I recently updated my Mac to Mojave -- yea, just days before Catalina was released! I did this for a few reasons, but mostly I was unsure if...

That Rhode Islanders have Health Source RI is great. Unfortunately, healthsourceri.com leads you to healthyrhode.ri.gov and this is by fa...

Do you have a collection of data in one or more sources that need to be brought together, harmonized, and made accessible with an online sea...

I have been working on a document that details the changes needed to migrate a system from Java 8 to OpenJDK 11. While writing documents I a...

I was working my way through the Terraform Two-Tier example and after finding omissions I wrote down the missing parts and posted them to a...

I am currently working on a large command and control system written many years ago when CORBA was still a hot technology. At the time it r...

Born at the ebb tide in a shallow rock pool. Hours I lay in the warming water. Alas, the tide turned.

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...