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Development Teams: Help or Hindrance? | 2018/6/22 4:05 PM |
This week I've decided to tackle a topic which has been in the back burner of my mind for awhile: Whether or not development teams are a help or a hindrance. Why now? I was asked some questions which revolved around this as part of a job interview I had
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Microsoft buys Github: Whhhhhattt? | 2018/6/8 5:20 PM |
Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably have already heard the big tech news of the week: Microsoft is buying GitHub for 7.5 billion dollars. Wow. That's a lot of pennies.
Rumors of this began swirling on the Internet last weekend and the
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Dumb Homes For the Win | 2018/6/2 4:01 PM |
This morning a young man knocked on my door with the goal of selling me on a Vivint Smart Home System. Needless to say that if you know me at all, you know I put the kibosh on that in a hurry. My opposition to this idea springs from more than my fear of
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Shattering "Old Code" Rose Colored Glasses | 2018/5/24 10:36 PM |
Over the course of my career, while my standards may have changed, I have always prided myself on the idea that the code I wrote was "solid" when judged by the standards of the day. Due to a recent job change, I found myself with yet another op
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My Ode to Rogue-Likes | 2018/5/16 1:19 AM |
Everybody knows that I love to play RPGs (Role Playing Games). In fact I love them so much that over the last few years I mostly stopped playing games from every other genre. Despite that, my love for RPGs has begun to wane a bit in recent years. While
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Unplanned Obsolescence | 2018/5/6 12:41 PM |
For those of you who don't know, I spent most of this past week at a conference in Chicago put on by my employer. This was a bit awkward as I was working out the second week of my three week notice with them. Nevertheless I went and a good time was had
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Tor Versus Zoom | 2018/4/24 3:10 AM |
As I'm sure many of you know, an important part of being a remote worker is maintaining lines of communication with your co-workers. At work we use a variety of tools to accomplish that but one of the most important tools is one called Zoom. It is a scr
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Road to Acceptance: Anger Versus Apathy | 2018/4/18 11:41 PM |
So I've been spending a lot of time in the midst of a situation that leaves me feeling very angry. Today I got more angry than usual and since that is becoming a more common occurrence I thought it might behoove me to delve into why.
I'm going to start o
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Check and Mate | 2018/4/15 9:01 PM |
So in an effort to diversify my hobbies a bit I've recently decided to spend some time getting to know Chess a bit better. While I have casually played Chess all of my life, the reality is that outside of knowing how the pieces move and the conditions un
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Oh Green Fairy, Where Art Thou? | 2018/4/7 12:02 AM |
This week we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled tech related posts/rants to delve into a subject that is near and dear to my heart: Absinthe. Anybody who knows me, knows I like to indulge myself with a snort of liquor now and again. Though
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When and Why I Leave | 2018/3/29 11:50 PM |
Anybody who has ever bothered to read my resume has probably thought to themselves: "This guy sure likes to switch jobs." Well I can't fault them for making that observation as it is at least half true.
While I do switch jobs fairly often, the
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Fact: Every Tech Related Disaster Is Man-Made | 2018/3/17 2:29 PM |
Yesterday at work I was finishing off an extremely productive week. After spending the previous week on a spike, everything was really starting to come together for the feature I'm building. It was a good day. But then during a team demo somebody made
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Things I Don't Miss About Windows: Updates | 2018/3/12 11:45 PM |
So I'm going to start off this post by being extremely blunt: I don't like Windows. In fact when it comes to Operating Systems (aka OSes), I consider virtually any other OS a superior choice. The only exception is situations in which some piece of criti
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Veni, Vidi... not so much Vici | 2018/3/6 1:10 AM |
I've been doing a lot thinking regarding the overall state of my trade. Of course that should be obvious to anybody who follows my posts. Much of it has been a deep dive into what can only be described as a creeping depression regarding the state of the
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Low Standards in Software tend to go Viral | 2018/2/27 1:27 AM |
So here is something that has been on my mind as of late: The plague of shitty software. My goodness, there really is a lot of it floating around nowadays. That's not what I'm really concerned about though. What concerns me is that our ability to accep
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Code Mode: A True Developers Drug of Choice | 2018/2/19 8:53 PM |
This week I wanted to chat about a syndrome that I have experienced a few times over the years as both an amateur and a professional developer. What syndrome am I referring to? One of my favorites: The syndrome of "Code Mode".
What is "Co
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The Bigger They are, the Harder They Fall | 2018/2/13 1:21 AM |
When it comes to the modern day world of software, one thing above all has become clear to me over the last 20 years: On a long enough time line, failure is virtually guaranteed. That being the case, how our software approaches, adjusts for and reconcile
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Ethical Quandary: Is it ever responsible to irresponsibly disclose? | 2018/2/8 12:35 AM |
Today's post is going to examine an ethical grey area that I currently find to be very relevant. Is it ever okay to ignore responsible disclosure standards for security related issues? Spoiler alert: I'm going to argue that there are cases in which ignor
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The Evolution of Tech: Roadkill | 2018/1/30 12:58 AM |
In a follow up to last weeks post, I've decided to examine some of the other side effects of increased technology accessibility. After spending some more time pondering my last post, I realized that the problem goes far beyond a loss of unrelated learnin
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The Evolution of Tech: Amnesiac Highway | 2018/1/22 9:09 PM |
Something insidious has been lapping away at the innards of my mind for quite awhile. To be honest I wasn't even consciously aware of it 48 hours ago. So why am I writing about it now? Yesterday at my nephew's 9th birthday party, somebody posited the t
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