Games vs. Losses Behind

Most US-based sports show their standings as Games Behind (GB) which purports to show how far behind the leader your favorite team. The formula to calculate is: ((leading-team-win-count - your-team-win-count)…

Dependent Feature Flags

Recently I was given the task refactoring and reimplementing the service which determines the users' authorizations within our SaaS application. The major challenge was to do the work without anyone…

Random Learnings #3

From the 1933 Pears' Cyclopaedia, Regensburg is the alternative name for Ratisbon. Wikipedia disambiguates Ratisbone as Regensburg and says ...it is still known in the Romance languages as a cognate of its…

Random Learnings #2

A co-worker and his family recently purchased their first home in a new community of new construction, every neighbor is new to everyone else. So far it appears like young…

Borrow A Booger?

File:Man undergoes a COVID-19 swab test A.jpg" by Navy Medicine is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Last year, my daughter believed her family had COVID - likely from me - and…