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Michael Levin and John Vervaeke on Free Will and Character Formation

My buddy John Munger introduced me to both of these heavy hitters. First there was John Vervaeke with his Awakening From the Meaning Crisis YouTube series, which I’m still working through and it’s been excellent so far. Then there was Michael Levin with his Lex Fridman conversation on Biology, Life, Aliens, Evolution, Embryogenesis, and Xenobots. His experiments on planarian flatworms are absolutely fascinating.

Anna-McClain's 1st Birthday

Anna-McClain turns 1 this month. We had a small birthday with family and a few friends from church, a nice and cozy feel. It’s so much fun watching her grow up. She’s turned out to be quite the social butterfly, yet she and Townes are both mechanically inclined. They’ll poke and prod and play with an object until they figure out how to manipulate it. Baby gates and locked doors don’t stand a chance. It makes dad proud.

Mallory Ervin's Easy Chili Recipe

This is a Fall favorite of ours. We’re actually making it this year for Anna-McClain’s 1st birthday.

Unable to Access GitHub on a TP-Link Deco Mesh WiFi

I keyword-loaded the title in hopes that the next person who runs into this issue can save themselves a few hours of investigation.

SQL Query Pagination With Spring Boot and JdbcTemplate

There are times when the amount of data you need to fetch is simply too large for a single trip. Don’t fear, pagination is one way to solve this.