Monday, September 30th, 2024 - TrickJarrett.com: Be excellent to each other.

Feeling The Itch

I am getting that itch I get for a new programming project. I think it's no coincidence my Minecraft playing time has gone down significantly, which means it is not providing me the technical projects needed to feed that itch.

Right now the leading contenders:

Collection Management Software - I've started this project a few times now and it always ends up falling off. The latest attempt got the database schema implemented and then lost steam when it came to implementing the surrounding UI. I really want to take this project on again.
Custom RSS Reader - I currently use a selfhosted FreshRSS reader and it serves me well enough. But there are enough quality-of-life improvements that I am thinking about that rolling my own feed reader continues to be something I consider. Things like improved filtering (god I am tired of ads masquerading as product reviews & articles) as well as integrating timelines from Mastodon, etc.
New Glowbug Admin UI - I didn't have this on my radar as a project really until this weekend when I went into the code for the admin side and just found myself rolling my eyes at past-me's implementations of things. This is a dark horse contender for a project I want to take on, but it's worth including.

Or maybe something else. We'll see. I'm just accepting that this is going to be a thing this fall & winter.

9/30/2024 8:35 am |

| Tags: programming

Highlights from Georgia Judge overturning their abortion ban

Originally posted to X by @MuellerSheWrote, I've pulled their post copy here:

NEW: THREAD: A new ruling from Judge McBurney in Georgia overturning the abortion ban and allowing the procedure to continue has some REMARKABLE quotes. Let's take a look at just a few. 1/

"While the State's interest in protecting "unborn" life is compelling, until that life can be sustained by the State -- and not solely by the woman compelled by the Act to do the State's work -- the balance of rights favors the woman." 2/

"Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote. Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet-viable fetus to term violates her constitutional rights to liberty and privacy, even taking into consideration whatever bundle of rights the not-yet-viable fetus may have." 3/

"For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability. It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid's Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could -- or should -- force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another." 4/

"When someone other than the pregnant woman is able to sustain the fetus, then -- and only then -- should those other voices have a say in the discussion about the decisions the pregnant woman makes concerning her body and what is growing within it." 5/

"There is nothing so urgent or important to the State about the medical records of women who end pregnancies that the privacy rights of those women -- and the Fourth Amendment protections that attach to those rights -- can be bulldozed away by statutory enactment." 6/

"...liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle of rights the power of a woman to control her own body, to decide what happens to it and in it, and to reject state interference with her healthcare choices." 7/

"Accordingly, Section 4 of the LIFE Act is hereby DECLARED unconstitutional. The State and all its agents, to include any County, Municipal, or other local authority, are once again ENJOINED from seeking to enforce in any manner the LIFE Act's PECAP termination ban in Georgia." END/

9/30/2024 4:44 pm |

| Tags: us politics, georgia, abortion, women's rights