Daft
Jim Ratcliffe, new minority owner of Manchester United, is making news for expectations for a corporate workplace. First he said the office untidiness a disgrace, especially calling out IT. I've…
Meandering Thoughts #24
My employer recently opened an near-shore office in San Jose, Costa Rica, rapidly growing and not approaching 200 hires. Some had doubts about how well near-shoring works, but to date…
Building Linux on M1 Mac Pro
I recently loaded Asahi Linux on a M1 Mac Mini and am testing it, seeing if I can make it sweat. I download the Linux 6.8.7 source and built the…
Building OpenJDK On Linux
I recently loaded Asahi Linux on a M1 Mac Mini and decided I should do something more intensive than just web browsing. First test: build the latest OpenJDK. Let's Go…
Asahi Linux Installation
This afternoon I installed Asahi Linux on my 2020 Apple Mac Mini (M1 CPU). I upgraded to a 2023 Apple Mac Mini (M2 CPU) recently - also maxed out memory…
Digital History Lost
I recently stumbled on this floppy and was intrigued: what were my internet favorites from 1998. Hmmm, could be interesting.... Of course, I cannibalized the floppy drive from my lone…
DSL Validations: The Whole Enchilada
Note: This is part 4 of this tutorial, previous parts are: Part 1: DSL Validations: Properties. Part 2: DSL Validations: Child Properties Part 3: DSL Validations: Operators After introducing the…
Best. Joke. Ever.
One of Dell's acquisitions was based in Israel, with which my development center was integrating our storage solution. Their technical leaders flew to Minnesota for a week of meetings, typical…
DSL Validations: Operators
Operators provide a value for validating properties as a single unit: think of a multi-part conditional check in an if statement. The most obvious operators are logical AND (&&) and…
DSL Validations: Child Properties
Note: This is part 2 of (an expected) 4 part series. Part 1 is found at DSL Validations: Properties. Part 1 introduced the concept of property validators, providing the building…