by chetcromer | Dec 12, 2025 | Software and Tech
Optimizing Memory and Performance: The Power of HashSets, Dictionaries, and Numeric Keys When working with large datasets in software development, the difference between success and failure often comes down to understanding your tools and making the right choices. A...
by chetcromer | Jun 5, 2025 | Journals
If You Could Read My Mind: From Late-Night Thoughts to AI Songwriting A couple days ago, a line kept echoing in my head: “If you could read my mind…” Not in a spooky way, and not even in the shame-laced way we often think of that idea. What haunted me was something...
by chetcromer | Jun 3, 2025 | Journals
I’ve taken to poetry this year (ai-assisted, yes), and have made it a thing to write poems for MaKenna and one of her friends before their sporting events. Sometimes silly, sometimes not… but today I got my own poem from them. And it felt great. Not just...
by chetcromer | May 28, 2025 | Journals
Once upon a pew, I sat in silence. Not because I didn’t believe. Not because I had it all figured out. But because my hallelujah felt too hard to say. It was sometime last year that I first heard Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll’s “Hard to Fight Hallelujah.” I remember...
by chetcromer | Apr 27, 2025 | Journals
Aptziloches Diker: Finding Myself in an Unexpected Word When I first started watching The Devil Next Door on Netflix, I thought I knew what I was getting into.The story was heavy, of course — it had to be — about John Demjanjuk, an aging Cleveland man accused of being...
