2023-03-20 00:00
This past month hasn’t been particulary busy month blog-wise.
I only made two posts:
February 2023 Book Reading List
Letter Value Sum Coding Challenge
Google Analytics
Sessions &r&hell…Read More
2023-03-03 00:00
February was quite a month, reading-wise.
It was a rare month where I read more books to my daughter than to my son. I read a whopping 33 books to her versus the still-staggering 31 books t… Read More
2023-03-03 00:00
Happy Easter y’all. I’ve been a bit busy with work and home, so I’m just going to quickly list the books for last month.
I once again read more books to my daughter than t… Read More
2023-02-27 00:00
An easy coding challenge just to practice recording and uploading.
Challenge from /r/dailyprogrammer/: [2021-07-19] Challenge #399 [Easy] Letter value sum:
“Assign every lowercas… Read More
2023-02-20 00:00
Welp, it’s February. It’s the 20th. It’s time for a blog stats post!
I made four posts in the past month:
Reversibility
January 2023 Book Reading List
Child Tax Credi… Read More
2023-02-17 00:00
Sometimes, you want to try something. But you’re not sure it’s going to work. You’re afraid that if you try the thing, the effects will be permanent.
Maybe the thing is a… Read More
2023-02-06 00:00
On to year six of these monthly book reading lists!
I read a total of 34 different books to my son, whereas I only read a total of 10 different books to my daughter.
And I was able to fini… Read More
2023-01-25 00:00
So I’ve started doing my Federal taxes and I had a bit of a sticker shock, at least when comparing it to my previous year’s Federal taxes.
It seems that the Child Tax Credit and… Read More
2023-01-24 00:00
Back in 2019, I attended the 2019 Cincinnati Cybersecurity Conference by Data Connectors.
The Data Connectors logo
Since then, it’s rolled around a few times.
In 2020, it was virtua… Read More
2023-01-20 00:00
After this blog status post, I will have been making these posts for five years.
That means this is my sixtieth blog statistics post!
I made five posts in the past month:
2023 New Year&rs&hell…Read More
2023-01-10 00:00
It’s a new year - so it’s time for New Year’s Goals.
New Year’s Goals Resolutions & Goals is more my wife’s thing - I will set goals throughout the year… Read More
2023-01-05 00:00
Last month I finished reading The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll. It’s the true story of on of the first documented spy attempts through the Internet and other networks. Although it… Read More
2023-01-03 00:00
It’s a new month - and a new year! That means, with this post, I’ve been doing these book reading lists for five years.
I read 33 different books to my son - and 12 different bo… Read More
2022-12-31 00:00
It’s the last day of the year. And, has been since tradition since 2016, I’m posting my end-of-year income report.
Here are the other six::
2021 End of Year Side Income Report… Read More
2022-12-29 00:00
About a month ago I decided to run a little experiment with tax loss harvesting: I was going to sell my shares of Microsoft at a loss and then rebuy them a month later, thus giving me the ab… Read More
2022-12-20 00:00
After this blog status post, I will have been making these posts for five years.
That means this is my sixtieth blog statistics post!
I made three posts in the past month:
Comments Tempor… Read More
2022-12-16 00:00
If you’ve visited my blog recently, you may have noticed that I’ve disabled comments.
If you were here a little bit before I disabled comments, and you tried to comment, you wou… Read More
2022-12-07 00:00
An interesting thing happened the other day when I was spinning off threads in a Groovy for loop.
Now I can’t show you exactly what I was doing (proprietary code and all that), but I… Read More
2022-12-05 00:00
November is over and December has begun. One more of these monthly book-reading blog posts and I will have been doing this for five years!
I read 17 different books to my son - and 10 diffe… Read More
2022-11-20 00:00
Time again to report on my blog status.
Three. That’s the number of posts I’ve made in the past month.
Two were written by me:
My Experiment with Tax Loss Harvesting Microsoft… Read More
2022-11-07 00:00
Sometime ago I bought a share of Microsoft. That share cost me a little more than $300.
Since then, that share has dropped in value about ninety bucks. So I wanted to run a little experimen… Read More
2022-11-02 00:00
October 2022 is in the books, so here’s the books I read to my children and for myself last month.
I read 22 different books to my son - and 12 different books to my daughter.
And I… Read More
2022-10-24 00:00
The following is a guest post and was not written by me, JoeHx
In this current recession, it’s difficult to think about buying a new car. But what if we told you that by following a f… Read More
2022-10-20 00:00
Time again to report on my blog status.
