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The Learn DevOps: Infrastructure Automation With Terraform tutorial from Udemy is very good. While it is focuses on using Terraform to mana...

I attended last night's release of the Providence Geeks new website developed by Kenzan. Owen Buckley, Kenzan's director of engineer...

I like that the Patreon service exists, but am just now discovering what a rip-off it has been for creators. When I give $1 to a creator Pa...

I started to read Twitter again. The user experience sucks. Twitter is mostly for information delivery. Let's look at a page of contents...

I swear that no one reads email anymore. Anything after the first sentence, nay the first line, is never read. Perhaps I should only communi...

Bill Jordan's essay The Quiet Crisis unfolding in Software Development is spot on. Good advice for any development manager. (Ignore the...

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Some of our services make a million UUIDs per day. I have recently been worried about how random they are, and especially with the question ...

Recently we had the generic TED talk . I think I am going to start collecting the images that seem to be used by all talks. The inaugural im...

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Why, why! oh mighty God , do Slack, Skype, Messenger, iMessage, and every other messaging application not make any visual distinction betwee...

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Last night the Town Council for the second time since the November election had to appoint a replacement School Committee member. I was not ...

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