Ed Cottrell

  • Post-Mortem, Episode 2024

    After almost every presidential election since the first one in which I got to vote, I have posted some thoughts on this blog or in various other places. This is my 2024 wrap-up. This is where I try to offer deep, reflective thoughts on the election and why things went the way they did. I…

  • Quick Tool Updates on GitHub

    I’ve recently gotten my act together and shared to GitHub a bunch of tools and scripts I’ve written. Here’s a compilation of a few of them. PHP Image Grid Slicer: A simple command-line tool to slice an image into a grid using PHP. MySQL Audit Table Creator: A PHP class to log changes to the…

  • A Midsummer Night’s Plea to the Rose Tree Media School District Board

    Hope springs eternal, so I sent the following plea to our school board in the hope that, this year, they will actually try to reduce the amount of COVID in our schools instead of consistently reducing protections every time there’s a surge. It’s past time for them to display some actual courage and do the…

  • On Not Seeing Each Other in the Abortion Debate

    I wrote this and shared it publicly on Facebook on June 24, 2022, the day the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case in which it overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, among other things. I feel strongly…

  • Email to the Rose Tree Media School District School Board, 5/19/2022

    Because I continue to believe in open communication with elected representatives and that sunshine is the best disinfectant, I am sharing here my email to the Rose Tree Media School District school board. I sent this tonight in the wake of our county jumping (both predictably and as predicted) from the “Low” CDC community level…