Unwanted Cold Calls

As a technology professional, I'm fairly self-sufficient on all things web: for over 20 years, I hosted personal web sites, email domains, and audio streaming from my basement. I own…

Cool Photos #2

While editing an internal work document, our cat Lojo decided to review and proof-read my work. He stood there for almost five minutes before, I assume, deciding he had nothing…

Teasing The Cat

I was working today when I noticed my cat, Lojo (named after a French music group my wife and I love), perched on my desk peering at something. At first,…

Pull Requests and Tech Debt

https://www.flickr.com/photos/17963290@N00/6520777613 I recently created a small DSL that provided state-based object validation, which I required for implementing a new feature. Multiple engineers were impressed with its general usefulness and wanted…