In the Winter of 2001 the US Navy began the re-development of the DD-21 destroyer class warship after Congress slashed the original budget. ...

What would a dashboard for visualizing and managing the flow of messages between actors and their dependents look like? My skills run in the...

Yesterday I wrote about providing tools to visualize & manage the internal workings of applications for maintenance developers. That not...

We all want visibility into a running application. The need becomes acute when the application is ailing and that visible schedule, map, and...

I have enjoyed my time with Warhammer 40k. The Games Workshop plastic models are very well produced and a joy to assemble and paint. The bac...

Having just taken a job with Raytheon and lamenting my lack of success getting a top software development position in a startup a friend ask...

The content on YouTube is really tremendous. I have used it to watch tutorials for fixing a food mixer, replacing my minivan's factory r...

[Copied from Boing Boing. ] The "Phoenix Checklist" is a set of questions developed by the CIA to define and think about a probl...

The splendor and complexity of networked service at scale. Josh Evans' talk Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices at InfoQ...

I really liked  Emily Dunham's short talk on why and how to give a conference talk .

I really like Benno Rice's talk "The Tragedy of systemd" about accepting change. I had resisted systemd only because I didn...

I was reading the New York Times last year and came across an article about the hazardous working conditions of private waste management com...

Started to glue together my Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine models. I am not fond of the aesthetic of their uniforms, but the modelmakers have...

The Cool Tools blog posted a review of several alternatives to the ubiquitous, badly design, barrel handle X-Acto knives. The Fiskars Easy ...

I enjoy Seth Godin's blog. The entry today is Installing the stupid filter which is about how humans don't always accept questions ...

I use the MacOS menu bar tool BitBar for a few uses. I have the time in UTC and the status of a few servers. Behind these presentations are...

I wanted a simple and inexpensive way to store my X Wing miniatures. In the process of looking at how others had solved this problem I found...

The Tevo Tarantula 3D printer is coming together. So far I have only mixed up two support beams and stripped the treads on one stepper motor...

Letter to the University of Massachusetts Boston Chancellor: The Boston Globe article "Falling elevators, raw hamburger, lax security ...

One of the worst information losses of leaving a place you have worked for nine years is all debugging details you leave behind in the bug t...