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You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your coat also. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to the one who asks you, and do not reject the one who wants to borrow from you. ...

Every so often I hear this phrase come up at the start of some conversations with certain Christians. I’ll say, “Hey, how’s it going?” and I typically will get the reply, “Oh, better than I deserve…”. I’ve heard it so often now that my internal BS alarm went off and I figure there’s no better time to dig into this saying than now. I’m not sure where the phrase originally came from, but as far as I can tell, it appears to at least been popularized by people like Dave Ramsey or pastor C.J. Mahaney of Sovereign Grace church. ...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’s! Here’s to another year of coding, gaming, and pursuing all that is Good, Beautiful, and True. I’m not one for new year resolutions, but since it’s something that got brought to my attention, I figure I share my own mid-term goals that I’ve been striving for and hope to strive for in the future (and this to give me a sense of accountability): Read through the rest of the Apocrypha and 1 Enoch Finish my Algo/Data Structures course Plow through Advent of Code 2023 (I initially started it with Zig but utterly procrastinated. Will “cheat” by knocking it out in JS!) Finish the initial version of my minimalist pure CSS framework “for backend devs” Continue to do at least 3 blog entries per week Learn Go Make more headway in Godot The more ambiguous the goal, the further back it is in the priority queue. ...

Hey there. Welcome to my blog. I’ve finally outpaced my procrastination and set it up (using Hugo + PaperMod theme) after what I think was months of bandying the idea around in my head. It’s nice, and I’ve enjoyed the process of setting up a blog site using an SSG rather than a CMS like Wordpress or Umbraco. Only took until Christmas night that I just sat down and hashed this whole thing out. ...