Category: Musing
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Why are you lying to me Mr. Progress Bar?
As long as there have been computers that do work, there have been various forms for communicating progress to the user. I find these often to be a bunch of lying liars.
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Find a happy place
There are certainly more stressful jobs than being a software developer. Still, there are unique pressures that come with the territory when working to ship a product, support a product, or (in my case) serve a client and their systems. Let’s face it, when dealing with technology, or sometimes end users, we can often feel […]
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Replaceable parts and software design
This past weekend I replaced the brake pads and rotors on my car. It took a couple hours, cost about $90 in parts, and left me not just with a sense of achievement and personal satisfaction, but a with lots of thoughts about how mechanical systems work, how standardization should function, and how these things […]
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The Internet thinks I am 5 years old.
In the early days of the good old World Wide Web, the emerging anonymity was often summed up with the cartoon “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” published in 1993. Now, 20 years later, not only does the Internet know you’re a dog, it knows whether you’re a mutt or a purebred; whether […]