Three. That’s the number of posts I’ve made in the past month:
2022 Montgomery County, Ohio Ballot Issues
The First 50 Steps of a Stab… Read More
2022-10-10 00:00
Election day is less than a month away - Tuesday, November 8, 2022 - here in the United States. And sample ballots are available here in Ohio.
I love being able to see a sample ballot befor… Read More
2022-10-07 00:00
One of the exciting developments in AI right now is text-to-image generation.
Basically you enter in a prompt - say, a photograph of of a cyberpunk ninja, high resolution, wide angle lens … Read More
2022-10-05 00:00
Consistency. That’s why I’ve been making these book reading list posts for almost five years.
Five years. Since 2018. Wow.
I read 20 different books to my son - and 18 differen… Read More
2022-09-20 00:00
Another twentieth. Another blog stats post. I’ve been doing this for what, almost five years now?
I made a whopping five posts in the past month:
Semi Truck Tire Blowout
When is it… Read More
2022-09-16 00:00
Be careful when passing semis! This one’s tire blew out while I was passing it, scaring the out of me.
It was scarier in person.
My dashcam is Kussla 1920P Dash Camera.
I&rsquo&hell…Read More
2022-09-08 00:00
Interest rates are rising. I Bonds are paying 9.62%. A couple of months ago I opened a 5-year CD at 2.9%. I just got an email from my credit union about a 3.2% 23-month CD.
Of course, the … Read More
2022-09-02 00:00
Yet another month has passed. And I keep on reading.
I read 18 books to my son and 10 books to my daughter.
I even read two books for myself.
Books I Read to My Children
Books I Read to… Read More
2022-08-24 00:00
So it seems that Worthy Bonds is having liquidity problems.
On Monday (August 22, 2022) I received the following email from Worthy Bonds:
To holders of outstanding Worthy Peer Capital… Read More
2022-08-22 00:00
I want solar panels. I want my electric bill to go to zero. I’d even like it to be negative!
But I can’t seem to justify it. Not for my house, anyway.
The thing is - we just do… Read More
2022-08-20 00:00
20. 20th. Twenty. Twentieth. It’s the twentieth, which means it’s time to report my blog statistics.
I made three posts in the past month:
The Tale of my Wife’s Laptop Ba… Read More
2022-08-17 00:00
Many moons ago - back in 2017 I think - I bought my wife an HP Pavilion. Or rather we bought it together for her.
For the most part, she’s liked it. She has had a couple of complaints… Read More
2022-08-10 00:00
Introducing JoeHx Tees - a web site dedicated to showcasing my Merch by Amazon t-shirts.
The homepage for JoeHx Tees.
Why create a website just to display my t-shirts? Party for fun, partly… Read More
2022-08-08 00:00
Another month has come and gone - meaning, on this blog at least, it’s time for another book reading report.
I read 26 books to my son and 12 books to my daughter.
I finished one boo… Read More
2022-07-20 00:00
20. 20th. Twenty. Twentieth. It’s the twentieth, which means it’s time to report my blog statistics.
I made three posts in the past month:
Questions on Branches and Rebases in… Read More
2022-07-18 00:00
I’ve been messing with Git a little more recently, and a question about rebasing popped into my head:
What happens to the branch a branch has been branched off of when I rebase that b… Read More
2022-07-06 00:00
June is over. The year is officially half over.
For whatever reason, June was a slow month reading-wise - at least compared to other months. I only managed to read 12 books to my son and 9… Read More
2022-06-27 00:00
A few years ago I wrote about how we’ve got hard water. I thought I had fixed the issue, but our old water softener had gone kaput.
So over the Memorial Day weekend I headed up to Low… Read More
2022-06-20 00:00
The year is half over and the official first day of summer is tomorrow. Meaning today is the twentieth and it’s time for another blog stat report.
I made three posts in the past mont… Read More
2022-06-10 00:00
So I’ve been playing around with the OWASP WebGoat project.
The WebGoat Logo
WebGoat is a web application with a Java Spring back-end. Its purpose is to teach - through a series of… Read More
2022-06-02 00:00
The year keeps chugging along and is almost halfway over.
Last month in May I read 29 books to my son and 22 books to my daughter while managing to finish two books for myself.
Books I Rea… Read More
2022-05-25 00:00
A week or so ago I wrote about how I was helping junior developer analyze the incoming parameters of an HTTP request in a Spring/Java Servlet application.
It turns out she also needed to an… Read More
