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When your automated test suite reports failure, it's generally one of: Someone changed the software and as an unintentional side effect something isn't working the way it's supposed to.

I am blessed and cursed by an awareness of all the little frictions that get in my way when I use software.

The purpose of inventory software is to take something about the world and represent it in a database so the people who care (like the people who own the things, or the people responsible for selling them) can look it up easily.

One of the most important things I've read is the post Conversational Cultures: Combat vs Nurture.

Merle Dean Kilgore was born May 31, 1930.

In The Economy Of Cities, Jane Jacobs argues that cities have always been the locus of human economy.

I don't often feel the need to journal my experiences for posterity, but these last few days have been quite the outlier among my human experiences.

I sent this letter 10 years ago today.

Eschatology: System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death.

I like pair-coding and think it can be great.

For about the last decade I've been writing business software backed by relational databases.

A wild side project appears!

Yeah, the title is slightly hyperbolic - state routers aren't appropriate for every webapp.

Some time in 2012, I decided to write my own blogging platform in JavaScript.

Inside joke: the title of this post is a reference to a book I have never actually read I believe that God created the world, and that those who are chosen by him should obey him to the best of their abilities.

I recently did a quick audit of the source code I help maintain/develop for the company I work for.

For those attending a university, the end of a semester is a time of much rejoicing.

Ever wished you could run a dangerous query like DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE against every table in a database in a single query?

During my career developing database-driven software (teehee, I'm a professional) I've noted that the most horrific query errors are the logical ones - queries that parse correctly, and return reasonable-looking data, but make wrong assumptions about how…

You know what I hate?

Less than a year ago, I jumped off the high-board of nerdiness into the deep end of the role-playing pool - and ran my very first campaign.

"Quine:" a program that outputs it's complete source code when run.