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 I just listened to a very interesting interview with Kelsey Hightower on the Changelog podcast. There were lots of good points made but one story he shared has been on my mind this morning – at a tradesmen competition he attended he observed that the man who won actually moved much slower and more methodically…

Too bad! Same old story! Once you’ve finished building your house you notice you’ve accidentally learned something that you really should have known—before you started. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Amazon is launching satellites.  I love the name of their program, “Project Kuiper”, i.e. (I assume) the Kuiper Belt, the band of “trans-Neptunian objects” of…

I’m going to Denmark later this year so I’m currently reading a book about the country’s history, which of course includes a lot of stuff about the Vikings. There were the infamous “berserkers” who did just what their name implied in battle. They would get amped up on alcohol and/or mushrooms before going into battle…

 Cyclomatic Complexity  🌪 : …a software metric used to indicate the complexity of a program. It is a quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths through a program’s source code. It was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976. So it’s like those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books from when you were a kid, i.e. if you want to…

  I drove north of Cincinnati a few days ago to see my first total eclipse. I had seen a partial one before and almost didn’t see this one because it seemed redundant (one passed through here in 2017 that was, I think, 90%). Turns out 10% of the sun is still a lot of…

Values, Principles, Virtues ELI5 Answer: Values are subjective, personal, emotional, and arguable, while principles are objective, factual, impersonal, and self-evident because they are indisputable. Principles are universal truths based on natural laws. While values govern behaviors, principles govern the consequences of those behaviors. Values are the things that you think are good, or better than…

 kinds of features: new app new code, new class/function(s) new functionality that didn’t exist before updated app maybe new code, updated old code – same classes/function(s) same functionality, just enhanced  updated system system architecture – a system is updated (some component of the larger system) bigger than an app, difference here being one of scale…

 The song Big Rock Candy Mountain got stuck in my head the other day, it was in the background of some Instagram clip. It’s a classic old folk song, I think everyone knows it. I kinda/sorta did but like a lot of ear worms once it got lodged in my skull I realized I knew maybe…

I am currently setting up my first-ever Raspberry Pi. This tiny single-board computer can be used for a lot of practical projects, (mine will be a small database and/or file server). Besides being practical it’s also just fun to build something like that and see it work. They’re used a lot in education to inspire kids…

 An interesting article focusing specifically on Athletic Brewing and also the non-alcoholic beer trend in general.  This past year we made a serious commitment to to cut way back on alcohol consumption as a part of an overall attempt at healthier living. While that is great for ones liver it can pose some interesting social issues.…