We all know that Stack Overflow usage has tanked , but what has happened to online programming courses? I assume there was a dip, but is it ...

I finally got around to reading the paper How AI Impacts Skill Formation last night. The data is from a very small group of participants, b...

I've had a long term interest in visualization -- mostly implementing other people's designs. I don't believe that all visual to...

Emily Bache's short example of preparing "Approval Tests" for refactoring Python code is very good. Not only for the approach,...

If you live in RI your home's electric meter was recently replaced to enable remote access. I have wondered how secure is that remote ac...

At dinner last night a friend's comment about "being right and being ignored" reminded me (somehow) of this conversation bet...

My children would have loved this Multi-Terra Helio Cell Vehicle 407 cockpit control. I especially like the addition of the fans!

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...

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...