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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'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
Category Archives: Programming
Microsoft Strikes Again
CoPilot started to answer this question in the Visual Studio Code “chat window” on my work laptop. It was spitting out an answer which I was digesting — and finally being enlightened about Ruby/Rails namespaces, the autoloader, the :: operator, … Continue reading
Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic – Stack Overflow
Source: Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic – Stack Overflow Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen inaccurate data and graphs circulating on social media channels regarding Stack Overflow’s traffic. We wanted to take the opportunity to provide additional context and … Continue reading
Get Me Out Of Data Hell — Ludicity
The Pain Zone… is an enterprise data warehouse platform. At the small scale we operate at, with little loss of detail, a data warehouse platform simply means that we copy a bunch of text files from different systems into a … Continue reading
Sidekiq. Feels Good, Man
After 15 years of doing Rails applications, I finally had a serious need of utilizing long-running background jobs to get things done, and setup Sidekiq. My jobs are database-bound, but my database was being underutilized, so I opened up the … Continue reading
Welcome to the “Future” of App Deployments
I’m sitting here watching the braintrust in our IT organization tell everyone about a NEW! “PRO!” product that will do database migrations with Jenkins, and I’m just sitting over here thinking about the native migrations available by default in Ruby … Continue reading
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
The opposite of “Default Permit” is “Default Deny” and it is a really good idea. It takes dedication, thought, and understanding to implement a “Default Deny” policy, which is why it is so seldom done. It’s not that much harder … Continue reading
Corporate IT “Support”
I couldn’t mount network drives on my work laptop, so I opened a ticket. That was FIVE weeks ago. The ticket was closed by the first person after 3 days without even contacting me. I immediately re-opened it, and it … Continue reading
Programming Language Gatekeeping
Great. Just, great. Programming language gatekeeping, from the government. As if “the government” knows anything about anything, let alone technology created in the last 50 years, let alone programming languages specifically. This guy gets it. As usual, it’s governmental interference … Continue reading