I was watching Operation Crossfire aftermath and another use for Slack came to mind. Lindybeige was coordinating a miniatures wargame with ...

I have a deep background thread running in my head that started when I read in The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work ...

Don't use percentages when the data you have are too few. If you have 3 data points then saying "%67 of reviewers gave it 5 stars...

My miniature painting has not gone well. I am deep in guilt. A fellow gamer gave me all his 28mm dark age armies when he decided that he was...

My children are off to college in the Fall and so my mind has been on what will help them succeed. I have always liked GTD and so I read the...

I like Graphviz for quickly creating network graphs. Xin Huang compiled the code to JS and created this useful online editor. https://github...

If you want to use JNDI within a servlet container than you need to be careful to use the corresponding class loader for your shared resourc...

Never liked open plan offices. Lots of studies going back to the 1960s on their problems. This new, small study shows the problems of a mod...

When I was a kid in the 1970's I was fascinated with off-shore oil rigs. I was living in the UK and there was much news about developing...

My favorite wargames podcast is Meaples & miniatures. The hosts are all wargaming butterflies, and I mean this kindly, and so there is ...

Two of my favorite recent finds. But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction. Encoding data in dubstep drops

So far, my children's senior year of high school has been mostly wasted time. This is especially so as their graduation day comes ever c...

Sometimes you forget those services that quietly run for months at a time in a corner of the datacenter. I am thinking of using gRPC to repl...

Source Step Right Up to the Howard Bros. Circus Model at The Ringling : The meticulous replica of a traveling circus has been decades in ...

If you are struggling to load Arabic text or Emojis into your MySql 5.6 table then: Ensure your database, table, and column use uft8mb4 ch...

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...