I succumbed. Exchanged cost (under $200) for some frustrating days ahead.

Experienced my first active phishing scam today. I posted to Craigslist the sale of some chainlink fence paneling I no longer need (and, fr...

Maps might not be the territory, they often define a world view. This Spilhaus Projection drawn by Clara Dealberto is a stunning example ...

I am have finished working on the Incident Response Slack application. It was a hobby project and I feel no need to take it any further, alt...

I finally figured out how to connect my Incident Response Java application running in AWS Elastic Beanstalk with its associated secret in AW...

Tonight (Oct 5) is the last performance of The Father , performed on the outside stage at the Contemporary Theater Company. The story is tol...

I do enjoy seeing all the work going into building out and solving the very real problems associated with running software in distributed sy...

In my Incident Response hobby project a user creates tasks in workspaces. The new task is given a unique id for the workspace it is in. Idea...

"Strong consistency models" is a very clear article on the problems of working with data, its all from the past, and collaboratin...

I am always at a loss to understand why workflow automation is not part of the common operations infrastructure of even the smallest softwar...

The SimpleDB (SDB) persistence design in Adding persistence to the Incident Response Slack application is poor. The plan was to persist a b...

When I see these charts I want to know how I can use my skills to help people and not machines. Source  http://www.internal-displacement....

What does my pile of tech at Crossref look like? Service infrastructure is 29 deployments -- mostly 4 CPUs and 8G RAM -- handling 100M ext...

There is an interesting debate going on over at  The Eternal Issue About Object.hashCode() in Java. The root of the problem in the debate i...

Adding persistence to the Incident Response Slack application is the next feature to implement. For this application change happens at a hum...

I recently wrote a Slack application and restricted myself to using only the JDK. For some reason, I wanted to reminded myself of how awkwar...

I gave in my notice at work. I will be there until the new year helping them transition. After 9 years at Crossref, there is a fair amount t...

As we learn how to better use Slack we are experimenting with different ways of managing our response to incidents, aka emergencies. One exp...

"Java 8 Method Reference: How to Use" it is a great posting on how to create and use method references.

Comments on TechCrunch's article "Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics." I don't think tha...