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BC Holmes
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One part Pip; one part Estella

Trek nerd. Queer 🏳️‍⚧️. Programmer and pro-grammar. IDIC means Black Lives Matter and trans rights!

I'm not going to read your Substack article.

I maintain the STA Character Creator.

she/her
I’m so old, this was my first cell phone.
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
James Baldwin is amazing, but awkwardly that wonderful statement wasn't made by Baldwin, but rather by a user on Twitter who used the handle "@SonOfBaldwin."
September 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I was looking around for a 3D model of the TNG Engineering Kit, and couldn't find one. So I threw this together in Blender, fairly quickly.

It's not a terribly complicated mesh, but there are a bunch of things I never seem to get to completion and this actually feels finished.
August 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
August 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
My Fantastic Four
July 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Bidi bidi bidi. If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Dr. Who," or "Transformers."
July 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
On the topic of commissions, here's a Zatanna I commissioned from Sarah Leuver, aka ComickerGirl, a few years back. (Huh. I just looked it up and it was in 2019).

As I say, I like Zatanna.
July 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I got a coupl'a art commissions from Campbell at Fan Expo Canada just a bit before his _Naomi_ and _Far Sector_ work. This Artemis image hangs on my wall just beside my computer.
July 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I think about this sign all the time.
June 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Tell me your pet's name with a gif.
June 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Duolingo kind of sucks these days. This was a question from yesterday’s batch. The “correct” answer is not an accurate translation.
April 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
2 (comics) characters you like (Anyone can join)
March 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
March 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
March 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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March 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I received an email response from the CBC after I filled in their ombudsman form on the weekend.

I find it pretty underwhelming. Mostly because it basically says, "It was our job to 'just ask questions' and the fact that you found it obnoxious is a 'you' problem."
February 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A couple of other books caught my eye, but both are pre-orders. I've seen a number of Sara Tepes videos on YouTube, and I think she has a distinctive style.

I don't think I'm a "beginner" with Clip Studio any more, but I can always learn more techniques. So I might check that out as well.
February 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I suppose a slightly more revealing way of looking at things is via a dependency table. It's been a while since I was actively using SonarQube, but I recall that it could give you this kind of picture.
January 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Let's look at one little example in all of this. There's a dependency between a MailChimp package and an "exceptions" package.

Turns out, that represents 1 single import statement. An import of an exception class used in exactly one place.

To me, that's an anti-pattern.
January 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM