I found this talk by Clare Sudbery on what continuous integration (CI) was intended to mean illuminating. In short, trunk based development,...

Kent Beck, of various software implementations and processes fame, has a new book out Tidy First? . It is the first in a series on software ...

A colleague shared this ThePrimeTime video post  Give Up Sooner . Another way of framing the argument is "do the work". Endlessly ...

My favorite Dad jokes of 2023 are When people are sad, I sometimes let them colour in my tattoos. Sometimes all they need is a shoulder to ...

The MacBook Air continues to have horrible wifi performance. I decided to replace the Apple AirPort Extreme (from 2011!) with an Asus RT-AX...

I have been working with desktop, web, and mobile applications for a long time. And several times in my career I actually built them. In the...

We replaced Chris' 13 year old MacBook Pro with the new MacBook Air 15" recently. I had expected the migration to be a bit bumpy .....

For this gardener any success comes from decades of mulch and regular weeding, but mostly from letting the garden itself tell me what it wil...

I had hoped to see Oppenheimer in 70mm at the local IMAX, but it seems to be sold out until December 7th . With the clarity of hindsight, I...

The other day I was commenting on how quickly a collegue seems to be able to create a new PR for a change. For me I need to stash my working...

I am currently working with a US state's education department to move its infrastructure and applications to the cloud. This is my first...

The first rule of a second brain is to not lose any content. People, of which I am one, make mistakes. Those mistakes should be correctable....

I have started the process to delete my Twitter account. My decision has little to do with its new owner. In fact, apart from the volume of ...

When learning a new topic it has been my experience that you read several explanations and tutorials and finally, the last one you read make...

If you are interested in the future of programming environments for the professionals and the kids I recommend these Strange Loop 2022 talks...

Recently Equifax fired some of its employees that had second full-time jobs. Equifax knew about this because it has the data on some 100M e...

Everyone picks on Jira and the criticism is well deserved. Working with it recently I came to see Jira as this when what us practitio...

I don't understand any of the dozens of emoji the folks around me use to provide feedback or exclamation.