Unified Designs Blog

TLDR: AI coding is changing fast enough that anything you learn today might not matter tomorrow.

Preface I've spent my entire life trying to understand how humans and computers work together, because for 35 years, I got along better with the latter.

Why I manage Social Difficulty As a child, I never had much success communicating with other people.

It seems like AI is particularly well suited for Platform Engineering.

Saw someone recently calling Opus 4.6 AGI (Articial General Intelligence.)

I wanted to write about System Thinking, as it applies to me.

Recapeamento Estou ressuscitando meu blog, mas também reconstruindo-o fora do "blogspot".

Resurfacing I'm resurrecting my blog, but also rebuilding it outside of "blogspot".

Learning Portuguese With help from Thiago Getting Started I went to Duolingo first, as it's what I'm most familiar with.

Learning to bake I have become a reasonable cook in my time, but never took to baking.

Prefácio Tendo ressuscitado este blog com o objetivo de me ajudar a encontrar um emprego (novamente), algumas coisas vão ser diferentes.

Preface Having resurrected this blog for the purpose of helping find myself a job (again), some things are going to be different.

This was written quite a while ago, but I never got around to publishing it.

I started this blog about a decade ago to help me find work.

Somewhat of a digression from the usual content of this blog (either programming or nothing), and ground that has been well-trod in many other places.

Software gardening, as expressed by Hunt/Thomas, Atwood, etc uses the metaphor to deal with how a software project is alive, and is constantly being changed by factors outside of the control of the developers.

Dear Google, This is a love letter and a call to action.

I've now been back from PyCon for a week, and I've got some thoughts to share.

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.

In my career in the software field, I've had to teach myself about what quality software was.

In 2013, in the twilight of my "testing" career, I was able to attend Google Test Automation Conference for the third time.

I have a use-case where I'm using a dictionary as a basis for generating a configuration file, and many of the values in the file share pieces, such as URL bases or credentials.

I've been using PyDev for many years, for Python and Jython development of all kinds.

As suggested by Tarek, and done by so many others. **1.

Well, it's been 3 months, and I've gotten a decent number of things written.

I'm pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the Python Web Client.

The release I've polished a few rough edges, and I'm now (somewhat) proud to release Python Web Client 0.1.

tl;dr I built a preliminary version of the Socal Piggies Python Web Client.

As someone who almost exclusively uses high-level languages, the idea of writing my own sorting algorithm seems a bit silly.

So, according to my introduction, one of my goals for this project is to build a web app or service to demonstrate my skillset in that area.

Design patterns are a very broad subject, but as far as I can tell, they are primarily common conventions for structuring software.

Many years ago, I was tasked with improving the performance of a suite of unit tests.

Hi there, I'm Alec Munro.

It's been a month since I started working on this blog, and the only thing I have gotten up is my introductory post, which talks about all the other stuff I want to write.