Meandering Thoughts #15
I grew up in eastern Iowa obsessively listening to WLS-AM from Chicago to hear the rock-n-roll that wasn't played locally, with a line-up of legendary disc jockeys: Larry Lujack, Tommy…
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…
School Fight Songs
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…
Insensitive Clod
Unless you've been meditating at a silent retreat in the last week, you're likely aware of the school shootings in Perry, Iowa. Until my brother reminded me, I did not…
Windows IRL #2
From a Citibank branch near Union Square in New York City. Just another example showing that Windows insisting on being conspicuous....
Non-Functional Testing
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…
Dreaming of a Non-Christmas
What memories do you have of Christmas? Young children getting up insanely early to rip open their presents? A family gathering at someone's house for a large, formal meal? Watching…
Meandering Thoughts #14
The Guardian's article Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts caught my attention, as the UK government plans to digitize and destroy over 110m wills…
Apple Being Apple
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.…
Random Learnings #16
I purchased The Traitors by Alan Moorehead during my last visit to the Strand Bookstore in early December. Originally published in 1952 and updated in 1963, the book is about…