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I was born at the perfect time to pursue a career in full-stack software development. I grew up programming 8-bit computers, then learned Unix in college. I entered the workforce at the emergence of Windows for Workgroups and Linux, and I'll be retiring right about the time the AI's make me redundant. Also, the year Social Security goes broke.
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Months and months of planning by lots and lots of middle management can save literally hours of programming.
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Give a man a program, and you'll frustrate him for a day. Teach a man to program, and you'll frustrate him for a lifetime.
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I have a mental illness that makes me think that people will change their minds if I present the correct arguments with the appropriate facts and data.
@xxclusionary, on Twitter -
I've put all of my skill points into arguing with blinking lights.
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But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a new piece of Apple gear, to lust after it, hath committed purchase of it already in his heart.
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Don't say you're easy on me; you're about as easy as a nuclear war.
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I sold the Renoir and the TV set; don't wanna be around when this gets out.
Duran Duran, The Reflex
Author Archives: David K.
Java/Javascript Midwittery
All these years later, and even with an example of how it can work, no other stack has even come close to the productivity of Ruby on Rails. There was an effort, years ago, to provide a single command to … Continue reading
Reddit Had an Answer?!
I was trying to integrate Anthropic’s Claude AI into Visual Studio Code, and it wasn’t showing up in the add-ons. There’s literally one command to install it, and it simply wasn’t working. I also could not see it in the … Continue reading
“Vibe” All the Things
I can’t wait for middle management to read a post about “vibe coding,” tell a bunch of lower management to tell staffers to use it for everything, note some improvement in some metrics, and report this to upper management, which … Continue reading
ESO is Dead to Me, and It’s Been Liberating
I wrote a post a month and a half ago in which I was waffling about getting back into Elder Scrolls Online. They had announced that they would be adding “subclassing” (or more accurately, multiclassing), which I thought was intriguing. … Continue reading
The UK Doesn’t Have a Productivity Puzzle
Then there is red tape. For measure, the UK’s tax code comes in at 22,000 pages, more than any other country in the world. The Federation of Small Businesses estimates that a small company spends 44 hours per year on … Continue reading
ALS and God
My dad lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident when he was 21. He never let it slow him down. He hunted and fished with the best of them. He once climbed a 12′ chain link fence with a … Continue reading
AI is the New Oil
AI is the new oil in Fortune 500 companies. Everyone is jockeying for budget to hire consultants and supervise bloated projects using commercial AI products for non-critical-path purposes, rather than developing in-house expertise at creating models with the wealth of … Continue reading
Cloud Resource Whack-A-Mole
As a perfect example of process-oriented approach to IT, every once in awhile, someone deep in the bowels of the machine presses a button in Azure, and a script gets fired off to rifle through every resource in the cloud, … Continue reading
Process-Oriented Culture
I recently sat in a zoom call with about 10 other people, talking about a project that will eventually steal a lot of my thunder by co-opting a big part of something I have been doing, quite successfully for 5 … Continue reading
My New Guru
Seeing as my old guru turned out to be a con artist, I’ve been looking for new ones. This is Rodney Norman. I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of this message lately. On a more serious note, there’s a … Continue reading