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…
Personalized Code Searches using OpenGrok
Many organizations implement a full-feature code search/intelligence tool - e.g., SourceGraph or Atlassian Fisheye - allowing engineers to search the enterprise code base. Other orgs just use the native search of the hosted version…
Random Learnings #1
In a book I'm currently reading about German broadcasting and its use for propaganda during World War II, I read: The first on-air directive, it seems, was a decree that…
Meandering Thoughts #2
Yes, I understand, it's the Beatles...but how does Run For Your Life get any airplay when social movements like Me Too are raising awareness of violence against women? … Well, I'd…
Understanding Dependencies….Visually!
Show of hands: how many of us truly understand how your build automation tool builds its dependency tree? Now lower your hand if you understand because you work on build…
Meandering Thoughts #1
Does the spate of recent anti-LGTBQ laws enacted in Florida prohibit Academy Award winners such as Cabaret, The Crying Game, Philadelphia, Brokeback Mountain, Milk and other LGBT movies from public…
From On-Prem to SaaS
Organizations whom develop software solutions are often classified according to the targeted consumers: business shops whose solutions support the business (e.g., internal consumption), and software shops whose solutions are sold…
Tollbooth Nostalgia
My first memories of highway driving are of my parents throwing us three kids into our (their) VW Bug and driving from NYC to Connecticut to visit the grandparents: take…
The Joy of Suica
Pre-pandemic I knew I mostly paid with credit or debit cards, less and less with cash. And I'm not the only one: cash transactions in the US have decreased from…
Go Hawks!
University of Iowa Tiger Hawk Though I've lived in Saint Paul, Minnesota for 35 years, I grew up in rural Iowa, attended the University of Iowa, drummed in the Hawkeye…