What Survived the Move
Merging three sites meant rereading seventeen years of my own writing and deciding what I’d still defend. Most of it came across. Some of it didn’t.
Domagoj Author of 161 Articles
Hi from the planet Earth. I am a Software Developer. Humanist. Liberal. Progressive. Sometimes I blog. Opinions mine.
Just Asking Questions: The Fallacy Nobody Commits
The problem is not questions. It is the question with a cause already inside it — a post hoc inference the speaker never performs, so it can never be pinned on them.
Cowardly Agnosticism
The charge that agnostics are fence-sitters is older than the internet. What’s new is that half of it now comes from people whose own position is the same withholding.
Pick One: God and the Problem of Time
The traditional God is unchanging and also responds to us. Put him inside time or outside it, and one of those has to go.
Joining on Multiple Columns with Entity Framework and LINQ
SQL lets you AND together as many join conditions as you like. LINQ doesn’t — but anonymous types get you there, as long as you respect three rules.
Paper Comes With Conditions
Paper decides how it must be used before you ever pick it up. The question was never rigid versus flexible — it’s who chose the constraint.
Who Speaks for a Culture?
It’s their culture” isn’t an argument. It’s a change of subject — from a practice to a people, and from a disagreement to a consensus that doesn’t exist