Life's Miscellaneous Et Ceteras

Brandon Valosek's reflections on life, philosophy, and programming

Brandon

A Curious Phenomenon

Ignoring minuscule annoyances for such an extended period of time that the effort required to solve the issue is significantly less than the sum total of inconvenience caused.
Fixing the problem almost always leads to thinking “Damn, I wish I had done that earlier”. Why do people do that? Maybe everyone has a tolerance for putting [...]

CNCStats PHP Library

Since I was but a wee lad I’ve been playing Command & Conquer games, but even before that I was a giant computer nerd.
I created the site www.cncboards.net to allow CnC players to track their stats and match history, as well as view detailed ranked ladder info. This sort of code could be useful to [...]

Biggest Insult To Music

There honestly are very few things worse when it comes to music than the un-synchronized push/pull shitstorm that is the audience clapping along to a live song. Whether its a 500-person congregation of upper-middle-class white protestant sheeple clapping along to ‘Lord I Lift Your Name On High” or the Canadian-infused audience at the figure skating [...]

Everyone Does This

You’re on the shitter– there’s nothing to read. What do you do?
Pick up the shampoo or toothpaste, procede to read the back.
Prove me wrong.

This Damn Website

My website has gone through quite a few iterations since its original conception back in the Fall of 2005. It was originally a C++ app I wrote from the ground up, listening on an open socket on my computer for people trying to connect via their browsers. It was a mess, but a really badass [...]