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Micah Hoover

Context is Overrated

If the devil showed up at most churches and told them to take a big risk because the Bible said: “He will order his angels to protect you”…

7 min readSep 28, 2023

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Instead of trying to understand the Bible by asking the Spirit for guidance or looking for greatness or asking God for wisdom, people settle for the sophistry of “context”.

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Micah Hoover

ChatGPT Isn’t Going to End Your Software Dev Job

ChatGPT and CoPilot might reduce the number of developers needed at some point, but larger forces are at play

5 min readJul 17, 2023

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Check out this book, PAIR Programming. It’s about using ChatGPT and CoPilot to write software. A bit different than the title suggests.

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Micah Hoover

10 Kinds of Starfish Opportunism

a boy finds a beach full of starfish that cannot breath out of the water

1 min readApr 29, 2023

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10 Kinds of Starfish Opportunism

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Micah Hoover

Quick And Easy Red Bean Buns

Tried to make some red bean buns after watching an anime that featured them. A samurai girl, Akatsuki, is very wholesome and likes this…

2 min readAug 15, 2021

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Quick And Easy Red Bean Buns

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Micah Hoover

Valorant Stories

I was playing competitive on Ascent, and a boy called out in the middle of the game, “Oh no! I forgot to buy a gun!” During the next round…

3 min readFeb 2, 2021

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Valorant Stories

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Micah Hoover

Fire Emblem: Existential Warfare

Fire Emblem: Three Houses delivers the action, dialog, and irony of a Shakespeare masterpiece.

5 min readDec 4, 2020

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Fire Emblem: Existential Warfare

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Micah Hoover

It’s a One Party Internet Now

In 2016, Facebook received an enormous amount of criticism from the media for allowing Donald Trump to be elected. They said Facebook was…

3 min readNov 7, 2020

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It’s a One Party Internet Now

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Micah Hoover

Other M: The Greatest Metroid

I didn’t play Other M back in 2010 because of my fatigue with all the Metroid games coming out at the time, but Smash Brothers Ultimate…

3 min readAug 23, 2020

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Other M: The Greatest Metroid

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Micah Hoover

The Maze Runner Is Not Existential

I wanted to read a novel with action that somehow had a message about life or at least tried to describe it. To some extent I got a little…

4 min readJul 23, 2020

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The Maze Runner Is Not Existential

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Micah Hoover

Triple Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe

I don’t much care for fruit in my cheesecake that is too subtle to really notice.

4 min readJun 21, 2020

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Triple Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe

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Micah Hoover

Micah Hoover

Micah Hoover is a student of life, a follower of Jesus, a happy husband, a dad of three wonderful kids, a software developer, and writer.

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