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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” – The Princess Bride […]

This has been gnawing at me for a while now: as engineers, we obsess over how we solve problems with […]

“I’m a reasonable guy. But, I’ve just experienced some very unreasonable things.” –Jack Burton, “Big Trouble In Little China” (1986) […]

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — […]

Embrace the natural order and your true self After over 25 years of being in the software development “circus”, I […]

“This [AI] thing–is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What’s the difference?”― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash If you […]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was […]

The tragic shift away from engineering thinking to developer thinking. Not to give off “back in my day” vibes, but […]

Copy-paste. It's easy. It's fast. You might want to use more brain cells first before blindly doing it.