Good News, Everyone!
Robot Santa, "Xmas Story", Futurama (1999) In Futurama's Xmas Story, Santa Claus is a robot whom judges (almost) everyone as naughty and attempts to kill them. As Professor Farnsworth explains:…
Over-Architected? Maybe, Maybe Not.
An oft-heard criticism of way-to-many software solutions is that it's over-architected, implying that the design, abstractions, implementation, deployment, whatever is unnecessarily complex, difficult to understand, unmaintainable, unnecessary, wrong. Criticisms often…
Software Engineering Grief
Human beings resist change. This is not personal opinion, it's our defense mechanism against uncertainty. If you narrow your target to software engineers and technologists - whom, in almost all…
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…
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…
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…
DSL Validations: Properties
Note: This is post 1 of (an expected) 4 part series. Links to future posts will be added here when published. Whether you aware of it or not, you likely…
Those Were The Days?!?
Biology insists and common sense says that I've started to become that old fogey I use to laugh at in my younger days. ... THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Well, of course, we had…