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 , and  Agave Social Cocina...

 “For decades, Rhode Island’s policymakers have operated under the myth that cutting taxes for businesses and high earners would spur econom...

The C4 set of diagrams are directly relevant to my work as a software engineer. Seeing the architecture profession's sets of diagrams i...

Most developers laugh at me when I say I don't want color coded logs. They rarely ask why . Logs with color coded structures provide no...

I spent a good part of yesterday tracking down a problem with the staging deployment of a feature I first started back in October of last ye...

A group of us are reading Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications . Chapter 7 is on transactions and especially the different ...

I'm having a discussion currently with a young developer who has only ever worked in Ruby and JavaScript. I noticed that the developer h...

A long time ago I organized a study group to read the whole RI state budget. We were lucky to get Tom Sgouros to guide us through this mass...

From time to time the need for a simple SSL terminating tunnel is wanted. This is used to enable the browser to use an HTTPS connection to a...

"His train goes to a different station" is the best description of eccentricity I have heard in a long time.

The website https://andrewgilmatin.com/ is no more. I wasn't using the little Linode VM for much of anything anymore. If I were to keep ...

I am reading Lord of the Rings for the first time. Yes, reading LotR is a right of passage for geeks, but I'm really only a geek by ci...

I love seeing people's systems for managing their work. Even those of fictional people. This short from The Bear on managing the restau...

This might actually work!

Way back in the early days of the web, around 2004, I wrote a templating system that used the file system for inheritance. I think Fred Toth...

On a walk this weekend I saw a red Indian Peace Pipe . Neither I or my wife had ever seen one before. Apparently, they are not common, but a...

I mostly love using Macs, but sometimes the conviences provided are not. I needed to change my default mail client to Microsoft Outlook. You...

I recently saw MSCHF's “Not Wheels”  and it reminded me of Osprey Publishing's Gaslands , a tabletop post-apocalypse vehicle comba...