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Fortune
Once upon a time, in the Before Times (call it the 1990s), software engineers would add to an otherwise boring login by displaying additional things like time, date or weather. Another was to display a random fortune. Some are movie quotes, some are literary quotes and some are just fortunes. Some are profane and some are a little profound. This bit of code accesses an online API to generate a fortune and display it.
Credit to HelloACM, which provides and hosts the API for this and many other cool things.
Staff Spotlight
This is our Staff Spotlight where we focus on some of the folks who help make us who we are!
Merle Fischer
Grammar Fascist
Quote: "Trust your instincts: my first reaction is almost invariably the right one." - Estee Lauder.
Home Town: Anderson, IN.
Bryant Stein
Collector of Business Cards
Quote: "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - William Faulkner.
Home Town: Orange, NJ.
Art Chen
Assistant Marketing Manager
Quote: "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin.
Home Town: Dallas, TX.
Wendell Ramirez
Master of Coin
Quote: "Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love." - Sathya Sai Baba.
Home Town: Hamilton, OH.
Credit to HelloACM for the random identity generator, Generated.photos for the AI generated headshots and Pixabay for the random backgrounds and api.quoteable.io for the quotes api.
Random Colors of the Day
Find some inspiration to brighten your colorspace! The three options below are based on trying to assign names to colors as they are represented on a computer screen, typically via a hex value like this: "#546789". Each pair represents the strength of the Red, Green and Blue value. Back in the day, the X11 Consortium declared that colors would be stored in a file called "rgb.txt" and many had names associated with them. Additionally, I found a list of colors and names based on Resene colors. The third one is what happens if you pick a random value and call it a random name. Very useful and highly scientific.
Seagreen4
#2E8B57
From the classic X11 file rgb.txt
ashbrown
#2E1905
From the set of Resene colors.
Billabong
#6609c6
A unique color and name, created just for you!
About
This is a place where I keep my stuff on the web. The contents and appearance change with time, but tend to reflect my interests. Those interests include: writing, technology, computers, software (both as a user and a developer), 3D printing, crafting, role playing games, computer games, music, art and woodworking to name a few. I do a variety of things that change often and sometimes without warning and typically reflect things I'm curious about.
Darrin Mossor
Human In Training
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary"