My pet Roomba, Dobby, got himself good and stuck under an overstuffed easy chair.

I completed Wordle 1,056 without any mechanical or computational help. I believe I can deduce the answer from my third guess.

I grew up outside of city limits, not really on a farm, but not really in town either. The experience gave me some incorrect ideas about how rugged animals are.

I’m a bit offended that iRobot doesn’t make an effort to get my Roomba’s gender correct.

I thought I would try to do Wordle 1,039 exclusively with computer help.

Here’s the problem:

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Read a file of text, determine the n most frequently used words, and print out a sorted list of those words along with their frequencies.

I did not solve Wordle 1,037. I fell into the too-many-alternatives trap.

I’ve used Internet Software Consortium’s dhcpd for a while.

When I was setting up my new server I found out that dhcpd was past end-of-life. ISC wanted me to use kea instead.

The results of two more dinners from the local strip-mall Chinese joint: surprisingly good beef-and-broccoli, the opposite of fortunes in my cookies.