Dustin Briles

How can a "Good God" send people to Hell?

This is another post that sat in my drafts for several years, originally intended as a reference for myself ahead of a small group meetup. I never published it because I didn't think I had a good reason to publish it publicly, but again, this is my blog

Is evil an illusion?

The following was intended to be my notes - which turned into more of a musing, or perhaps a rant - that I prepared ahead of a small group meetup several years ago. This has sat in my drafts since then, but I never published it because I didn'

OSSU blog #8 - Calculus

It's been a while since my last OSSU post - about 14 months. During that time I started and finished single-variable calculus.

I put way too much effort into my system locale

tl;dr - I wanted to display date and time in a certain format. Couldn't do it. Built a custom locale file based on the English (Sweden) locale. Feeling cute, might change my preference again later. I recently installed Fedora Asahi Remix on my M2 Macbook Pro. The

OSSU blog #7 - PLC

👉This is post #7 in a series I'm writing as I go through the OSSU curriculum. Read post #1 for the full background on why I'm doing this Programming Languages, Part C The last course in the Programming Languages course trilogy. I am going to miss

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