Sidekiq and exclusive workers

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In certain scenarios, a Sidekiq worker requires exclusive operation or access to specific data. While it is ideal for a worker to be designe...

Hilary Gridley and building feedback tools

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This morning YouTube added to my feed an interview with Hilary Gridley. Embarrassingly, I realized that I have spent all of my time understa...

SAGA and AWI

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After showing my dark age miniatures I decided that perhaps I would enjoy a solo game of SAGA. After buying a nice mat and setting up the ga...

Side-Effects are the Complexity Iceberg

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I liked Kris Jenkins's talk Side-Effects are the Complexity Iceberg . Three takeaways for me were His description of side-effect as ...

"A flower in the mind is better than a bee in the pocket"

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I have amused myself today asking AIs to explain fictitious parables and idioms. For example, 'Explain the idiom "A flower in the m...

Wednesday Gamers

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A decade ago I was invited to join the "Wednesday Gamers." This was a small group who had been playing miniature wargames together...

Board game UX

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I don't know if the game Star Wars: Outer Rim  is enjoyable, but the game's physical design is amazing. Which reminds me I have What...

Inter-company event sourcing

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I was in a client's meeting today and they were discussing how one of their batch processes has a dependency on data generated by a supp...

South Kingstown & Narragansett restaurants

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If you are looking for good restaurants in South Kingstown or Narragansett try: Purslane Duck Press Tsunama Trattoria Romana Wakefield ...

Recent history of education funding in Rhode Island

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 “For decades, Rhode Island’s policymakers have operated under the myth that cutting taxes for businesses and high earners would spur econom...

A pair of formal diagram explanations. One for software and one for buildings.

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The C4 set of diagrams are directly relevant to my work as a software engineer. Seeing the architecture profession's sets of diagrams i...

Why I don't want color coded logs

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Most developers laugh at me when I say I don't want color coded logs. They rarely ask why . Logs with color coded structures provide no...

Unnecessary frustration and toil

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I spent a good part of yesterday tracking down a problem with the staging deployment of a feature I first started back in October of last ye...

Transactions and some concurrency problems

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A group of us are reading Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications . Chapter 7 is on transactions and especially the different ...

Costs of helpful data flexibility.

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I'm having a discussion currently with a young developer who has only ever worked in Ruby and JavaScript. I noticed that the developer h...

RI DOT

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A long time ago I organized a study group to read the whole RI state budget. We were lucky to get Tom Sgouros to guide us through this mass...

SSL terminating tunnel using ghostunnel

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From time to time the need for a simple SSL terminating tunnel is wanted. This is used to enable the browser to use an HTTPS connection to a...

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"His train goes to a different station" is the best description of eccentricity I have heard in a long time.

Bye little Linode VM

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The website https://andrewgilmatin.com/ is no more. I wasn't using the little Linode VM for much of anything anymore. If I were to keep ...

Sensitive side of pure evil

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I am reading Lord of the Rings for the first time. Yes, reading LotR is a right of passage for geeks, but I'm really only a geek by ci...