When corporate leaders are dishonest about why a decision was made it isn’t merely patronizing 2023 was a rough year for tech workers. Well, as rough as it can be. At the end of the day this is a...

Flying slow is better than flying blind, but flying blind is better than crashing How Do You Raise the Alarm When the Alarm is Broken? I recently reviewed a PR adding instrumentation to a new pr...

How, in this century, do I still need to manually update my address in all my accounts? Today my friends, I wish to engage in a productive rant. To call out something as the clear nonsense that i...

The beast metes out pain in the gaster With yeast and some grain they’d learn faster No computers in sight New school troopers knife fight But at least we use main not master Imagine Imagine no m...

The cake is a lie. And so is this post’s date. I wanted to get more serious about consistent writing towards the end of 2023. It would increase skill, build a good habit, give material to point p...

The next most important thing about a free market is that it’s a system of profit and loss. And the loss part is just as essential, indeed in some respects more essential than the profit part. - Mi...

The outcome of a decision has no bearing on whether or not it was good. What makes a decision good or bad? The idea that a decision even can be good or bad tacitly implies that the one making the...

Nowadays you’re about as likely to see Firefox as you are a Linux desktop I’ve been using Chromium Edge for a few years now and really enjoyed it until recently. It wasn’t quite as obnoxious with...

Demand for your product increases when the price of your complements decreases Why did Internet Explorer perish? In its heyday it was a near and total monopoly. Most consumers didn’t even really ...

How do you fill a bucket? One drop at a time. A time honored rallying cry of a man with no argument is to counter an objection by proclaiming it’s just a drop in the bucket. Everyone intuitively ...