Programmers talk about clean syntax and say this or that language or framework has such a property. I’ve noted that Ruby and Ruby on Rails have this thing, too. So what is it?

I’m finding that I really like the syntax of Ruby and the philosophy of Rails. Both are straightforward and ‘clean’. But I’ve been tinkering with Laravel, too, because it runs on more shared hosting services since it’s just good ol’ PHP.

I’ve set this blog site up to be dead simple. I don’t want to do anything to create it beyond installing Jekyll and setting it up to publish to GitHub Pages.

Perhaps the most important thing to control for reliable operation of the Alien pistol is the ammunition used. Because of the gas system that delays blowback, the wrong ammo will lead to unnecessary buildup and finally, failure to cycle the slide.