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Way back when, I was working on a Java service.

When I'm out and about, I don't always have a full set of dice because I carry a small bag.

Back in May of this year, Sam Taylor published an article on XmRit, "Variation Is King, Not The Average".

The "Sold a Story" podcast explores how COVID lockdowns sent kids home from school, revealing to parents working from home that their kids couldn't read, despite positive reports from schools.

Recently, I've started "reading" podcasts.

Do you have a colleague who, when asked for their opinion, replies "ChatGPT says ..."?

I love my small, poorly-written scripts.

When I was at school, I played rugby on the D team.

I write under a creative commons license so that others can learn.

UUIDs are a 128-bit number, represented as groups of hexadecimal digits, separated by - characters.

Bottom line up-front, I think there are at least 4 types of estimate: Delivery date Cycle time Dev-time Relative I only intend to define these here, not advocate for any specific type.

There have been a couple of posts on Statistical Process Control (SPC) recently.

About a year ago, Amazon Music switched their offering to a "shuffle-only" model.

In the Twelve Factor App, section III.

On 2023-Dec-31, Keybase had an outage because a TLS certificate expired.

In the noughties, I found a blog post that showed how to setup vim as a Python IDE.

Changes aren't free.

Back in the day, at $Job-N, I was "in charge" of security things.

I've worked with Terraform for about 1.5 years now and I'm not impressed.

Let's start with a thought experiment.

Small businesses have less capital than larger businesses, so they need better judgement to manage that capital.

What is noise in software estimates?

I recently bought a Retroid Pocket 2 from GoRetroid for USD 132.00 including all shipping and taxes.

We have a beautiful fur baby.

I spotted two misleading statistics on CBC yesterday.

In my previous article on audiobooks I showed a short script that converts *.mp3 audiobook files into much smaller *.ogg files.

As far as possible, I track all of my work time.

We use barcodes to track many physical things.

Finally safe Just like before this was a very simple affair.

Let's say that you want to record the day's mean temperature accurately.

I recently got my basic amateur radio certificate.

The good A lot of good things happened to me this month.

I've never been able to build a tone generator or the lines on any platform.

I feel like this should be a huge thing, but it was a simple affair.

Montano posted photos from the Tuscaloosa Tornado.

I listened to Chesley B.

Today, I sat my Canadian Basic Amateur Radio exam and passed!

The good So far, my self-care has been going well.

On 2020-Mar-03, I left work with a headache.

This was a little bit of trial an error.

I listened to Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers" recently.

I am a bit of a digital pack-rat.

I had great fun building simple radios as a kid, I even had a CB radio.

This originally appeared on my Medium on 2018-Jun-30.

I estimate there is 8% probability of the WHO declaring a new pandemic in any given year.

This originally appeared on my Medium on 2019-Mar-28.

When the on-call's pager goes off, they should be able to react quickly.

GJOpen asks: "Before 7 May 2021, will the Bank of England set its Bank Rate to below zero?"

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