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Composite thumbnail of still images from bystander and commentary videos of the Alex Pretti shooting and earlier ICE confrontation in Minneapolis.

Alex Pretti ICE Shooting Part 1: What We Know So Far (Jan 28, 2026)

/ / Current Events, Eric's Writings, Government

📅 Date Written: 2026-01-28 Preamble Since writing the analysis below, additional footage and commentary have surfaced that slightly changed how I view Alex Pretti’s behavior before his fatal encounter with ICE. I’ve shared those updated thoughts in a separate follow‑up post, but I’m preserving this original write‑up as a snapshot of what I believed based […]

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Screenshot: 2026-01-01 - CodeWizard13 GitHub Repos - Markdown KBs list

Eric’s Developer Journal: Updating & Redesigning my GitHub Repo Readmes

/ / Design, Eric's Code, Eric's Document Designs, Journal Notes, Programming & Coding, Writing

📅 Dates Covered: 2025-12-31-2026-01-01 Today was a full-on Markdown makeover across three of my GitHub knowledge base repos. I took a set of rough, barely functional READMEs and rebuilt them into proper front doors: clearer hierarchy, stronger branding, and layouts that are actually pleasant to read and navigate for a very visual, design-minded brain. ehd-kb-ohm

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My Photos for the Alabama Tourism Project: “Take it all in Responsibly” Campaign

/ / Eric's Employment, Eric's Photography

I took a bunch of photos last August for the Alabama Tourism Department‘s “Take it all in Responsibly” campaign. This was to promote Alabama tourism with a focus on covid-19 safety precautions. All the photos I took were of nature and public parks, except one. My friend Reverend Russell Clausell graciously let me use a

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NOTES: 2021-04-26 | Thoughts on PHP and Life

/ / Employment, Eric's Employment, Journal Notes, Programming & Coding

I have all these PHP snippets on my desk of things I learned taking Linkedin Learning PHP courses. I took a 4-hr long coding test for a remote PHP/LAMP Developer job with the Huntsville, AL branch of NASA. I was excited for the opportunity, but learning I was lacking on all kinds of modern programming techniques,

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PHP Fatal Error: Call to Member Function on Array

/ / Computing, Eric's Code, Errors, Programming & Coding

Description & Purpose In this post I discuss how I troubleshot a simple object-oriented (OOP) PHP program that had array and class issues. Yesterday I began taking a course on LinkedIn Learning callled PHP: Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) because I want to refresh my OOP knowledge and fill in any blanks in my understanding. I got

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Code Sample: JavaScript ES6 – Scrape OneTab Links (2018)

/ / Computing, Design, Employment, Eric's Works, Programming & Coding

Here is a program I wrote in 2018. It usues vanilla JavaScript ES6 to scrape and parse links on a OneTab bookmarks page and outputs the results as HTML. While the resulting JavaScript document isn’t a web page, per se, it can be copied into an HTML document and saved. (also on GitHub) /* Program

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Quora: How long should it take to delete 10,000 files under 5MB each in Windows 10?

/ / Blogging & Online, Computing, Eric's Forum Posts

Quora Link: https://www.quora.com/How-long-should-it-take-to-delete-10-000-files-under-5MB-each-in-Windows-10 Date Posted to Quora: 2018-12-27 Description: This is a question I posted on Quora Date Published: 2020-03-29 Date Updated: 2022-09-06

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Quora: What workflow do you recommend for UX redesign on an existing website?

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Quora Link: https://www.quora.com/What-workflow-do-you-recommend-for-UX-redesign-on-an-existing-website Date Posted to Quora: 2018-12-25 Description: This is a question I posted on Quora Here is what I posted, archived here for posterity: Date Published: 2020-03-27 Date Updated: 2022-09-06

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