SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming is a useful compendium of common relation database design flaws. There are ...

My town has many flooded roads, parking lots, and parks today. (We had 2.5" of rain in 12 hours.) My neighbor once joked that with clim...

This interview  Your AI Survival Guide • Sol Rashidi & Joe Reis • GOTO 2024 is a useful discussion on delivering an AI product. I read ...

For many software and hardware engineers of my generation the 1981 issue of Byte Magazine coverage of Smalltalk and the 1991 issue of Scien...

South Kingstown needs a new High School. The current building is too old, too big, and too costly to maintain or to renovate. For three year...

Sometimes all you need is inspiration and ingenuity for your tabletop space wargames.

I am always on the lookout for programatic PDF tools. I have heard for a very long time that PDF is dying and yet it is still far from de...

So very disappointed with yesterday's eclipse here in Rhode Island. I should have paid attention to the data about the eclipse's pat...

I really enjoy the Tippecansett trail in the Arcadia management area. It is strenuous and beautiful. Some of yesterday's colors, a natu...

I found this useful, particularly the categorization of papers into surveys, benchmarks, and breakthroughs. The presentation is only a few d...

Timothy Snyder is an historian and an exceptionally lucid lecturer on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the H...

When I replaced the wifi gateway I had not expected client devices to fail. The first warning was that the Brother printer had issues. To s...

I read the short story "Lena" the other day. The gist is that we can now scan, host, and boot a human brain. What happens next is...

"‘inert ideas’ – that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh c...

A colleague mentioned this article during our Friday AI meetup Measuring GitHub Copilot’s Impact on Productivity – Communications of the ACM...

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 ...