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Penguin's Side Piece: How and Why I Became a Part Time Apple Fanboi 2023/9/26 8:15 PM
While most of my readers probably think of me as being some kind of massive die hard Linux loving Penguin, the reality is that outside of servers, laptops and desktops I don't use Linux very much. The purpose of today's post is to detail the reasons and
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Unity Killed Modern Proprietary Gaming For Me 2023/9/15 7:39 PM
As some of you undoubtedly have heard Unity, the company behind one of the most prolific game engines of our time called Unity Engine, recently announced some changes to their pricing. On the surface this may sound like quite a big nothing burger if you
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My Career Misery is in the Eye of the Beholder 2023/8/23 8:30 PM
It should come as no surprise to any dedicated reader that my career has left me feeling miserable in more ways than one over the years. I've been spending a lot of time thinking on this subject over the last month hence the lack of content lately. This
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Echo Chamber Exodus: Bye Bye Bluesky 2023/7/23 4:32 PM
As regular readers know, I have long questioned the value of social media and I have struggled with the question of how involved I should be with it. This morning I decided to quit Bluesky permanently because the bulk of the community there seems hellben
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Tech Team Dead Weight a.k.a. Lutz 2023/7/20 11:49 AM
If you've worked in tech and have any degree of actual talent, you have run into the following scenario: You are on a team and that team has at least one member that isn't pulling their weight. The reasons why generally range from a lack of work ethic t
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I am on the McNulty Spectrum 2023/7/16 2:14 PM
So over the last few weeks, I have been re-watching one of my favorite television shows of all time, The Wire. If you haven't seen it, you should probably rectify that oversight. That being what it is, I'm currently making my way through Season 3 and I
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Developing Custom Software is Probably a Bad Idea 2023/6/28 5:39 AM
This post is the culmination of years of accumulated professional frustration. It will not be well received by some. That's okay. If you make it to the 25 year point of your dev career and you spent most of that time writing custom software for clients
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Developer Brethren, its Time to Embrace Boring! 2023/6/22 4:18 PM
So this morning I was listening to one of the Linux related podcasts, Coder Radio and the hosts read feedback from a listener who claimed that he was "bored" with PHP and ready to try something else. Now to be fair, in this particular case, the
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My First Linux Conference - SouthEast LinuxFest 2023 2023/6/14 2:05 PM
I've been a Linux fan for almost 30 years, yet in all of that time, I never actually attended a Linux event (ignoring a handful of local Linux User Group (LUG) events here and there). That is, until this past weekend when I attended SouthEast LinuxFest (
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Your Data, Their Profits, Our Loss: KTHXBAI Reddit, Twitch, StackOverflow, Twitter and how BlueSky Helped 2023/6/9 10:26 PM
As of late it has become rather fashionable for established tech orgs running established platforms to attempt to make their platforms profitable. While the exact underlying reasons for this in each case varies, the end result is the same: Whatever the s
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Caveat Emptor - Nightdive Studios, System Shock and Crowdfunding Risk 2023/5/31 3:14 PM
Back in 2016, a younger and mildly more optimistic Jay heard about a Kickstarter Campaign for a remake of the classic title, System Shock. Young Jay had fond memories of the original and immediately pledged $30 to help turn the dream into reality. Expec
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All Hail The United Fascist States of MAGA 2023/5/6 2:13 PM
If you've been paying any attention to prevailing social and demographic trends over the last decade or two, then you know as well as I do that American Conservatives have a serious problem. Their political philosophy is a relic of times long dead and th
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So I Went a Little Viral and Survived 2023/4/21 6:02 PM
Everybody knows I got a big mouth. That's why I have a domain for my name and I've been posting tripe to it for over two decades now. The surprising part is that every once in awhile I say something that resonates with other people. That happened last
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Low Code Software Development Is A Lie 2023/4/14 8:36 PM
I've been writing custom software for a long time and one of the things that annoys me most is when a client adopts the position that there is a silver bullet which will reduce or remove the inherent complexity of this task. This happens more often than
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Ship of Fools: The Race to Ban TikTok 2023/4/1 2:27 PM
Anybody even remotely invested in keeping up with current events here in America, knows that TikTok is on the verge of being banned. If you are a frequent reader, you already know that I am against that. Doubly so in this case as the US Government has y
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Code Monkey Mid-Life Crisis 2023/3/12 2:42 PM
Compared to most coders I work with, I've been coding a long time. Specifically since my father and uncle gifted me and my siblings an Apple II in 1985 when I was six years old. We also received a book called "Computer Fun" which attempted to
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ChatGPT: Far More Hype Than Substance 2023/2/13 9:50 PM
Much text has been written in recent weeks on the topic of the ChatGPT chat bot, its forthcoming integration into Bing and how it will change the world as we know it. While the commentary has run the entire gamut of possible responses, most of it is defi
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Just saw the Tyre Nichols Video... 2023/1/28 12:54 AM
If you haven't seen the videos, feel free to view the horror for yourself. Viewer Discretion is advised. When it comes to my reaction, I'll let NWA speak for me.
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MacOS is the Worst Part of Apple Silicon 2023/1/23 11:42 PM
I recently took a new job and my new employer gave me a choice between a Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows and an M1 Macbook Pro with MacOS. Even my least dedicated readers know that I have no love for Windows and have spent literal years trying to rid myself
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Pop Goes the Gaslighting Weasel 2022/12/28 2:12 PM
I've spent a lot of time debating on whether or not I should even write this blog post. Truth is that I was this close to just letting the entire thing fade into oblivion but after searching out some reading material on the subject, I decided that I need
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A Farewell to Arms 2022/12/6 3:57 PM
There is no great way to put this without a certain segment of my readers recoiling in horror, so I'm just going to say it. I'm tired of fighting for things on the job. After over 20 years of professionally being combative when I thought the situation c
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Advice To The Dumb Rich 2022/11/19 3:06 AM
Money changes everything, Except when you're rich, Cause you be making, Everybody your bitch. Lie cheat and steal, It's all the fucking same, Fuck your bank balance, Your ass got no game. Send out fake feelers, "Do ya love me or not?" Never mind
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Two Jobs, One Life: Nothing Is Forever 2022/10/20 5:25 PM
To those who don't already know: I will be starting a new job next week. This is notable for one reason above all others: It marks my return to a much more normal situation. You see, for the last four and a half years I have actually had two jobs with t
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The Siren Song of Set It and Forget It 2022/9/28 2:27 PM
The point of today's post, or diatribe if you prefer, is to push back against the notion that once you have a piece of tech integrated into a workflow, you are pretty much good to go barring any sort of critical failure. Sadly a lot of people believe thi
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All Hail the Tech Magicians and their Cantrips 2022/9/7 3:33 PM
Before I launch into this month's diatribe I want to offer my readers a word of warning: I've been feeling very pessimistic about tech in general as of late and this piece will expose a large portion of that to my audience. If you are already depressed
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