On the aside category A comment or discussion that does not relate directly to the main subject being discussed. More
The social web I am enjoying having a few less continuous attention streams pulling on my monkey brain. Giving up Twitter, Facebook, and the others has been stress-reducing. More
Consider How much of the today’s American political division was amplified with support from Russia? Perhaps it started long before we know. Perhaps it preceded Trump. Might everything since Reagan be part of some slow, cautious, steady, destabilization effort? More
Learning to code Learning to program is like learning to read and write any foreign language. Lots of time will be spent looking at symbols that make little sense and hearing people speak about the language in terms that are, while familiar, carrying less meaning than perhaps they should. Lots of time will be spent reading references without context, then looking at language in context, then back and forth again. More
Script style We drive our devops system of CI/CD pipelines with a collection of standardized bash shell scripts. These scripts collect required resources; validate starting conditions; check for lint and style issues; run unit, acceptance, integration, performance, and smoke tests; build deployment packages and supporting infrastructure in various environments; all while collecting metrics on the artifacts being... More
