Book Review: Atomic Habits
There are many things I want to do in life, all the time, all at once. The more that I want to do, the less satisfied I am with progress. From reading The Power of Habit, I know that habits…
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“The Torque Shifter”
I’ve long been obsessed with EVs, ever since getting a remote control Traxxas Rustler. It was 2WD and had oodles of torque, at least for about ten minutes before the NiCAD batteries wore out. It could do wheelies. Wheelies! That…
1,000-Year-Old Software Redux
Sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways. I’m not one for mystics, but I have to admit that my own foresight has given me a bit of a shiver last night. Of course, I didn’t attempt to be the next…
Assessments
Is This Cheating? After clicking through the second LinkedIn assessment, I realized that what I was really assessing was how fast I could eliminate answers by searching for terms I was unfamiliar with on Google. A long time ago, after…
Become A DateTime Master
Dates are about the worst thing ever, and I’m not talking about eating pasta with a stranger. I’m happily married, and my dates with my wife typically go pretty well every time. I’m talking about dates in programming. It’s no…
What Is Your Software Development Time Worth?
$575 million. In 2003, Markus Frind built the dating site Plenty of Fish in two weeks as part of a bid to bolster his résumé and to learn ASP.NET, and it gained traction unexpectedly, so he grew it into a…
Smart Bronco: Adding Continuous Integration for IoT
Today’s post is guest published at Nebbia Technology’s blog: Continuous Integration for the Internet of Things with Visual Studio App Center While you are there, check out all the other awesome posts!
The Hello Tech Pros 3-2-1 Margarita
As any avid listener of the Hello Tech Pros podcast will tell you, you need a stiff drink before listening to me as a guest. Just witness my border-line fever dreams about the Internet of Things on my last guest appearance…
The Dependency Valley
We have too many dependencies. The programming world is on another roller coaster ride down to dependency hell, if you’ll believe the skeptics. I don’t think so. I think we are living in the gully of “The Dependency Valley,” with…
Gulp’s Dependencies
gulp@3.9.1 ├─ archy@1.0.0 ├─ deprecated@0.0.1 ├─ chalk@1.1.3 │ ├─ ansi-styles@2.2.1 │ ├─ escape-string-regexp@1.0.5 │ ├─ has-ansi@2.0.0 │ │ └─ ansi-regex@2.0.0 │ ├─ strip-ansi@3.0.1 │ │ └─ ansi-regex@2.0.0 │ └─ supports-color@2.0.0 ├─ minimist@1.2.0 ├─ liftoff@2.2.1 │ ├─ extend@2.0.1 │ ├─ findup-sync@0.3.0…