Pull Requests and Tech Debt

2024-01-10Posted inprocess, technology, work
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…

School Fight Songs

2024-01-08Posted inMichigan, music
I was a member of Iowa's Hawkeye Marching Band drumline in the mid-1980s. Great music, fun trips, hijinks, many cherished memories. 1986 Rose Bowl definitely a highlight (for which I…

Non-Functional Testing

2024-01-01Posted intechnology, work
Functional testing is fairly straight-forward and easy-to-understand: does your software behave as designed, or, perhaps, as your users expect? Examples of functional testing could be: Are the items selected correctly…

Apple Being Apple

2023-12-18Posted intechnology, work
I recently bought a Mac Mini M2 to replace my 3-year old Mac Mini M1. As to be expected, Apple's packaging is a work-of-art, totally unnecessary yet impressive and subtle.…

Rules To Swear By

2023-12-15Posted infunny, humor
When pregnant with her son, my friend thought she needed to learn to moderate her language - especially her swearing - before her son repeated inappropriate words at inopportune times.…