February 20, 2026 Aging Canine Stakeholder Achieves Incremental Trick Optimization Through Targeted Learning Initiative (Old Dog Learns New Trick) (Translation: I built a landing page and felt like a tech wizard.) When I was in high school in the late 70’s and early 80’s (my god that’s so long ago!), I took a “Computer Programming” class. We learned to code in COBOL, BASIC, and FORTRAN. My public school didn’t even have its own mainframe — there was only one for all of Baltimore County. Once a month, our class boarded the big orange school bus to Loch Raven High School, toting our punch card decks with our programs. We handed them to some mysterious tech who then ran them….