I spent a little time this morning learning the basics of Streamlit . Earlier this month I had found a US cities dataset ¹ and decided to us...

I suspect many of you have seen by now Scott Jenson's presentation "Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?" But, if y...

Brandon Rhodes' talk "Classic Design Patterns: Where Are They Now" is a good critique of the "Gang of 4" Design Patt...

I do like computational notebooks , but find them cumbersome to work within. If like me, you've been looking for a notebook-like experie...

Having become irritated by the daily deluge of web advertisements that make most sites unusable on my phone, this weekend I took the time to...

Software developers have the bad habit of switching to programming languages and tools that result in applications consuming most of the res...

The more I think about vibe coding and see it in practice the more I am reminded of David Thomas' and Andrew Hunt's admonishment in ...

The short video Why Stripe’s API Never Breaks introduces how Stripe handles API versioning. Stripe's API URLs do not include a (consequ...

Crossref, a previous employer, has moved their infrastructure to the cloud. There are some good reasons for this, eg publication metadata d...

My letter to my local state Senators and Representatives to support RIPTA. I am hoping you can help RIPTA get the funding it needs to avoid ...

The "From the Archive" section of the most recent issue of Railway Modeller magazine (July 2025) referenced a cottage thatching a...

In certain scenarios, a Sidekiq worker requires exclusive operation or access to specific data. While it is ideal for a worker to be designe...

This morning YouTube added to my feed an interview with Hilary Gridley. Embarrassingly, I realized that I have spent all of my time understa...

After showing my dark age miniatures I decided that perhaps I would enjoy a solo game of SAGA. After buying a nice mat and setting up the ga...

I liked Kris Jenkins's talk Side-Effects are the Complexity Iceberg . Three takeaways for me were His description of side-effect as ...

I have amused myself today asking AIs to explain fictitious parables and idioms. For example, 'Explain the idiom "A flower in the m...

A decade ago I was invited to join the "Wednesday Gamers." This was a small group who had been playing miniature wargames together...

I don't know if the game Star Wars: Outer Rim  is enjoyable, but the game's physical design is amazing. Which reminds me I have What...

I was in a client's meeting today and they were discussing how one of their batch processes has a dependency on data generated by a supp...

If you are looking for good restaurants in South Kingstown or Narragansett try: Purslane Duck Press Tsunama Trattoria Romana Wakefield ...