Posts from 2020

Command and Control

Stories from the Cold War

Never Forget

Kristallnacht

Dealing with Word Breaks in SwiftUI Text

What to do when .allowsTightening and .minimumScaleFactor are not cutting it

“I have always lived on waterfronts. If you live on the edge of an enormous mountain or an enormous body of water, it’s harder to think of yourself as being so important. That seems useful to me, spiritually.”
Heather McHugh

Running to Stand Still

In which I suspect I was infected

Banana Republic 1987 Holiday Gift Workbook

When I was in elementary school, these are the clothes I imagined I’d wear to work every day.

Crossing the Rubicon

There’s no turning back …

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.