A Simple Upgrade
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View ArticleThe Process Manager
A while ago, i had a discussion with a coworker about their boss. My coworker was venting a bit about a number of patterns that i recognized from my experience with various managers.First off, let me...
View ArticleWork Will Never Love You, but Your Co-workers May
It’s absolutely true that your work will never love you back. This is proven by the recent rash of tech layoffs alongside quarterly reports of increased revenue. For most employers, you are a resource,...
View ArticleGetting a Feeling for Empathy
There was an episode of Star Trek (the Original Series) that kinda ruined my understanding of what being empathic meant. It featured The Trio in a very low budget stage along with Beautiful Protagonist...
View ArticleBots on Parade
i’m a curious soul. i was curious what bots were scraping my sites, so i figured i’d do a quick survey. i’m also super lazy, so i used a simple bash script to get the list of whoever has been pulling...
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By Scraping This Site, You Agree To…
So, in a weird bit of synergy, i was wondering about what sort of bots were scraping my site. (That was the spur for the previous post) Shortly after i did that, i listened to the latest episode of...
View ArticleThe ATC Model of Work
Anyone who knows me knows that i’m not a huge advocate of Agile. There’s lots of reasons for that, from the fact that it prevents folk from defining actual requirements in favor of vague stories (which...
View ArticleMicro Aggressions
Lately, i’ve been annoying the hell out of myself. What happens is that i start with an idea. This idea is usually something stupid and follows the programmers credo: We do these things not because...
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Fitbit Sense vs Sense 2 vs Pixel Watch 2
What follows are my viewpoints about Not Apple Smartwatches. Let be begin by saying that while Apple Smart Watches are probably the best thing since sliced bread and deliver warm kittens to you when...
View ArticleSigning Kernel Modules under Ubuntu 23.10+
If you run Secure-boot (which you may want to do for any number of reasons, i don’t judge) you need to sign your kernel modules before you can load them. Fun fact: you may need to resign those same...
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