It always starts the same way. A demo is shown where a previously complex problem set is reduced down to running one Magic Tool. It is often endorsed by one of the Big Tech Companies or maintained by them. Some members of the organization start calling for the immediate adoption…
New book called "The Book of CP-System" is an amazing trip down the technical memory road of the legendary CPS-1 board that powered classics like "Street Fighter II".…
Link to comparison table of internal Google tools to external publicly available tools.…
I have always liked text editors. There is something promising about them, a blank canvas that you can quickly mess up with your random commented out lines. I went from BBEdit, my favorite Mac app of all time (seriously I love this app so much I bought a tshirt with…
Once again I asked, “Father, I want to know what a dying person feels when no one will speak with him, nor be open enough to permit him to speak, about his dying.” The old man was quiet, and we sat without speaking for nearly an hour. Since he did…
I'll admit I am late to learning these exist. About once a month, maybe more, I need to spin up some sort of debug container inside of Kubernetes. It's usually for something trivial like checking networking or making sure DNS isn't being weird and…
A climate change what-if Over a few beers... Growing up, I was obsessed with space. Like many tech workers, I consumed everything I could find about space and space travel. Young me was convinced we were on the verge of space travel, imagining I would live to see colonies on…
My entire career there has been a wide gap between CLI applications and GUI applications. GUIs are easier to use at first, they have options to provide more direct feedback to users, but they also can have odd or confusing behavior. Endlessly spinning wheels, error messages that don't…