sycdan

I have been in software for over 20 years, and the last 2 have been the most insane emotional roller-coaster.

Be it back-end, front-end, QA, infra, devex — I am not good at being a single-thing engineer.

… while reading “The Swift Programming Language”, that the current format of QR codes (2d barcodes) could be used to encode a unique hexadecimal identifier for all humans who have ever lived, or probably ever will live, assuming the human race ceases to e…

… doesn’t exist, but there are ways to emulate it: Using Goto: For i = n To z 'do stuff always If condition Then GoTo nextIteration 'do stuff sometimes nextIteration: Next Or, my personal favourite (possibly, in part, because I haven’t seen anyone…

I’ve added a line of code that, by rights, should do absolutely nothing, but it seems to be working… The situation is modifying an embedded Excel 2003 worksheet in a PowerPoint 2003 slide.

I do the vast bulk of my coding these days in VBA (due to my day job), and I use dictionary objects a lot.

I finally decided to set up a place to dump my thoughts about things, for the public and posterity I suppose, but also in case I go at all amnesic.