KCDC 2025
You would have found me last week at the Kansas City Convention Center for my first KCDC, as an attendee and a speaker. This year's conference is their sixteenth edition…
You Can’t Fix Stupid
Most organizations - most competent organizations - require employees to complete a litany of wide-ranging, cover-your-ass training: ethics, sexual harassment, workplace violence, non-discrimination, safety training, blah blah blah. Most require…
OPNSense Port Forwarding
I recently replaced my home router with a device running OPNSense. Very successful production deployment. I deployed a Navidrome server for streaming my personal music collection to Subsonic-supported clients. I…
OPNSense on Protectli Vault 1610
Overview A Cisco LRT224 Dual WAN router has been the cornerstone of my home network for over a decade: solid, easy to configure, above-average performance, VPN server, and other prosumer…
Meandering Thoughts #52
Anyone job searching knows a quality, well-written CV gives you the best chance of surviving the initial cull of applicants; conversely, misspellings and grammatical mistakes allow those hiring to quickly…
API Standards ARE Data Standards
"Amelia in Code" by donnierayjones is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Aside from those whom have ignored technology trends for the last twenty years, everyone else is aware of -…
Maintainable Code #1
This code snippet (FirJvmStaticChecker.kt:72) caught my eye while digging into Kotlin codebase: if ( container !is FirClassSymbol || container.classKind != ClassKind.OBJECT || !container.isCompanion() && containerIsAnonymous ) { ... } else…
Meandering Thoughts #50
This BBC article dissects how tennis line judges are being replaced by electronic line calling at professional tournaments - this year, Wimbledon - and asks how future umpires, who started…
Meandering Thoughts #49
I don't understand how it works. It's not how I would have done it. The code is absolute crap. It's over-architected. All too often software engineers drop these phrases as…
Random Learnings #57
My wife and I are traveling to Switzerland this fall for some bucket-list train rides, including the Glacier Express between Chur and Zermatt. The Glacier Express requires seat reservations which…