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 the following interview to my feed. Embarrassingly, I realized that I have spent all of my time understanding how...

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 , Agave Social Cocina Mexi...

 “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 ...