Bill Weye

Bill Weye writes about software, books, and the long arc of the web.

Notes from a working developer — short essays, slow reading, and the occasional book list.

  • How I trained my dog, but he makes his own smart decisions

    On a daily basis someone asks me how I trained Koonie to do “X”, and I have to disappoint them every time. Because I haven’t trained Koonie like you might see on some dog whisperer television show, it’s difficult to explain a straight forward process for anything that Koonie has accomplished. Let me give you…

  • It’s all coming together

    16 songs in my iTunes library have the word “sugar” in the title. 57 use “sweet” in the title.

  • Try to run from glucose. You can’t.

    When you’re a diabetic in my place, everything comes back to glucose. You can’t escape it, even from songs. You can take all the tea in China Put it in a big brown bag for me Sail right around the seven oceans Drop it straight into the deep blue sea She’s as sweet as tupelo…

  • How to lose weight for type 2 diabetics

    I’m going to be honest with you, something most health professionals will not do. If you have any intention of trying to stop taking medication, which means losing weight and getting your blood sugar under control, then you’ll have to turn your life upside down and be miserable. Do these 4 things: Live life in a…

  • First photo with my first ever smart phone. Yep, #craftbeer is important.

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  • Christina Hendricks husband’s sense of humor

    When you’re married to Christina Hendricks, Mad Men siren and one of the most beautiful woman on the planet, you’ve got to have a sense of humor or lose your sanity. Right? You’ve got a career in your own right, an actor of some note, but people still think of you as that geek married…

  • What good is a website?

    During a conversation with a friend and business owner, he said that he didn’t care about having a website for his businesses. For him, it didn’t make sense. I don’t care if someone in California wants to see what’s going on. That makes sense only if you don’t understand that local customers — and potential…

  • ZZ Top 1970

    ZZ Top, 1970 pic.twitter.com/YZJUvxlQah — History Photographed (@HistoryInPics) October 14, 2014

  • Did you think the White House locked automatically after 1814?

    The President should feel safer now. WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service Director Julia Pierson says the front door to the White House now locks automatically in a security breach. Pierson told a House panel that the switch to automatic locks at the White House’s north door was made after an Army veteran jumped the fence…

  • Developing websites

  • Isolating Vocals Of Your Favorite Songs

    [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/106000595″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] I think people like isolating the vocals of their favorite songs because it’s sort of a behind the scenes peek at how the song was crafted. Like this rap, Nuthin But A G Thang from Snoop and Dre. Find more isolated vocals here.

  • Every picture tells a story, donut

    Every picture tells a story, donut! Every picture tells a story, donut! Every picture tells a story, donut! Whoa!

  • Poker And Evolution

    Phil Plait, “Answers for Creationists” “How can you look at the world and not believe someone created/thought of it? It’s amazing!!!” I agree; it is amazing! I’ve written about this many times. But we know that complexity can arise naturally through the laws of physics. It doesn’t take very complex rules to create huge diversity.…

  • Face like a skelped erse

    Our pals in Scotland are still part of the United Kingdom this morning (good thing? bad thing? who knows?!). In recognition, let’s look at some Scottish insults and slang! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgo-dYAgzSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdRHaDi2E9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smu8nKXX0Bs

  • Molly Crabapple in Turkey — a journo-artist

    Mark this down: Molly Crabapple is going to be a huge journalist in the years to come. She’s an artist and writer, drawing and reporting her way around the world for a whole bunch of publications. She brings her artists eye to reporting, which makes the work compelling in a way that most other journalists…

  • The Minnesota Vikings got it so “right,” it was clearly wrong

  • Donut Ice Cream Sandwich: Apoplectic Diabetic Reaction

  • Don’t waste the pizza

    Someone came up to my office with a slice of pizza. I didn’t want to get into a long conversation about diabetes, so I forced myself to eat the pizza.

  • What’s your favorite cheese in a salad?

    My favorite is feta, I think. With a simple dressing of oil and apple cider vinegar, the saltiness of feta really pops in a salad. What good salad cheese am I missing?

  • Human Food?

    I hate to admit it, because this thing looks like a rabbit’s wet dream, but the salad I made this weekend tasted fucking good. A simple homemade dressing on fresh spinach and Swiss chard from the first farm share distribution of the season. Does that look good to you? Then make the damn thing! Dressing:…

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