Musings of an IT Fossil

We have all seen them Wearing their red hats We hear them mewling Like a pack of rabid cats They hate the non-whites But claim they aren’t racists They are proud to follow Christ But aren’t as moral as atheists They want to get rid of pedos Until they hear

Well as it so happens this week I was alerted to a semi-terrifying development at work.

What follows is an email I wrote to a former boss of mine, who happens to be the owner of the business.

It’s been a rough few weeks at work.

So a few weeks back, I was helping to administer a live coding interview with two of my peers at work.

So 2026 is proving to be quite the fucking year, is it not?

So for those of you following along you probably noticed that I didn’t post anything here last month.

The handful of you who know me personally, probably know that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year.

So it’s mid-afternoon on a annoyingly warm November day and here I am sitting here in my home office staring at a nice glass of Irish Whiskey.

So unless you were clinically dead on Monday October 20th, 2025 then you noticed the same thing everybody else noticed: A ton of tech shit wasn’t working.

So its a lazy Sunday afternoon and I’m sitting here in my recliner, a bit stoned, and I have finally decided to write the post that I’ve been dancing around on this blog for awhile now.

Original Song with the Original Lyrics Far We’ve been marched far Exiled from a home Which turned bizarre Free We used to be free We huddle close Mourning our dead dream On the boats and on the planes Deported from America Never coming back again Deported…

Tonight we aren’t going to talk about tech.

Have you noticed what I have noticed?

For those of you who don’t know me, let me introduce myself: I’m an IT Fossil and the end of my career path is tantalizingly near.

I pledged once upon a time To uphold principles quite sublime Yet at the crux of the long eclipse The words now refuse to leave my lips Vestiges of the past are crumbling Armies of discontent ever rumbling The time for idle chatter is ending Nobody cares…

Over the last month, I’ve been more quiet than usual.

As Americas newly anointed Tin God, Donald J.

So this morning I was taking a shower while listening to Coldplay which I had instructed Siri to play throughout the house and it just so happened to play one of my favorite songs: Clocks.

This blog post has been a long time coming.

So over the last week I’ve been subjected to multiple uses of the term “vibe coding”.

So with each passing day I’m being forced to face the cruel reality which darkly looms: My country, the United States of America, is basically speed-running its way towards collapse.

You know what this blog post is about.

Psychos have taken over Emboldened like a mother fucker They believed the lies Cause they are a bunch of suckers Bad enough the first time They wont get a pass for the third Some idiots shouldn’t vote Cause they only deal in the absurd Cutting the poor su…

So the other day on Mastodon I posted a link to this amazingly depressing video in which the author laments the fact that he lost one of his freelance writing gigs to AI powered tech.

So as was typical with my end of year posts that I used to make on my previous blog, this is an end of year post.

On December 4th, 2024 somebody brazenly murdered the CEO of United Healthcare, Brain Thompson, in broad daylight.

Fuck this its pissing me off This AI shit aint getting nobody off Scientific Reports, calling y’all out First off LLMs don’t fucking understand How to speak to the heart via vocals and band Scientific Reports, fuck’s that about?

So let’s get right down to it: If you use AI, you are a thief.

99 Epics on the Board Link to heading 99 Epics on the Board 99 Epics on the Board We take one down, code all around 134 Epics on the Board 134 Epics on the Board 134 Epics on the Board We groom one out, disagree aloud 2673 Epics on the Board I’m a Bug Tic…

I had pep in my step But then I realized Getting back to the past Is a big ole pack of lies We cant ever go back There is no path No matter our desire It dont balance with math Reality is tough Shit is going off the rails River of shit oncoming Gonna need…

Well its the day after the US Election and I’m more than a little shocked.

Mullenweg be tripping Punch drunk and trifling across the web Preaching that he needs our fealty Because he is lord and we are mere plebs WordPress is straight shit But it managed to set the world on fire Constant updates to its insecure code Is the only…

There is trouble in the world I wanna solve it Sadly there is a process to follow Goddamn we gotta evolve it I got a fix for the problem Waiting on a sucker to hit a button They will gorge themselves on my pain Like an addicted glutton Nothing ever changes

She comes in so many forms But in each her effect is so divine No matter the delivery She distills the pain into wine Human quest for fleeting joy Seems a cruel joke in a cold universe Being alive with questions Is a wonder that evolves into a curse In th…

So here you are.

So today while brainstorming new and exciting ways to conceal the fact that I’m a dinosaur and totally underqualified to hold my current position, I decided to take a quick break and catch up on one of my favorite tech blogs, Ludicity.

On June 18th, 2023, a submersible called the Titan made its final trip down to the wreckage of Titanic (which is about 3800 meters beneath sea level).

Promising to myself that I would figure out “something else to do with my life” within the next five to ten years has yielded some unexpected side effects.

Are you a manager desperate to cover up their own lack of productivity and general uselessness by implementing a system that will allow you to constantly lament your underlings apparent lack of productivity?

I think the one thing that really ticks me off about this industry more than any other is the fact that we constantly treat our end users very poorly.

Over the years I’ve oscillated between reading quite a bit and reading not much at all.

In case you didn’t know CrowdStrike makes anti-malware software for enterprises and they pushed out an update late last night that basically broke Windows machines running it.

Up front I’m going to say this: It’s really weird sitting down to write this blog post less than a day after former president Trump just survived an attempted assassination.

If you are at all keeping up with the affairs of the world, then today you heard just as I did that the Supreme Court of the United States overwhelmingly granted immunity to the President of the United States for core and official acts while happily provi…

Over the years I’ve written a lot of blog posts that have danced around the argument I am about to make and the reason for that is very simple: I write proprietary software for a living.

Disclaimer: Today’s post is going to be a good ole fashioned rant.

This is the final leg of my career as a software developer.

So between the end of my previous job and the beginning of my current job I took a few weeks off.

So here in my neck of the woods, its a beautiful Sunday morning.