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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!
Toby Miles
Scheduling Wizard
Quote: "Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them." - Roy T. Bennett.
Home Town: Binghamton, NY.
Jose Hester
Code Monkey
Quote: "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure." - Colin Powell.
Home Town: Plainfield, NJ.
Angel Howe
Peon
Quote: "Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece" - John Wooden.
Home Town: Addison, IL.
Alexander Hammond
Senior VP of People Operations
Quote: "Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" - Dr. Seuss.
Home Town: Ames, IA.
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.
Slate gray
#708090
From the classic X11 file rgb.txt
camelot
#893456
From the set of Resene colors.
Hand hook
#bdc02c
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"